Promoting new Resilience Approaches in Younger And Smaller municipalities

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 was awarded as Outstanding Reviewer

  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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IRDR Young Scientists Publication: An inclusive and adaptive framework for measuring social resilience to disasters

A.M. Aslam Saja, one of IRDR young scientists, recently pulished “An inclusive and adaptive framework” in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction with his colleagues. Resilience is a multifaceted phenomenon, and approaches to measure resilience across disciplines have produced wide-ranging methods. This paper presents an inclusive and adaptive ‘5S’ social resilience framework that was …

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IRDR Young Scientists Publication: Socio-Ecological Resilience as a Sustainable Development Strategy for Remote Rural Settlements in India-Integrating Community Perspective

One of IRDR Young Scientists, Dr. Sameer Deshkar recently published a Project Report  titled “Socio-Ecological Resilience as a Sustainable Development Strategy for Remote Rural Settlements in India – Integrating Community Perspective” as the Principal Investigator of the Project. The project was a Follow-on-Research supported by IRDR ICoE-Taipei and START International Inc., USA. The project is …

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44 young researchers are accepted as IRDR Young Scientists

The 3rd round application of IRDR Young Scientists Programme closed on Feb 28, 2018.  After the evaluation of  IRDR Young Scientists Programme Panel, 44 young researchers from 24 countries were proposed to be accepted as IRDR Young Scientists. The result was approved in the 19th IRDR Scientific Committee Meeting in this month. These young scientists …

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IRDR Young Scientist Co-edited “Disaster Governance in India”

IRDR Young Scientist Abhinav Walia, a PhD Researcher at University of Newcastle, Australia and former faculty member at Centre for Disaster Management, LBSNAA, India, has co-edited a book titled “Disaster Governance in India – Vol-4.” The book is compilation of four field based case studies on various disasters happened in India. All the studies have …

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