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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 Germany DKKV releases project results from flood prevention research
19 February 2015
On 19 February, the University of Potsdam and the German Committee for Disaster Reduction in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences released the project results from the research "Flood 2013" in Berlin, Germany. At the event, a practice-oriented synt
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RADI Director General awarded IEAS Gold Medal
18 February 2015
Prof. Guo Huadong, Director General of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Chinese Academy of Sciences, the host institute of RADI, was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) at the recent 1st
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Paul Shrivastava named Executive Director of Future Earth
15 February 2015
The International Council for Science (ICSU), on behalf of the Science & Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, announced today the appointment of Paul Shrivastava as Executive Director of Future Earth. Currently he is the David O’Brien Distin
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Review of SDG targets: The Science Perspective
13 February 2015
IRDR co-sponsors ICSU and ISSC have released a new report which provides an independent review of the 169 targets under the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set to be approved at the UN General Assembly in September 2015.Bringing together th
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IRDR Affiliated Project on "Coastal Cities at Risk" holds social vulnerability workshop
12 February 2015
The IRDR affiliated project "Coastal Cities at Risk", supported by an alliance of Canadian research funders, hosted, jointly with the Adaptation for Climate Change Team (ACT) at Simon Fraser University, a workshop on Social Vulnerability from 4 to 6 Febru
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GFDRR and DFID Announce Challenge Fund
10 February 2015
The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) will launch a Challenge Fund on March 16, 2015, at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan.The Chal
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Pan-Asia Risk Reduction (PARR) Fellowship Program
10 February 2015
The Pan-Asia Risk Reduction (PARR) Fellowship Program offers unique research, training and educational opportunities to Asian researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to enhance their capabilities for advancing and applying knowledge on critical issu
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Reducing Disasters Risks at World Heritage Properties
09 February 2015
World Heritage properties, as with all heritage properties, are exposed to natural and man-made disasters which threaten their integrity and may compromise their values. The loss or deterioration of these outstanding properties would negatively impact loc
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IRDR Australia publication on "Capturing Community Bushfire Experience"
08 February 2015
The Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC has produced a summary of findings from seven post-fire studies conducted across southern Australia over the last decade. The studies looked closely at how communities understood their hazard risk, how they planned and
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CAS-NASA Workshop calls for glacier research to address mountain hazards
06 February 2015
The joint workshop organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the U.S. NASA under the title “Use of Earth Observations to Address Glacier Change and Associated Hazards in the Hindu Kush Himalayas” was held from 20 to 23 January 2015 in Kathman
