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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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Eight International Scholars Receive CAS Fellowship to Work at RADI
15 January 2015
Of the 13 candidates recommended by RADI to apply for the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) in 2015, eight are successful, according a recent announcement of CAS.Of the awardees, five have won the support of the PIFI for Visiting
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IRDR co-organiser of Tokyo Conference on DRR and Resilience
14 January 2015
IRDR, jointly with Science Council Japan, the National Committee IRDR-Japan, the University of Tokyo and UNISDR, are co-sponsors of the "The Tokyo Conference on International Study for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience", on 14-16 January 2015 in Toky
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Call for Applications: Advanced Institute on Disaster Risk Reduction and Loss Mitigation
14 January 2015
The 2015 Advanced Institute (AI) on Disaster Risk Reduction and Loss Mitigation (20-25 April 2015) will provide approximately 15-20 young to middle-career researchers and practitioners from Southeast Asia with the enhanced understanding; skills and practi
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International Workshop on Indigenous Knowledge and Global Challenges
13 January 2015
International Workshop on Indigenous Knowledge and Global Challenges: Transdisciplinary Dialogues on Risk Interpretation and Action for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation.Date: Wednesday, Jan 28 2015, 3 to 5 pmPlace: Large Conference Ro
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IRDR assists UN in nominating civil society speakers for WCDRR
12 January 2015
At the request of UNISDR, the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) had invited civil society to propose speakers and participants in the official segment of the upcoming WCDRR. The process produced a long-list of several hundred propo
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3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction draft programme published
10 January 2015
A draft programme for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to be held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan is now available.See: http://www.wcdrr.org/uploads/UN-WCDRR-Draft-Programme-6012015.pdfThis draft programme gi
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New national climate change adaptation policy processes in Europe
08 January 2015
The European Environment Agency (EEA) recently published its 2014 report on "National adaptation policy processes in European countries". According to the summary, this report draws on the results of a self-assessment survey conducted on national adaptat
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Call for Abstracts : AFAC 2015 Conference
07 January 2015
The call for abstracts for the 2015 Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and AFAC annual conference in Adelaide is now open. All CRC projects are encouraged to submit an abstract, with the conference being a major avenue to the fire, land management and emerg
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Visiting Scholars’ Programme of IRDR ICoE Taipei
07 January 2015
The IRDR IcoE Taipei (Academy of Sciences located in Taipei, China) has been offering for some time visiting scholar fellowships to connect different scientific communities in DRR research.The “Visiting Scholar Fellowships” in disaster-related research, o
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IRDR partner AUEDM links to "Visions and voices for a new global disaster framework" for WCDRR
06 January 2015
“Unlike other global frameworks (such as the Millenium Development Goals), awareness on the disaster risk reduction framework (HFA) has been limited, especially at the sub national and local level. In the run-up to HFA 2, this needs to be put in the right
