Deadline- 4 October 2013
IRDR is organizing conference on 2nd Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Conference which will be conducted in Beijing, China from 7-9 June 2014. The purpose of this conference in to discuss and develop ways to better integrate disaster risk science into policy, practice and sustainability. English will be the official language of the Conference.
The format of the Conference will be a series of plenary sessions dealing with the challenges of implementing integrated research, inter-organisational collaboration, and policy, as well as the interaction with sustainable development activities.
Topics covered-
- Water and disasters
- Risk reduction science and national politics
- Risk reduction science and the media
- Role of science in the 2015 agendas (post-HFA; post-MDGs; GAR)
- Empowering local officials with science
- Capacity building for integrated research
- Links between risk research and sustainable development
- Assessing risk
- Integrated risk governance
- Collaboration between science and the private sector
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Researchers, politicians, practitioners, funding agencies and disaster risk reduction-related organisations may participate in ths conference
- Abstracts must not exceed 400 words and must demonstrate integration and applicability of the research findings or possibility for replication of the program in various location.
- Please indicate the topic and the presentation preference (oral or poster), and list five keywords for your abstract. If more than one author is indicated, the first named author should be the presenter.
- All abstracts must be original and have not been published prior to the 2nd Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Conference.
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