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PREEN - Pacific Resource and Environmental Economics Network - Newsletter, June 2013, Issue No: 8

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Welcome to the June 2013 Edition of the PREEN Newsletter.

This edition includes reviews of current work in the field including a recent publication on economic valuations of ecosystem services in the Pacific.

You will also find news from the launch of the economic assessment of cyclone Evan in Fiji and the Pacific meetings on Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Pacific as well as upcoming events and announcements.

We hope you will find this newsletter useful in keeping up to date with the economics research and events in the Pacific region.

The next edition of this Newsletter will be in December 2013. We welcome new articles as they emerge so please do share your new findings, projects and events with us in view of keeping the network informed of developments in the Pacific.

Best wishes,
Anna Rios Wilks
PREEN Coordinator

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 August 2013 14:12  

Newsflash

Thursday 26 September 2013, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Nadi, Fiji - Eighteen disaster risk management trainers from Cook Islands, Fiji, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu are in Nadi, Fiji this week (23–27 September) attending a Training for Instructors course. The aim is to develop a stronger network of trainers to support, organise and conduct disaster risk management courses in their home countries.

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with The Asia Foundation (TAF), is facilitating the training, with support from the regional Pacific Disaster Risk Management Training Programme funded by USAID and the European Union.

The course is targeted at individuals who have played an active role in disaster risk management training activities and programmes in their countries and who will be available after the course to assist with and contribute to national disaster risk management capacity development.

The participants have a range of training experience, with new trainers attending the course for the first time through to experienced trainers attending the course as a final refresher before delivering training for trainers in their home countries.

After the course, the new trainers will be provided opportunities to further build their experience and training skills through participation and co-facilitation of disaster risk management courses which include: introduction to disaster management, initial damage assessment, disaster risk reduction, evacuation centre management, emergency operations centre and exercise management.