The Fifth Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas is the space that brings together key players from North, South, Central America and the Caribbean, involved in disaster risk reduction and resilience building. This is a multi-sectoral and broadly participatory forum that reflects the commitment and concern of the (national, subnational and local) …
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Disaster Risk Reduction: A Road of Opportunities We would like to share with you a call for submission of policy briefs / articles for the DRR Edition of the Youth Science-Policy Interface Publication coordinated by the UN Major Group for Children & Youth. The publication/magazine seeks to capture and promote the role of young people in sharing knowledge of evidence-informed best practices, discussing …
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This publication is developed by Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and representatives with support from researchers, scientists and policy-makers in 12 countries in the Asia and the Pacific region. A call for submission was made for developing science and technology plan for disaster risk reduction. This publication is supported by IRDR International Programme Office …
New Zealand was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Kaikoura in November 2016, and the government has expressed thanks to IRDR and CODATA for their timely and free provision of satellite data that helped with damage and loss estimation following the disaster. Damage and loss estimation is often difficult in the hours and days …
The Regional Research Strategy has been formulated under an international science program, Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) Initiative, for promoting cooperation between countries along the Belt and Road to advocate and demonstrate the applications of big Earth data in support of the sustainable development, including disaster risk reduction, of people and economies at local, national …
The 2nd Workshop to Strengthen Scientific Advisory Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction was held on Jan 16-17, 2017 in Taipei. The co-organisers are International Council of Science (ICSU), ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ICSU ROAP), IRDR International Programme Office (IRDR IPO), the Academy of Sciences located in Taipei, IRDR ICoE-Taipei, and …
2016 Annual ICoE-Taipei Science Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting was held on Jan 11, 2017 in Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Taipei. Presenters including: i) Members: Gordon McBEAN (Chair), Hongey CHEN, Liang-Chun Chen, Mohd. Nordin HASAN, Chao-Han LIU, Ching-Hua LO, Haruo HAYASHI and Hassan VIRJI; ii) Ex Officio: Pao-Kuan WANG, Shih-Chun Candice LUNG (Executive …
Prof. Rajib Shaw (Executive Director of IRDR IPO) was invited to give a key speech on the conference “From the Management of Crisis to the Governance of Risk:Time for a Paradigm Shift ?” on January 9-11, Haikou, China. His topic was “Science Advocacy in Disaster Risk Reduction: Issues and Potentials”. The co-sponsors of this conference …
A new book Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction: Practice and Cases from a Global Perspective is published recently. Its editors are Michiko Banba ( Education and Research Center for Disaster Reduction, University of Hyogo Kobe , Japan ) and Rajib Shaw (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Beijing , China). This book belongs …
Prof. Mark Pelling, the scientific committee member of IRDR and professor of King’s College London, published a PEARL article on FORIN with his colleagues. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 calls for science to support policy move toward more holistic solutions to disaster risk. This paper outlines an original framework to promote inter-disciplinary …
A PEARL Framework was proposed for FORIN and to better support the Sendai FrameworkRead More »