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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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IRDR at 40th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop
21 July 2015
On Sunday, 19 July 2015, the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop kicked off at Broomfield, Colorado. Traditionally, the meeting is designed to bring together researchers and practitioners from many fields and disciplines to discuss w
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IRDR Germany announces 7th International BBK Summer Academy
20 July 2015
Under the title "Crisis Management / Disaster Response", the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK: Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe) is organizing from 20 July to 31 July 2015 the 7th International B
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ANCST Workshop on Climate Change and Urban Environment held in Beijing
15 July 2015
On 15-17 July 2015, Tsinghua University in Beijing is hosting “Climate Change and Urban Environment” an ANCST (Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology) Workshop. Tsinghua’s Professor Jianping Wu is a key member of the workshop’s organising committ
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Building resilience to climate shocks and stresses: addressing the knowledge gap
14 July 2015
Sophie Rigg, Emma Visman and Mark Pelling, researchers affiliated with the host institution of the IRDR International Centre for Excellence on Risk Interpretation and Action (IRDR ICoE RIA), recently issued a “Learning Paper” that outlines novel methods f
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Assessing the vulnerability of infrastructure to climate change
13 July 2015
IRDR SC member S.H.M. Fakhruddin from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, jointly with A. Kawasaki from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan, recently published an article in “Natural Hazards and Ea
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Our Common Future under Climate Change
10 July 2015
“With close to 2000 academics from almost 100 countries, Our Common Future Under Climate Change (CFCC15) is the largest forum for the scientific community to come together ahead of the 21st UN Conference of the Parties (COP21) summit in Paris in December”
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RADAR: international practitioners assessing local community risks
09 July 2015
The Research Alliance for Disasters and Risk Reduction (RADAR) based at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and home to Periperi U and the IRDR ICoE REaL, held its Community Risk Assessment Training Short Course between 29 June and 3 July 2015. The c
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IRDR ICoE Community Resilience: The role of children in disasters
08 July 2015
The Joint Centre for Disaster Research of Massey University, New Zealand, home of IRDR’s International Centre of Excellence on Community Resilience and headed by IRDR SC Chair David Johnston, hosts a research workshop with Kevin Ronan from Central Queensl
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4th Asian Workshop on Psychological Intervention After Disasters 9-12 November 2015
07 July 2015
The 4th International Workshop on Psychological Intervention After Disasters (PIAD) will be conducted in Taipei on 9-12 November 2015, and will be co-hosted by IRDR International Centre of Excellence (IRDR-ICoE) at the Academy of Sciences, located in Taip
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Nominations for the 7th Cycle of the Zayed International Prize for the Environment
06 July 2015
Nominations for the Zayed International Prize for the Environment are open until 30 September 2015. The prizes, worth in total $1 million USD are awarded every two years, in the name of the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Prizes will be awarded f
