In the context of the MoU between IRDR and WWRP/WCRP’s SERA Working Group, R. Klein attended and spoke at the workshop on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) predictability of monsoons, held on 22 – 24 June 2015 at the National Institute of Meteorological Research Jeju, Republic of Korea. Presenters – notably a good number of early …

IRDR’s R. Klein speaks at WMO-WWRP event on seasonal to sub-seasonal predictability of monsoonsRead More »

The first ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting post-Sendai was held on 3-5 June 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. IRDR was represented by IRDR Science Committee (SC) member, S.H.M. Fakhruddin, and Executive Director, Rudiger Klein, for the first and second half of the meeting respectively. This IAP meeting focused on the way forward from the Third World …

IRDR Supports strengthened Role of S&T at ISDR Asia Partnership MeetingRead More »

This international workshop held in Beijing on 9-10 June 2015 was convened jointly with a number of ICSU-related Chinese networks and organisations, and others, such as the National Disaster Reduction Center of China, the National Geomatics Center of China and the UN-SPIDER Beijing office. The meeting had strong participation from IRDR’s host institute RADI, who …

Beijing: International Workshop on global geo-information for sustainability scienceRead More »

Susan Cutter, and four other members of IRDR’s Scientific Committee (Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Salvano Briceño, David Johnston, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi), plus many other members of the extended IRDR research family jointly authored an article published in June’s edition of Nature. The article argues for IRDR’s underlying tenet – that integrating and using knowledge from difference disciplines and …

Nature publishes “Pool knowledge to stem losses by disasters” by IRDR colleaguesRead More »

The event, jointly organised with the municipality of Bonn and United Nations University EHS, initially reviewed measures taken to prevent flooding, including institutional innovation and new forms of collaboration and news structures of response teams in local municipal administrations. The objective of the meeting was to explore new perspective for future preventive and response measures: …

IRDR Germany / DKKV at 12th bonn dialogues on risk of flooding in Rhein regionRead More »

The Government of New Zealand organized on 15-16 June 2015 the “New Zealand Symposium on Disaster Risk Reduction” to review the Sendai Framework for implementation. With more than 300 participants from different sectors attending – among them IRDR SC member S.H.M. Fakhruddin and David Johnston, the director and staff of the IRDR ICoE on Community …

IRDR SC members at New Zealand Symposium on Disaster Risk ReductionRead More »

Bushfire and Natural hazards Cooperative research Centre (BNH CRC), which also functions as the IRDR National Committee for Australia, has presented a number of new publications, including several reports and journal papers. A scoping study from the Capability needs for emergency and disaster management organisations project looks at the challenges of individual and inter-operational capabilities of first …

IRDR NC Australia: new publications posted onlineRead More »

As part of IRDR co-sponsor ICSU’s review of the profile and operations of its regional offices (ROs), it is reviewing and updating the ROs’ science plans. The ICSU ROA science plan was published in 2007/8 and since then science and the science policy environments across the continent have developed rapidly. The review began early in …

ICSU Regional Office for Africa: IRDR joins review of science plan for hazards and disastersRead More »