On the sidelines of the 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, an €80 Mio. funding package was unveiled: “Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities”. The 5-year programme is support by European Union funds and IRDR co-sponsor UNISDR will be one of the implementing …
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Once every four years, the global Quaternary research community meets at the INQUA Congress to exchange the latest results and develop research agendas for the years to come. In 2015, from 26 July to 2 August, some 2000 quaternary researchers are welcomed in Nagoya’s Congress Center (NCC) in central Japan. From the announcement: “The knowledge …
In a recent article published in “Pacific Island Report” of the University of Hawaii’s Pacific Islands Development Program, SC member S.H.M. Fakhruddin, goes beyond the core results of the Pacific Adaptation Climate Change (PACC) project sponsored by the Australian Government, and focuses instead on the impacts of water resources due to climate change. From the …
The Africa Working Group (AWG) on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) has been meeting bi-annually to take stock of the progress made regionally on the implementation of the intergovernmental agreements on Disaster Risk Reduction and the Africa Regional Strategy for DRR. At the 2014 Abuja meeting, the regional communities (including PeriPeriU – the 11-university consortium that …
PeriPeriU invited to attend ISDR African Working GroupRead More »
On Sunday, 19 July 2015, the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop kicked off at Broomfield, Colorado. Traditionally, the meeting is designed to bring together researchers and practitioners from many fields and disciplines to discuss ways in which society deals with hazards and disasters. Since 1975, the Natural Hazards Center at the University of …
IRDR at 40th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications WorkshopRead More »
Under the title “Crisis Management / Disaster Response”, the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK: Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe) is organizing from 20 July to 31 July 2015 the 7th International BBK Summer Academy. Hosted by the Academy for crisis management, emergency planning and civil protection at a scenic location …
IRDR Germany announces 7th International BBK Summer AcademyRead More »
On 15-17 July 2015, Tsinghua University in Beijing is hosting “Climate Change and Urban Environment” an ANCST (Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology) Workshop. Tsinghua’s Professor Jianping Wu is a key member of the workshop’s organising committee. Dr. Joy Jacqueline Pereira, based at ANCST’s founding institution – the Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative, …
ANCST Workshop on Climate Change and Urban Environment held in BeijingRead More »
Sophie Rigg, Emma Visman and Mark Pelling, researchers affiliated with the host institution of the IRDR International Centre for Excellence on Risk Interpretation and Action (IRDR ICoE RIA), recently issued a “Learning Paper” that outlines novel methods for linking scientific and practitioner knowledge. “Climate change is having significant impact on climate extremes in East and …
Building resilience to climate shocks and stresses: addressing the knowledge gapRead More »
IRDR SC member S.H.M. Fakhruddin from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, jointly with A. Kawasaki from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan, recently published an article in “Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences”, the interactive open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union. Titled “Assessing the vulnerability of …
Assessing the vulnerability of infrastructure to climate changeRead More »
“With close to 2000 academics from almost 100 countries, Our Common Future Under Climate Change (CFCC15) is the largest forum for the scientific community to come together ahead of the 21st UN Conference of the Parties (COP21) summit in Paris in December” writes IRDR co-sponsor ICSU, one of the organisers of the conference. After opening …