Based at the Strand Campus with its vibrant mix of academic disciplines, this appointment is part of a longer-term investment strategy to provide additional expertise in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The post will be situated in the Department of Geography and support King’s Centre for Integrated Research on Risk and Resilience. This …
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After almost two decades, the Philippines will host and chair the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2015 and convene the APEC Senior Officials (SOM2) on 10-21 May 2015. One among the wide-range of topics to be discussed will be emergency preparedness. On 13 May, Undersecretary Alexander P. Pama, Administrator from the Office of Civil Defense and …
APEC Philippines 2015 hosts Expert WG Emergency PreparednessRead More »
On 3-5 June 2015, in conjunction with the 13th IRDR Science Committee (SC) Meeting and the 2nd plenary meeting of the new IRDR China Committee meeting, a roundtable on IRDR research and policy perspectives and capacity building workshop for early and mid-career scientists will be held in Qingdao, China. IRDR SC faculty will include the …
Students from the Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction (RADAR)’s Disaster Risk Studies course took part in a fieldtrip to Touws River, Western Cape, South Africa from 4-7 May, 2015 to conduct a Community Risk Assessment (CRA) for residents living in the lower income suburbs of the settlement which has been plagued with issues …
PeriPeri U’s Student led Community Risk Assessment in Touws River, South AfricaRead More »
Elisabeth Carabine, from Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London, with support from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has published her study Revitalising Evidence-based Policy for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030: Lessons from Existing International Science Partnerships that discussed new forms of science and policy interaction, leading up to Sendai. The study …
Science and Technology Major Group on evidence-based policy for DRRRead More »
In this issue of the IRDR Newsletter, we feature IRDR at the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (3rd WCDRR) with highlights on the strong recognition of science for DRR in the Sendai Framework for Action. During the 3rd WCDRR, IRDR was involved in the planning and delivery of most of the conference …
IRDR releases Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 2 (February-April 2015)Read More »
IRDR co-sponsors and partners such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and International Council for Science recently co-authored an article in Nature entitled, “Five priorities for the UN Sustainable Development Goals”. In the article, the authors laid out five priorities for how the scientific community should participate in this process, based on the findings of …
The International Social Science Council (ISSC) calls for applications from outstanding early career social scientists around the world to become World Social Science Fellows and participate in a World Social Science Seminar on Sustainable Urbanization: Urban governance to tackle urban poverty and environmental sustainability on 9-13 September 2015 in Durban, South Africa. The seminar discussion …
Call for Applications: World Social Science Fellows Seminar on Sustainable UrbanizationRead More »
The IRDR – Integrated Research on Disaster Risk – is a ten-year-programme, co-sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It seeks to advance and promote new approaches to disaster risk reduction science. IRDR has also been critical in …
Call for Nominations: IRDR Science Committee (SC) membersRead More »
The ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) recently published its Annual Report for the year 2014. The report documents the activities of ROAP highlighting key activities in its priority areas of work in health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment, hazards and disasters, and sustainable energy. The report also details the …
ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific publishes its Annual Report for 2014Read More »