The interdisciplinary Institute of Spatial and Regional planning (IREUS) at University of Stuttgart, Germany, who are the founding coordinator and host of the IRDR ICoE on Critical Infrastructures and Strategic Planning (CI&SP) convened on 15 to 17 June 2015 an international workshop to discuss methodical approaches for risk assessment in major coastal cities. The event, which is part …
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A one-stop shop for disaster risk reduction and emergency management was officially launched today on Massey University’s Wellington campus. The Disaster Hub, being launched by the Joint Centre for Disaster Research, provides a facility for collaboration between staff of all public and private organisations, universities, and training entities with an interest in emergency management. Guests …
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IRDR talked with Kathleen Tierney on the sidelines of the 40th annual Natural Hazard Workshop (NHW – see news 21 July) – a meeting which, like its parent the Natural Hazards Center and IRDR itself, was conceived to transcend research’s disciplinary boundaries and the policy / praxis divide. Over the last 40 years, the Workshop …
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Art in the face of disaster is the topic of the July 2015 issue of the Natural Hazards Observer published by the Natural Hazards Center in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. The NHC is the IRDR National Committee for the United States of America and is funded largely through a National Science Foundation grant and supplemented by …
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The Natural Hazards Research Platform, which, as a multi-party research platform funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) is dedicated to increasing New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards via high quality collaborative research, has published an updated version of its annual report “Natural Hazards 2014”. In the introduction, Phillip Gibson, New Zealand’s …
Venue: Geneva International Conference Centre, Geneva, Switzerland Target participants: The conference aims to bring together the full diversity of the science and technology community, policy makers, practitioners and researchers from all geographical regions, at local, national, regional and international levels to discuss how the science and technology community will best support the implementation of …
Royal Society has published the summary note which reflects some of the conclusions of a meeting of international disaster risk experts co-sponsored by UNISDR, the International Council for Science (ICSU), IRDR, and the UK Collaborative on Development Science (UKCDS). The meeting was co-chaired by Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction of the UN …
Royal Society event pushes for science as basis for implementing SendaiRead More »
The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union will take place in San Francisco, California, from 14 to 18 December 2015. The programme will cover many aspects of disaster risks including hazards. The Director of the IRDR ICoE VaRM, Carolina Distinguished Professor Susan Cutter of the University of South Carolina was selected as the 2015 Gilbert …
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IRDR DATA co-chair Susan Cutter and Melanie Gall both from the IRDR International Center of Excellence in Vulnerability and Resilience Metrics (ICoE-VaRM) published an online article in Nature Climate Change (Vol. 5, pg. 707–709, 24 July 2015). “Sendai targets at risk” reviews some of the work done by the IRDR Working Group DATA and partners, …
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The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) as well as the research councils NERC and the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) have launched a new programme with substantial funding for Science for Humanitarian Emergencies & Resilience (SHEAR). The SHEAR programme focuses on four main areas: (1) disaster risk assessment (mapping and analyses), (2) sub-seasonal …
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