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Nominate scientists or self-nominate to participate in the 2021 Future Earth – ISC Global Risks Scientists’ Perceptions survey and join a growing community of leading scientists working on global risks.
17.05.2021
There is growing evidence of how water crises affect migration and displacement. We spoke to Nidhi Nagabhatla to find out more.
10.05.2021
The ISC is a signatory of the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk, which aims to promote the knowledge needed for landslide risk reduction worldwide.
02.12.2020
A new Briefing published by ISC member the British Academy highlights eight lessons for pandemic recovery, drawing on research work from Latin America, the Caribbean, East Africa and South Asia.
13.08.2020
Lack of commonly shared definitions of hazards stands in the way of effective monitoring of disaster risk reduction efforts. Simon Cox explains how science, data and technology can help solve the problem.
22.07.2020
The health crisis stress-tests our ability to cooperate, learn and adapt in the face of deep uncertainties and rising risks. A call to action for the policy-making and science community.
03.06.2020
Knowledge-based advice to governments, preparedness, public awareness, and timely actions are an earnest of success in coping with crises and disasters. A fruitful cooperation between scientists, policymakers and the society at all stages of disaster risk management would contribute to resilience and sustainability, and is vitally important during crises/disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. No political and governmental actions are productive without having scientific knowledge and public awareness raised.
01.04.2020
2020 has become the year of coping with COVID-19. This year was to be the “super year” for sustainability, a year of strengthening global actions to accelerate the transformations required for achieving the 2030 agenda. We argue that 2020 can and must be a year of both. Thus we call for more utilisation of the health-emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) framework to complement current responses to COVID-19 and the patent risk of similar phenomena in the future.
27.03.2020
Volcanic activities, earthquakes and floods are frequent natural disasters that have a huge impact on the communities directly affected, but in certain African cities little quantifiable data exists. One LIRA-funded research team is taking on this challenge with a view to creating better responses to these ancient and ongoing threats in modern cities.
13.11.2019
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<p>The International Science Council recently signed two important agreements with UN agencies, relating to work on urban health and wellbeing and disaster risk reduction.</p>
20.06.2019
