Bapon (shm) Fakhruddin, member of IRDR’s Scientific Committee, gave a public talk to the University of Auckland on “End-to-End-to-End Early Warning System.” For more information, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51WyzzmjDAg
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The UNISDR Library for Disaster Risk is available online. Please click here: http://lib.riskreductionafrica.org/
TWAS Affiliated Membership 2016 Nominations/Applications Form (to be typewritten in English) Kindly read the information overleaf prior to completing the form. A candidate can be proposed by a TWAS Fellow, an Associate Fellow or individual candidates should submit their own application. The candidates must be 40 years old or less by January 1sty 2016. The …
WorldRiskIndex presented by Prof. Birkmann at a high level event in New York Prof. Dr. Jörn Birkmann, director of the Institute of Spatial and Regional Planning, University of Stuttgart and member of the IRDR (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk) Science Committee presented together with colleagues from the UN University and the Alliance Development Works …
The International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR) invite applications for the post of Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme, which will be vacant on 01 June 2016. The deadline for applications is 18 March 2016, midnight …
The team preparing the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) is issuing an open call for science briefs to members of the global sustainable development community. The GSDR is a United Nations publication aiming to strengthen the science-policy interface at the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), and provide a strong evidence-based instrument …
Call for science briefs – UN Global Sustainable Development ReportRead More »
UNISDR Asia Pacific Office has formed the Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group (ASTAAG) in May 2015 to facilitate active roles for Science and technology in DRR in Asian countries. ASTAAG is composed of 8 members from 7 Asian nations; they plan to publish the Asia Science Technology Status Report in the AMCDRR (Asia Ministerial …
Call for Submission of Case Studies on the role of S & T in Asia DRRRead More »
Integrated Science for Sendai Framework Implementation This Issue Brief was prepared for the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, to be held the 27-29 January 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. It was prepared by Mark Pelling, Amy Donovan and Emma Visman of the IRDR International Centre …
IRDR releases Issue Brief before ISDR Science & Technology conferenceRead More »
PEEX is a multidisciplinary, multi-scale research initiative aiming at resolving the major uncertainties in Earth System and Global Sustainability Science. PEEX is especially concerned with Arctic and Pan-Eurasian regions. The vision of PEEX is to solve interlinked global grand challenges, such as climate change, air quality, biodiversity loss, chemicalization, food security, energy production and fresh …
Forensic Investigations of Disasters (FORIN) has an important new publication: Forensic Investigations of Disasters (FORIN): a conceptual framework and guide to research. This is FORIN’s second major publication. It both articulates a conceptual framework for understanding disaster risk, and codifies and presents a set of methodological principles to identify and analyse processes of risk construction. …
IRDR publishes The FORIN Project: A conceptual framework and guide to researchRead More »