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Vacancy: Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme
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15 February 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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IRDR’s Anthony Oliver-Smith Winning the Malinowski Award
07 May 2012
IRDR would like to congratulate Anthony Oliver-Smith for winning the Malinowski Award.The Bronislaw Malinowski Award is an award given by the US-based Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in honor of Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), an original member
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Towards a Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
13 March 2012
Dear Colleagues, Partners and Collaborators,Towards a Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction UNISDR paper outlines some substantive issues and a process of consultations as the disaster risk reduction community heads toward the end date of the cu
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4th IDRC Davos 2012 – Call for Abstracts Extended to 31 March
12 March 2012
The call for contributions for the 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2012 has been extended to 31 March 2012. The best papers will be published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.Submit an abstract.
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Asia Oceania Geosciences Society and American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly 2012
06 March 2012
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) and American Geophysical Union (AGU) will hold a joint assembly August 13-17, 2012 on Sentosa Island, Singapore.Abstracts are invited for this session:Session IWG10 - Concatenated Hazards and DisastersThis session w
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United Nations Starts Discussion on a New International Blue Print for DRR
06 March 2012
The United Nations Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, and HE Yoichi Otabe, the Japanese Ambassador to the International Organizations in Geneva, announced today the start of consultations on a new international bluepr
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Global Assessment Report 2013 (GAR 2013) - Call for Abstracts
05 March 2012
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction seeks background papers for the 2013 Global Assessment Report (GAR13), the world's leading report on disaster reduction.For more information or to submit your abstract visit this page.
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ICSU-UNESCO Regional Science and Technology Workshops Report is Now Available
24 February 2012
ICSU-UNESCO Regional Science and Technology workshops report is now available.Five regional workshops (for Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Arab States, and Europe) were organized by ICSU and UNESCO prior to the intergovernmenta
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World Data System's First Executive Director Appointed
24 February 2012
IRDR would like to congratulate Dr Mustapha Mokrane for being appointed as the first Executive Director of the the World Data System (WDS).Dr Mustapha Mokrane, currently Science and Information Technology officer at ICSU’s secretariat in Paris, will take
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IRDR's Executive Director, Dr. Jane E. Rovins, International Innovation Interview
22 February 2012
IRDR's Executive Director, Dr. Jane E. Rovins, is featured in the February 2012 issue of International Innovation magazine. International Innovation magazine is the leading global dissemination resource for the wider scientific, technology and research co
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UNESCO Periodical on Science goes 100% Digital
22 February 2012
Dear Colleagues, Partners and Collaborators,UNESCO’s quarterly journal, A World of Science, has become an electronic edition in 2012. The open access journal was disseminated both online and in print for nearly 10 years to a wide readership that included
