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Professor Saini Yang Appointed as the New Executive Director of IRDR
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08 July 2024 IRDR Introduction Video
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23 May 2023 Agreement on IRDR Phase II became effective on May 11 2023
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Launching of “The Forensic Investigation of Disasters” (FORIN)
08 February 2018
This past January 15, an IRDR publication named “The Forensic Investigation of Disasters” (FORIN) was launched by the Regional Office of Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Council of Science, in joint efforts with the Ministry of the In
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Communication of risks and investment on young generation are put forward in the collaboration between IRDR and WWRP
02 February 2018
WMO World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) delegation, consisting of Paolo M. Ruti (Chief of WWRP), Julia Keller (Junior Professional officer), Brian Golding (Co-chair of HIWeather Project of WWRP) and David Johnston (Co-chair of HIWeather Project of WW
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NATURE: Steps to the digital Silk Road
31 January 2018
Prof. GUO Huadong, Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, Ex-officio of IRDR, delivered a comment article "Steps to the digital Silk Road" on the international journal of science Nature. He urges that sharing big data from satellite imagery and other
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IRDR Young Scientists Programme: Call for application (3rd Batch)
12 January 2018
In 2016, IRDR started the IRDR Young Scientists Programme. Now we have 72 IRDR young scientists and they have great performance in DRR.Now the 3rd batch has opened up for application. Young researchers are encouraged to apply for IRDR Young Scientists fro
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2nd Annual Meeting of DBAR DRR Working Group
13 December 2017
The 2nd Annual Meeting of DBAR DRR Working Group was held on Dec 13, 2017 in Sanya China.Prof. CHEN Fang, the co-chair of the working group, summarised the activities of 2017. DBAR DRR Working Group launched a regional research initiative "Integrated Digi
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Prof. Guo Huadong reported the work of IRDR in ICSU GA
30 October 2017
In Day 2 of 32nd ICSU General Assembly, Prof. Guo Huadong, the representative from Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ( which hosts IRDR),reported the work of IRDR with highlight on IRDR's main achievement, key prio
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Call for application-Training Workshop on the Predictability of Extreme Weather Events
13 October 2017
The inaugural Malaysia Window to Cambridge at Univerisiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (MW2C@UKM) training workshop on the Predictability of Extreme Weather Events will be held on 14-16 November 2017 in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The Centre for Southeast Asia Disast
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Prof. CUI Peng Provided Preliminary Hazard Evaluation Report of Jiuzhaigou Earthquake
12 October 2017
On August 8th, a Ms 7.0 earthquake struck Jiuzhaigou County, Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. The Epicenter of this earthquake is only 5 km west of a world-famous scenery site, Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritag
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IRDR names Qunli HAN as new Executive Director
26 September 2017
Qunli HAN appointed as Executive Director of IRDROn 25 Sep 2017, IRDR announced Mr Qunli Han as its new Executive Director. Before joining IRDR, Qunli was the Secretary of the UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme and the Director of the Division
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Embodied uncertainty: living with complexity and natural hazards
25 September 2017
Victoria Sword-Daniels, Christine Eriksen and their colleagues recently have a paper , Embodied uncertainty: living with complexity and natural hazards , published on Journal of Risk Research.This work started at the ISSC Fellows seminar in December 2013
