Annual Report 2022

Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes
Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes

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Global Alliance of Disaster
GADRI have made its mandate to actively support the implementation of the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction Agenda 2015-2030 adopted by the Third UN World Conference for DRR in
Sendai, Japan and endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly during the same year of2015 as its establishment.
The Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI) is a collaborative platform forengaging, discussion, sharing knowledge and promoting networks on topics related to disaster risk
reduction and resilience to disasters. It was established as an outcome of the 2nd Global Summit
held in March 2015 which was organized and initiated by the Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute (DPRI), Kyoto University. Since then, GADRI Secretariat is headquartered at its hostinstitute, DPRI, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
It works as a catalyst for bringing together institutions engaged in disaster risk reduction andresilience to disasters. GADRI membership is free and non-binding. Currently it has exceeded over
200 member institutions within 54 states and economies.

GADRI Secretariat is hosted by theDisaster Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto University, Kyoto, JapanGADRI Annual Report 2022 —2

Research Institutes (GADRI)
The regional alliances of GADRI actively promote its goals and objectives. Currently,
there are four regional alliances:•

North American Alliance of Hazards and Disaster Research Institutes (NAAHDRI);•South Asia Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (SADRI);•

African Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (AADRI); and•United Kingdom Alliance of Disaster Research (UKADR)

Recently, GADRI formed five Committees of GADRI to implement its five broad
objectives. In addition, at its biennial Global Summits series, GADRI members reporttheir research activities and achievements in fu­lfilment of the goals set out in the
Science and Technology Roadmap for the implementation of the priority areas of the
Sendai Framework Agenda. GADRI continue to work in close cooperation with UNDRR
and its agendas.
•

GADRI Committee on Networking•

GADRI Committee on Science and Technology (S&T) Roadmap•

GADRI Committee on Institutional Capacity Building•

GADRI Committee on Data and Information Sharing•

GADRI Committee on Advocacy

The 5th Global Summit of GADRI: Engaging Sciences with Action was held virtuallyand intercontinentally from 31st August to 1st September 2021. The Summit focused on
the necessary influence of global alliance building and the importance of its regional
alliances. Outcomes and the results of the deliberations of disasters research was
brought to the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) held in the UK
in November 2021. Based on the achievements of the 5th Global Summit, GADRI also
contributed to the Seventh UN Global Platform of Disaster Risk Reduction: “From Risk
to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development for All in a COVID-19 Transformed
World” held in Indonesia in May 2022 through the thematic session 15: Early Warningand Early Action.
GADRI continue to focus its attention to global concerns such as SDGs, climatechange, disaster risk reduction and resilience to disaster and continue to find scienceand evidence-based implementable solutions.
For further details on GADRI, please visit the webpage - http://gadri.net/summit/.

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Contents

Table of Contents•

Message from the Secretary-General, GADRI•GADRI Activities

We thank, andacknowledge the•

GADRI Book Series•

Board of Directors of GADRI; and theRegional Alliances of GADRI

support received

from all our•

Keeping in touch with Members of GADRI

members with
their inputs to put
together the
GADRI Annual
Report 2022.

GADRI Secretariat
Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute (DPRI), Kyoto
University••

Americas (11)•Asia (18)•Japan (9)•Oceania (2)•Europe (20)•Africa (2)Geographical Distribution of GADRIUji Campus, Gokasho, Uji Shi
Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Tel: +81-0774-38-4651
E-mail: secretariatgadri@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Web: http://www.gadri.net

GADRI Annual Report is the property of GADRI Secretariat.
Edited and designed by Hirokazu Tatano and Wilma James.
Copyright © 2022 by GADRI Secretariat.
All rights reserved. GADRI Annual Report or any portion
thereof may not be reproduced or used in any mannerwhatsoever
without
thewritten permission of the
publisher—GADRI Secretariat.

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GADRI
Annual Report
2022

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Message from theSecretary-General, GADRI
Dear Members of GADRI,•First of all, I want to thank all of you who sent
information to complete the GADRI Annual
Report 2022. We are very happy to see theprogress in your research activities.

PublicationoftheProceedings of the 4th
GlobalSummitof
GADRI•

Looking back, 2022 brought forth many
welcoming changes, from relaxing of COVID19 restrictions at home and abroad; and evenwith some countries even opening borders.
Many of you must have been busy with a many
activities and especially travel related activities
too.

GADRI Secretariat was
visited by the DirectorGeneral
StephenQuest,
EuropeanCommission-Joint
Research Centre andhis colleagues, Italy in October 2023.

•

Secretary-General of GADRI participatedat the UNDRR meeting on Regional STAGin November 2022.

•

Continuing to collect papers from various
authors for the Proceedings of the 5th
Global Summit of GADRI•GADRI Actions – published the Spring,
Summer and December 2022 editions of
the GADRI newsletters•

GADDRI Prospectus – a work-in-progress
to collect and update institute data

GADRI Secretariat continued to work alongwith its agenda and would like to share withyou a few of the activities covered by the
Secretariat especially in 2022:••

Continued with the quarterly meetings ofthe Board of Directors of GADRI.
Formation of the five Committees of
GADRI to work specifically towards theobjectives of GADRI outlined in the Charterof GADRI•

Initiation of a database on the Collection of
the World Disaster Databases – a project
under GADRI Committee on Networking•

Progressing towards the 6th Global Summitof GADRI: Towards GADRI Objectives ofAchieving a Sustainable Disaster-Resilient
World to be held at DPRI, Kyoto University,
Uji Campus, Kyoto, Japan from 15 to 17
March 2023. This will be an in-person
meeting only. As we are going to have thismeeting after a four year, we are hoping to
see many faces in Uji, Kyoto, Japan in
March 2023.

•

Planning to hold the GADRI Side Event on
the Sendai Midterm Review – contributions
by Members of GADRI on 14 March 2023.

•

Under the Disaster and Risk Research:
GADRI Book Series, three books were
published:•

Publication of the Proceedings of the 3
Global Summit of GADRI

rd•

Publication of the Ecosystem
Disaster and Climate Resilience

We are also reaching out to you with multiple
messages to get your inputs for the 6th Global
Summit of GADRI. These messages cover the
GADRI survey, calling abstracts for the Poster
and the Networking with Institutes session,
early bird registrations, and excursions. Do
take advantage of this opportunity which hascome after four long years, to meet with eachother. The Summit cannot be a successful
event
without
yourparticipation
andcontributions. We count on you and lookforward to seeing you in March 2023.
As always, we will continue to work closely withyou and keep in touch with you too.
Yours sincerely,

Hirokazu Tatano
Secretary-General, GADRI; and Professor,
DPRI, Kyoto University, JapanBased

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GADRI Vision
To deepen the understanding of disasters and find implementable
solutions to achieve disaster resilience, by integrating knowledge andtechnologies from around the world.

GADRI Objectives•

To support the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015-2030•

To establish a global research network that promotes and engages disaster
research.

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To provide a research roadmap, with plans that help facilitate the organization ofdisaster research groups.

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To promote capacity building and development of disaster research institutes andenhances researcher and student exchange.

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To promote exchange and sharing of data and information for scientific researchacross the globe.

•

To serve as an advocacy organization presenting
approaches that influence decision-making processes.

evidence-based

GADRI Activities•

Planning and organization of regionally or globally
research initiatives•

Formation of international research groups to investigate current global disasters,
and implement new research methodologies for disaster risk reduction andimplementation•

Establishment of an international network for timely communication related toresearch on disasters•

Organization of conferences, workshops and meetings•

Dissemination and sharing of information, publications, reports, data and otherresearch outputs•

Facilitation of rapid reconnaissance field surveys following disasters•

collaborative disaster risk

Preparation
of
GADRI
news
releases,policyrecommendations, news bulletins, research reports, and otherpublications.

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Disaster and Risk Research:
GADRI Book Series
Published
Books

Disaster and Risk Research:
GADRI Book Series is publishedunder the auspices of the Global
Alliance of Disaster ResearchInstitutes (GADRI). The global status
of disaster research reflects the
major strides made in the disastersciences. These volumes present
the forefront of disaster research,
including key scientific findings,
methodologies,
policyrecommendations and case studies.
Whilst disaster risk needs to be
managed in an integrated manner,persistently isolated applications ofknowledge, practice and policy are
falling short of ensuring disasterresilient societies.
Responding to this deficit calls formeasurement, tools, techniques andinstitutional structures that canrealistically support comprehensive
risk assessment and management
across multiple hazard landscape. As
such, disaster research is now facedwith a multi-disciplinary, multistakeholder challenge. Contributions
to this series therefore address manyvaried and critical opportunities toadvance the subject area. A crosscutting vision shared across theDisaster and Risk Research volumes
is to improve the future of scientificand technological guidance withclearly identifiable roadmaps toensure human safety and security.

https://www.springer.com/
series/16177
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GADRI works closely with the
UNDRR
GADRI has contributed to the Scienceand Technology Advisory Group(STAG); and continue to support theRegional-STAG. GADRI Members al­
so supported the Expert Group on the
Global Risk Assessment Framework(GRAF). GADRI was elected as amember of the Expert Group on the
Global Risk Assessment Framework(GRAF) which was established as animportant global initiative to support
the implementation of the Sendai
Framework Agenda for 2015-2030.

During the 7th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster
Risk Reduction (GP22) held in Bali, Indonesia in May
2022; together with its members, GADRI supported theTS15: Early Warning Early Action part of the GP22.
Further information at: https://globalplatform.undrr.org/

Global Summits of GADRIThe Global Summits series of GADRI
provide unique platform for members to
get together to exchange latest
research activities, challenges andgaps;
encourageinteractive
communication among young scientists
and researchers; promote collaborative
research agendas, and institutional
capacity building opportunities andresearcher/student
exchange
programmes.
Through the Global
Summits of GADRI, the members of the
GADRI are invited to present latest
important research outcomes, andsharing information on plans for
implementation of their research
projects,
andidentification
andimprovementofgaps
betweenacademic
research and societal
cognizant for resilience to disaster andrecovery.

First Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster
Risk Reduction: Exploring New Paradigms of Natural
Disaster Research Based on the Lessons Learned fromGreat Natural Disasters, 24 to 25 November 2011, DPRI,
Kyoto University, Kyoto JapanThe catastrophic consequences of the Great East Japan
Earthquake and Tsunami which devastated Japan in March
2011, have brought to focus the importance to reassess theexisting practices and management for disaster risk
reduction, disaster prevention and preparedness planning.
The massive tsunami was historical in terms of its height andthe area destroyed by it. Lessons learned from this event aswell as others around the world, show the importance ofinterdisciplinary research approaches to address in-situ
approaches to disaster prevention and preparedness andresearch gaps.
The Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto
University organised the First Global Summit of ResearchInstitutes for Disaster Risk Reduction at its premises in Uji
Campus, Kyoto, Japan from 24 to 25 November 2011 paving
an opportunity for all research institutes specialising in disasterrisk reduction to join together to reflect on these challenges
and explore new paradigms for DRR.
The main outcome of this Summit which brought together 135
participants in 52 research institutes from 14 economies
around the world, working in disaster risk reduction andmanagement, proposed the establishment of an international
forum of disaster research fostered by DPRI, Kyoto University.

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Second Global Summit of ResearchInstitutes for Disaster Risk Reduction:
Development of a Research Road Map for
the Next Decade, 19 to 20 March 2015, DPRI,
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Third Global Summit of Research Institutes
for Disaster Risk Reduction: Expanding the
Platform for Bridging Science and Policy
Making DPRI, 19 to 21 March 2019, Kyoto
University, Kyoto, JapanThe recommendation from the First
GlobalSummitwasfurtherendorsed by the 190 participants in
83 institutes from 21 economies
that participated at the Second
Global Summit of ResearchInstitutes
forDisaster
Risk
Reduction: Development of a
Research Road Map for the Next
Decade that took place at DPRI,
Kyoto University from 19-20 March2015. The Second Global Summit
was held soon after the UN World
Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction March 2015.

The Third Global Summit of GADRI under thetheme of Expanding the Platform for Bridging
Science and Policy Making from 19 to 21 March
2017, Kyoto, Japan with 251 participants in 102
institutes from 38 economies from around theworld.
The
Summitbrought
togetherrepresentatives
fromresearch
institutes
involved in DRR research with the objectives: toserve as an advocate for key research policy
statements that are in line with real, evidencedbased disaster research needs; to carry out amore detailed assessment of key researchchallenges and to identify priority researchareas; to identify pioneering scientific initiatives
to effectively reduce the gaps between scienceand practice in disaster risk reduction activities;
to share and build on achievements, andoutcomes of past and ongoing GADRI Projects
addressing research gaps; and to foster links
between local and international organizations
and their programs through the GADRI
network.

The outcomes of the Second
Global Summit of GADRI included
the drafting of a Resolution by all theparticipating organizations with the purpose of
sharing knowledge and promoting collaboration
on topics related to disaster risk reduction(DRR) and resilience to disasters, as well as toprovide support to the UNISDR Sendai
Framework and its goals towards DRR. The
Resolution was approved by all the participantsin the Second Global Summit. The second mostimportant outcome was the establishment of
the “Global Alliance of Disaster ResearchInstitutes (GADRI)”. DPRI was designated as
the GADRI Secretariat, and Prof. Hirokazu
Tatano was appointed as its Secretary-Generalof GADRI.

One of the major outcomes of this Summit was
the establishment of the Disaster and Risk
Research: GADRI Book Series with Springer
Nature.
Another outcome of the Third Global Summit of
GADRI, a questionnaire survey was conducted
to Evaluate Current Research Status and
Identify Most Important Future Research
Themes. Over 50 Member institutes of GADRI
participated in the survey. The results werediscussed during the Group Discussion
sessions of the Third Global Summit of GADRI.
Later the recommendations were published in
the Proceedings of the Third Global Summit of
GADRI under the Disaster and Risk Research:
GADRI Book Series.

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Fourth Global Summit of Research Institutes
for Disaster Risk Reduction: Increasing theEffectiveness and Relevance of Our
Institutes, 13 to 15 March 2019, DPRI, Kyoto
University, Kyoto, JapanThe Fourth Global Summit of GADRI under thetheme of Increasing the Effectiveness andRelevance of our Institutes was organised in
March 2019 at DPRI, Kyoto University, Japan. It
was attended by 246 participants within 107
institutes representing 33 economies around theworld. The Fourth Global Summit of GADRI
explored GADRI Contributions to the 2016
Science & Technology Roadmap; and how best
could GADRI promote SFDRR 2030 agenda?;
SDGs and Climate change and adaptation - what
engagement mechanisms and research linkages
are needed to influence research directions
among policy makers, governments, localities,
media, etc.?; The Tokyo Statement 2017 and the
SFDRR Agenda 2030.; and Research Funding Where are the funding for disaster risk reduction
activities coming from and are they invested toright causes and areas that are most needed.
This session of the summit contributed,
especially to the contextualisation of the ScienceandTechnology
Roadmap.
Its
recommendations were submitted to the UNDRR
Global Platform for DRR in May 2019 in Geneva,
Switzerland. The Proceedings of the Fourth
Global Summit of GADRI was published under
the Disaster and Risk Research: GADRI Book
Series.

Fifth Global Summit of GADRI: Engaging
Scienceswith
Action,OnlineandIntercontinental, 31 August to 1 September
2021

The Fifth Global Summit of GADRI: Engaging
Sciences with Action was initially sponsored by
the European Commission, Joint ResearchCentre, Italy; Disaster and Development
Network, Northumbria University, New Castle
upon Tyne, UK; and the Mid Sweden University,
Sweden, and was planned to be held at theEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre,
Ispra, Italy in March 2021. It was interrupted by
the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, and theconference was held online. GADRI Secretariat
was able to mobilise full and dedicated support
from its regional alliances and the conference
was held across continents and travelled aroundthe world within 28 hours.
The Americas session covered by North andSouth America discussed Multidisciplinary
Modelling Progress and the Role of Community
Engagement in Resilience Planning while Asiaand Oceania session listened to Engaging
Sciences with Action: Voices from Asia andOceania; and the Europe Session with Africa
and the Middle East engaged in Exploring
Solutions to Bridge the Gaps for Implementationof Science in Action. The conference brought 91
specialists in various disciplines including thesession on young scientists and was logged-in
via zoom by over 600 participants from 77
economies.
The 5th Global Summit of GADRI specificallyfocused on Climate Change and Adaptation andshared its recommendations with the UN COP26
held in Glasgow, UK in November 2021 throughthe UK Research and Innovation.
The Proceedings of the 5th Global Summit of
GADRI is expected to be published under
Disaster and Risk Research: GADRI Book
Series.

