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IRDR Launches New Newsletter – June 2025 Issue Now Available!
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14 July 2025
IRDR Publications and Activities for GP2025
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27 May 2025
Professor Saini Yang Appointed as the New Executive Director of IRDR
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08 July 2024
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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
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IRDR ICoE Wellington “Resilience Tool Box” accessible online
22 December 2014
The ICoE’s “Resilience Toolbox” website has been developed for the public, community and private sectors to collaborate on tools that engage, empower and enhance the resilience of communities in the face of turbulent change.One of the biggest challenges f
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UKCDS published blog on the ethics of long-term climate research
20 December 2014
Lindsey Jones (ODI) and Nicola Ranger (DFID) reviewed the findings of a study on climate change planning and grappled with the ethics around providing climate information to Africa decision makers.How is climate change being factored into long-term invest
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IRDR France (AFPCN) in EU project on resilient coasts
19 December 2014
In 2014, AFPCN, which functions as IRDR France, joined a EU funded project ECOSTRESS (Ecological Coastal Strategies and Tools for Resilient European Societies). DG ECHO of the European Commission is providing seventy-five percent (75%) of the funding for
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BNHCRC (IRDR Australia) report on scientific diversity and uncertainty
18 December 2014
The BNHCRC funded project on “Scientific Diversity, Scientific Uncertainty and Risk Mitigation Policy and Planning” recently published a substantial report. The report by Josh Wodak of the Institute of Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydn
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A short video from the 2014 Future Earth Young Scientists Networking Conference now online
17 December 2014
Early career scientists discuss their perspective on a greener economy. A brief video from the 2014 Future Earth Young Scientists' Networking Conference at Villa Vigoni, Italy.From 25-31 May, 30 young scientists from across the disciplines met at Villa Vi
