Mitigating the Impact of Extreme Natural Events in Developing Countries By R J Durrheim

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Publisher ‏: Daya Publishing House
Author : R J Durrheim, B G N Sewwandi
Language ‏: English
Edition : Latest By Publishers
Book Cover : Hard Back
ISBN : 9789388982160

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The Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre) is an inter-governmental organisation with a membership of 47 countries spread over Asia Africa Middle East and Latin America. Besides this 11 S&T agencies and academic/research institutions of Bolivia Brazil India Nigeria and Turkey are the members of the S&T-Industry Network of the Centre. The Centre was set up in 1989 to promote South-South cooperation through mutually beneficial partnerships among scientists and technologists and scientific organisations in developing countries. It implements a variety of programmes including international workshops meetings roundtables training courses and collaborative projects and brings out scientific publications including a quarterly Newsletter. It is also implementing 8 Fellowship schemes namely Joint NAM S&T Centre ZMTBremen Fellowship; Joint NAM S&T Centre ICCBS Fellowship; Joint NAM S&T Centre DST (South Africa) Training Fellowship on Minerals Processing and Beneficiation; NAM S&T Centre U2ACN2 Research Associateship in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology; Joint CSIR/CFTRI (Diamond Jubilee) NAM S&T Centre Fellowship; NAM S&T Centre Research Fellowship; NAM S&T Centre ACENTDFB Fellowship in Neglected Tropical Diseases and Forensic Biotechnology; NAM S&T Centre - ASRT Egypt Fellowship Programme. These activities provide among others the opportunity for scientist-to-scientist contact and interaction training and expert assistance familiarising the scientific community on the latest developments and techniques in the subject areas and identification of technologies for transfer between member countries. The Centre has so far brought out 80 publications and has organised 114 international workshops and training programmes. For further details please visit www.namstct.org or write to the Director General NAM S&T Centre Core 6A 2nd Floor India Habitat Centre Lodhi Road New Delhi-110003 India (Phone: +91-11-24645134/24644974; Fax: +91-11-24644973; E-mail: namstcentre@gmail.com; namstct@bol.net.in).