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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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End-to-End-to-End Early Warning System- A talk in the University of Auckland
07 April 2016
Bapon (shm) Fakhruddin, member of IRDR’s Scientific Committee, gave a public talk to the University of Auckland on “End-to-End-to-End Early Warning System.” For more information, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51WyzzmjDAg
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Heartening News: the online library for Disaster Risk is available!
21 March 2016
The UNISDR Library for Disaster Risk is available online. Please click here: http://lib.riskreductionafrica.org/
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TWAS Affiliated Membership 2016
07 March 2016
TWAS Affiliated Membership 2016 Nominations/Applications Form(to be typewritten in English)Kindly read the information overleaf prior to completing the form. A candidate can be proposed by a TWAS Fellow, an Associate Fellow or individual candidates should
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World Risk Index
01 March 2016
WorldRiskIndex presented by Prof. Birkmann at a high level event in New York
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IRDR seeks Executive Director
06 February 2016
The International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR) invite applications for the post of Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster
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Call for science briefs - UN Global Sustainable Development Report
03 February 2016
The team preparing the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) is issuing an open call for science briefs to members of the global sustainable development community. The GSDR is a United Nations publication aiming to strengthen the science-policy in
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Call for Submission of Case Studies on the role of S & T in Asia DRR
30 January 2016
UNISDR Asia Pacific Office has formed the Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group (ASTAAG) in May 2015 to facilitate active roles for Science and technology in DRR in Asian countries. ASTAAG is composed of 8 members from 7 Asian nations; they
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IRDR releases Issue Brief before ISDR Science & Technology conference
26 January 2016
Integrated Science for Sendai Framework ImplementationThis Issue Brief was prepared for the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, to be held the 27-29 January 2016 in
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Access ISDR S&T Conference (Jan 2016) documents here
22 January 2016
The Conference goal is to promote and support the availability and application of science and technology to disaster risk reduction decision-making for implementation of the Sendai Framework. The Expected Outcomes are to launch the UNISDR Science and Tech
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IRDR is to be a co-sponsor of the 2nd Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) Science Conference in Beijing
22 January 2016
PEEX is a multidisciplinary, multi-scale research initiative aiming at resolving the major uncertainties in Earth System and Global Sustainability Science. PEEX is especially concerned with Arctic and Pan-Eurasian regions. The vision of PEEX is to solve i
