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1.5 Disaster Management

In recent years, extreme weather conditions have emerged in many parts of the world, including higher temperatures, heavier rainfall, heavy snow fall, droughts, and forest fires. These extreme weather events are becoming more severe and frequent and there is concern that the effects may spread for a longer period of time. These hazards pose serious challenges to road management.
Technical Committee 1.5 "Disaster Management" in the 2024-2027 cycle focuse on disaster management against "Extreme weather" and works on exploring "Operational planning aspects of enhancing extreme weather resilience" under the three topics listed below. (extract from the Strategic Plan)

Issue

  • 1.5.1 Coping with extreme weather
  • 1.5.2 Social resilience within communities and public authorities to cope with extreme weather
  • 1.5.3 Infrastructure resilience for supporting supply chain during extreme weather events

Chair and Secretariat

  • Chair: Yukio ADACHI (Japan)
  • English-speaking Secretary: Christopher ENGELBRECHT (USA)
  • French-speaking Secretary: Alain LEFEBVRE (Belgium)
  • Spanish-speaking Secretary: Marcelo MEDINA SANTIBANEZ (Chile)

Interview with Yukio Adachi

Chair for the Technical Committee 1.5 "Disaster Management"

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