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Members of the GADRI Board of Directors

2020-2026
Name

Term

Institute

Europe and Africa
1Dr. Zita Sebesvari

1 April 2020 to 31
March 2024

United Nations University, Institute for Environment andHuman Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn, Germany

2

Prof. Peter Sammonds
Prof. David Alexander

1 April 2020 to 31
March 2024

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR),
University College London, UK

3

Dr. Kaushal
Keraminiyage

1 April 2022 to 31
March 2026

Research Centre for Disaster Resilience, University ofSalford, UK

Prof. Gretchen Kalonji

1 April 2020 to 31
March 2024

IDMR, Sichuan University, Chengdu. China

6

Prof. Toshio Koike

1 April 2020 to 31
March 2024

International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk
Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of
UNESCO, Tsukuba, Japan

7

Prof. Yuichi Ono

1 April 2022 to 31
March 2026

International Research Institute of Disaster Science(IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan

1 April 2022 to 31
March 2026

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Thailand

Asia and Oceania
58

Mr. Bill Ho (Director)
Dr. Sunil Prashar

Americas9Prof. Paul Kovacs

1 April 2018 to 31
March 20224

Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Western
University, Canada

10

Prof. John van de Lindt

1 April 2020 to 31
March 2024

Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning,
Colorado State University, USA

11

Ms. Sandra Sotomonte

1 April 2022 to 31
March 2026

Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo deDesastres de Colombia-UNGRD, Colombia

12

Prof. James Kendra

1 April 2022 to 31
March 2026

Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, USA

GADRI Secretariat
13

Prof. Hirokazu Tatano

Secretary-General DPRI, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Regional Alliance1.
1.

Prof. Desmond Manatsa
Prof. Andrew Collins
Co-chair UKADR

African Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (AADRI), Bindura
University of Science Education, Zimbabwe
UK Alliance of Disaster Research (UKADR), Disaster and Development
Network (DDN), Northumbria University, UK

2.

Prof. Lori Peek

North American Alliance for Hazards and Disaster Research Institutes(NAAHDRI), Natural Hazards Center (NHC), University of Colorado,
Boulder, USA

3.

Prof. Mahua MukherjeeSouth Asian Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (SAADRI), IIT,
Roorkee, India

4.

Prof. Toshio Koike

Japan Science Council
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Courtesy Visit by Stephen Quest, the Director-Generalof the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European
Commission

Mr. Stephen Quest, the Director-General of the Joint
Research Centre (JRC) of the European
Commission and his colleagues Ms. Sabine Henzler,
Director of Strategy and Ms. PASECINIC Liliana,
Deputy Head of Unit paid a courtesy visit to theDisaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) of the
Kyoto University, Uji Campus. They received a warm
welcome from Prof. Eiichi Nakakita, Director, DPRI;
Prof. Ryosuke Uzuoka, Vice-Director, DPRI; andProf. Hirokazu Tatano, Secretary‑General, Global
Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI)
and Professor, DPRI. EC-JRC has an Agreement of
Cooperation with DPRI, Kyoto University since 2011.

They had fruitful discussions on future collaborative
activities especially on disaster risk reduction. The
Director-General Stephen Quest assured Prof.
Tatano that EC-JRC will be represented at theplanned 6th Global Summit of GADRI to be held at
DPRI from 15 to 17 March 2023.

From L: Ruosuke Uzuoka, PASENIC Liliana, Sabine Henzler, Stephen Quest,
Eiichi Nakakita, and Hirokazu Tatano

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Keeping in touchwith members

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Americas

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Americas

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Americas—Members
Argentina
BrazilEnvironment and Natural Resources Research Program (PIRNA), Instituto de Geografía“Romualdo Ardissone”, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Department of Civil Engineering, Centre for Technology and Natural Resources, Federal
University of Campina Grande

BrazilInstituto de Pesuisas Hidraulicas (IPH), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

CanadaThe Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), Western University

Chile

Centro Nacional de Investigacion par la Gestion de Desastres Naturales (CIGIDEN)

Colombia Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de los Andes
Colombia

National Unit for Disaster Risk Management in Colombia (NGRD)(Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres de Colombia-UNGRD)

Colombia

Seismological and Geophysical Observatory of the Southwest (Observatorio Sismológico yGeofísico del Suroccidente (OSSO)), Valle University (Universidad del Valle)

Ecuador

Pacific International Center for Disaster Risk Reduction (PIC-DRR), Escuela Superior
Politechnica del Litoral

MexicoInstitute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

MexicoStructures Laboratory, University of Michoacan

MexicoResearch Institute of Risk Management, University of Michoacan

USA

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

USA

Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Arizona State University (ASU)

USA

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), University of California, Berkeley

USA

Resilient Communities Research Institute (RCRI), College of Architecture and Environmental
Design, California Polytechnic State University

USA

Natural Hazards Center (NHC), University of Colorado Boulder

USA

Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, Colorado State University

USA

Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware

USA

Wind and Hurricane Impact Research Laboratory (WHIRL), Florida Institute of Technology (FIT)USA

Center for Wind Hazard and Infrastructure Performance, Texas Tech

USA

Dept. of Business Information Technology, Virginia Tech

USA

Program on Population Impact, Recovery and Resilience (PiR2), College of Global Public Health,
New York University

USA

Nevada Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada

USA

Global Resilience Institute, Northeastern University

USA

Coastal Resilience Center (CRC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)

USA

Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma

USA

Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE), Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI)USA

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

USA

Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

USA

Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), University of Southern
California

USA

Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC), Texas A&M University (TAMU)

USA

Geologic Hazards Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey

USA

Department of Environmental Studies, Resilience Institute, Western Washington University

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Federal University of Campina Grande（UFCG), Brazil
https://portal.ufcg.edu.br/

The Federal University of Campina Grande(UFCG) conducts studies, research, andintervention in environmental disasters in a
broad sense, spanning several areas. Thisis partly motivated by the institution’s
location in the semiarid region of Brazil,
highlypopulatedandsocially
andeconomically vulnerable to environmental
hazards, such as droughts, desertification,
land degradation, flash floods, and healthvulnerability, leading to social inequality.
Our present interests are in understanding
local and regional needs and the social
aspects of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
Among such activities, we highlight two
nationwide research and outreach networks
in which UFCG’s researchers have hadstrong participation during 2022.

The National Graduate Program in Water Resources
Regulation and Management (ProfAgua) includes 14
universities in all regions of Brazil. At UFCG, a particularemphasis is on the regulation and management of water
resources for DRR. Every year, practitioners andprofessionals in water-related fields are enrolled in this
Master’s Program, producing new insights, theories,
technologies, and processes for better water regulation andmanagement in their daily professional activities. This year,
one of the research outcomes was a survey and analysis of
the natural disasters in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, during
the ten years between 2010 and 2020. Droughts are themajor disaster, followed by inundations, and then by coastal
erosion. Preparedness actions at the local level, along withfederal- and state-level public policies and funding, arenecessary to reduce their impacts.

Prof. Carlos de Oliveira Galvao
E-mail: carlos.galvao@ufcg.edu.br

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Students, faculty members, andresearchersoftheNational
Graduate
Programin
Water
Resources
Regulation
andManagement at the IAHR LatinAmerican Hydraulics Congress, heldat Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, November
2022.

The Metropolis Observatory is a national network
spanning the country, focusing on the right to thecity(https://www.observatoriodasmetropoles.net.br/).
At
UFCG, in 2022 we have done research andoutreach activities on the climate emergency,
inundations, and urban settlements, in particular at
informal and precarious settlements. This year,
the main national initiative of the Observatory wasto produce a set of 17 books bringing criticalsurveys of the reality and challenges of several
Braziliancities(http://
reformaurbanadireitoacidade.net/livros/).
This
collection is primarily targeted to the communityrooted social movements, and also to the working
groups preparing the action plans of the new
Brazilian Government, democratically elected in
October 2022. UFCG led one of the books,
focusing on the cities of Campina Grande andJoão Pessoa. The questions of social classes,
gender, race, and sexuality were addressed
towards more inclusive, just, and safe cities, also
considering the disasters’ perspectives.

UFCG regularly runs initiatives at the community
level in its seven campuses in the State of
Paraíba. One of them is the organic-waste
composting network, at Pombal municipality(https://www.instagram.com/rcc_ccta/). Schools’
students and teachers take part in workshops,
hands-on training, and laboratory analysis. Sucha network promotes citizenship, environmental
sustainability, and land degradation in adesertification-prone region. Another initiative isthe partnership with the Brazilian Sustainable
CitiesPlatform(https://www.cidadessustentaveis.org.br/),towards
accelerating
theimplementationoftheSustainable Development Goals at the municipal
level. Workshops are held to discuss strategies
for achieving local sustainable development,
through effective communication and participative
processes. Politicians, educators, researchers,
businesses, social workers, and other local
agents are the participants.

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Books by the Metropolis Observatory Network of the collection “Urban reform and the right to the city”. http://
reformaurbanadireitoacidade.net/livros/

Activities of the UFCG’s organic-waste
composting network.

Workshop at Sumé city, towards accelerating the implementation of the SDGs at the municipal level.

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Instituto de Pesquisas Hidraulicas (IPH), Federal Universityof Rio Grande do Sul （UFRGS), Brazil
https://www.ufrgs.br/iph/training course “Natural Disaster Risk
Reduction in the Extreme South of Santa
Catarina state

A few of Master's and PhD students in the
Graduate Program of Water Resources andEnvironmental Sanitation (PPGRHSA) of IPH ofFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul(UFRGS) organized one commemorative andscientific seminar (on-line mode) “Student
Seminar on Water Sciences” on March 22nd
(World Water Day). (https://www.ufrgs.br/iph/noticias/iii-seminario-discente-em-ciencias-dasaguas-sdca/)

Catarina (UFSC), carried out a training courseon “Natural Disaster Risk Reduction in the
Extreme South of Santa Catarina state” (24hours). This course was conducted to 30 social
assistants from 10 city-halls. The course
consisted of two-days theory work and a field
trip.

During the period April 6th to
7th, 2022, members of
the Research Groupon Natural Disasters(GPDEN) of IPH/
UFRGS, together withmembersofLaboratory of Water, Forest and Energy(HidroFEN) of Federal University of SantaGADRI Annual Report 2022 —21

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During the period August 17th to 19th, 2022,
members of GPDEN, together with members of
HidroFEN/UFSC, carried out the another training
course “Natural Disaster Risk Reduction in the
Extreme South of Santa Catarina state” (20hours). This course was held by the Geopark“Caminhos dos Canions do Sul” (https://
canionsdosul.org/) registered by UNESCO in
2022, and was conducted for mountain guides
who work in several canyons of the regions. In
the field work study part, some methods toobserve mass movements were taught.

During the period September 12th to 16th, 2022,
the GPDEN organized one in-person event “VI
Hydrogeomorphological Modeling Course for
Risk Mapping” (40 hours) with 30 participants
who were civil defense officers, environmental
protections
officers,
university
lecturers,
scientists,
etc.
This
courseaddressedhydrogeomorphological modeling (SHALSTAB,
KANAKO-2D, HEC-RAS, HAC-HMS etc.) inorder to computationally represent floods, mass
movements and associated processes. From
this, elaboration of hazard/risk maps for floods
and mass movements was carried out.

The course had one-day field trips to several
basins where mass movements and floods haverecently occurred. The objective of this course
was to teach techniques as well as to constructa network of disasters managers and researcher
in Brazil https://www.ufrgs.br/gpden/wordpress/?
page_id=2018

On November 3rd, the list of most influential
researchers in the world in 2021, prepared by
Stanford University (USA), was published by
Elsevier:https://
elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw

Among the most influential scientists throughout
their careers till 2021, Dr. Robin T. Clarke(former professor of IPH) was listed. During his
working at the IPH, he contributed to stochastic
hydrology at the world-wide level.

the organizers of Natural Disaster Risk Reduction in theextreme south of Santa Catarina state, with members ofGeopark

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Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Canada
https://www.iclr.org

The Institute presented the ICLR Resilience in Recovery
award to the Mayor of Calgary for the City’s build backbetter program implemented following a devastating•
hailstorm in 2020.
The ICLR Resilience in Recovery team supported therecovery of Lytton, Calgary and Barrie following major
loss events.
The Institute published its 100th case study of Canadian
communities successfully adapting to climate extremes.
ICLR published its 10th Mind your Business reportgiving disaster protection advice to small business.
ICLR published recommendations for resilient new
residential construction for hazards that include extreme
rainfall, severe wind, wildfire and hail.

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ICLR-Commercial-Bulletin_Nov-21-2.pdf

The Institute has developed a tool to prepare public•
infrastructure for climate change through the PIEVC
program.
A new promotional video about the Institute forCatastrophic Loss Reduction, who we are and what
we do. https://youtu.be/fuxfWUwcXN8

Loss Reduction By Charles Scawthorn, S.E.
November 2020-

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Our Flipboard Magazines - https://flipboard.com/@iclrresearch/fault-lines-

Visit out website for further details.

Prof. Paul Kovacs
Profiled publications•

https://

Executive Director

VancouverFire following earthquake in theregion Prepared for the Institute for Catastrophic

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Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada delRiesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN), Chile
https://www.cigiden.cl/“Challenges in critical infrastructure resilience toChile” seminar
Seminar organized by lines 3
and 5 of the center. FONDEF
project presentation

In 2022, the CIGIDEN researchers, together with theiradministrative team and the communications unit,
returned 100% on-site, after the Covid-19 pandemic.
This meant to return to organize seminars, exhibitionsand visit coastal communities exposed to risks indifferent places of Chile.
In this sense, the promotion of the technical-scientificbases for a new coastal law for Chile had several
events throughout the year and we actively
participated in the Science Festival in Santiago andPuerto de Ideas in Antofagasta, besides taking oursample of satellite gigantographs to Valparaíso andConcepción.

1. SIGMA project seminar: Maipo river basin multi-hazard map.
Closing seminar of the FONDEF 19i10021 SIGMA
project called “Maipo river basin multi-hazard map”,
carried by a multidisciplinary research team fromCIGIDEN, UCN and UC, which insightfully studies the
Maipo river basin from the mountain range - passing
by San José- to the coast where this river’s mouth
locates.
More info

We would like to highlight the fact that we havereceived financing for an additional year and will later
apply for financing for another 10 years.

Dr. Rodrigo Cienfuegos
Director
E-mail: director@cigiden.cl

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2.
“From the sky: Chile’s disasters on
picture”.
Exhibition gathering satellite images and areas ofthe main disasters in Chile, obtained from thehistorical record of the Air force’s Aerial
Photogrammetric service (SAF by its initials in
Spanish)More info
3. Puerto Ideas Festival: Animated series“Kay kay, getting to know the tsunami risk”.

6.
International symposium: “Coastal
governance and its implications: Launching
the preliminary draft of a coastal law for
Chile.”
To honor World Oceans day, June 8, on
Wednesday. During this activity, CIGIDEN andSECOS researcher and Coast observatory
director Carolina Martinez, along with a group oflawyers, presented a regulation proposal – thepreliminary draft of a coastal law for Chile.
Watch the symposium here

Premiere of the cartoon series “KayKay”, createdby line 6: citizen governance.
7. “Ecologies of the disaster” book launch.

Watch the all the episodes here

4. Disastrous discussions: transdisciplinary
meetings
Online discussion series organized by the
CIGIDEN’s research line of “disaster culture andrisk governance”, where specialists of different
fields (science, humanities, and arts) were invited
to discuss the varied dimensions of disasters.
Watch here all the disussions

5. Exhibition Desartes #1: ALLUVIUM
Exhibition of the CIGIDEN’s L4 Art and Disasters
unit –DESARTES, including artworks of
Sebastian Riffo (paintings), Ignacio Gutierrezwith Nicolas Briceño (Sound installation called“it’s coming down the ravine”) and Charcocollective (“A year in Atacama'' intervention
record), along with the presence of 1993 Macul
ravine’s alluvium researchers Valentina Acuña(historian) and Leila Juzam (anthropologist). This
exhibit explores the alluviums phenomenon fromthe arts.

A book that addresses different ways of thinking
about disasters through a practice involving
varied disciplines. “Ecologies of the disaster.”
Watch this launch here
8. Education and scientific dissemination
fair: ecosystems and coastal risks in Maule
Geohub platform launch, in addition toworkshops and informative stands, to inform thecommunity about the different projects andthemes addressed by the organizations, such as
research centers regarding ecosystems anddisaster risks.
Read an article about this activity here

Watch “Alluviums” here
Know Desartes project here

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9. Policy papers launch: “Indigenous womenand climate action: recommendations forrisks reduction” and “Collective mapping as aparticipatory methodology for the study ofrisks in communal urban planning: a proposal
for Chile”.

Link to CIGIDEN 10º anniversary

The series of public policy documents Policy
Papers CIGIDEN, aims to translate the researchcarried out at the FONDAP research center of
excellence on Disaster Risk Management, inshort texts strategically directed to public policy,
towards decision makers. In this way we seek togenerate an impact on our society that translates
into making Chile a more resilient country tonatural hazards.
Link to Policy papers
Watch this launch here

11. “Towards a coastal law for Chile” seminar
Public activity in Navidad commune, alongside
the regional government and the local
municipality on the need for a participatory
coastal law in Chile.
Link to the seminar

10.International
symposium–“Resilient
development: science and public policy fordisaster risk management”
In the framework of the tenth anniversary of ourresearch center, we held a new International
Seminar with the participation of EPICentre UCL
co-director, Tizziana Rosetto, as keynote
speaker.
The objective of this meeting was to present themost important milestones of our FONDAP center
over ten years, to share the experience of forminga research center around our natural hazards,
anthropogenic and socio-natural disasters, and toreflect from scientific evidence on the guidelines
and public policies for the resilient development ofour country and the world.

