This publication is developed by a group of individuals from the Asia Science Technology AcademiaAdvisory Group (ASTAAG) with support from researchers, scientists from different countries. A call for submission was made for case studies on application of science and technology for disaster risk reduction.
A total of 28 case studies on 13 countries and 4 cross cutting cases were submitted. The publication is supported by Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) International Programme Office (IPO) and Future Earth Research project on Integrated Risk Governance. This publication is not the official voice of
any country or any United Nations organization. The analysis presented in this publication is of the author (s) mentioned for each country.
Team members:
Bangladesh: Jamilur Reza Chaudhury
China: Peijun Shi, Ming Wang, Saini Yang, Qian Ye
India: Vinod Sharma
Indonesia: Sugeng Triutomo
Iran: Ali Ardalan and Javad Babai
Japan: Rajib Shaw and Takako Izumi
Malaysia: Joy Jacqueline Pereira
Myanmar: Rajib Shaw
Pakistan: Atta-ur Rahman
Philippines: Antonia Yulo Loyzaga, Emma Porio, Justin See and Jerome Azul
Vietnam: Nguyen Ngoc Huy and Tong Thi My Thi
Secretariat: Lucy Lu and Saini Yang
Please refer this publication as follow:
Shaw R., Izumi T., Shi P., Lu L., Yang S., Ye Q. (2016): Asia Science Technology Status for Disaster Risk Reduction, published by IRDR, Future Earth and ASTAAG, Beijing, China, 96 pages.
