Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Updates

At 09:05 (Beijing Time, hereafter, BJT) on 7 January 2025, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Tingri County, Shigatse City, Xizang. As of 19:00 (BJT) on 7 January, 126 people had been killed, 3,609...

Executive Summary Compared with the average for the last 30 years (1993-2022), the frequency of global natural disasters was 3% less in 2023, the affected population was 53% less, the death...

Introduction Disasters have been studied for centuries, but ‘modern’ disasters studies have arguably developed over the past half century or so. For instance, the journal Disasters began publication...

El Niño plays a dominant role in driving drought globally. Its cold phase, La Niña, tends to be associated with enhanced rainfall, particularly in South East Asia. In this review of El Niño Long...

Next Generation Disaster Data Infrastructure is a study report of IRDR Working Group on DATA and the CODATA Task Group on Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research. The research was...

The management and sharing of disaster information has become an important technical mechanism for international cooperation on disaster risk reduction and is an important guarantee for improving...

This study explores the automated spatiotemporal and attribute information extraction of earthquake events from web news reports and online official reports in China from 2015 to 2017. Combined with...

Development is vital for reducing disaster risk, yet many current development models are unsustainable and are instead driving and creating disaster risks. At the same time, disasters can destroy...

Asia Science Technology Academia Advisory Group (ASTAAG) About this Publication This publication is developed by a group of individuals from the Asia Science Technology Academia Advisory Group...

IRDR, CO-DATA and Tonkin+Taylor released a white paper on disaster loss data. The UN Sendai Framework has four goals and seven targets covering global, national and local level disaster risk...

This brief provides policy recmmendations to assess country-level science and technology capacities for implementing the Sendai Framework. Science and technology play an important and crucial role in...

Successful implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) will depend increasingly on what is done to manage risk in urban areas. Ongoing urbanization processes accumulate...

Shaw R., Chan E., Lian F., Lu L., Shi P., Yang S., Chan G., Wong J. Preface Following the adoption of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR) by the UN Member states on March...

Policy recommendations In 2015 three UN Landmark Agreements were adopted: the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Agreement. All...

Introduction The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 shifts the focus from managing disasters to managing risks. Such a shift requires a better understanding of risk in all its...