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Placing scientific knowledge, preparedness and public awareness at the core of disaster risk policy

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

Building resilience against biological hazards and pandemics: COVID-19 and its implications for the Sendai Framework

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

Koi Tū, the virus and the future

ISC President-elect Peter Gluckman considers what lessons the COVID-19 pandemic has for how science interacts with policy and with society.

20.03.2020

Women in leadership: addressing equal gender representation in political science

Contending with the structural roots of gender inequality is imperative in accomplishing UN Sustainable Development Goal 5. Empowering more women leaders across different regions and disciplines will not only strengthen and accelerate scientific research but also policies and legislation. Vice-President and Special Representative for Gender and Diversity of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Professor Yasmeen Abu-Laban, (University of Alberta, Canada) speaks about IPSA’s initiatives for equal gender representation within the sphere of political science.

03.03.2020

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