Conference Tracks

The 1st African Congress on Natural Risks and Disaster Management (AFRICA NRDM’2025) will be held from the 20th to 24th January 2025, in Rabat city through the collaboration of Academic Platform, The African Organization for Studies and Research on Risks, the Mohammed V University of Rabat with the support of Risk Management Directorate (Ministry of Interior). The main purpose of this congress is to find answers to the question of what can be done to minimize the natural disasters impacts and enhance the resilience of fragile areas by focusing on the immediate preparedness (early warning) and response phases of the disaster cycle. It will also very briefly address how disaster management can concretely advance climate change adaptation and what parts of the Moroccan experience can be applied elsewhere in the rest of Africa.

The congress's purview will encompass the following topics:

Natural hazards, vulnerability assessment and disaster management

Multi hazard early warning systems

Multi-risk decision support methodologies

Geophysical hazards

Hydro-meteorological hazards

Chemical and biological hazards

Climate change and global warming

Modelling and Monitoring

Disaster risk governance

Disaster sensitive urbanization

Disaster logistics planning and coordination

Disaster communication

Disaster and health management

Instrumentation, remote sensing and geomatics

Forced migration, displacement and disaster nexus

Risk perception