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12. GEObook launch– “Toward a coastal law
for Chile: basics for a integrated managementof coastal areas”

14. The Chilean Association of Engineers
awarded our principal investigator, Juan Carlosde la Llera, with the Gestión 2022 award.

“Towards a coastal law for Chile” seminar.
Presentation of the techno-scientific basis for a
new coastal law in Chile.
Link to the event
Link to GEObook

13. “Collective mapping as a participatory
methodology for the study of risks incommunal urban planning: a proposal for
Chile” policy paper launch flyer:

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Pacific International Center for Disaster
Risk Reduction, Ecuador
www.cip-rrd.espol.edu.ec

Photo: reduction building up local committees
and brigades that are certified by the rules of
the national risk management authority.

CIP-RRD has been working on the design ofearly warning systems (EWS), mainly for floods
with local-government co-production. During2022, the Duran City EWS’ started its
implementation phase. Duran is a medium sizecity (about 250k inhabitants) with chronic
floods, which would be incremented under thecurrent climate change scenario, thus theimportance of having such a system. The
difference among other EWS is that besides
the technological part, the monitoring, alert andresponse, the system includes community
membersas‘voluntary
environmental
monitors’, who report to the Disaster Risk
Management unit of the Duran Municipality
whenflooding
thresholdin
specificneighborhoods no cover by instruments, havebeen reached. Also, through funding underconsultancy of the World Food Program the
CIP-RRD has trained 14 community brigades

and committees for disaster risk management
in several parts of Ecuador to increase citizen
resilience to natural hazards.
We also work with the Pan-American HealthOrganization a GUIDE to be applied in
EMERGENCY
situations
thatprovidesguidance on the process of adapting publichealth programs and actions in territories andpopulations in vulnerable situations. Aimed at
the technical teams and decision makers of thecountries.

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Prof. Maria del Pilar
Cornejo-Rodríguez
Director
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But most probable our best task during 2022 was towork out and propose a body of articles for theDisaster Risk Management Ecuadorian law
proposed to the National Assembly, that would
secure funding for the National Disaster Risk
Management System. We expect the Law to beapproved by mid-2023.
Regarding publications, the center had six
publications on Scopus/WOS, and one bookchapter

1. Cornejo-Rodriguez, M.d.P. Ecuador and the2015–16 El Niño. In: Glantz, M.H. (eds) El
Niño Ready Nations and Disaster Risk
Reduction.
DisasterStudiesandManagement.
Springer,Cham.
https://
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86503-0_18
2. Delgado, E. J., Cabezas, X., Martin-Barreiro,
C., Leiva, V., & Rojas, F. (2022). An equitybased optimization model to solve the location
problem for healthcare centers applied tohospital beds and COVID-19 vaccination.
Mathematics,
10(11)
doi:10.3390/
math10111825
3. Montenegro, M., Campozano, L., UrdialesFlores, D., Maisincho, L., Serrano-Vincenti, S.,& Borbor-Cordova, M. J. (2022). Assessmentof the impact of higher temperatures due toclimate change on the mortality risk indexes in
ecuador until 2070. Frontiers in Earth Science,
9 doi:10.3389/feart.2021.794602
4. Ormaza-González, F. I., Espinoza-Celi, M. E.,& Roa-López, H. M. (2022). Did schwabe
cycles 19–24 influence the ENSO events,
PDO, and AMO indexes in the pacific andatlantic oceans? Global and Planetary
Change,217
doi:10.1016/
j.gloplacha.2022.103928

6. Rincon, G., Morantes, G., Roa-López, H.,
Cornejo-Rodriguez, M. P., Jones, B., &Cremades, L. V. (2022). Spatio-temporal
statistical analysis of PM1 and PM2.5
concentrations and their key influencing
factors at guayaquil city, ecuador. Stochastic
Environmental
Researchand
Risk
Assessment, doi:10.1007/s00477-022-023102
7. Saltos-Andrade, I., Ramírez-Ruiz, N., ChuezCedeño, M., Martillo-Bustamante, C., Andrade-García, G., Cedeño-Oviedo, J., & CervantesBernabé, E. (2022). Evaluation of port
infrastructure in the face of wave agitation andclimate change, applying numerical models.
case study: Manta port terminal, ecuador.
Paper presented at the Proceedings of the
LACCEI International Multi-Conference forEngineering, Education and Technology, 2022
-July
doi:10.18687/LACCEI2022.1.1.96
Retrieved from www.scopus.com
The Director of CIP-RRD was recognized as
Resilience Ambassador at the Dutch 4TU.DeSIRE
Program (Designing Systems for informed
Resilience
Engineering)(https://www.4tu.nl/
resilience/about-us/our-people/partners-externalcommunity-people/Pilar-Cornejo/)
One of CIP-RRD researchers, Dr. Professor
Mercy Borbor, was leading author of the climatechange mitigation policy chapter of the AR6 IPCC.
CIP-RRD jointly with the Faculty of Maritime
Engineering and Marine Sciences generated acitizen science program named OLE, forobservations of oceanic and meteorologicalvariables, right at the sea side, with the fisherman
community (http://www.cip-rrd.espol.edu.ec/ole).

5. Rincon, G., Morantes Quintana, G., Gonzalez,A., Buitrago, Y., Gonzalez, J. C., Molina, C., &Jones, B. (2022). PM2.5 exceedances andsource appointment as inputs for an early
warning system. Environmental Geochemistryand Health, 44(12), 4569-4593. doi:10.1007/
s10653-021-01189-2

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Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
University of California, Berkeley, USA
https://peer.berkeley.edu/

50th Anniversary Celebration of UC Berkeley Shaking Table, June 24, 2022••

PEER contributed to the reconnaissance ofseveral hazards in 2022 including: (1) the 14-15
January 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruption andTsunami, (2) 22 June 2022, Afghanistan, Mw 5.9
Earthquake, (3) 2 July 2022, Iran, Mw 6.0
Earthquake Sequence, (4) 27 July 2022,
Philippines, Mw 7.0 Earthquake, (5) September
18, 2022, Taiwan, Mw 6.9 Earthquake, (6)September 19, 2022, Mexico, Mw 7.6
Earthquake, (7) November 21 2022, Indonesia,
Mw 5.6 Earthquake, and (8) 23 November 2023,
Duzce, Turkey Earthquake.
PEER initiated and expanded collaborations withseveral local and global disaster/hazard/
reconnaissance focused organizations, including
CalOES (California Governor’s Office ofEmergency Services), SPUR (San Francisco Bay
Area Planning and Urban Research Association),
EEFIT(Earthquake
Engineering
Field
Investigation Team), and IAEE (International
Association for Earthquake Engineering).

•

Four (4) projects and three (3) workshops started
in 2022 with funding from PEER’s TSRP
program. The TSRP currently has over 20 active
projects. PEER Bridge program currently has 8
active projects.

•

PEER celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the UC
Berkeley shaking table on June 24, 2022, at the
Earthquake Simulator Laboratory facility at
Richmond Field Station. Over 80 researchers,
practitioners, former and current students
attended the event to commemorate the impactof the table on the field of earthquake
engineering.

Prof. Khalid M. Mosalam
Director
E-mail: mosalam@berkeley.edu

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PEER Researchers’ Workshop featuring
presentations on all active projects was held
on September 19 & 20 in hybrid format withparticipation from the PEER community.

•

The OpenSRA project made substantial
progress in 2022 with the release of the firstversion of the open-source seismic risk
assessment software tool for natural gas
storage and pipeline systems.

•

PEER committees were active in 2022. The
Institutional Board (IB) convened under theleadership of Prof. Sashi Kunnath in 2022
and now has several new members from thecore institutions. The Research Committee(RC) was revamped and started a careful
evaluation of PEER’s research priorities.
Most importantly, the PEER Student
Committee (PSC) developed a new structureof subcommittees and is actively reaching all
core institution students.

•

PEER started issuing Digital Object Identifiers(DOIs) for reports in 2022 and issued 5reports on research conducted by the funded
projects. Some of the reports have received
over 700 views in just a few months. PEER
Reports are organized in a searchable page.
•

PEER organized a blind prediction contest forpredicting the experimental results obtained
from a Shaking Table test campaign carriedout at the UC Berkeley shaking table, incollaboration with the University of Trento,
Italy. The experimental tests, performed on asteel Moment Resisting Frame, pursued theaim of physically demonstrating theeffectiveness of a novel device for seismic
action mitigation, called Impact Mass Damper(IMD). Several teams participated in thecontest and some of the teams achieved
successful predictions of the response of thisnew system.

PEER Researchers ‘Workshop, September 2022

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Natural Hazards Center
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
https://hazards.colorado.edu/
https://converge.colorado.edu/
The Natural Hazards Center at the University ofColorado Boulder serves as the U.S. National
ScienceFoundation-designatedinformation
clearinghouse for the societal dimensions of hazards
and disasters. The mission of the Center is to:•

Hosted the monthly Making Mitigation Work
webinarseries.
https://hazards.colorado.edu/
training/webinars/making-mitigation-work•

Publishing the Research Counts series https://hazards.colorado.edu/news/research-counts• Translate and share hazards
research and information;

disaster•• Build connections between researchers, nonprofit
and private sector professionals, the media, policy
makers, and local, state, and federal officials;

Publishing Disaster Research—News You Can
Use.
https://hazards.colorado.edu/disasterresearch/current•

Hosted the Disaster Grads list serve forundergraduate and graduate students in thehazards
anddisasterfield.
https://
hazards.colorado.edu/signup•

Published and hosted webinars for two new
CONVERGE Training Modules: “Reciprocity inHazards and Disaster Research” and “Public
Health Implications of Hazards and Disaster
Research.”https://converge.colorado.edu/
resources/training-modules•

Continued to add to the CONVERGE Training
Modules Assignment Bank, which now also
includes an introductory webinar.
https://
converge.colorado.edu/resources/trainingmodules/assignment-bank/•Released additional Annotated Bibliographies
through
CONVERGE.
https://
converge.colorado.edu/resources/trainingmodules/annotated-bibliographies/•

Published “Extreme Events Research Check
Sheets Series.”
https://converge.colorado.edu/
resources/check-sheets/. Includes an introductory
webinar.

and• Advance social science and interdisciplinary
knowledge, with a special emphasis on the mostvulnerable populations and places; and• Train and mentor a diverse next generation of
hazards and disaster professionals.

The team at the Natural Hazards Center led several
initiatives during the reporting period including:•Served as the Secretariat for the North American
Alliance of Hazards and Disaster ResearchInstitutes (NAAHDRI). https://naahdri.org/•

Maintained a global map and list of universitybased hazards and disaster research centers andpublished the data associated with the map andlist. See: https://hazards.colorado.edu/resources/
research-centers•

Hosted the 47th annual Natural Hazards Researchand Applications Workshop, which involved morethan750
researchers,
local/state/federal
practitioners, policymakers, private and non-profit
sector representatives, journalists, and students.
The theme of the 2022 Workshop was “Changing
Climates: Equity and Adaptation in a Warming
World.”
https://hazards.colorado.edu/
workshop/2022•

Co-facilitated the annual Researchers Meeting,which involved more than 350 hazards anddisaster researchers from across the U.S. andaround the world. The theme of the 2022
Researchers Meeting was “Back to the Field?
Hazards and Disaster Research Following thePandemic.”
https://hazards.colorado.edu/
workshop/2022/researchers-meeting/overview

Prof. Lori Peek
Director, Natural Hazards Center,
Principal Investigator CONVERGE,
Professor, Dept. Sociology,
University oif Colorado Boulder
E-mail: Lori.Peek@colorado.edu

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Maintained database of resources by
CONVERGE Data Ambassadors (https://converge.colorado.edu/data/dataambassadors/)
andhostedwebinarintroducing this service: “Publish Your Data!
Learn How to Use DesignSafe and Meet the
CONVERGE Data Ambassadors” (https://converge.colorado.edu/webinars/publish-yourdata/)•

In 2021, Director Lori Peek was appointed by
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden and approvedby the U.S. Senate to serve on the Board of
Directors of the National Institute of Building
Sciences; in 2022 she continued in thisappointment serving the “public interest of thenation.”Researchers affiliated with the Natural Hazards
Center and the CONVERGE facility produced thefollowing books and journal article publications in
2022:
2022

Erikson, Kai and Lori Peek. The
Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina.
Austin: University of Texas Press.

2022

Adams, Rachel Marie, Candace Evans,
Amy Wolkin, Tracy Thomas, and Lori
Peek. “Social Vulnerability and Disasters:
Development and Evaluation of a
CONVERGE
Training
Modulefor
Researchers and Practitioners.” Disaster
Prevention and Management 31(6): 13-29,
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/
doi/10.1108/DPM-04-2021-0131/full/html.

2022

Adams, Rachel M., Jennifer Tobin, LoriPeek, Jolie Breeden, Sara McBride, andRobert de Groot. “The Generational Gap:
Children, Adults, and Protective Actions in
Response to Earthquakes.” Australasian
Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies
26(2): 67-82.

2022

Bostrom, Ann, Sara K. McBride, Julia S.
Becker, James D. Goltz, Robert-Michaelde Groot, Lori Peek, Brian Terbush, andMaximilian Dixon. “Great Expectations for
Earthquake Early Warnings on the UnitedStates West Coast.” International Journalof Disaster Risk Reduction 82, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103296.

2022

Maggioni, Andrea, Jose A. GonzalesZamora, Alessandra Maggioni, Lori Peek,
Samantha A. McLaughlin, Ulrich von Both,Marieke Emonts, Zelde Espinel, andJames M. Shultz. “Cascading Risks forPreventable Infectious Diseases inChildren and Adolescents During the 2022
Invasion of Ukraine.” International Journalof Environmental Research and Public
Health19(12):
7005,
https://
doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127005.

2022

McBride, Sara K., Hollie Smith, Meredith
Morgoch, Danielle Sumy, Mariah Jenkins,
Lori Peek, Ann Bostrom, Dare Baldwin,
Elizabeth Reddy, Robert M. de Groot,
Julia S. Becker, David M. Johnston, andMichele M. Wood. “Evidence-Based
Guidelines for Protective Actions andEarthquake Early Warning Systems.”
Geophysics
87(1):
WA77,
https://
doi.org/10.1190/geo2021-0222.1.

2022

Peek, Lori. “A New System for Disaster
Research.” American Scientist 110(4): 226-231, https://www.americanscientist.org/
article/a-new-system-for-disasterresearch.

2022

Shultz, James, Lori Peek, and Sandro
Galea. “Advances in Estimating Mortality
Associated with Tropical Cyclones in theUS.” Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA) 327(10): 929-931,
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/
article-abstract/2789676.

2022

Wu, Haorui, Lori Peek, Mason Clay
Matthews, and Nicole Mattson. “CulturalCompetence for Hazards and Disaster
Researchers: Framework and Training
Module.” Natural Hazards Review 23(1),https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.15276996.0000536.

2022

Peek, Lori. Review of Earthquake
Children: Building Resilience from theRuins of Tokyo by Janet Borland.
International
Journalof
MassEmergencies and Disasters 40(2): 205208.

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Researchers affiliated with the Natural Hazards Centerand the CONVERGE facility produced the following
data publications, reports, online publications, andtraining materials in 2022:
2022 Adams, Rachel, Lori Peek, Jennifer Tobin, Jolie
Breeden, Meghan Mordy, Sara McBride, andRobert de Groot. “2022 ShakeAlert Earthquake
Early Warning and Schools Survey,” inShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning andSchools in the United States. DesignSafeCI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-09yf-w512.
2022 Peek, Lori, Jessica Austin, and Heather
Champeau. “2020 Social Science Extreme
Events Research (SSEER) Network,” in Social
Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER)
Network Data, Survey Instrument, and Annual
Census.
DesignSafe-CI.
https://
doi.org/10.17603/ds2-arw3-9z86.
2022 Peek, Lori, Heather Champeau, and Jessica
Austin. “2021 Social Science Extreme Events
Research (SSEER) Network,” in Social Science
Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network
Data, Survey Instrument, and Annual Census.
DesignSafe-CI.
https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2htk5-9w67.
2022 Peek, Lori, Mason Mathews, Jessica Austin, andHeather Champeau. “2019 Social Science
Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network,” inSocial Science Extreme Events Research(SSEER) Network Data, Survey Instrument, andAnnualCensus.
DesignSafe-CI.
https://
doi.org/10.17603/ds2-tkjx-rf45.
2022 Peek, Lori, Mason Mathews, Emmanuelle Hines,
Haorui Wu, Jessica Austin, and Heather
Champeau. “2018 Social Science Extreme
Events Research (SSEER) Network,” in Social
Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER)
Network Data, Survey Instrument, and Annual
Census.
DesignSafe-CI.
https://
doi.org/10.17603/ds2-2qc4-fh48.

