The second World Social Science Fellows seminar on sustainable urbanisation, Transformations to Sustainability in Urban Contexts, convened in Taipei last 3 November bringing together 21 scientists who will work together to develop new, interdisciplinary perspectives on social transformations to sustainability in urban contexts. This ISSC seminar is organized in collaboration with the Academia Sinica and …
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The first meeting of Safe Schools Leaders in Istanbul, Turkey last 30-31 October, organized by the Government of Turkey in cooperation with UNISDR, called for political commitments to safer schools. By becoming Safe Schools Leaders, Governments are encouraged to formally announce their political and financial commitments to safe schools at the World Conference on Disaster …
Safe Schools Leaders called for worldwide initiative for safe schoolsRead More »
The IRDR National Committee in Germany (German Committee for Disaster Reduction – DKKV) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Secretariat of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction of Kyrgyz Republic to strengthen collaboration between the two agencies for promoting disaster risk reduction. On 29 October 2014 the Chief Executive Officer of DKKV, …
The 5th Digital Earth Summit will take place in Nagoya, Japan from 9-11 November 2014. With the theme, ” Digital Earth for ESD (Education for Sustainable Development)”, the event aims to bring together nations and institutions to share accomplishments in applying advanced technologies and information to the goal of sustainable living on the planet. Digital …
After feedback from a CODATA sponsored workshop convened during the 2014 ICSU General Assembly, ICSU published a new report with recommendations on Open Access to scientific data and information such as related data and software. It sees Open Access as a powerful mechanism for creating and validating knowledge, and for supporting the development of science …
Adapting a research model of cross-stakeholder involvement pioneered for the DRR research domain in Australia, the IRDR National Committee Australia “Bushfire & Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (BNH CRC)”, an ARC-funded research five-year study led by a team from the University of Melbourne explores the medium to long term impacts of the Victorian 2009 bushfires …
Beyond Bushfires: Community, Resilience and RecoveryRead More »
The Third High Level Forum on UN Global Geospatial Information Management focusing on “Sustainable Development with Geospatial Information” last 22 – 24 October brought together member states and geospatial stakeholders with the unique opportunity to share and learn from each other, new ideas, methods and strategies to support local, regional and global sustainable development initiatives. …
IRDR SC member Shuaib Lwasa at the Third High Level Forum on UN GGIMRead More »
Following a proposal submitted by Hasan Virji of the International START Secretariat, a recent strategy meeting at the IRDR International Centre of Excellence in Taipei heard a presentation of the new Pan-Asia Risk Reduction (PARR) Fellowship Program. The PARR Fellowship Program offers unique research, training and educational opportunities to Asian researchers, practitioners, and policy makers …
Pan-Asia Risk Reduction (PARR) Fellowship Program proposes partnershipRead More »
Dr. Mateugue Diack, of the University of Gaston Berger, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, one of the leaders of the IRDR International Centre of Excellence in Africa, REAL, spoke at the United Cities and Local Governments congress in Rabat in early October 2014. A leading academic in his own right, he called on universities to engage more …
IRDR REAL: African universities reach out to local disaster managersRead More »
The UNISDR Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) conducted the 2nd Regional Workshop on “Risk Sensitive Investment Planning” last 15 -17 October 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. The event gathered representatives from different countries to help develop national disaster risk profiles through probabilistic risk assessment and enhance their capacities in risk sensitive investment planning. …
IRDR at UNISDR Workshop on Risk Sensitive InvestmentRead More »