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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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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
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IRDR China Annual Meeting discusses workplan 2015-2017
04 February 2015
The meeting of the IRDR National Committee for China under the chairmanship of Academician Prof Huadong Guo, Director General of RADI, heard reports from IRDR China and from IRDR International, as well as prospective presentations on possible future traje
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Institutionalising resilience in development programming
02 February 2015
The UK Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has produced a new briefing paper, based on a commissioned analysis of management and learning practices in DRR programmes of the global charity World Vision.“Key findings of the paper are drawn from examining t
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Urbanization: Driver of Risk - or Opportunities for Resilience?
30 January 2015
Presentation of the WorldRiskIndex with a special focus on Urban Areas in New YorkAs Governments and UN bodies prepare for the World-Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (March 2015), for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG in summer 2015) and the Cl
