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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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2016 Stein Rokkan Prize for comparative social science research
06 November 2015
The ISSC, ECPR, and the University of Bergen are delighted to announce that the nomination process for the 2016 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research is now open. Stein Rokkan was a pioneer of comparative political and social science
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Call for abstracts 2nd Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) Conference
03 November 2015
The Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) is a multidisciplinary, multi-scale research program aimed at resolving the major uncertainties in Earth System Sciences and global sustainability issues concerning the Arctic and boreal Pan-Eurasian regions as well as C
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Under 40 female researchers can apply for Gro Brundtland Award
03 November 2015
“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (The Brundtland Report 1987). Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland has been a global leader in promoting sust
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4th International Symposium on solar variability and climate
29 October 2015
Announcing the Fourth International Symposium of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA-IV) titled: "Influence of short and long term solar variability on climate" in Hurghada, Egypt, from 20 to 24 March 2016. The aim of the Four
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IRDR is recruiting communication and science officers!
26 October 2015
IRDR's International Programme Office (IPO) is located at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, China. It is the focal point for the coordination and promotion of the IRDR programme. Led by
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"Reconnecting civil society and science with policy making is the first task in implementing the SFDRR"
22 October 2015
Just in time for the ratification of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SC member Mark Pelling (of King's College London) and Lucy Pearson (of the Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction - GNDR) released a new publicati
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31 October deadline for Poster Abstracts - ISDR S & T Conference
19 October 2015
All those involved in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (e.g., the science and technology community, policy makers, practitioners and researchers from all geographical regions at local, national, regional and
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ICoE for Vulnerability & Resilience Metrics responds to flooding
10 October 2015
This week both US Carolina States experienced one of the most intense and long-lasting rainstorms in recorded history causing widespread and dangerous flooding. IRDR's ICoE-VaRM, led by former IRDR SC member Susan Cutter, based at the University of South
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Periperi U leads DRR in higher education session at ANIE conference
05 October 2015
ANIE - the African Network for the Internationalization of Education - convenes their conference October 7-9th in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The 6th ANIE conference is co-organized by Periperi U (IRDR ICoE-REaL based at Stellenbosch University in South Afri
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Oct 31 deadline to submit a session proposal for 23rd Pacific Science Congress
21 September 2015
With the theme, Science, Technology and Innovation: Building a sustainable future in Asia and the Pacific, the 23rd Pacific Science Congress will be held at the Academia Sinica in Taipei on June 13-17. Deadline for session proposals is October 31.