2022 Champeau, Heather, Jessica Austin, and Lori
Peek. “2020 Social Science Extreme Events
Research (SSEER) Census,” in Social Science
Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network
Data, Survey Instrument, and Annual Census.
DesignSafe-CI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-v0xj-gw06.
2022 Peek, Lori, Heather Champeau, and Jessica
Austin. “2019 Social Science Extreme Events
Research (SSEER) Census,” in Social Science
Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network
Data, Survey Instrument, and Annual Census.
DesignSafe-CI.
https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2t0k5-3v04.

2022 Adams, Rachel, Candace Evans, and Lori Peek.
“Identifying the Public Health Implications ofDisaster Research.” CONVERGE Extreme
Events Research Check Sheets Series.
DesignSafe-CI.
https://doi.org/10.17603/ds281k9-j684.
2022 Hansen, Alexa, Courtney Welton-Mitchell,
Rachel M. Adams, Candace M. Evans, and Lori
Peek. Public Health Implications of Hazards andDisaster Research. CONVERGE Training
Modules. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center,
University of Colorado Boulder. https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/trainingmodules.
2022 West, Jocelyn, Heather Champeau, Jessica
Austin, Candace M. Evans, Rachel M. Adams,
and Lori Peek. Reciprocity in Hazards andDisaster Research. CONVERGE Training
Modules. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center,
University of Colorado Boulder. https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/trainingmodules.

2022 Austin, Jessica, Heather Champeau, and Lori
Peek. 2022. “2021 Social Science Extreme
Events Research (SSEER) Census,” in Social
Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER)
Network Data, Survey Instrument, and Annual
Census. DesignSafe-CI.

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Major active grants and contracts at the Natural
Hazards Center include:

2018-232017-23

Lori Peek, Principal Investigator,“CONVERGE:
CoordinatedSocial Science, Engineering, andInterdisciplinary Extreme Events
ReconnaissanceResearch.”
Funded by the National Science
Foundation, Award #1841338.
($4,528,384)2022-23

Lori Peek, Principal Investigator,“NSF INTERN.” Funded by the
National Science Foundation,
Supplement to Award #1841338.
($38,238)

2021-23

Lori Peek, Principal Investigator,“Reducing Social Vulnerability inDisaster: An Assessment of What
Works.” Funded by the Margaret
A.
Cargill
Philanthropies.
($421,820)

Lori Peek, Principal Investigator,“A Clearinghouse on Natural
Hazards Applications.” FundedbytheNational
ScienceFoundation, Award #1635593.
($7,439,116)

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Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning
Colorado State University, USA
http://resilience.colostate.edu

NIST CoE Semi-Annual Meeting in November 2022

In the past 6 years, the center has laid out a distinct
strategy and set in motion how to best market INCORE to technical and community users. The goalof this marketing plan is to increase the awarenessof IN-CORE’s models, NIST playbook, andguidebooks to help cities conduct risk analysis withstate-of-the-art decision-making tools created withdeep and validated scientific research.

IN-CORE can provide science-based validated toolsthat communities need to make risk and resilienceinformed policy decisions. This includes the ability toquantify the effect of a policy decision at thecommunity level on the population and local
economy over time, rather than only direct damage
and loss.

The business development committee is in theprocess of creating the IN-CORE Foundation so thata large number of users can attain IN-CORE. The
foundation will offer scientific consultation, app
customization for communities, planning support
and training as well as hosting services. Along with
the IN-CORE Foundation, the CoE Directors and
NCSA are working under an NSF POSE project thatenables verification of the ability to perform “what if”
scenarios for long-term quantitative planning forpolicy decisions at the community level.

Prof. John W. van de Lindt
Co-Director
E-mail: jwv@colostate.edu

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Development of IN-CORE Platform:•

A major release IN-CORE v3.5 was delivered,along with interim releases 3.2 and 3.6. These
releases included new versions of allcomponents
withupdated
IN-CORE
documentation, example Jupyter notebooks andnew notebooks for all new analyses. The
milestone release included two example
notebooks for the MMSA testbed. New data
including fragilities, hazards and infrastructure
data are released as part of the IN-CORE
releases and documented in the incore-datarelease. A PyPi package was published toenable pip install of the library as an alternative
to Conda. Detailed release changes bycomponent
can
be
found
at
https://
incore.ncsa.illinois.edu. Each component of INCORE is managed under its own versioning.
•

IN-CORE Science and Data Integration:

A Scientific Integration Committee meets biweekly to focus on Science and Data
Integration,
standardization,andimplementation in IN-CORE.
IN-CORE
technical sessions are held monthly with theobjective of increasing the base of IN-CORE
users within the CoE, providing technicalassistance for IN-CORE users, highlighting thetype of research being conducted with INCORE, and providing a forum for IN-CORE
updates. Presentations during this period haveincluded:“Multi-Objective
Mitigation
Optimizationfor
Improving
Community
Resilience Using IN-CORE”, “Housing Value
Recovery Model”, and “Multiplying the Impact
of Community Resilience Efforts through Data
Curation and Publishing” (DesignSafe).
•

Coordination of
Development:

Community

Metrics

Core Metrics were further developed for thefour stability areas of Population, Economic,
Physical Services and Social Services,
including incorporation of functionality. The
summary table of the core metrics, data
sources, references, whether Python code has
been developed, and state of incorporation into
IN-CORE has been further developed andmade available on Confluence for generalprojectuse.
Analysisof
economic stability core
metricswas
extended (e.g., both
cross
sectional
andtimeseriesmethods
utilized)
andisnearingcompletion. The draft of the core metricdocument is over 75% complete.

IN-CORE
Modeling
Engagement:forCommunity

The CoE subtask team has been meeting
regularly with participants from the community
engagement team to design the IN-CORE web
application for Joplin, Salt Lake City (SLC),
and Galveston. An alpha version of the Joplin
App was developed and enhanced during thisreporting period. Population dislocation andeconomic stability metrics were incorporated
for demonstration to the communities.
Development began for the Salt Lake City andGalveston Apps, and will be demonstrated at afuture community workshop. Workshops held
during this period focused on presenting thescience and data models that go into IN-COREand provide the output for the Apps.
Discussions were held with the Monterey
County community partner to discuss theirneeds and additional meetings amongst the
project team are underway.
The team engaged with stakeholders and usergroups in the first cohort partner communities
to collect input about their needs for using INCORE in decision making. Input was recorded
in reports for each partner community. The
capabilities of different IN-CORE models were
presented, and opportunities explored for
application to resilience planning in each
community.
Based on the results from
community workshops, a report was developed
covering the gaps in resilience metrics and INCORE models for informing community
decisions.
A detailed action plan wasdeveloped for follow up and coordination
based on the workshop discussions andtakeaways for each partner community.
Additional feedback was obtained andreviewed from the partner community
stakeholders about user group candidates andthe most likely departments and positions touse or make decisions based on IN-CORE
models outputs and scenarios. The fitness ofsuggested user group candidates wasevaluated with the goal to focus onconversations with a few key stakeholders
within each community. Based on the input
gathered at the workshops, a report wasdeveloped of the resilience priority areas,
metrics and analysis questions that different IN-CORE models can potentially answer.

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IN-CORE Outreach and Sustainability:
An NSF proposal was written and funded for $300K
through NSF’s Pathways to Develop Open Source
Ecosystems (POSE) program. This is a Phase I
project which serves essentially as a planning grant
to better define and establish the open source
community. A project abstract is included as anappendix to this report.
Presentations and other meetings were given/heldwith the following entities: (1) Reinsurance
Association of America; (2) City of Colorado
Springs; (3) Liberty Mutual Insurance; (4)Seoul
National University; (5) Kyungbuk National
University (KNU); (6) Keimyung University; (7)KISTI - S. Korea Supercomputing Center; (8) Ulsan
National Institute of Science and Technology; (9)Athens PPT’s (Plenary & Special Session at theInternational Conference on Hazards andInfrastructure), (10) U.S. National Conference on
Earthquake Engineering (Panel Session), (11)Insurance Sector Climate Dialogue Group, 12) CA
Seismic Safety Commission, (13)FrancisBouchard Insurance Industry Lunch Discussion,(14) Aaron Parker, Emergency Response Division,(15) NOAA, (16) Office of American State - OAS,
(17) Defense Logistics Agency. Several of thesehave led to potential IN-CORE use and further
exploration is in progress.

NIST CoE Semi-Annual Meeting in November 2022

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A Community Marketing Plan has beendeveloped and is being finalized which
focuses on the community use aspect of INCORE and less on the scientific user
community like the POSE project. The goal is
to increase the awareness of IN-CORE
models and NIST playbook to help cities withdecision-making for natural hazard risks. Most
communities do not know that IN-CORE
exists nor the inter-dependencies andsolutions that IN-CORE can provide. CoE
staff have identified six categories for
campaigns for the 2022-2023 Fiscal Year.
The plan clearly identifies target markets,
goals, strategies, and methods on how to
operationalize efforts to optimize getting themessage out to large and small communities.

needs of jurisdictions for Disaster Risk
Reduction and providing the integrated
decision tool that communities need. This
past year, we have held seven workshops.
We have created the workshops so that thesecan be replicated and so that the draw
together NIST Playbook, Guidebooks, and INCORE.

••

The marketing plan has identified 6
campaigns:

1) Product & Program Awareness (PR), 2)
FEMA
Integration,
3)
Continuous
Improvement, 4) Product Development with
Pilots, 5) Community User Groups and 6)
Partnership Development.
The work
undertaken with our Pilot Communities isbringing together cohorts to gain “feedback”
to refine IN-CORE for ease of use bycommunities. These cohorts will be learningin small groups of practitioners – Planners,
GIS, and engineers of pilot communities. We
are working with the communities of Salt Lake
City, Monterey County, Galveston, Joplin anda handful of testbeds.

We have simultaneously monitored metrics,
statistics and have been learning a great deal
about how communities will use IN-CORE as
an integrated decision-making tool. Our
engagement with pilot communities as well as
the workshop details will be available to allcommunities.

Publications:Sutley, E., S. Hamideh, J. Helgeson, M.
Dillard, J.W. van de Lindt, W. G. Peacock,
J. Mitrani-Reiser, S. Crawford, T. Do, O.
Nofal, T. Johnson, M. Watson, J.
Weigand, J. Loerzel, N. Rosenheim, D.
Gu, J. F. Fung. (2021). Community
Resilience-Focused
Technical
Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton,
North Carolina Flood: Community Impact
and Recovery Following Successive Flood
Events. Sutley, E., Hamideh S. andHelgeson J. (eds). National Institute ofStandards and Technology (NIST SP
1230)
doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.12303.

The main goal of working with pilot
communities is to ensure the usefulness andusability of IN-CORE by local jurisdictions. To
gain an understanding as to whether we havefully addressed the “problem” and met thehttps://incore.ncsa.illinois.edu/doc/incore/notebooks/Galveston_testbed/
Galveston_testbed.html
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Global Resilience InstituteNortheastern University, USA
https://globalresilience.northeastern.edu/
Events••Flyn: Hosted a Discussion and Panel Event in Nov.
2022 for:•

Next Steps for Critical Infrastructure and Cyber
Security: A Conversation with CISA
Executive
Director Brandon Wales

Raub, K.B., Panikkar, B., Platter, H., and O’Mara,
E. 2023. Incorporation of justice concerns withincoastal resilience plans across eleven U.S.
cities. Journal of Climate Resilience and Climate
Justice, (forethcoming).

Awarded Funded Research Work:•

NASA ROSES: Leveraging Earth Observation Data
to Support Environmental Justice: A Puerto Rico
Case Study

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Implications for
Global Politics After a Year of War•

SERDP:
Networked
Infrastructure
Compound Extremes (NICE)•

Flynn: Tensar InterAxion Global Conference 2022••

2022 Costal Estuarine Summit

NOAA: An Analysis and Demonstration of the
National Water Model’s Applicability to Community
Resilience Part 2•

Flynn: SERDP Nice Workshop 2022 virtual••

Series of virtual presentations about the results of
the UCAR COMET project:

NOAA: An Analysis and Demonstration of the
National Water Model’s Applicability to Community
Resilience Part 1•

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022•

Flynn: Panelist for Event• NOAA OWP All Hands Meeting (May 18th)

Reports:

 FEMA partners (Jun. 1st) GRI webinar (June 29th)
 NOAA Hydro Leadership (Oct. 17th)•

Kristin Raub attended and presented (virtually) at
the Frontiers in Hydrology conference (June 19 24th) on the results of the UCAR COMET project.

•

Kristin Raub and Josh Laufer attended andcreated/moderated a panel at the Restore
America’s Estuaries Coastal & Estuarine Summit
in New Orleans, LA (Dec. 4 - 8, 2022). Panelconsisted of Josh Laufer (GRI; co-PI on COMET
and CIROH projects), Brian Cosgrove (NOAA),
Brenna Sweetman (NOAA), and David Vallee(NOAA).

•

Kristin Raub attended and presented (in-person,
oral talk) at the AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago, IL,
Dec. 11 - 14. Presented on the results of COMET
and CIROH.

Research•

Dr. Stephen Flynn

Raub, K.B. & Laufer, J. 2023. Assessment of the
National Water Model’s current and potential rolein community resilience planning: A case study
analysis. Climate Services, in review.

Professor and Founding Director
E-mail: s.flynn@northeastern.edu

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From building back better and designing financial
incentives to developing nature-inspired systems
and equitable social capital, resilience strategies
need to be multifaceted and interdisciplinary.
Northeastern University has responded to thesethreats by investing in global resilience over thelast several years. Based on the foundations laidby the founding director Prof. Stephen Flynn, theGlobal Resilience Institute (GRI) continues to lead
new and important convergence research acrosscolleges and disciplines.
Global Resilience Institute, founded by Professor
Steve Flynn, and currently co-directed byProfessors Auroop Ganguly and Daniel Aldrich,continues to advance its global and national
reputation and thought leadership through thedevelopment of multi-faculty research products as
wellas
growing
investmentsinnovelinterdisciplinary capabilities for responding tostrategic opportunities. The GRI is further
developing and sharpening the “Global” aspect of
GRI by building a base for sustained “North-North,”“North-South” and “South-South” collaborations in
the resilience space with NU-GRI as a major global
resiliencehub.
Finally,
reflecting
theentrepreneurial approach across the campus, theGlobal Resilience Institute will serve as a startup
launchpad by leveraging NU-based and/or NU
affiliated (including NU alum) companies, thestructure of NU’s Center for Research Innovation(CRI), and NU connections with the private andpublic sector as well as government laboratories
and federal agencies.

Funded projects:•

Terrorism and international business: Building
financial resilience•

Coastal flooding prediction and mitigation:•

Integrating high-fidelity computer models withfield observations

Interrogating resilience:•

An analysis of inequality and vulnerability in
pre-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico•

How Museums are Undertaking Preservation
Tactics in the Face of Climate Change
https://globalresilience.northeastern.edu/
how-museums-are-undertakingpreservation-tactics-in-the-face-of-climatechange/•

How a Cherokee Leader Ensured His People’s
Language Survived
https://globalresilience.northeastern.edu/
how-a-cherokee-leader-ensured-hispeoples-language-survived/

Profs. Daniel Aldrich & Auroop Ganguly
Co-Directors
E-mail: d.aldrich@northeastern.edu

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University of Oklahoma
Advanced Radar Research Center (OU, ARRC), USA
https://arrc.ou.edu

1. FY2022 with funding from NSF, NOAA, NASA,
DARPA, ONR, AFRL, private industry, andothers.
2. The University of Oklahoma (ARRC) andresearch universities in France have signed amemorandum of understanding to facilitate
cooperation between scientists to advanceobservations and studies of the atmosphereand radar technologies in May 2022.

involved in many outreach activities. A photo of
RaXPol demonstrating to nearly 200 third
graders and kindergarteners from Alexander
Elementary in Albany, Ohio through acollaborative effort, is provided below.
7. ARRC hosted a student-led virtual workshop toplan a field experiment with the NSF CIF
RaXPol mobile radar in Florida on August 24
from 2-5 CT

3. The University of Oklahoma signed amemorandum of understanding between the
School of Engineering from the National
University of Asunción in Paraguay (FIUNA)
and the ARRC in April 2022.
4. The ARRC hosted an annual workshop withparticipants from research sponsors, StrategicPartner Consortium (SPARC) members, andcharitable donors to the ARRC.
5. ARRC mobile radars participated in a number oflarge field campaigns such as the NSFsupported ESCAPE (a photo is attached), theNASA-supported IMPACTS, etc.
6. ARRC

mobile radars

havebeen actively

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Prof. Tian-you Yu
Director of Operations
E-mail: tyu@ou.edu

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8

and Yoon-SL Kim, took top honors for best
student paper presentations at the 2022 IEEE
International Symposium on Phased Array
Systems and Technology (PAST) held in
Boston, MA, Oct..

ARRC faculty and students have received anumber of national and international recognition
and awards.
•

Dr. Robert Palmer was named Education
Innovator of the Year by 405 Business
Magazine.

•

Dr. Nathan Goodman was recognized by
Elsevier list of Top 2% Scientists.

•

Dr. David Bodine received 2022 American
Meteorological Society (AMS) Outstanding
Early Career Award.

