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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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16 May 2023
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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
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UNISDR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SENDAI FRAMEWORK FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION 2015-2030
08 April 2016
From 27-29 January 2016, UNISDR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SENDAI FRAMEWORK FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION 2015-2030 was held in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference successfully launched the Science and Technology Partners
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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
