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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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16 May 2023
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ICSU announces Dr. Heide Hackmann to be Executive Director and Dr. Lucilla Spini, Head of Science Programmes
09 December 2014
The International Council for Science announced that Dr. Heide Hackmann, a dual South African-German national, will take over leadership of the organization’s International Secretariat in Paris in March 2015.Hackmann joins the Council from the Internatio
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2nd ISDR Asia Partnership meeting in 2014 concludes in Bangkok
08 December 2014
The 2nd ISDR Asia Partnership Meeting of the year 2014 was held on 2 to 4 December 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting discussed the way forward from the 6th Asia Ministerial Conference, preparation towards the 3rd WCDRR and most importantly preparing
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IRDR ICoE host city Wellington joins 100 Resilient Cities Network
05 December 2014
Wellington undertaken by the Wellington region’s IRDR International Centre of Excellence for Community Resilience (IRDR ICoE CR) has won a bid to be part of the international network 100 Resilient Cities. Last year, The Rockefeller Foundation launched the
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Junior Science Officer
04 December 2014
Job Title:Junior Science Officer [Download job opening]Office:Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)International Programme Office (IPO)c/o Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI)Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)Location:No. 9 Dengzhuang
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IRDR ICoE Taipei and partners to conduct capacity development workshop in Mianyang, China
04 December 2014
The Integrated Research on Disaster Risk International Centre of Excellence (IRDR ICoE) located in Taipei, International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), the International Council for Science, Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific (ICSU ROAP
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Lecture on Natural Hazards: Why More Knowledge Is Not Reducing Losses
03 December 2014
The National Academy of Sciences Geographical Sciences Committee cordially invites you to the annual Gilbert F. White Lecture in the Geographical Sciences at The National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 2014. The lecture wi
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Resilience to extreme weather, a major new Policy Report from the Royal Society
02 December 2014
The Royal Society has published 'Resilience to extreme weather'. The full report, executive summary and other interactive content are available here. A briefing covering the content of the report will take place at 9.30am on 3 December at the Royal Societ
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Outcomes Report: 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference 2014 in Davos
01 December 2014
The Outcomes Report of the 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2014 which was held from 24 -28 August in Davos, Switzerland is now available for download and consists of two major parts. Download the reportPart I provides a summary o
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CODATA co-hosted workshop on risk information management
30 November 2014
An interdisciplinary international workshop on “Risk Information Management, Risk Models and Applications” was held in Berlin, Germany, on 17-18 November 2014. The German National Committee for the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology in coop
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IRDR Chair in new project on Extreme Events and Environments
29 November 2014
IRDR Chair David Johnston from Massey University partnered with the recently funded project-cluster E3S. “Extreme Events and Environments: from climate to society” received Fast Track funding through a Future Earth funding stream and is coordinated by Mar