•

Dr. Jorge Salazar Cerreno was honored
recently with the maximum distinction ofDoctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad
Antenor Orrego in Peru.

•

ARRC/SoM Postdoctoral Fellow, Yagmur
Derin, was awarded the International
Precipitation Working Group Early Career
Scientist Award - First Prize for outstanding
presentation/poster 2022!

•

ARRC/ECE graduate students, Cesar Salazar•

ARRC/ECE Ph.D. student, Cesar Salazar, won
the best student paper award at the 11th
EuropeanConference
on
Radar
in
Meteorology and Hydrology, held in Locarno,
Switzerland.

•

ARRC/ECE M.S. student, Jonathan Knowles,
was awarded the 3rd place for student paper
competition in the 22nd IEEE Wireless andMicrowave
Technology
Conference(WAMICON) in Clearwater, Florida.

•

ARRC/ECE students, Elizabeth Joyce, Shane
Flandermeyer, and Clayton Blosser, received
the prestigious National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP).

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Rensselaer Politechnic Institute, Center for Infrastructure,
Transportation, and the Environment, USA
https://www.cite.rpi.edu/
In 2020, the team conducted a large-scaleinternational data collection effort to capture
the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic onhouseholds' purchasing patterns. In 2022, theteam continued researching various aspects
related to such data collection efforts. First,
the team assessed the efficacy of generalappeals to consumers to donate any excess
facemasks that they may have purchased
during the pandemic. This work, entitled “Onthe Willingness to Donate “Panic Bought”
Supplies: A Novel Form of Freight Demand
Management,” was submitted for publication.
Second, the team investigated the underlying
motivations influencing purchasing patternchanges. One of the objectives has been to
identify mechanisms to mitigate panic buying.
To this end, the team proposed freight
demand management programs to reduce
the amount of panic buying. This work,
entitled “The Role and Potential of Trusted
Change Agents and Freight Demand
Management in Mitigating “Panic Buying”
Shortages,” was submitted for publication. A
second objective has been assessing theimpact of purchasing patterns changes onhouseholds’ inventories. As part of thisobjective, the team focused on theinterconnection between the shortages
experienced during the beginning of the
COVID-19 pandemic, the changes inpurchasing behaviors in response to thecrisis, and the households’ inventory levels in
Latin American countries. A manuscript forthis work is currently being finalized.

convergence in disaster environments.
The team has been sharing the research
results on various venues, including the 2022
Transportation Research Board Annual
Meeting.
Publications•[1] Holguín-Veras, J., T. Encarnación, L.
N. van Wassenhove, S. Pokharel, V.
Cantillo, J. Amaya, T. Wachtendorf and J.
Rilling,2022.
Reducing
Material
Convergence in Disaster Environments:
The Potential of Trusted Change Agents.
Transportation
Research
Part
E:
Logistics and Transportation Review 162,1-23,
https://doi.org/10.1016/
j.tre.2022.102736

Dr. José Holguín-Veras, William H. Hart
Professor, and Director of the Center for
Infrastructure, Transportation, and theEnvironment; and the Volvo Research and
Educational Foundations (VREF) Center of
Excellence on Sustainable Urban Freight
Systems at the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute

Third, the team investigated the potential oftrusted change agents to induce consumers
to limit panic buying purchases in crisis
environments in the United States. A
manuscript for this work is currently being
finalized.
Besides the pandemic-related research, theteam also published an article entitled“Reducing material convergence in disasterenvironments: The potential of trusted
change agents” [1]. This article discusses
how to use of freight demand management
strategies to reduce the amount of material

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Prof. José Holguín-Veras
W.H. Hart Professor
E-mail: jhv@rpi.edu

Asia
Japan and Oceania

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Asia
Japan and Oceania

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Asia — Members
Bangladesh

Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering andTechnology (BUET)

Bangladesh Department of Meteorology, University of Dhaka
China

Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing Institute of Technology
(BIT)

China

Integrated Risk Governance Project (IRG-Project), State Key Lab of Earth Surface Processes
and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University

China

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Chang'an University

China

Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITPCAS)

China

Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service of International Knowledge Centre for Engineering
Sciences and Technology under the auspices of UNESCO (IKCEST-DRR)
Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

Beijing National Earth Observatory, China Earthquake Administration (CEA)

China

State Key Laboratory of Geo-hazards Prevention and Geo-environment Protection (SKLGP),
Chengdu University of Technology

China

Key Laboratory of Coastal Disaster and Defence (KLCDD), Hohai University

China

Natural Disaster Research Institute, Northeast Normal University

China

College of Engineering, Ocean University of China

China

College of Architecture and Environment, Sichuan University (SCU)

China

Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR), Sichuan University

China

State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering (SKLH), Sichuan University

China

Shanghai Institute of Disaster Prevention and Relief, Tongji University

China

China Research Center for Emergency Management (CCEM), Wuhan University of Technology

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Disaster Preparedness and
China
Response Institute (HKJCDPRI)
India

Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM)

India

Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

India

Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre (DMMC), Uttarakhand Secretariat

India

Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

India

Research & Development, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITG)

India

Center of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation & Management, Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee (IITR)

India

South Asia Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (SAADRI), Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee (IITR)

India

Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University

India

School of Ecology and Environment Studies, Nalanda University

India

School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Delhi

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Indonesia Brawijaya University
Indonesia Gadjah Mada University, Faculty of Engineering
Indonesia Geological Agency (GA), Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia
Indonesia JASA TIRTA I Public Corporation
Indonesia Research Center for Disaster Mitigation, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)
IranInternational Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES)

IranNatural Disasters Research Institute (NDRI)

IranSoil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute (SCWMRI), Agricultural
Research, Education and Extension Organization

Iran

Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran

IsraelInstitute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ)

IsraelNational Knowledge and Research Center for Emergency Readiness, University of Haifa

Korea

International Water Resources Research Institute, Chungnam National University

Korea

Department of Disaster Prevention & Safety Engineering, Kangwon National University

Korea

Seoul National University

Korea

School of Urban & Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Lao PDR Asia Research Center, National University of Laos (ARC-NUOL)
Lao PDR

Disaster Risk Reduction Division, Department of Climate Change (DCC), Ministry of Natural
Resource and Environment

Malaysia

Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), University of Kebangsaan Malaysia

Malaysia

Center for Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative (SEADPRI-UKM), Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)

Malaysia

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)

Malaysia

Universiti Tenaga National (UNITEN)

Malaysia

Centre for Coastal and Ocean Engineering (COEI), Universiti Technologi Malaysia (UTM)

Malaysia

Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Research Institute for
Sustainable Environment, Universiti Technologi Malaysia (UTM)

Malaysia

Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Technologi Malaysia (UTM)

Malaysia

Disaster Management Institute (DMI), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)

Myanmar Emergency Operations Centre, Department of Disaster Management
Nepal

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

Nepal

Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University

Oman

German University of Technology in Oman (GUTech)

Pakistan

Center for Disaster Management (CDM), University of Management and Technology

Pakistan

University of Peshawar
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Philippines PEMSEA Resource Facility, Partnerships in Environmental Management for Seas of East Asia
Philippines

Disaster Risk Management Unit, Graduate School of Business, Philippine School of Business
Administration (PSBA)

Philippines

National Hydraulic Research Center, National Engineering Center, University of the Philippines,
Diliman Campus

Philippines University of the Philippines Resilience Centre (UPRI)
Philippines Philippine Society of Emergency Medical Technicians
Singapore

Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management, Nanyang Technological University

Sri Lanka

Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau (CECB)

Sri Lanka

Center for Urban Water (CUrW)

Sri Lanka

National Building Research Organisation (NBRO)

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)

ChineseTaipeiNational Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), National Applied ResearchLaboratories

ChineseTaipeiTaiwan Typhoon and Flood Research Institute (TTFRI), National Applied Research Laboratories

ChineseTaipeiDisaster Prevention Research Center (DPRC), National Cheng-Kung University (NCKU)

ChineseTaipeiTainan Hydraulics Laboratory (THL), National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)

ChineseTaipeiNational Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR)

ChineseTaipeiCenter for Weather Climate and Disaster Research (WCDR), National Taiwan University

Tajikistan

Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI), University of Central Asia

ThailandGlobal Environmental Studies/Management, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)

ThailandDisaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management (DPMM), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)ThailandDisaster and Risk Management Information Systems Research Group (DRMIS), Chulalongkorn
University

TurkeyKandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University

Vietnam

Department of Geo-Environment, VietNam National University (VNU), Hanoi

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IRG-Project, State Key Lab of Earth Surface
Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE),
Beijing Normal University China
http://irg.bnu.edu.cn

The third International
Symposium on Green
Development
andIntegrated
Risk
Governance: 50 Years
Review of the United
Nations Conference on
the Human

Conference:•(CWW) October 16-19, 2022

Green Development and Integrated Risk
Governance, coorganized with Davos
Global Risk Forum (China, June 2022)

The third International Symposium on Green
Development and Integrated Risk Governance:
50 Years Review of the United Nations
Conference on the Human Environment washeld in June, 2022. IRG Project was of the coorganizers. This conference is a concludinginternational symposium co-hosted by Beijing
Normal University, Zhuhai City and Davos
Global Risk Forum in accordance with thetripartite agreement, following the firstinternational seminar held in 2017. More than150 experts and scholars from Switzerland,
France, Denmark, Japan, the United States andother countries, leaders of relevant departments
in Zhuhai and executives of enterprises
participated in this seminar online, including Liu
Yanhua, the former Vice Minister of Scienceand Technology of China, Shi Peijun, thePresident of Qinghai Normal University,
Ammann, the President of Davos Global Risk
Forum.

The fifth Cairo Water Week (CWW2022) was
held in Cairo, Egypt, October 16-19, 2022. IRG
project member was invited to the "ThinkShop"on Early Warning and on Deltas.

Proposals:•

Highlands to Oceans (H2O): Anticipatory
Governance of Hydroclimatic Regime Shifts
in the Transboundary Indus and MekongRiver Basins. ($1.6M) USA•

Disaster Chains and Risk Reduction in
Great Bay Area. ($2M) China•

Capacity Building for Climate
Disclosure in China. ($150K) GiZ•

Tipping Points in Africa.
CNNSF

Change($500K) UNEP-

Training workshop:

Prof. YE Qian•

E-mail: qianye@bnu.edu.cn"ThinkShop" on Early Warning and on
Deltas during the Cairo Water Week

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Papers:•Flores, Elaine C., et al. "A healthy planet for ahealthy mind." One Earth 5.4 (2022): 307-310.

•

Kelman, Ilan, and Aaron Clark-Ginsberg. "An
Urban Governance Framework for Including
Environmental Migrants in Sustainable Cities."
Climate 10.8 (2022): 121.

•

McGreevy, Steven R., et al. "Sustainableagrifood systems for a post-growth world."
Nature sustainability (2022): 1-7.

•

Dai, Jiadong, et al. "Effects of efflorescenceand subflorescence by different salts on soil
physical properties and aeolian erosion."
CATENA 215 (2022): 106323.

•

Hu, Ziying, et al. "Analysis of Spatial andTemporal Variations of the Near-Surface Wind
Regime and Their Influencing Factors in the
Badain Jaran Desert, China." Atmosphere 13.8
(2022): 1316.

•

Liu, Tian, Peijun Shi, and Jian Fang.
"Spatiotemporal variation in global floods withdifferent affected areas and the contribution of
influencing factors to flood-induced mortality(1985–2019)." Natural Hazards 111.3 (2022):
2601-2625.

•

Tang, Jiting, et al. "Typhoon Risk Perception:
A Case Study of Typhoon Lekima in China."International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
13.2 (2022): 261-274.

•

Zhang, Zhengtao, et al. "Economic Ripple
Effects of Individual Disasters and Disaster
Clusters." International Journal of Disaster
Risk Science (2022): 1-14.

•

Chen, Shuo, et al. "Improving Spatial
Disaggregation of Crop Yield by Incorporating
Machine Learning with Multisource Data: A
Case Study of Chinese Maize Yield." Remote
Sensing 14.10 (2022): 2340.

•

Wu, Jingyan, et al. "How effective arecommunity‐based
disasterreductiontendencies and its implications on terrestrial
carbon sink potential." Earth's Future 10.8(2022): e2022EF002703.
•

Fang, Jiayi, et al. "Benefits of subsidence
control for coastal flooding in China." Nature
Communications 13.1 (2022): 1-9.

•

Han, Qinmei, et al. "Web‐Based Data to
Quantify Meteorological and GeographicalEffects on Heat Stroke: Case Study in China."
GeoHealth 6.8 (2022): e2022GH000587.

•

He, Yan, et al. "Substantial increase ofcompound droughts and heatwaves in wheat
growing seasons worldwide." International
Journal of Climatology 42.10 (2022): 50385054.

•

He, Yan, et al. "Increased probability andseverity of compound dry and hot growing
seasons over world's major croplands."
Science of The Total Environment 824 (2022):
153885.

•

Jia, Wei, et al. "Monitoring Rock Desert
Formation Caused by Ice–Snow Melting in the
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Using an Optimized
Remote Sensing Technique: A Case Study of
Yushu Prefecture." Remote Sensing 14.3
(2022): 570.

•

Lin, Degen, et al. "Measuring Compound Soil
Erosion by Wind and Water in the Eastern
Agro–Pastoral Ecotone of Northern China."
Sustainability 14.10 (2022): 6272.

•

Sun, Shao, et al. "Evolution of future
precipitation extremes: Viewpoint of climatechange classification." International Journal of
Climatology 42.2 (2022): 1220-1230.

•

Ye, Tao, et al. "Reducing livestock snow
disaster risk in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateaudue
towarmingandsocioeconomic
development."
Science
of
The
Total
Environment 813 (2022): 151869.

strategies? Evidence from the largest‐scale
program so far." Risk analysis (2022).
•
ecosystem

Yu, Peixin, et"Global pattern
respiration

al.
of

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Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research

Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITPCAS), China
http://www.itpcas.ac.cn

In 2020, Professor Ma Yaoming and his groupmembers published “A long-term (2005–2016)
dataset of hourly integrated land–atmosphereinteraction observations on the Tibetan Plateau”
at ESSD. After that, the first three-dimensional
observation network platform of atmosphericwater and heat on the Tibetan Plateau（TPEITORP） will be built in 2021. The platform
can provide continuous observation data anddecision-making basis for weather monitoringand prediction, disaster weather warning andclimate environment prediction on the Tibetan
Plateau and surrounding areas. The above
observation data and platforms have asubstantial role in promoting disaster predictionand early warning. By the end of 2022, thepublished data has been cited more than 35
times in articles published in BAMS, ESSD, JGR,
JH and other magazines. And have a goodcommunication with DPRI. Prof. Ling Bai andProf. James Mori developed new seismic dataprocessing techniques to study source processes
associated with the 2021 glacier collapse in the
Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, southeastern
Tibetan Plateau. Massive slope failures often
occur along the Himalayan orogenic belt, where
the Indian plate subducts beneath the Eurasianplate. On March 22, 2021, a slope failure hazard
occurred at the Grand Canyon section of the
Yarlung Tsangpo River, eastern Himalayan
syntaxis, and blocked the river leading to a waterlevel rise of over 10 m. We conducted ananalysis of the seismic waveforms recorded bybroadband seismic stations which we deployedaround the Grand Canyon.

These stations are located at distances of 5–65
km from the deposit area with good azimuthal
coverage. The recorded waveform data contain
information about the source processes without
the complex propagation effects that would be
included in records at farther distances.
These seismograms showed emergent onsets
with a total duration of approximately 300 s andcorroborated their origination as a glaciercollapse along the remote Sedongpu basin.
Based on direct measurements of seismic energy
and an empirical distance attenuation function,
we estimated the volume to be approximately 50
× 106 m3. The source process was interpreted asa single force with three possible stages:
progressive coherent block fracturing, mass flow
through the Sedongpu basin with downslope
acceleration-deceleration-stable motions, andcontinuous flow along the river after the formationof a temporary dam at the outlet basin.
Glaciers along the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand
Canyon show accelerated erosion and retreat
with a substantial decrease in snow coveragedue to global warming. Large amounts of glacial
moraine that have accumulated in the Sedongpu
basin provide an abundant debris source forsubsequent river blocking events. Earthquakes inadjacent areas may also cause more debris toflow.

Previously there were only a few seismic stationsin the study area because of the harsh naturalenvironment. All these stations are locatedoutside of the Grand Canyon with distances
greater than 60 km from this glacier collapse
event. From 2015 we deployed broadband
seismic stations along the Grand Canyon andimproved the stations with automatic waveform
transmission in 2019 to study the mechanisms ofearthquakes and landslides, along with clarifying
deep structures of the continental collision zone.

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Prof. Yaoming Ma
E-mail: ymma@itpcas.ac.cn

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Therefore, the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon area
is highly deformed and can easily lose stability under
longtime glacier erosion and freeze–thaw weathering.
The 2021 event is one of the largest events that has•
occurred along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in recent
decades and caused a rapid water level rise of over
10 m. Therefore, determining source parameters suchas volume, velocity, and run-out distance is importantfor understanding the landslide process andevaluating hazards for future glacial instabilities in thisregion of the Himalayas.
Awards：•Ling Bai, Wiley Open Science Excellent Author

Ongoing research grant projects:•

International research project supported by CAS,International team on the study of crustal and •mantle structure beneath the Himalayan Orogenic
belt and its shallow response, Primary
investigators: Prof. Bai, Prof. Mori (No. GJTD2019-04), 2020.01.01~2022.12.31.

