The Research Alliance for Disasters and Risk Reduction (RADAR) based at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and home to Periperi U and the IRDR ICoE REaL, held its Community Risk Assessment Training Short Course between 29 June and 3 July 2015. The course focused on strengthening community-based risk assessment capabilities for disaster management practitioners, teaching them …
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The Joint Centre for Disaster Research of Massey University, New Zealand, home of IRDR’s International Centre of Excellence on Community Resilience and headed by IRDR SC Chair David Johnston, hosts a research workshop with Kevin Ronan from Central Queensland University and co-chair of the IRDR RIA sub-working group on Children and Youth. Recent reviews of …
IRDR ICoE Community Resilience: The role of children in disastersRead More »
The 4th International Workshop on Psychological Intervention After Disasters (PIAD) will be conducted in Taipei on 9-12 November 2015, and will be co-hosted by IRDR International Centre of Excellence (IRDR-ICoE) at the Academy of Sciences, located in Taipei. Sponsored by the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), the IRDR ICoE, the Centre for Applied Developmental Science …
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The International Council for Science (ICSU) convened a side-event on the eve of the climate science conference Our Common Future under Climate Change to highlight the potential of ICSU initiatives to contribute to the transformation envisaged to emerge with the global deal on reducing emissions in December this year. With three major UN processes converging …
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Emma Visman and Fiona Fletcher – both researchers affiliated with the host institution of the IRDR International Centre for Excellence on Risk Interpretation and Action (IRDR ICoE RIA) – recently released a blog for the UKCDS website (the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences, an IRDR partner organization). Entitled “Here’s how you get scientists and locals …
On the sidelines of the 17th China-EU Summit, Professor Huadong Guo, Director-General of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI) and Vladimír Šucha, Director-General of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) signed a new collaborative research arrangement in Brussels on 29 June. The event was witnessed by Chinese Premier LI Keqiang, President …
Jointly organized by Conseil général de l’économie (CGE) and Association française de prévention des catastrophes naturelles (AFPCN) – which functions as IRDR National Committee for France, an open and public study day on 30 June under the title « Changer avec le climat ! » was organised as part of AFPCN’s contributions towards undersanding DRR dimensions of …
All-day seminar “Changing with the Climate” co-organised by AFPCN (IRDR France)Read More »
This summer’s Governing Board meeting of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM), took place on 25-26 June 2015 in Pavia, Italy. GEM has been a long-standing partner of IRDR and aims to effectively contribute to enable commitments to disaster risk reduction under SFDRR by providing communities and organizations with state-of-the-art tools and data, technology transfer and …
IRDR SC member Djillali Benouar at GEM Governing Board meetingRead More »
As part of its PolicyLab program, on Wednesday 24 June, the Royal Society London brought together a panel of international experts that included Ms. Margareta Wahlström, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and IRDR’s Executive Director, Dr. Rüdiger Klein to explore the topic, “From agreements to action: what next for the new global …
IRDR’s R. Klein addresses Royal Society of London’s post-Sendai meetingRead More »
An event was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 25 June 2015, jointly organized by the local National Platform for DRR and the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kyrgyz Republic, and the German National Platform for Disaster Reduction (DKKV), which functions as IRDR National Committee for Germany. The partners presented results of a joint project …
Bishkek: IRDR Germany / DKKV work with ISDR Kyrgyzstan on capacity buildingRead More »