World Heritage properties, as with all heritage properties, are exposed to natural and man-made disasters which threaten their integrity and may compromise their values. The loss or deterioration of these outstanding properties would negatively impact local and national communities, both for their cultural importance as a source of information on the past and a symbol …
Reducing Disasters Risks at World Heritage PropertiesRead More »
The Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC has produced a summary of findings from seven post-fire studies conducted across southern Australia over the last decade. The studies looked closely at how communities understood their hazard risk, how they planned and prepared for a possible bushfire, and how they responded to a serious bushfire event. The studies …
IRDR Australia publication on “Capturing Community Bushfire Experience”Read More »
The joint workshop organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the U.S. NASA under the title “Use of Earth Observations to Address Glacier Change and Associated Hazards in the Hindu Kush Himalayas” was held from 20 to 23 January 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Against the background of the recent China-US Joint Announcement on …
CAS-NASA Workshop calls for glacier research to address mountain hazardsRead More »
The meeting of the IRDR National Committee for China under the chairmanship of Academician Prof Huadong Guo, Director General of RADI, heard reports from IRDR China and from IRDR International, as well as prospective presentations on possible future trajectories of work. The Secretary General proposed a number of new interdisciplinary working groups to be set …
IRDR China Annual Meeting discusses workplan 2015-2017Read More »
The UK Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has produced a new briefing paper, based on a commissioned analysis of management and learning practices in DRR programmes of the global charity World Vision. “Key findings of the paper are drawn from examining three spheres of change: programming context, organisational context, and external policy and market context. Where …
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In this issue of the IRDR newsletter, we feature IRDR in major events such as the Tokyo Conference on International Study for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience, negotiations towards the post-2015, and regional preparations for 3rd WCDRR. This issue also covers the Working Groups Activities (AIRDR, DATA, FORIN and RIA), IRDR International Centres of Excellence …
Gall, M., S. L. Cutter, and K. Nguyen (2014). Transformative Development and Disaster Risk Management (IRDR AIRDR Publication No. 4). Beijing: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. The concept of transformation originated in the human dimensions of global change discourse and centred on the transformation of settlement patterns, technology, communications, economies and energy (Grunwald 2014), and …
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Presentation of the WorldRiskIndex with a special focus on Urban Areas in New York As Governments and UN bodies prepare for the World-Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (March 2015), for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG in summer 2015) and the Climate Change Conference in Paris (December 2015) a new report – the WorldRiskReport – on …
Urbanization: Driver of Risk – or Opportunities for Resilience?Read More »
Gall, M., S. L. Cutter, and K. Nguyen (2014). Governance in Disaster Risk Management (IRDR AIRDR Publication No. 3). Beijing: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. Disaster risk governance has traditionally been fragmented between local, state, and national entities and between sectors, and compartmentalised in highly variable bureaucratic structures. Risk governance is mostly viewed through the …
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Gall, M., S. L. Cutter, and K. Nguyen (2014). Incentives for Disaster Risk Management (IRDR AIRDR Publication No. 2). Beijing: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. This literature review summarises our current scientific knowledge on incentives for disaster risk management: how it has evolved over the past decades, what we know about incentives, their influence on …
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