Publications:•

Bai, L., Jiang, Y., Mori, J., 2022. Source
processes associated with the 2021 glaciercollapse in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon,
southeastern
TibetanPlateau. Landslides doi: 0.1007/s10346-02202002-6.

•

Liu, L., M.Menenti, Yaoming Ma*, W.Ma, 2022,
Improved parameterization of snow albedo in
WRF + Noah: Methodology based on a severe

snow event on the Tibetan Plateau, Advances in
Atmospheric Sciences, doi:10.1007/s00376-0221232-1.
Yaoming

Ma*,Weiqiang

F.Sun，J.

Zhang,

Ma*,H.Dai，L.Zhang,

N.Yao，J.He，

Xuan,Y.Zhan，Y.Yuan，C.Yang，W.

Z.

Bai,Y.
Sun，

P.Zhao, M.Ding, K.Zhu，J.Hu，Bian Bazhuga,
Bai Juepingcuo, Z.Ma, R. Qingnima, Suo
Langwangdui, Yang Zong, H.Wen, 2022, Earthsummit mission 2022: Scientific expedition andresearch on Mt. Qomolangma helps reveal thesynergy between westerly winds and monsoon
and the resulting climatic and environmental
effects, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, doi:
10.1007/s00376-022-2166-3.
Yaoming Ma*, B. Wang*, X. Chen, LZhong, Z.Hu,
W.Ma, C.Han, M.Li, 2022, Strengthening thethree-dimensional comprehensive observation
system of multi-layer interaction on the Tibetan
Plateau to cope with the warming and wetting
trend, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Letters,15,
100224
doi:10.1016/
j.aosl.2022.100224.

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Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service of International
Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology
under the auspices of UNESCO, Chinese Academy of Sciences(IKCEST-DRR), China
http://drr.ikcest.org

Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service ofInternational Knowledge Centre for Engineering
Sciences and Technology under the auspices of
UNESCO (IKCEST-DRR) was founded in 2016. It iscommitted to formulating global disaster metadata
standards and establishing a global meta-databasefor disasters by consolidating the data from different
kinds of disasters; integrating cross-disciplinary, cross-field, and cross-region disaster data resources andproviding knowledge service applications on line; andcarrying out education, training, and technology
exchange on disaster risk reduction.
The overall progress in 2022 is listed below:
1. The Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service
System completed 2.27 million pieces of data.
These included 279 disaster science databases(datasets), 31,116 pieces of global disaster
metadata, 1,562 disaster maps, 100 training
videos, 370,800 pieces of disaster literature
metadata,
and22
knowledge
serviceapplications. Link: https://drr.ikcest.org

countries for overseas visits.
3. Based on the highly cited literature and hotspot
literature, the key issues and hotspot issues ofresearch in the field of disaster risk reduction
are extracted, to form
“Scientific andTechnological Research Trend Report in the Fieldof Disaster Risk Reduction——Bibliometricanalysis of global disaster risk reduction literatureand the influence of Chinese research in 2021”,
which provides services to policy makers andprovides Disaster Risk Reduction Unit andScience, Technology and Innovation Policy
Section, Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO withthe latest intelligence results. Link：https://
drr.ikcest.org/report/r0cdf

2. The number of user visits to IKCEST-DRR in
2022 presented steady growth, amounting to447,000 by the end of December, with a total of282,700 users throughout the year, of whichinternational users averagely accounted for
59.74%, mainly from the United States, India, thePhilippines, the UK and Canada, the top 5

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Prof. Juanle Wang
E-mail: wangjl@igsnrr.ac.cn

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4. Carry out emergency remote sensing monitoringand data sharing for flood disaster reduction in
Pakistan. Since mid-June 2022, many parts ofPakistan have suffered from heavy rainfall andflooding. In response to the emergency needs,
IKCEST-DRR quickly organized data rectificationand processing in the disaster areas and carriedout data sharing services. (1) Complete theprocessing of 70 GB of data in 3 major
categories and 21 minor categories, including
basic remote sensing images, DEM, permanent
water system distribution, water system
distribution during flood, 10m land cover, GDP,
population, climate zone, soil, transportation,
dam and reservoir distribution, irrigation network.
2) Using Sentinel-1 and water body index
method, we quickly obtained the distribution ofwaters before, during and after the disaster inthe whole territory, and combined with multisource remote sensing data, we obtained theextraction of roads, farmlands and buildings
range affected by this flood. (3) Rapidly develop
data sharing system and provide services. As of
December 31, the total number of services was
3,068 and the data download was 280.45 GB. In
total, 8 briefings and flash reports were provided
to CPJRC, and 1 briefing was provided to
IKCEST. The data and report results werereported to Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the
Department of International Cooperation of theChinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). This
serviceprovidesdata,
technology
andmethodological support for disaster prevention
and mitigation in China-Pakistan Economic
Corridor.
Link:
https://drr.ikcest.org/
knowledge_service/cpec.html
5. On November 20-24, 2022, the International
Training Workshop on Resource & Environment
Scientific Data Sharing and Disaster Risk
Reduction Knowledge Service along the Belt andRoad was successfully held online. Organized by
IKCEST-DRR. This workshop attracted 200
trainees from 40 countries including Pakistan,

Russia, Mongolia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Nepal,
Ghana, Sudan, Egypt, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Iran,
Kenya, Peru, Yemen, Albania, Algeria,
Myanmar, and South Africa. The workshop
involved 27 lectures around topics such as “Datasharing platform architecture and technologies”,“Data governance and processing standards andtechnologies”, “Big data support the regionalsustainable development practices”, “Disasterrisk reduction knowledge service applications”
and “International cooperation on disaster risk
and reduction”, aiming to establish a resource &environment data sharing system, provide databasis for international cooperation and research,and improve regional disaster risk reduction andsustainable development capabilities. Link:
https://drr.ikcest.org/training/training202210.html
6. On December 12, 2022, the Sixth International
Workshop for Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge
Service, organized by IKCEST-DRR, was held
online. The theme of the workshop was "OpenScience and Disaster Risk Reduction Action". The
workshop was webcasted live globally. The Global
Disaster Data Master Directory (GDMD) system,
which is expected to provide a platform on disasterrisk reduction to support the UNESCO
Recommendation on Open Science, was launched
for the first time at the workshop. Link: https://
drr.ikcest.org/meeting/meeting202212.html
7. Award-winning collection of photography, painting
and video works on disaster risk reduction was
carried out. On May 12, 2022, IKCEST-DRR
carriedout
award-winningcollectionofphotography, painting and video works tocommemorate China's 14th National Disaster
Prevention and Mitigation Day.
Link: https://drr.ikcest.org/collect_work/upload

Online Lecture by Mr. Soichiro Yasukawa,
National Sciences Sector, UNESCOGADRI Annual Report 2022 —55

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Award-winning Collection of Pho­tography, Painting and VideoWorks on Disaster Risk Reduction
organized by IKCEST-DRR(1) A monograph published(2）Two awards

Wang Juanle, Bu Kun, Yang Fei. Disaster Risk
Reduction Knowledge Service System [M]. Beijing:
Science Press, 2022

IKCEST-DRR won the Second Prize for Active Push
Services of China Knowledge Center for Engineering
Sciences and Technology for 2022, which was issued
in January 2023.

Cover of Disaster
Risk
Reduction
Knowledge Service
SystemAltansukh
Ochir,
Davaadorj
Davaasuren,
Sonomdagva Chonokhuu, Yezhi Zhou, Min Zhang,
Xiaoming Cao, Mengxu Gao, Junxiang Zhu, Yifan
Li, updatable dataset revealing decade changes inland cover types in Mongolia[J]. figshare, 2022,
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14390912.v1.

IKCEST-DRR won the Outstanding Case Award in theappraisal of active push service cases by China
Knowledge Center for Engineering Sciences andTechnology in 2022, which was issued in January
2023
Outstanding Case Award for Active Push Serviceof China Knowledge Center for Engineering
Sciences•

Sajjad, M.M.;Wang, J.;Abbas, H.; Ullah, I.; Khan,
R.; Ali, F.Impact of Climate and Land-Use Change
on Groundwater Resources,Study of FaisalabadDistrict, Pakistan.Atmosphere 2022, 13, 1097.
https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13071097•

Xinrong Yan, Juanle Wang, Xiaotong Liu, Hongyu
Zhao, Yuxin Wu, Mining the drivers of forest coverchange in the upper Indus Valley, high Asia region
from 1990 to 2020,Ecological Indicators, Volume144,2022,109566,ISSN
1470-160X,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109566.

•

Yan, X.; Wang, J. The Forest Change Footprint of
the Upper Indus Valley, from 1990 to 2020.
Remote
Sens.
2022,
14,
744.
https://
doi.org/10.3390/rs14030744•

Zhang, M.; Wang, J. Trend Analysis of Global
Disaster Education Research Based on Scientific
Knowledge Graphs. Sustainability 2022, 14,1492.https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031492•

HONG Mengmeng, WANG Juanle, HAN Baomin.
2022. Spatial and Temporal Pattern Changes andDriving
Forces: Analysis of Salinizationin the Yellow River
Delta from 2015 to2020. Journal of
ResourcesandEcology, 13(5): 786–
796.

(3）10 academic papers published
•

•

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•

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Han, X.; Wang, J*. Modelling and Analyzing the
Semantic Evolution of Social Media User
Behaviors During Disaster Events: A Case Studyof COVID-19. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2022, 11,373.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11070373
Zhang, M.;Wang, J*. Global Flood Disaster
Research Graph Analysis Based on Literature
Mining. Appl. Sci. 2022, 12, 3066. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12063066
Zhou, Y.;Wang, J. *; Grigorieva, E.; Li, K.
Dissecting theMutual Response of Potential
Evapotranspiration with Vegetation Cover/Land
Use over Heilongjiang River Basin, China. Water
2022, 14, 814. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14050814
Zhou, Y. Z., Wang, J. L., Li, K. Dataset of effective
temperature sum in the Sino-Russian cross borderregion of Heilongjiang River Basin (2002-2020) [J].
Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery, 2022,6(3):471–482.
https://doi.org/10.3974/
geodp.2022.03.18.
https://cstr.escience.org.cn/
CSTR:20146.14.2022.03.18.
Juanle Wang, Haishuo Wei, Kai Cheng, Yating
Shao, Jinyi Yao, Yuxin Wu, Xuehua Han,GADRI Annual Report 2022 —56

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College of Architecture and Environment
Sichuan University (SCU), China
http://www.acem.scu.edu.cn/index.htm

1. Post-earthquake
Earthquake

investigationof

Luding

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake occurred on Sep. 5, 2022,
in Luding, Sichuan, China. After Consultation with thelocal authority department, Prof. Kaoshan Daiorganized a post-earthquake investigation with his
research group members. This investigation collectedrich information on the damage to the conventional
structural systems and base isolation systems, which
provides valuable first-hand data for the teaching andscientific research of earthquake resistance anddisaster prevention of building structures.
(https://acem.scu.edu.cn/info/1004/10993.htm)

2. Special Symposium of EASEC-17 - Seismic
Resilient Structures
An online special symposium on "Seismic Resilient
Structures" will be organized and chaired by Prof.
SongyeZhu（TheHong
Kong
Polytechnic
University）, Prof. Ying Zhou (Tongji University), andProf. Bin Wang (Sichuan University) on June 28, 2022,
SGT 13:30 – 18:45 (EASEC-17). There are 14 lectures

Prof. Bin Wang visits the Steel Structures Researchand Design Group of the University of Patras, Greece.
The research work is supported by the European
Commission through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions Fellowship.
(https://www.cebinwang.com/post/dr-wang-visits-theuniversity-of-patras)
4. Special Issue of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs)
for Structural Engineering
Prof. Elyas Ghafoori (Leibniz University Hannover),Prof. Bassem Andrawes (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign), and Prof. Bin Wang (Sichuan
University) organized this Special Issue in Engineering
Structures. This Special Issue has collected 30 highquality research articles that can be categorized into
three different groups: material and mechanicalbehavior of SMAs, shape memory effect of SMAs forprestressing and strengthening of structures, and SMA-based devices for energy dissipation and selfcentering earthquake-resilient structures.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/engineeringstructures/special-issue/10M2P1PZ45T )in this session.
(https://www.cebinwang.com/
post/specialsymposium-ofeasec-17-seismic-resilientstructures)
3.

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Prof. Kaoshan Dai
Chair
E-mail: kdai@scu.edu.cn

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Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction,
Sichuan University (SCU), China
http://www.idmr.scu.edu.cn/index.htm

Monitoring equipment installed by IDMR
in Lushan County

In 2022, with a generous donation from theHong Kong Jockey Club, IDMR officiallystarted the construction of a third majorbuilding. The total construction area is about
8400 square meters, and the new building will
include 16 advanced laboratories, mainly
covering the fields of geological disasters,
water-related
disasters,
post-disasterenvironmental management, urban disasters
and resilience, disaster information systems
and emergency response.

IDMR has continued to develop its “Sichuan
Provincial
Emergency
Management
Department-Sichuan
University
Comprehensive Disaster Reduction ResearchCenter". The center is a provincial key lab
established under the leadership of IDMR andwith the collaboration of multiple other colleges
and schools at Sichuan University in 2021.
This year the center has upgraded its
Integrated DRR Information Service Platform,by expanding its disaster database andenhancing functions such as disasteremergency monitoring and response. The

Center collaborated closely with the province
on response to multiple disasters in Sichuan in
2022 and is engaged deeply with provincial
authorities on comprehensive risk mapping in
our province.
IDMR has successfully developed and tested
new technologies for geological disaster early
warning based on vibration monitoring. The
new technology has been installed and appliedin demonstration areas in Sichuan Province,such as Lushan County of Ya’an City and XideCounty of Liangshan Prefecture.

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Prof. Gretchen Kalonji
DeanE-mail: Gretchen.kalonji@qq.com

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IDMR team in Lushan after a 6.1 earthquake in June
2022

IDMR team in Luding after
earthquake in September 2022

Entrusted by the Sichuan Provincial Committee ofDisaster Reduction, IDMR has actively organizedefforts to participate in the relief work after
earthquakes and mountain torrents, including the
6.1 Lushan Earthquake on June 1 and 6.8 Luding
Earthquake on September 5. Professors andstudents of IDMR visited disaster area for manytimes, supporting the smooth development of theearthquake loss assessment and reconstruction
work in the disaster areas. As a result, IDMR has
submitted several decision-making consultation
reports based on the investigations to theprovincial government as scientific advice.

IDMR successfully hosted or co-organized many
international conferences in 2022, including. the“International Scientific Symposium on Disaster
Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development: In
Memory of the Wenchuan Earthquake of May 12,
2008”. IDMR in 2022 co-organized multiple otherconferences, including: the 4th World Science andTechnology
Development
Forum(http://
wstdf.melinked.com/#/home),
International
Conference on Multi-Hazard Early Warning
System(MHEWS)(http://www.schkh.gov.cn/
index.php), the 6th International Workshop for
Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service(https://drr.ikcest.org/meeting/meeting202212.html).

associated with the Chinese Academy of
Sciences, particularly the Alliance of International
Science Organizations on Disaster Risk
Reduction(ANSO-DRR),(http://www.ansodrr.com/) and with UNESCO. We also continued
to work closely with the U-INSPIRE Alliance, on
the roles of youth and young professionals in
disaster research (https://uinspirealliance.org/).
Notable activities in 2022 include the meeting of
the G20 in Bali, at which, together with theIndonesian
government
and
our
HELP
colleagues, IDMR contributed to a “Special
Session for G20 leaders on ‘Building Back
Stronger from Impacts of COVID-19, Climate
Change, and Disasters – Actions towards Quality
Society’” (https://www.wateranddisaster.org/helpmessage-to-g20-leaders-launched-in-bali/). IDMR
also chaired a “High-level Panel Discussion 2:
Nusantara - sustainable and resilient new capitalof Indonesia” (https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1s/
k1s7608swz).
WorkingwithIndonesiancolleagues, and with other international partners,on the exciting initiative of this new capital city willremain a high priority for IDMR for 2023.

