The report entitled “An Assessment of Coastal Risks and the Role of Environmental Solutions” takes an integrated approach by focusing on analyses and recommendations that can benefit both people and nature across risk reduction and environmental conservation objectives. This report emerges from a US funded project “Coasts at Risk” and 1) examines the risks that nations …
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At global, regional and local level there is an increasing demand from both policy makers and the business sector for understanding relationships between the determinants of climate change risk (hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and adaptation) as well as metrics and policy options to deal with such a risk. Meeting this demand is fraught with difficulties due …
The Tokyo Conference on International Study for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience “Towards a New Science and Technology to consolidate Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development” is now accepting abstract submission until 30 September 2014. You can submit abstracts using this link “online subtract submission.” The Tokyo Conference will be held at Ito Hall, University of Tokyo, in …
Over the past decade, the Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries (PASTD) has focused on promoting and enhancing the worldwide cooperation in ICTs and research data and in developing open knowledge environments for international science and sustainability in developing countries. Several international workshops and training sessions …
In a coordinated and nation-wide exercise, and underpinning a process of revising and restructuring processes and institutional responsibilities aimed to provide prevention and response services, Brazilian researchers involved in disaster risk reduction and civil protection have developed, over the last few months, a broad research agenda. Through an open and participatory process, the work of …
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From 21 July to 1 August 2014, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) organized, in collaboration with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), a Summer School on Attribution and Prediction of Extreme Events, that was held at ICTP, Trieste, Italy. The summer school was partly funded from an ICSU grant. “Extremes are …
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“Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi” was the title of a presentation by IRDR SC member Susan L. Cutter in a session on FORIN (“Forensic Investigations of Disasters”) held during the recent IRDR Conference 2014. It is also the title of a new book which the academic, based at the University of South …
The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) will be held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai City, Japan. To consider and adopt the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction, several thousand participants are expected, including high level participants from Governments, International Organizations, NGOs, private sector and other major group representatives. …
The Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC will be joining forces with Australian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) to host the AFAC14 conference addressing the theme “After Disaster Strikes, Learning from Adversity.” This conference is designed to bring together and share the combined wisdom of experience, research and analysis from across the sector to …
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The Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA) fellows blogged about their experiences of the recently concluded IRDR Conference 2014 held in Beijing. In their blog, ” Bridging Gaps: RIA Fellows in Beijing,” the RIA fellows expressed how they actively participated in the conference and contributed to the conference’s closing and take home messages – a great …