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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 contributes to 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR15)
06 March 2015
The 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR15), prepared by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) was launched on 4 March in New York City by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,and states that economic losses from disaste
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Former IRDR SC member Allan Lavell shortlisted as UN Sasakawa Awardee
04 March 2015
The judges of the 2015 United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction have announced their final short-list of three.The nominees are Allan Lavell, a disaster risk researcher and consultant based in Costa Rica; the Australian Business Roundtable for
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IRDR ICoE-RIA releases Disaster Risk: A Future Agenda for Integrative Science
03 March 2015
IRDR International Centre of Excellence in Risk Interpretation and Action (ICoE-RIA) members; The Centre for Integrated Research on Risk and Resilience, King’s College London, and The Institute for Risk and Disaster Risk Reduction, University College Lond
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IRDR in Disaster Risk Reduction Forum 2015
02 March 2015
The Lessons Learned about Lessons Learned Expert Forum was convened by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB/CU), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS), Na
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Funded PhD in Flood Research at Kingston University London
02 March 2015
Kingston is now offering 35 prestigious research studentships to students who wish to study for a full-time PhD beginning in 2015-16 (part-time studentships are not available). The studentship covers the Home/EU fee only (which is £3,996 for the academic
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A century of natural disasters - what are the costs?
27 February 2015
Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC (IRDR National Committee in Australia) helps to accurately compare the impacts of disasters from more than 100 years ago with more recent events. Over the last century the Australian population has vastly grown and the bui
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IRDR Expert Meeting on DATA results to publication of Human and Economic Impact Indicators
26 February 2015
The 4th Expert Meeting of the IRDR Working Group DATA (Disaster Loss Data) last 23-25 February in Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), in the Netherlands, resulted to the publication of Guidelines on Measuring Losses from Disasters: Human and Econom
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IRDR partner EU-JRC presents report on disaster loss data
25 February 2015
The JRC, a key partner in the IRDR Working Group DATA, has published a report on "Current Status and Best Practices for Disaster Loss Data recording in EU Member States". This Science and Policy Report by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission
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Preparing children for disasters: a study by IRDR Australia
24 February 2015
A Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC project (IRDR National Committee in Australia) is examining how educating children on how to be resilient in the face of a natural disaster can flow on to mobilising an entire community.Enabling kids to become active par
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ICSU and IRDR webinar on Science and Technology at 3rd WCDRR
20 February 2015
A webinar on Science and Technology (S&T) at the Third World Conference on DRR (3rd WCDRR) was held last 20 February in Paris, France which was chaired by IRDR Executive Director Rudiger Klein. The agenda included presentation from ICSU and IRDR, intr