IDMR continued to focus on its leadership workwith international alliances, including with the High
-Level Experts and Leaders Panel on Waters andDisasters(HELP
https://
www.wateranddisaster.org/), for which we hostthe Secretariat of the Alliance of Alliances on
Research and Education on Water and Disasters(the AoA);
theInternational
ResearchCenter
on
Big
Data
for
the
Sustainable Development Goals(CBAS
http://www.cbas.ac.cn/en/), with other initiatives

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Prof. Gretchen Kalonji hosting a highlevel panel discussion at the HELP G20
SpecialEvent,
Bali
Indonesia,
November 11, 2022

In terms of talent development at IDMR, wewere successful in attracting several new faculty
members to join our institute: 2 at the Associate
Professor level and 3 at the Postdoctoral Level.
Their expertise ranges from flood and drought
disaster risk management to emergency
evacuation management, to post-disaster water
quality remediation,

Continuing to develop our research-based
interdisciplinary disaster sciences curriculum
was a major focus of IDMR in 2022. We
continued to refine our Master’s and PhD
programs in “Safety Science and Disaster
Reduction. In parallel we made progress in our
3-yearresearch-based
undergraduate
innovation class, a program open to all majors at
Sichuan University., in which students work inteams on various interdisciplinary challenges,
ranging from disaster health sciences to earthsciences, to water, disaster and culture, to postdisaster environmental management. We also
continued to develop our disaster nursing
master program in collaboration with the Hong
Kong Polytechnic University, the only programof its type in China – 40 masters students wereenrolled in this program in 2022. In addition, we
continued to develop our work on short-term
disaster training programs as part of our
responsibility of hosting the Chinese Ministry of
Education’s National Training Base for Youth
Education on Disaster Risk Reduction andEmergency Management.

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Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management(CoEDMM), IIT, Roorkee, India
http://www.iitr.ac.in

The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigationand Management (CoEDMM) Indian Institute ofTechnology Roorkee was awarded with sevenresearch projects during the year 2022 on
Development of a Prototype Territorial Early
Warning System for Precipitation Induced
Sediment Disasters (i.e. Landslides andDebris Flows) (~US$ 45000) PI: Prof. S.
Srikrishnan-Core
Faculty
CoEDMM,
Avalanche Hazard Zoning and Forecastingof Snow Avalanche using the Machine andDeep Learning Approaches (~US$ 45000) PI:
Prof. Ajanta Goswami-Joint Faculty CoEDMM,
An Early Warning System to Improve
Adaptive Capabilities and Resilience ofVulnerable Himalayan Communities toExtreme Rainfall and Flooding (~US$ 43000)
PI: Prof. Sumit Sen-Head & Joint Faculty
CoEDMM, Development of Resilience
Programs for Six States of NE Region ofIndia and Himachal Pradesh (~US$ 43000)
PI: Prof. Subir Sen-Joint Faculty CoEDMM,
Improved Representation of Surface Layer
Parameterizations in Weather Research andForecasting model (~US$ 42000), LENS:
Longitudinal Survey for Natural Hazards(~US$ 9000) PI: Prof. Roopam Shukla-Core
Faculty CoEDMM, and Low Carbon building
project (~ US$ 6000) PI: Prof. Harshit LakraJoint Faculty CoEDMM.

ceremony. Prof. Piyush Srivastava wasawarded a visiting research fellow positionat the University of Leeds, UK. Prof. Roopam
Shukla has been appointed as the Editor ofCommunity Science Journal.
Prof. B.K. Maheshwari Joint Faculty CoEDMM,
and Dr. R.K. Bhandari, Ex- Visiting Faculty,
CoEDMM and Member-Convenor of Disaster
Management Committee (G6 for term 2018-21)of the Indian Road Congress (IRC) published a
SPECIAL REPORT “STATE OF THE ART:DESIGN OF SAFER HIGHWAYS BASED ON
LESSONS FROM PAST EARTHQUAKES”
during the 81st Annual Session of IRC held at
Lucknow on October 8, 2022 in the presence of
the Union Minister for Road Transport &Highways and the Chief Minister of Uttar
Pradesh.
Mr. Sudhanshu Dixit was awarded theprestigious Prime
Minister's Research
Fellows (PMRF) Scheme. Ms. Annie Singla
PhD student of the Centre received the EGU
student award at EGU 2022. Mr. Akshat
Vashistha was awarded the AGU 2022
student travel grant.

Prof. Anil Gourishetty, Joint Faculty, CoEDMM
was awarded Sanskritvrati award by theCentral Sanskrit University, New Delhi, India.
Prof. B. K. Maheshwari, Joint Faculty,
CoEDMM was awarded the prestigious John
Booker Medal, the third highest accolade of
the International Association of Computer
Methods and Advances in Geomechanics(IACMAG). Prof. Kamal Jain Joint Faculty,
CoEDMM and his student team was awarded
Best Concept + Best
Prototype in the Vivo
Ignite Science andInnovation
award

Prof. Sumi Sen
Director
E-mail: head@dm.iitr.ac.in

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The Centre hosted events i.e., Disaster
Management Knowledge Frontiers (Seminar
Series), Disaster Management Action Frontiers(International Field Expeditions), Prof. Jai
Krishna Memorial Lecture (JKML), andForecasting and Early Warning of Extreme
Events and Disasters (FORESEED 2022).
The Centre organized a special session in IDRiM
2022 titled “Resilience and risk management
dialogue among stakeholders for scienceinformed resilience planning in the Himalayan
Mountains”.

Prof Mahua Mukherjee, Joint Faculty and ExHead CoEDMM participated in the Asia Pacific
Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk
Reduction (APMCDRR) Brisbane, Australia, held
on 19-23 September 2022. Click here for a
detailed report.
Prof S. Srikrishnan and Dr Pankaj Kumar,
CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee presented in the 10th
IDRiM Café Talk, titled “Early Warning System
and South Asia Disaster Scenario” on 31
October 2022.

Prof. B. K. Maheshwari, Joint Faculty, CoEDMM IIT Roorkee was awarded theprestigious John Booker Medal, the third highest accolade of the International
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South Asia Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (SAADRI),
India
https://www.saadri.net/

Figure 1 Low
Carbon Build­ing
Project,
JanuaryMarch 2022

1. SAADRI-UKADR meeting, 18 January 2022
The SAADRI-UKADR meeting was held on a virtual
platform on 18th January 2022. The Meeting provided
an opportunity to understand the basic structure ofworking of the two Alliances•

Common ground finding: Institutional partners,
Focus on knowledge products, Adaptation
Research, Implementation Science, and Sendai
Framework are some of the common areas found•Motivating activities of the UKADR- Influence on
government policies, International Research focus,
Strong Partner Universities, Champions in subject
areas

•

Motivating activities of the SAADRI- attracting local
experts to address regional needs; cascading
hazard, 5 Working Groups with specific focus areas•

Areas to Collaborate through MoU:•

Cross-learning on areas like Influencing
government on Policy and implementation; andWorking Group formation•

Working towards instituting an umbrella
SAADRI-UKADR Fellowship Program which
will provide exchange opportunities to Disastermanagers, early-career and other researchers,
policymakers, etc.

•

ActionResearch
collaborations
SAADRI-UKADR members
•

among

Curriculum development tobring interest among theyoung population in

DRR.
2.
Low Carbon
January- March 2022

building

Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (SAADRI), the Centreof Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management(COEDMM), and the Department of Architecture andPlanning (DAP), IIT Roorkee.
The Project became part of a global initiative under the
Women of the World (WoW) gender grant and is acollaborative initiative undertaken by women students,
alumni of architecture, design, and related professionsof various institutions to build zero-carbon bamboo
buildings.
Globally the partners of the Project on a zero-carbon
bamboo building are BRAC University Bangladesh,
Heritage Foundation Pakistan, and the University ofGlasgow, UK. Twenty-five schools and organizations
across the globe including IIT Roorkee haveparticipated in this event.
3. Participation in the 4th Asia Pacific Science
Technology Conference, 07 - 08, April 2022.
SAADRI participated and co-organized TechnicalSession 4: Cities, Climate Change, and Criticalinfrastructure in the 4th Asia Pacific Science
Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction(APSTCDRR 2022) held in Manila, Philippines from07th to 08th, Apr 2022.
4. Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference for Disaster
Risk Reduction (APMCDRR), 19-23 September
2022.
Members from SAADRI participated in the Asia Pacific
Ministerial Conference for Disaster
Risk
Reduction(APMCDRR)
Brisbane, Australia, held on 19-23
SeptemberProf. Mahua Mukherjee
2022.

project,

Secretary-GeneralE-mail: saadri@iitr.ac.in

Low Carbon building project held at IIT Roorkee is acombined initiative of the South Asian Alliance of
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Professor
Rajib
ShawSAADRI
Board Member, Dr
Amod Dixit –Lead
Coordinatorfor
SAADRI
Working
Group I, Dr. Shobha
PoudelDeputy
Lead Coordinator of
SAADRI Working Group V Member, many SAADRI
well-wishers, and Regional and Global experts anddisaster managers participated in the same.
•

Participation in the “Science and Technology
Stakeholder Meeting”•

Working Session: Scaling up, scaling out andscaling deep: Innovations in Disaster Risk
Management

Link for detailed report: https://saadri.net/public/
forms/40723_SAADRI%20at%20APMCDRR%
20Brisbane.pdf

Coordinators from the five Working Groups ofSAADRI were the panelists.

Website: https://iitr.ac.in/iddrr2022/
7. SAADRI Second BoD meeting, 19 November
2022
The second Board of Directors (BoD) meeting(online) of the SAADRI was held on 19 November
2022 (Saturday) at 03:30 IST.
•

Establishing a membership fee was suggested
and the proposed Fees are INR 4000 (US 50$)for Individual members and INR 1000 (US 15$)
for Student members were agreed upon by themembers.

•

The initiative of society registration of SAADRI
under the Societies of Registration Act, 1860
was welcomed by the members.

•

The SAADRI Young Professional Platform (YPP)
was introduced to the members. This is aplatform for young professionals to include
innovative approaches in SAADRI’s activities.

•

The proposal for a new Working Group – WG VI– titled ‘Climate Change Impact on Environmentand Health’ was approved by the BoD members.

•

Proposal for the Constitution of SAADRI
Executive Committee (SEC) was approved. The
executive committee will be an implementationcommittee that will be dealing with policy
matters, international relations, funds, andcampaigns and put them before the BoD.

•

The BoD members decided on the developmentof a quarterly SAADRI Newsletter.

5. Journal article published, 20 September 2022
The first journal article from SAADRI’s collaboration
titled “Nature-Based Resilience: Experiences of Five
Cities from South Asia” was developed by ‘WG V:
Nature-Based Resilience (NbR)’ and published in theInternational Journal of Environmental Research andPublic Health, on 20 September 2022.

Articlepdf
Link:
https://saadri.net/public/
forms/47430_Journal%20publication_Nature-Based%
20Resilience_Experiences%20of%20Five%20Cities%
20from%20South%20Asia.pdf
6. Disaster Management Action Frontiers, 10 -13
October 2022.
SAADRI along with the Centre of Excellence inDisaster Management, IIT Roorkee organized
Disaster Management Action Frontiers, 10th October
2022 – 13th October 2022.
•

Field Expeditions: In-situ observation andunderstanding of different types of landslides inand around Tehri.

•

A panel discussion on “Action Frontiers of WGsof SAADRI” was organized in which the five Lead

8. Critical Writing Workshop, 13 December 2022
A Critical Writing Workshop for Young Professionals
in the field of Disaster Management was held online
on 13 December 2022 at 8:30 am (IST). The
workshop was co-organized by SAADRI, U-INSPIRE
Alliance, BRIN (National Research and Innovation
Agency of Indonesia), and Keio University- India
Japan lab. The workshop was aimed at capacity
building
ofYoung
DisasterManagement
Professionals.

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International Institute of Earthquake Engineering andSeismology (IIEES)
Iran
http://ww.iiees.ac.ir/en/

In 2022, the following activities were undertaken:•

Organization of workshop on Urban
Resiliencethrough
Applied
Systems
Analysis in cooperation with IIASA and INSF•

Development of IEES building
functions for Iranian buildings•

Development of resilient model for theelectric grid and thermal power plants.

fragility•

Organizing 24th National Earthquake and
Safety Drill;•

Developing earthquake fatality estimation
model for Iran;•Design of emergency and temporary shelter
standards for Iran;•Earthquake risk–management model forhistoric commercial urban fabrics;•

Disaster preparedness and response
capacity-building for women and vulnerable
groups;•Developing probabilistic earthquake loss
model;•

Design of earthquake insurance pool modeland toolbox•

Development of system model for safe andaffordable housing;•

Study of flood triggered landslides in Iran;•••

Practical Guidelines for CBOs and NGOs'
Participation in Disaster Risk Management;
Comprehensive earthquake preparedness
education plan for children with special
needs and disabilities;
Modeling of earthquake resilience in urban
fabrics;

Prof. Mohsen
Ghafory-Ashtiany
E-mail:ashtiany@iiees.ac.ir

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International Institute of Earthquake Engineering andSeismology (IIEES)
Iran
http://ww.iiees.ac.ir/en/
Regional Education and Research Center on Earthquake Risk Management andResilience for West and Central Asia under the auspices of UNESCO

The countries located in West and Central Asia havebeen, throughout their history, exposed todevastating natural hazards with geophysical orhydro-metrological origins. Of most important perils
that have affected these countries over the past
decades, earthquakes could be distinguished. Inorder to respond and enhance the degree of
preparedness for the impacts of earthquakes,
different measures have been taken into account by
national and local governments by now. However,there are still many activities that should be
addressed for capacity building in these countries forearthquake risk mitigation and management.
To assist the countries in the region for Disaster Risk
Reduction (DRR) and Disaster Risk Management(DRM), the "Regional Education and ResearchCenter on Earthquake Risk Management andResilience for West and Central Asia under the
auspices of UNESCO" was officially established in
November 2022, after long-term national andinternational procedures. In this line, during 2021 and
2022, a feasibility study carried out by the Center toevaluate the needs of member states for developing
regional earthquake monitoring systems (REMS) andQuick Damage and Loss Estimation (QD&LE). Thisis a priority activity for improving the emergency

response. QD&LE by providing an initial estimation of
fatalities and severity of damages helps the disastermanagement authorities to appropriately allocate
available resources. This issue has significant impact
on reducing the number of deaths and secondary
damages especially in the first 24 hours after the
event (The Golden Time). For instance after the
1999, Kocaeli, Turkey earthquake, the central
government was not aware of the severity and scaleof the damage until several hours after the event. In
Rudbar-Manjil 1990, Iran earthquake, the search andrescue teams were unaware about the most affectedsites for some days, due to initial false information
provided regarding epicenter of the event anddifficulties in identification of damaged area. Theseissues caused further casualties and irreversible
socio-economic consequences. Similar issues arereported about Bam, Iran Earthquake (2003), Spitak,
Armenia Earthquake (1988), Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Earthquake (1948) and many other events.

Assoc. Prof. Kambod Amini
Hosseini
E-mail: kamini@iiees.ac.ir

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In that study, some research institutes fromArmenia, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Iran,
Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Turkey wereparticipated. Within the framework of that study,
the creation of a cloud-based platform forcollection and analysis of data was considered tofacilitate a deeper understanding of risk andspeedier and more efficient targeting of
beneficiaries in the disaster affected areas. The
results of that project were published to shows theexisting gaps and outline the future plans toaddress the needs.
In addition, two regional workshops and somebilateral meetings were also organized in 2022.
The main goals of the workshops and meetings
can be summarized as follows:•necessary plans for reducing earthquake
casualties and damages;•

Needs assessment for disaster risk mitigationand management in the region and prioritize
the necessary interventions;•Sharing knowledge and experiences for DRM
and DRR to prepare a platform on capacity
building in the region.

In 2023, considering the official start for theactivities of the Center, it is expected that theCenter implements more researches andeducational programs in the region. In thiscontext, several workshops and training courses
are planned to be organize by presence of
relevant institutions in Iran and other countries.

