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Day_45 : IRDR (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk)

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I was involved to do research on Japanese tsunami in 2011 as a pat of IRDR (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk) project.The IRDR is an international effort. Especially I was really, really impressed by the sentence raised by ICSU (International Council for Science).

Unfortunately, there is a great shortfall in current research on how science is used to shape social and political decision-making in the context of hazards and disasters. Addressing this problem requires an approach that integrates research and policy-making across all hazards, disciplines and geographic regions. The IRDR Programme endeavours to bring together the natural, socio-economic, health and engineering sciences in a coordinated effort to reduce the risks associated with natural hazards.(http://www.icsu.org/what-we-do/interdisciplinary-bodies/irdr/?icsudocid=about-irdr)

Related links

IRDR

http://www.irdrinternational.org/

IRDR-ICSU

http://www.icsu.org/what-we-do/interdisciplinary-bodies/irdr/?icsudocid=about-irdr

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Day_27: University roles for disaster risk reduction (2)

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Disasters happen in the local areas, and the local community’s preparedness will be one of the keys to disaster risk reduction. Therefore, universities should play an essential role in raising their preparedness level. There are so many different field experts at the University. They can contribute to localities in various ways. However, they tend not to understand how. On the other hand, local government disaster managers lack the resources to search for experts and research findings to utilize such precious local knowledge in their work.

I have been doing this topic for a long time. I will continue……