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Background Development and disaster risk are closely linked – exposure to disaster risk, vulnerability and resilience of people and assets are all shaped by development processes. Transformation is increasingly understood to be necessary for moving from current development patterns that increase, create or unfairly distribute risks, towards more equitable, resilient and sustainable development. In 2015, …
September Edition of DRR and Open DATA newsletter is now available for download. It was organized by Disaster DATA Working Group of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme of ICSU/UNISDR, CODATA task group Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research (LODGD), Sustainable Development Solution Network, Public Health England and Tonkin and Taylor. This is a monthly newletter …
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Date: 20-22 Nov, 2018 Venue: Beijing, China Organisers: WMO, HIWeather, WWRP Aim: Despite advances in forecasting and emergency preparedness, weather-related disasters continue to cost many lives, to displace populations and to cause widespread damage. The High Impact Weather Project (HIWeather), a 10-year research project established in 2016 by WMO’s World Weather Research Programme, aims to …
Call for abstracts: Increasing the value of weather-related warningsRead More »
The Periperi U partnership is convening an intensive, two-week Risk Methods School from 10-22 September 2018 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Hosted by Ardhi University, the School will offer seven x five-day courses in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, United Nations Development Programme and Stellenbosch University’s African Doctoral Academy. This collaboration responds to the call for …
Call for application: ICoE-REaL Risk Methods SchoolRead More »
IRDR DATA together with Public Health England, CODATA, Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Tonkin+Taylor released the Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter. The newsletter consists of three parts: DRR and data in news, Publications on DRR and data, Upcoming DRR and data events. Please download for more information:
The 3rd Conference of Digital Belt and Road (DBAR 2018) will be held in Tengchong, Yunnan, China from 5th of December 2018 to 7th of December 2018. IRDR is one of the co-sponsors. DBAR is a pioneering international venture to share expertise, knowledge, technologies and data to demonstrate the significance of Earth observation and big Earth data applications for …
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IRDR ICoE-SEADPRI-UKM, the Malaysia Window to Cambridge at Univerisiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (MW2C@UKM), is convening a training workshop on Geohazards and Disaster Risk Reduction on 18-20 September 2018 in Penang, Malaysia. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the National Geological Conference 2018 convened by the Geological Society of Malaysia and their key partners. The …
IRDR ICoE-SEADPRI-UKM Workshop on Geohazards and DRR – Call for ApplicationRead More »
IRDR Young Scientist Dr. Mayeda Rashid’s programme was presented her programme at the 43rd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Colorado. The title of the programme is Teacher Facilitated Child-Centred Disaster Resilience Education Program: A Participatory Action Research Study in Bangladesh. This study aims to design and test a disaster resilience education program for …
IRDR young scientist Dr. Suresh Chaudhary recently published his research on Sustainability with his colleagues. Citation: Chaudhary, S., Wang, Y., Khanal, N. R., Xu, P., Fu, B., Dixit, A. M., … & Lu, Y. (2018). Social Impact of Farmland Abandonment and Its Eco-Environmental Vulnerability in the High Mountain Region of Nepal: A Case Study of Dordi …