At the 3rd Huangshan Dialogue on UNESCO Sites and Sustainable Development, UNESCO HIST and IRDR co-organised the session Disaster Risk Assessment and Mitigation for UNESCO Sites. The session was chaired by Dr. Hans Thulstrup, the Senior Programme Specialist of Water and Environment Sciences of UNES...

Understanding Risk Finance Pacific Forum - VanuatuTonkin + Taylor's Technical Director of DRR and Climate Resilience Dr Bapon Fakhruddin was present at the forum, acting as Speaker on Pacific EWS in a session on Multi-Hazard Impact Based Early Warning Systems.Read MoreThe United Nations World Data F...

IRDR, Tonkin+Taylor, and World Weather Research Programme of WMO together published a policy brief [download id="13660"].The policy brief consists of Policy Recommendations, Contexts, Key Elements for a Total Warning System and Ongoing Initiatives.The effective communications are emphasised in the p...

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 Develop...