Welcome Address FIG Working Week 2016
Potsiou, Chryssy
There may be no place on earth where the subject, Recovery from Disaster, is more relevant. What the people here in Christchurch have done is truly remarkable and an example of what can be achieved with energy, innovation and dedication. While you are here in this beautiful city I hope that you will take time to see and appreciate all that has been done in a very short time. There is a role for the surveying community to play in the process of disaster recovery. We will consider that role but first we ought to consider the various forms of disaster that can, and do, fall upon the public. We think immediately of earthquake and its impact here on this city; in other parts of the world fires, tsunamis, floods, droughts and tornados strike at human settlements. These natural disasters are said to be mainly exogenous events, events beyond human control, whose only human involvement was the decision made by people to live there in the first place.
Event: FIG Working Week 2016 : Recovery from Disaster
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