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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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RADAR: international practitioners assessing local community risks
09 July 2015
The Research Alliance for Disasters and Risk Reduction (RADAR) based at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and home to Periperi U and the IRDR ICoE REaL, held its Community Risk Assessment Training Short Course between 29 June and 3 July 2015. The c
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IRDR ICoE Community Resilience: The role of children in disasters
08 July 2015
The Joint Centre for Disaster Research of Massey University, New Zealand, home of IRDR’s International Centre of Excellence on Community Resilience and headed by IRDR SC Chair David Johnston, hosts a research workshop with Kevin Ronan from Central Queensl
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4th Asian Workshop on Psychological Intervention After Disasters 9-12 November 2015
07 July 2015
The 4th International Workshop on Psychological Intervention After Disasters (PIAD) will be conducted in Taipei on 9-12 November 2015, and will be co-hosted by IRDR International Centre of Excellence (IRDR-ICoE) at the Academy of Sciences, located in Taip
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Nominations for the 7th Cycle of the Zayed International Prize for the Environment
06 July 2015
Nominations for the Zayed International Prize for the Environment are open until 30 September 2015. The prizes, worth in total $1 million USD are awarded every two years, in the name of the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Prizes will be awarded f
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Science and the road to transformation after COP21
06 July 2015
[caption id="attachment_10251" align="alignright" width="200"] ICSU: Demonstrating system effects of Climate Change[/caption]The International Council for Science (ICSU) convened a side-event on the eve of the climate science conference Our Common Future
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7th Africa Working Group Meeting on DRR meets 21 - 23 Jul 2015 in Cameroon
03 July 2015
The Africa Working Group (AWG) on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) meets bi-annually to take stock of the progress made regionally on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and the Africa Regional Strategy for DRR and its Extended Program
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Novel ways of sharing disaster knowledge
03 July 2015
Emma Visman and Fiona Fletcher – both researchers affiliated with the host institution of the IRDR International Centre for Excellence on Risk Interpretation and Action (IRDR ICoE RIA) – recently released a blog for the UKCDS website (the UK Collaborative
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MoU between IRDR host RADI and European JRC
02 July 2015
On the sidelines of the 17th China-EU Summit, Professor Huadong Guo, Director-General of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI) and Vladimír Šucha, Director-General of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) signed a new coll
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All-day seminar “Changing with the Climate” co-organised by AFPCN (IRDR France)
01 July 2015
Jointly organized by Conseil général de l’économie (CGE) and Association française de prévention des catastrophes naturelles (AFPCN) – which functions as IRDR National Committee for France, an open and public study day on 30 June under the title « Changer
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IRDR SC member Djillali Benouar at GEM Governing Board meeting
29 June 2015
This summer’s Governing Board meeting of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM), took place on 25-26 June 2015 in Pavia, Italy. GEM has been a long-standing partner of IRDR and aims to effectively contribute to enable commitments to disaster risk reduction und
