This is a parallel session at IRDR International Conference 2024. In the session, several young scientist gave relevant presentations.

It has been recognized that development that is not risk informed cannot be sustainable. Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction (DRR) into strategies and policy for territorial planning, land use planning, and disaster preparedness can support the anticipatory actions, reduce systemic and cascading impacts generated by disasters, and enhance the resilience.

This session aims to 1) collect the cases from national level from different countries on the application of disaster risk information in land use planning, territorial planning and development strategies and policies; 2) support the implementation of “Priority 3: Enable transformative governance and action to reduce risk” and “Priority 6: Support regional and national science and knowledge for policy and action” identified in the global risk science agenda; 3) discuss on how to promote the role of young scientists in the DRR policy making.