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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
IRDR Introduction Video
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23 May 2023
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Call for International Scientific Programme Committee candidates for SciDataCon 2014
27 January 2014
Call for ISPC by CODATA & ICSU-WDS Data are essential to all scientific endeavours. The emerging cultures of data sharing and publication, open access to, and reuse of data are positive signs of an
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Vacancy: Post-Doctoral Research Associate for Review of FORIN Studies
22 January 2014
Application deadline: 20 February 2014 Salary: £33,967 - £39,705 Post duration: 24 monthsProf Mark Pelling, lecturer in the Department of Geography at King's College London (KCL) and IRDR Science Committee (SC) Member, is looking for a Post-Doctoral Rese
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IRDR to Hold the 2nd Conference on Disaster Reduction
08 January 2014
BEIJING—The Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) 2014 conference is scheduled to be held from 7th June to 9th June, 2014, at the Beijing International Convention Center (BICC). Organized by the IRDR International Programme Office and the China Asso
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Fourth Call for Abstracts - 2015 Global Assessment Report (GAR15)
23 December 2013
Research Areas 8 and 17The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) is issuing a Fourth Call for Abstracts as part of the development of the 2015 Global Assessment Report (GAR15). The GAR15 will be published prior to the World Conference
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Proposed Elements for Consideration in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction by the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction
20 December 2013
The SRSG’s ‘Proposed Elements’ draws on consultations of all stakeholders that began in early 2012, including online, local, national, regional and global events. Further guidance came from countries’ reports through the UNISDR HFA Monitor, the findings o
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IRDR Contributes to Discussions on UN Sustainable Development Goals
12 December 2013
An ad hoc working group comprising several members of the IRDR Science Committee (SC) and experts associated with the Programme, prepared a brief to inform the discussions of the United Nations General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Deve
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Vacancy: Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Programme (RE-ADVERTISED)
02 December 2013
The International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR) invite applications for the important post of Executive Director of the Integrated Research on
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Call for Abstracts - CEDIM Session "NH9.2 - Forensic Disaster Analyses" at EGU 2014
24 November 2013
Good Day Colleagues:The Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM), http://www.cedim.de, now has a call for abstracts for its session, "NH9.2 - Forensic Disaster Analyses" for the European GeoSciences Union (EGU) General Assembly
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2nd IRDR Conference Call for Abstracts Deadline Extended
10 October 2013
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DEADLINE EXTENDED2nd Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Conference“Integrated Disaster Risk Science: A tool for sustainability”Date: 7-9 June 2014 Beijing, ChinaVenue: China National Convention Center (CNCC), No.7 Tianchen East Road,
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UNISDR (2013) Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
06 September 2013
GAR13 explores how businesses, by investing in disaster risk management, can reduce costs and interruptions represented by disaster losses and impacts; how performance and reputation can also be enhanced by minimising uncertainty and unpredictability; why
