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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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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
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Call for TWAS Prizes / TWAS-Celso Furtado 2015 Prize in Social Sciences
05 January 2015
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) – for the advancement of science in developing countries is seeking nominations for the following prizes:• the TWAS 2015 Prizes• the TWAS- Celso Furtado 2015 Prize in Social SciencesThe TWAS 2015 Prizes will be awarded
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New West African Masters Programme on Risk Management and Food Security at IRDR ICoE Member University
29 December 2014
University Gaston Berger at Saint-Louis, Senegal, which has already been selected as home to one of the World Bank’s African Centres of Excellence, has announced the launch of a new French-language Masters Programme in Risk Prevention and Food Security (M
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Three new AIRDR reports ready for release
24 December 2014
The chair of the AIRDR Working Group Susan Cutter, Director of the IRDR International Centre of Excellence on Vulnerability and Resilience Metrics, announced the imminent release of three new AIRDR reports, commissioned by UNISDR as input to GAR15 expert
