Lessons learned from the events of 11 March 2011 : a Geneva Association conference review

On 28-29 October 2013 The Geneva Association hosted a seminar on disaster risk reduction in Sendai, Japan, a city devastated by the earthquake and ensuing tsunami in of March 2011. The meeting provided a forum for the discussion of the risk management lessons learned from that disaster and the implications for global disaster risk reduction measures elsewhere in the world. This document provides reviews and articles by many of the presenters from the conference and aims to provide a wider dissemination of the information exchanged.