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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 winning consortium for hosting Future Earth secretariat
06 July 2014
ICSU announced, on behalf of the members of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability ("the Alliance"), the preferred secretariat structure that has emerged from a global bidding process. Future Earth will be managed through a secretar
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ICSU organizes side event at UN High Level Political Forum
05 July 2014
Jointly with UN-DE SA and UNEP, ICSU organised a side event entitled “Strengthening science-policy links for reviewing progress on sustainable development” at this week's meeting of the High-Level Political Forum in New York. Chaired by ICSU President-ele
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Disaster Management Institute of Southern Africa (DMISA) to hold 29th Annual Conference
04 July 2014
Disaster Management Institute of Southern Africa (DMISA) Conference in partnership with Dealing with Disasters (DwD) 201417th – 18th September, 2014, Sibaya – Imbizo Conference Centre, Umhlanga Rocks, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KZN Province, Sou
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IRDR at the "Understanding Risk" Forum
03 July 2014
After Washington DC (USA) in 2010 and Cape Town (South Africa) in 2012, it was London’s turn to host the 2014 “Understanding Risk” (UR) Conference and Forum. UR 2014 saw 800 registrations of experts and practitioners in various areas of disaster risk asse
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IRDR Host RADI welcomes delegation from International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
02 July 2014
The Director-General of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), David Molden, led a five-member delegation which was received by RADI Director-General Prof. GUO Huadong on 23 June 2014. In his welcome note Prof. GUO emphasis
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Success of International FORIN Workshops praised by ICSU Regional Office for Latin American and the Caribbean
01 July 2014
The International Seminar on Forensic Disaster Investigations (FORIN) was co-sponsored by IRDR; the International Consortium of Landslides (ICL); International Geographical Union; Mexican Academy of Sciences; the National Autonomous University of Mexico (
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A Case Study for Early Warning and Disaster Management in Thailand
20 June 2014
AbstractThe article in is suggesting that socio-economic change plays significant influence on disaster risk management, thus the current linear model for the assessment tool should be improved. This comprehensive instrument adopted an indicator-based ap
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New Executive Director of IRDR appointed
20 June 2014
The co-sponsors of the IRDR, the global progamme on Integrated Research on Disaster Risk - ICSU, ISSC and UNISDR - are pleased to announce the appointment of a new Executive Director, Dr Rüdiger Klein. He is a German national, who is currently based in Am
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Big Data for International Scientific Programmes: A Statement of Recommendations and Actions
17 June 2014
Convened by CODATA and co-sponsored by a number of important international organisations including the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), the International Workshop on Big Data for International Scientific Programmes took place on 8-9 June in Be
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IRDR Conference Closing Summary, Outcomes, and Way Forward
09 June 2014
IRDR Conference Closing Summary, Outcomes, and Way Forward(Please click the link above to download the Conference Summary)[caption id="attachment_6704" align="aligncenter" width="620"] IRDR Science Committee Members and Ex-Officio Members.[/caption]
