The 5th IDRC Davos 2014’s first Plenary Session (Outcomes of Recent International Disaster Risk Reduction/ Management Conferences) offered a platform for some major conferences on DRR which have been held within the first six months of 2014 to provide input to UNISDR’s Proposed Elements for Consideration in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at …
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The Canadian Risk and Hazards (Knowledge and Practice) Network, a member of IRDR Canada, held its 11th Annual Canadian Risk and Hazards Network Symposium on 22-24 October 2014 in Toronto, Canada, following the 5th Annual Roundtable on Canada’s Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was convened on 21 October 2014. The very rich programme of …
IRDR Canada member holds national Risks and Hazards Network SymposiumRead More »
Uncertainty perceptions in severe weather warning: IRDR Germany host participates in WEXICOM project
The World Weather Open Science Conference 2014, held on 16-21 August 2014 in Montreal, Canada, heard results from the German WEXICOM project, presented by Thomas Kox, project lead researcher at Institute of Meteorology of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. See presentation: Verification of the linguistic uncertainty of warning uncertainty The WEXICOM project (2011-2014) examines weather warnings …
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) offers a package of international fellowships, collectively called the “CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI)”, to support highly-qualified international scientists and postgraduate students to work and study at CAS institutions and strengthen their scientific collaboration with CAS researchers. The PIFI program is available for four categories of international researchers …
A delegation headed by Prof. Ronald Woodman, who is the President of the Peruvian Academy of Sciences, visited RADI on August 18. The delegation visited the demonstration hall of Digital Earth science platform, the Airborne Remote Sensing Center and remote sensing satellite operation & management system, as well as the international S&T platforms hosted by …
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100 Resilient Cities, a project by The Rockefeller Foundation, seeks to find 100 cities that are ready to build resilience to the social, economic, and physical challenges that cities face in an increasingly urbanized world. By 22 August 2014 (5pm EDT), interested parties wishing to take part in the 2014 challenge can register to join …
The Second European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (2ECEES) in Istanbul, Turkey from 24-29 August, 2014 is a joint event of European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE) and European Seismological Commission (ESC). This year’s conference will feature 50 keynote and theme experts and about 750 oral and 800 poster presentations on Earthquake Engineering and …
IRDR SC Member Omar D. Cardona to present in 2ECEES Conference in TurkeyRead More »
Emerging trends in disaster risks underline the need to consider the role of water and wetland management as important elements of disaster risk reduction and risk management strategy. Located at the interface of land and water, wetlands are crucial in regulating the water cycle, for instance by reducing peak flood flows, storing excessive precipitation or …
Wetlands International’s recommendations for the Post-2015 Hyogo Framework for ActionRead More »
The UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) recently launched its annual stock taking report of development across the globe, the 2014 Human Development Report (HDR). This latest edition, under the title Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience addresses many issues that are at the core of IRDR research and that are also at the …
Publication of the 2014 Human Development Report: reflections from Royal SocietyRead More »
In preparation for Brazil’s second national conference on civil protection on Civil Protection which will be held in Brasilia in November 2014, the country launched, on 11 August 2014, a virtual platform, open to all citizens, to participate in the discussions surrounding public policies that deal with civil protection and civil defense issues. The process, …
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