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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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Opportunity! Call for Pre-proposals to identify collaborative research projects in Africa!
20 July 2016
International Council for Science (ICSU), in partnership with NASAC and the ISSC, will support 10 research projects across Africa to the value of up to 90,000 Euro each over two years. These projects are expected to generate new solutions-oriented knowled
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IRDR Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA) Survey is waiting for your response!
06 July 2016
IRDR Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA) has created one online survey to help identify coverage (and gaps) in high priority RIA elements of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, enabling better co-ordination of our communities to a
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The 6th International Building Resilience Conference 2016 will be held in Auckland 7-9th September 2016.
05 July 2016
The 6th International Building Resilience Conference 2016 will be held in Auckland, New Zealand 7-9th of September, 2016.
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Opportunity: ICSU is hiring a Science Officer
23 June 2016
ICSU is hiring a Science Officer!
Vacancy: Science Officer (ICSU Latin America/Caribbean)
The ICSU Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, which will move to its new host country El Salvador in August, is recruiting a Science Officer.
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1st Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction
22 June 2016
The 1st Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction, Science-Policy Dialogue for Implementation of the Sendai Framework will be held at Bangkok, 23-24 August 2016. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 heralds
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Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa
13 June 2016
As part of its mission to support integrated, solutions-oriented science globally, the International Council for Science (ICSU) has signed a 5-year agreement with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) for a 5 million euro program
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IRDR Iran National Committee will hold and organize 7th International Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2016) during 1-4 October 2016
06 June 2016
The 7th Annual Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2016), entitled "Disasters and Development: Towards a Risk Aware Society" with focus on "Natural Hazards and Disasters, Water and Climate Change" will be
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Rajib Shaw appointed Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk programme
01 June 2016
Rajib Shaw, Executive Director of IRDR.Previously, Shaw was a Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University, Japan. He has extensive experience in disaster risk reduction (DRR) research and has worked closely with lo
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The Workshop Co-sponsored by IRDR ICoE on Vulnerability and Resilience Metrics Calls for Abstracts
23 May 2016
IRDR ICoE on Vulnerability and Resilience Metricsis is co-organizing a workshop on the dynamics of risk and vulnerability with the University of Salzburg, EURAC Research and UNU-EHS. This workshop will be held at University of Salzburg, from Wednesday, 21
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Exciting News: The 2016 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to IRDR Science Committee Vice-Chair Irasema ALCÁNTARA-AYALA
20 April 2016
IRDR Science Committee Vice-Chair Irasema Alcántara-Ayala has been awarded the 2016 Sergey Soloviev Medal for her contribution to the basic knowledge of natural hazards, vulnerability and prevention of disasters in developing countries.Dr. Alcántara-Ayala
