15–18 May. Disaster Resistant California (DRC) 2005, Sacramento, California, USA. Sponsors: California Governor's Office of Emergency Services and Collaborative for Disaster Mitigation at San Jose State University. This multidisciplinary conference is designed to bring together emergency management professionals; local, state, and federal government representatives; academicians; and private business partners to share ideas, technology, and resources and to promote partnerships as a means of reducing the vulnerability of individual communities to natural and human-caused disasters. Jessica Tran, Collaborative for Disaster Mitigation, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192, USA; telephone +1-408-924-3596; e-mail jessica.tran@sjsu.edu; URL http://www.sjsu.edu/cdm/drc05/.
