Japan NC has published recently a report entitled as “Building a sustainable global society by strengthening disaster resilience:- Developing an “Online Synthesis System (OSS)” and fostering “Facilitators” to realize consilience –”  through Science Council of Japan.  This report is a product of IRDR working group 6 on “Online Synthesis System” based on the discussion at Japan NC. …

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‘Disaster risk governance’ was announced today as the theme of this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October 2020. This year, the world suffers from the great pain caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic. The following statement is issued by the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk …

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On August 7th, 2020, the Memorandum of Understanding (“the MoU”) is signed between the Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service Sub-Platform (DRRKS) and Integrated Research on Disaster Risk International Programme Office (IRDR IPO). IKCEST DRRKS provides knowledge services at a global scale in the form of consultancies, scientific research and education for policy-makers, engineers, researchers and …

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Invited by HazNet, IRDR Scientific Committee Chair Prof. John Handmer and member Prof. Rajib Shaw wrote their capsule for either 2030 or 2050 to provide advice  to future emergency managers, resilience practitioners, and disaster risk reduction (DRR) scholars. John Handmer: DRR as a fundamental human right Covid-19 and what were at the time dramatic climate-related …

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The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is an unprecedented event in modern human history, requiring the United Nations system to work as One UN to support countries. The UN Secretary-General has asked the international community to focus on three critical areas of action: 1) Tackling the health emergency; 2) Social impact and the economic response and recovery; …

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