South African mathematician elected as next President of the International Council for Science Professor Daya Reddy, an internationally recognized mathematician from South Africa, today became the new President-elect of the International Council for Science. At the conclusion of the organization’s 31st General Assembly in Auckland, Reddy today was named the future President of the International …
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The United Nations (UN) announced the winners of the “Big Data Climate Challenge” today, revealing that a project titled “Big Earth Observation Data for Climate Change Research” by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was selected for “Projects to Watch”, projects designed to highlight particularly innovative uses …
IRDR Host Institution among global top-10 UN Big Data Climate Challenge winnersRead More »
The launch of CDKN’s new international research fund aims to fill priority research gaps and address key questions relating to aspects of climate compatible development (CCD). There are affinities with IRDR’s research agenda on resilience and vulnerabilities. The approximate total budget for the call is up to £3.35 million, and it is expected that some …
Call for Applications: CDKN Climate Compatible Development Impact Research FundRead More »
On the sidelines of the ICSU General Assembly in Auckland, IRDR convened a strategy meeting of ICSU bodies. Facilitated by IRDR Executive Director R. Klein, the meeting heard a presentation by ICSU’s incoming president and IRDR founding chair, Gordon McBean, on the policy challenges facing DRR and the role played by ICSU and IRDR in …
The 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference (5th IDRC) in Davos last 24-28 August under the theme “Integrative Risk Management – The role of science, technology & practice” featured a special panel on the role of Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction. Organized by UNESCO and chaired by Dr Alexandros Makarigakis, the session covered …
IDRC Davos: IRDR SC Djillali Benouar speaks on the role of S&T in DRRRead More »
Responding to the increasingly global nature of societal challenges, practitioners of science advice to governments formed a global network to share practice and strengthen their ties, at the first global conference on science advice to governments, which was held in Auckland, New Zealand this week. Science advice to governments has emerged as a discipline in …
Science advice to governments comes of age at Auckland conferenceRead More »
Convened by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and hosted by New Zealand’s Chief Science Advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, this first global conference on science advice to governments brought together some 200 participants including science advisors, senior officials, representatives of national academies, experts and scholars from more than 40 countries across Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, …
Co-chaired by Dr. Vaughan Turekian, Editor-in-Chief of the AAAS Journal Science and Diplomacy, and the CE of New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the science and diplomacy symposium held in Auckland, New Zealand today, 27th August, explored ‘the place of science in foreign ministries’. The science and diplomacy symposium focused on the essential …
The National Committee of Disaster Risk Knowledge: National Unit for Disaster Risk Management of the Presidency of the Republic of Colombia (Unidad Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres, UNGRD), had been approved by the IRDR Scientific Committee in November 2013 as IRDR National Colombia. The Committee officially established its National Advisory Body for Research …
IRDR Colombia promotes interaction between academia and DRM practitionersRead More »
In 2012, IRDR and the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) of WMO signed a working arrangement to jointly support the activities of the Working Group on Societal and Economic Research and Applications (WG SERA) of the WWRP for which the research priorities include: Estimation of the societal (including economic) value of weather and disaster risk …