IRDR Young Scientists Dr. Ranit Chatterjee and Dr. Raju Sarkar participated the Research Summit on Health-related Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (H-EDRM) on 9-10 July. This summit was organized by IRDR ICoE-Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) with WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management …

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Date: October 1st – October 5th, 2018 Venue: IRDR ICoE-Taipei   East Asia is located at the western Pacific, where large and moderate size earthquakes frequently occurred and define the locations of active convergent plate boundary. Many large cities of East Asia, for example, Tokyo, Taipei, Manila, and Jakarta are located either on or near …

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SiDRR, one of IRDR flagship projects, recently published a paper to introduce this programme and point out the collaboration  opportunities on Journal of Mountain Science. Citation: Lei Y, Cui P,Regmi AD, et al. (2018)An international program on Silk Road Disaster Risk Reduction – a Belt and Road initiative (2016-2020). Journal of Mountain Science 15(7). https://doi.org/10.1007s118-4842-4 “Silk …

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Chandra Laxmi Hada, one of IRDR Young Scientists, is the Urban Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor of DCA Nepal – Danish International Humanitarian and Development Organization. She recently initiated an innovative project “PRAYAS: Promoting new Resilience Approaches in Younger And Smaller municipalities”. This project is designed to Strengthened risk informed planning process through integration of digital technologies with …

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  IRDR young scientist Emmanuel Raju, Assistant Professor frmo Faculty of Law & Global Health Section, Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research, University of Copenhagen recently was awarded as Outstanding Reviewer for Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal in the 2018 Emerald Literati Awards. Emmanuel was selected by the editorial team based on his contribution to the …

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The 2018 Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was co-organised by UNISDR and the Government of Mongolia from 3-6 July 2018 in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. The Ulaanbaatar Declaration was adopted, and a two-year Action Plan agreed, to accelerate implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia. The Sendai Framework …

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AMCDRR2018 side-event Science and Technology-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Integrated Risk was organised by Integrated Risk Governance Project/Future Earth, Beijing Normal University, UNISDR ASTAAG with IRDR and APRU as the partners. Prof. YE Qian, Executive Director of IRG, chaired this side event. Panellists from different international science and technology platforms and networks presented and discussed their plans …

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The Science Technology Academia Stakeholder Group Consultation was held by the Asia Science Technology Academia Advisory Group (ASTAAG) with IRDR as the partner on 3rd of July, 2018.  This consultation was the pre-event of the 2018 Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, which was co-organised by UNISDR and the Government of Mongolia from 3-6 …

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Join us in the following events: Pre-event: Date: 9:30-12:30, 3rd of July Venue: SULD 1, Best Western Premier Tuushin Hotel Side-event: Date: 16:30-17:30, 4th of July Venue: Soyombo 3, Best Western Premier Tuushin Hotel Side-event: (IRDR ICoE CCOUC) Date: 11:30-12:30, 4th of July Venue: Soyombo 2, Best Western Premier Tuushin Hotel Series activities of Market …

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