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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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Nature publishes "Pool knowledge to stem losses by disasters" by IRDR colleagues
18 June 2015
Susan Cutter, and four other members of IRDR’s Scientific Committee (Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Salvano Briceño, David Johnston, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi), plus many other members of the extended IRDR research family jointly authored an article published in June’
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IRDR Germany / DKKV at 12th bonn dialogues on risk of flooding in Rhein region
17 June 2015
The event, jointly organised with the municipality of Bonn and United Nations University EHS, initially reviewed measures taken to prevent flooding, including institutional innovation and new forms of collaboration and news structures of response teams in
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IRDR SC members at New Zealand Symposium on Disaster Risk Reduction
16 June 2015
The Government of New Zealand organized on 15-16 June 2015 the “New Zealand Symposium on Disaster Risk Reduction” to review the Sendai Framework for implementation. With more than 300 participants from different sectors attending – among them IRDR SC memb
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IRDR NC Australia: new publications posted online
15 June 2015
Bushfire and Natural hazards Cooperative research Centre (BNH CRC), which also functions as the IRDR National Committee for Australia, has presented a number of new publications, including several reports and journal papers.A scoping study from the Capabi
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ICSU Regional Office for Africa: IRDR joins review of science plan for hazards and disasters
13 June 2015
[caption id="attachment_10308" align="alignright" width="200"] ROA science plan review workshop participants[/caption]As part of IRDR co-sponsor ICSU’s review of the profile and operations of its regional offices (ROs), it is reviewing and updating the RO
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SC Member Djillali Benouar founding member of Algerian National Academy
12 June 2015
Following a selection process that involved an international jury of 12 scientific personalities from various international scientific academies in the fields of science and technology, 46 national high-level scientists were selected from among 366 applic
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Australia: CRC Program Review and New National Research Priorities
11 June 2015
The annual Cooperative Research Centres Association conference in Canberra last week witnessed extensive discussions of the recently released Miles Report – a review of the CRC Programme. The report acknowledged the value and the economic gains to the cou
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IRDR Welcomes New International Centre of Excellence Based at Western University, Canada
10 June 2015
During its recently held 13th meeting in Qingdao, China, IRDR's Science Committee (SC) members approved the application from the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) based at Western University in London, Canada as the IRDR International Centr
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IRDR National Committee Iran Approved as 10th NC
09 June 2015
[caption id="attachment_10029" align="aligncenter" width="620"] During the recently held 13th IRDR Science Committee (SC) meeting, SC members discussed the submission from a group of Iranian institutions to be designated an IRDR National Committee (NC).[/
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IRDR Welcomes New International Centre of Excellence on Critical Infrastructures and Strategic Planning
08 June 2015
During its recently held 13th meeting in Qingdao, China, IRDR's Science Committee (SC) members approved the application from the Institute for Spatial and Regional Planning (IREUS) within the Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Management at