Strengthening collaborations among therelevant institutions in the region to prepare

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Natural Disasters Research Institute (NDRI)
Iran
http://www.en.ndri.ac.ir

In 2022, Natural Disasters Research Institute (NDRI)
mainlyemphasized
expandinginternational
cooperation with UN offices and international institutes.
The NDRI actively participated in the IMIRA (IranianMultisector Initial Rapid Assessment) Draft Committee
and the meetings of the UN Sustainable Development
Framework, UNSDCF (2023-2027). Moreover, The
Secretariat of the National Platform for Disaster Risk
Reduction in the Islamic Republic of Iran wasestablished in the NDRI.
1-MoU between NDRI and UNOCHA-ROMENAThis memorandum of understanding was signed incoordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of theIslamic Republic of Iran during the Earthquake
Preparedness Exercise on June 20, 2022, in thepresence of members of the United Nations Disaster
Management Group, United Ntions Agencies, Ministryof Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health and Medical
Education,
National
DisasterManagement
Organization, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic
Republic of Iran, Tehran Disaster Prevention andManagement
Organization,
NaturalDisasterPrevention and Disaster Research Institute and theUnited Nations Resident Coordinator for Iran Mr.
Priesner.
This Memorandum of Understanding aims to provide aframework for joint scientific, educational, andexecutive cooperation and determine specific working
arrangements between the parties to establish an
official
communication
channelforeffective
cooperation on common disaster management
preparedness and emergency response issues.

are carried out in three main sections: pre-warning andpreparedness before flooding, coping during theoccurrence, and reconstruction and rehabilitation after
flooding. In the pre-warning and preparedness stage
before flooding, flood prediction and warning, one of
the high-performance non-structural methods, plays anessential role in informing human societies before
flooding.
(https://en.ndri.ac.ir/IDDRR-2022-meeting)

3- the National
Reduction of Iran

Platformfor

Disaster

Risk

The first meeting of the National Platform for Disaster
Risk Reduction of the Islamic Republic of Iran washeld in 2022, headed by Mohammad Hassan Nami,
Head of National Disaster Management Organization(NDMO), with the subject of raising the national
Platform's code and organizational Structure, anddiscussions on the establishment of specializedcommittees in the NDRI were held.
The head of NDRI and UNESCO Chair in Disaster
Management described the draft of the code andorganizational structure of the National Platform andexpressed that the draft structure has been revised
according to the country's disaster management law
approved in 2019 and has been amended by theobjectives of the National Strategy Document and theopinions obtained from a group of experts.
(https://en.ndri.ac.ir/national-assembly-for-disasterrisk-reduction-04)(https://en.ndri.ac.ir/MoU-OCHA-ROMENA-NDRI)
2- International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction

A special meeting on International Day for Disaster
Risk Reduction was held on October 12, 2022.
According to this year's tagline of International Day,
Reza Roozbahani, research deputy of the Water
Research Institute, outlined the national flood
monitoring and forecasting systems. At first, while
enumerating the importance of water and thenproviding statistics on floods in the country, he
expressed: In recent years, the combined use ofstructural and non-structural methods to manage andreduce flood risks has been expanded in many
countries of the world. Flood management and control

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4- Disaster Management plans for Tehran
Regarding the preparation of disaster management
plans for Tehran with the responsibility of Tehran
Municipality, in December of 2022, the agreement(contract) between the heads, deputies, andmanagers of Tehran Disaster Mitigation andManagement Organization (TDMMO) and the
NDRI was signed to develop three disastermanagement plans including a disaster risk
reduction plan for 5 priority hazards, preparedness
and response plan and reconstruction andrehabilitation plan of Tehran.

The training course "Risk management in Italy &the civil protection plan of Pavia province" was held
on November 29, 2022 by the NDRI and Urban
Planning Laboratory (UPLAB)-Pavia University,with the presentation of Professor Roberto De
Lotto (Director of the UPLAB) and Dr. Elisabetta
Venco (Fellow Researcher at the UPLAB). It was
highlighted that the city is a system, and it is acomplex system.
(https://en.ndri.ac.ir/unesco-chair-Lecture-26-news)(https://ndri.ac.ir/Tehran-DM-Planning-02)
5-Joint webinar with Pavia University, Italy

Joint webinar with Pavia University, Italy

International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction

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Israel National Knowledge and Research Center for
Emergency Readiness
University of Haifa, Israel
http://www.muchanut.haifa.ac.il

The National Knowledge and Research Center for
Emergency Preparedness was established in
January 2018 with 90 researchers divided among 8
disciplinary research teams: Law; Public Policy;
Social Science; Public Health and Emergency
Medicine; Welfare and Social Work; Engineering,Technology and Planning; Risk Assessment andManagement; and Environment. The research at
the Center in 2022 focused on projects in theaftermath and lessons learned from COVID-19:•

Continued research on the Impact of COVID19 on Well-being in Israel•

The role of local authorities and the way they
coped with the challenges of the pandemic•

Answering a request from the National
Emergency Management Agency, the Centeris preparing a literature review and summary ofnational plans and programs for mitigating
outcomes of heat waves and floods•

Measuring resilience: indicator-based tool formeasuring regional resilience in localities in
Israel (focused on population under security
threat in the Gaza strip) for the Prime
Minister’s Office•

A new project started in 2023: Regulatory and
Policy Frameworks for a Mid and Long-term
Recovery after a Major Earthquake

As in previous years, the Center holds weekly
seminar talks (most are in Hebrew), all are
streamlined on Facebook, recorded and uploaded
to YouTube.
A full list of the talks is available on our website
here:
https://muchanut.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/
eventsWebinar presenting the latest research at theCenter:
Evaluating the Success of Local Authorities in
Israel in Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 (Prof.
Itai Beeri)

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2021-2022 selected publications:•••Feitelson, E., Plaut, P., Salzberger, E.,
Shmueli, D., Altshuler, A., Ben-Gal, M., Israel,F., Rein-Sapir, Y. & Zaychik, D. (2022). The
Effects of COVID-19 on Wellbeing: Evidence
from Israel. Sustainability, 14(7), 3750.
Feitelson, E., Plaut, P., Salzberger, E.,
Shmueli, D., Altshuler, A., Amir, S., & BenGal, M. (2022). Learning from Others’
Disasters? A Comparative Study of SARS/MERS and COVID-19 Responses in Five
Polities. International Journal of Disaster Risk
Reduction, 74, 102913.
Lewin, A.C., Shamai, M. & Novikov, S.
Surviving in Crisis Mode: The Effect ofMaterial Hardship and Social Support on
Emotional Wellbeing Among People in
Poverty During COVID-19. Soc Indic
Res(2022).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-022-03011-7•

Mizrahi, S., Ben-Eliyahu, A., Cohen, N., Hertz,
U., Miller-Mor, R., Mishor, F. & Vigoda-Gadot,
E. (2022). Public management during a crisis:
when are citizens willing to contribute to
institutional emergency preparedness? Public
Management
Review,
1-25.
DOI:
10.1080/14719037.2022.2042727•

Mizrahi, S., Vigoda‐Gadot, E., & Cohen, N.
(2021). How well do they manage a crisis?

The government's effectiveness during theCovid‐19 pandemic. Public Administration
Review, 81(6), 1120-1130•

Negev, M., Zohar, M., & Paz, S. (2022).
Multidimensional hazards, vulnerabilities, andperceived risks regarding climate change andCovid-19 at the city level: An empirical study
from Haifa, Israel. Urban Climate, 43, 101146.

•

Newman Cohen, A. & Fishhendler, I. (2022).
An archetype for insurance thresholds for
extreme natural events in the agricultural
sector. Climate Risk Management, 36,
100434.

•

Vigoda-Gadot, E., Mizrahi, S., Cohen, N. et
al. (2023). Citizens’ reactions to global crises:
a longitudinal study during the COVID-19
pandemic in Israel. SN Soc Sci 3, 24 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023-00610-0•

Zohar, M. (2021). Geolocating tweets via
spatial inspection of information inferred fromtweet meta-fields. International Journal ofAppliedEarthObservation
andGeoinformation,
105,
102593.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102593

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Department of Climate Change

Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, Lao PDR
http://www.monre.gov.la/home/
Lao PDR is a landlocked country location inSoutheast Asia, bordering with China, Myanmar,
Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. The total area
covers approximately 236,800 Km 2, comprising awide range of natural resources and ecosystems
within varying levels of elevation. The country is
about 6,2% mountains topography of the total landarea, but the western border largely flow along the
Mekong River basin.

This is also central for agriculture economic
production because of the fertility of the river valleys.
Due to the Tropical Typhoon setting in every year,
the country is also exposed to a range of disasterhazard such as droughts, flood, storm, extreme
weather, earthquake and epidemics. In 2022 there
were more tropical storms and typhoons, drought
and flood in many part of country. Hence, the Floodand flat flood cases were more affected to thelivelihood and economic especially in southern andnorthern parts.
In terms of climate change theestimated projections for temperature rise is on
increase of 1 to 2 degrees and precipitation is likely
to increase by 10 to 30% (DMH report in 2022).
However, the country has not been considered to bea significant contributor to the on-going change,rather quite the contrary, and the widespread forests
are important carbon sinks in the region. Yet, Lao
PDR is expected to be among the most heavily
affected by climate change.
Nowadays, the National risk profile of Lao PDR has
identified seven major hazards which include storm,
flood, drought, landslide, earthquake, epidemic andunexploded. Therefore the Lao Government isseeing significant to urgent update system for hydrometeorological to be helping information to identify
on hazards and climate change, exposure, Socioeconomic vulnerability, future of disaster risk, include
to disaster risk reduction and climate change
adaptation. Base in practice and implementation fordisaster risk reduction and climate change the Laogovernment is following commitment the Sendai
framework for DRR (UNSDR) and Paris Agreement
for Climate Change (UNFCC). At the moment Lao
Government had understood the both framework andrecommendation that must be integrated into eachperiod on the National Social and Economic
Development to be ensure in policy, law, legislations,strategy, planning and implementing.

Challenges
As the pace of climate change increases, country
across the globe will have to increase funding andefforts to adequately mitigate the climate change
impacts and to avoid the worst case scenarios.
Sustaining agriculture and wellbeing of people in Lao
PDR will form challenges by mid-century unlessadequate mitigation strategies for water scarcity andagriculture production are identified. Also centerurban area of city should be concerning on flood risk
and climate change.
While the country is pursuing green economic
growth, Lao PDR also aimed to ensure thatdevelopment intervention and profit oriented
activities will not increase pressure on land, water,
environment and natural resource. However, limiting
tradeoff between development gains and DRR andclimate resilience is anticipated as key challenge forthe years to come. While this seems to becontradicting with the land control and monitor
development form disaster risk perspective has to be
formulated and strictly applied with tools such as
land use zoning, spatial planning, EIA integrated
Strategic Environment Assessment as well assustainable resource management.
For DRR remains unexplored. Untapped potential of
ecological function for flood and drought risk
reduction could be given more attention government
has a unique role to play in facilitating consultativeand people participatory process combining
technically sound practices wisdom and way of life
for the utmost benefit of immediate communities andvulnerable populations.

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Ms. Ms. Sonephet
PHOSALATH
Director
E-mail: sonephet.9999@gmail.com

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Institute for Environment and Development(LESTARI-UKM)
University of Kabangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
https://www.ukm.my/lestari/en/

Field survey at Baling

Condition of
Kupang river

Damaged crops

In this 2022 report, the Institute for Environment andDevelopment (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia (UKM) reports 2 selected activities, as be­low:(a) Field Survey at Baling
On July 4, 2022, a debris and mud flood occurred inseveral villages located along the Kupang river near
Baling, state of Kedah, Malaysia. A report by the
Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (KeTSA)
Malaysia states that the flood claimed three lives
and destroyed a total of 17 houses. The flood also
affected the local community in which they lost
about RM25.91 million of their property. In this re­gard, a total of six researchers from LESTARI, led
by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saiful Arif Abdullah had conduct­
ed a field survey to the area on 23-27 September
2022. Other LESTARI researchers involved were
Assoc.Prof. Dr. Sharina Abdul Halim, Assoc. Prof.
Dr. Tanot Unjah, Dr. Rospidah Ghazali, Dr. Nor­diana Mohd Idris and Dr. Lim Chouan Sian.

very significant to the landscape of the affected are­as along the Kupang river and the villagers in termsof their well-being and survival. The landscapealong the riverbank has completely changed fromthe original state. Many areas of the agricultural
crops or small farms have been destroyed. Throughthe interview, the villagers stated that the situation
has affected their source of income. They also em­
phasized the need for the short- and long-term
measures to deal and mitigate the situation. With
these findings LESTARI will build a scientific basis
in dealing with and improving the current situation in
the area by publishing a technical report that to beshared with related stakeholders especially the local
authorities.

The objective of this field survey is tounderstand the current situationof the affected area and theimpact on the villag­
ers in terms of their wellbeing due to the flood.
The survey includes
direct observation at the site, interviews with thevillagers and discussions with the local authorities.
Based on the survey, it was found that the impact is
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Assoc. Prof. ChM Dr. Goh
Choo Ta
Director
E-mail: gohchoota@ukm.edu.my

GADRI Annual Report — Asia(b) Publication related to Technological Disaster
The Occupational Safety and Health (Control ofIndustrial Major Accident Hazards) Regulations 1996
(also known as CIMAH 1996) in Malaysia wasgazzeted to prevent occurrence of major accidents
hazards. Due to international and national initiatives,
such as development of the Globally Harmonised
System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals(GHS) and the gazettement of Occupational Safety
and Health (Classification, Labelling and Safety Data
Sheets of Hazardous Chemicals) Regulations 2013
(also known as CLASS 2013), it is timey to revise
CIMAH 1996. In this regard, Department ofOccupational Safety and Health Malaysia (DOSH) hasawarded a project to UKM Pakarunding, where theproject aims to evaluate and determine (i) indicative
criteria and threshold quantities; and (ii) list ofhazardous substances and threshold quantities, that
may cause major accidents. The approaches adopted
in the project include the desktop review, conduct

surveys among the competent persons for CIMAH
1996, major hazard installations (MHIs) and nonmajor hazard installations (NMHIs), analyse chemical
accidents that occurred in Malaysia and othercountries, conduct quantitative risk assessment(QRA) and stakeholder consultation workshops.
Selected findings from project were published inProcess Safety and Environmental Protection, withthe article title “Prevention of technological disasters:
Adoption of indicative criteria associated with GHS in
regulating major accident hazards”. The article can beaccessed via the URL below (not open access):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/
S0957582022003202

Field survey at Baling
Photos by SA AbdullahInterview session with the villages(b) Publication related to Technological Disaster

Damaged house in one of the affected villages

Screenshot from Science Direct, Elsevier

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Congratulations to Professor Dato’ ChM Dr,
Mazlin Mokhtar on his retirement of. On May
25, 2022, a ceremony took place at the
Putrajaya Palm Garden Hotel organized by theInstitute for Environment and Development(LESTARI). All LESTARI employees, former
LESTARI Directors, and former LESTARI
Deputy Directors were present for thecelebration.
The
ceremony
featured
performances
by
LESTARI
employees,
multimedia screenings, and lucky draws.
Prof. Dr. Mazlin Mokhtar served UKM for 37
years including as Director of LESTARI 20052013 & 2019-2022; Deputy Vice Chancellor for
Research and Innovation Affairs 2014-2017;
Founding Director of Centre for Public &International Relations (PUSPA) 2001-2004;
and Lecturer at UKM Sabah Campus in Kota
Kinabalu, Sabah 1988-1996.
Currently, Prof. Mazlin Mokhtar, is serving as
the Deputy Head (Research), United Nations
Sustainable Development Solutions Network Asia Headquarters (UN SDSN-Asia) at Sunway
University, Malaysia. Prof. Mazlin is also the
Chairman of the Environment
Committee of Academy of
Sciences
Malaysia(ASM);
Memberof
Malaysia's
Environmental Quality
Act's
AppealBoard; and Nomination Committee of theMerdeka Awards (Environment Category); andAdvisory Council Member of Society of Certified
Professionals (SCRP) Malaysia.
He was the Chairman of Malaysia’s
Environmental Quality Council 2015-2018,
Chairman of government appointed committee
reviewing the Lynas Rare Earth operations
2018; Chair of Task Force 2019-2021 on
Advocacy, Awareness & Capacity Building(AACB)
of
Malaysia's
Water
SectorTransformation 2040 under Economic Planning
Unit of Prime Minister's Department; andDeputy Chairman of National Committee for
SOP on Bauxite Mining and Exportation 2019;& International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Research Fellow at the Marine Environment
Laboratory in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 1993. He
was the longest serving member of Malaysia's
UNDP(UnitedNations
Development
Programme) GEF (Global Environment Facility)
SGP (Small Grants' Programme) National
Steering Committee.

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Dr. Lubna Alam
Fellow/Senior Lecturer
E-mail: lubna@ukm.edu.my

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Prof. Mazlin was the winner of the Langkawi Award
2018; and recipient of 2010 best social science FRGS
award by Ministry of Higher Education for his
research on national chemicals management. He wasa member of the Advisory Committee of National
River Care Fund 2014-2022; and WWF Malaysia's
Board of Trustees 2014-2018. He had also been
entrusted to lead several multidisciplinary research
projects sponsored by numerous national andinternational entities via integrated and holistic
approaches for sustainable development, including inimportant geographical areas such as Langkawi the
Jewel
of
Kedah
cum
UNESCO's
GlobalGeopark; UNESCO's APFAST & MUCP, and HELPIHP Programs in Langkawi, Langat River Basin; andPutrajaya Lakes.

Professor Tekeuchi and Dr Srikantha Herath, based
at UNU Tokyo and conducted via partnership withseveral renowned universities including University ofTokyo, Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University,
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Vietnam National
University, Universitas Gadja Mada of Indonesia,
Yeungnam National University of Korea, Perediniya
University of Sri Lanka, University of The Philippines,
and Asian Institute of Technology. Mazlin was also
Leader of the Environmental Risk Management groupof the JSPS VCC's and JSPS Asian Core Programs
2000-2015; and Leader for UKM in the Global
Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI)
network for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
headquartered at DPRI of Kyoto University since2015."

Prof. Mazlin was one of the founding professors of theUnited Nations University (UNU)'s 2010-2015
international training course titled "Building Resilienceto Climate and Ecosystem's Change (BRCC)" led by

Director and Former Director of LESTARI
UKM welcomed Prof. Mazlin

Special performances honouring Prof. Mazlin by
LESTARI members
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Speech of Appreciation by Professor Mazlin

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University of Peshawar

Pakistan
ttp://www.uop.edu.pk/

Achievements in 2022 include:

9. PhD Produced: 3

1. President, Pakistan Geographical
Association

10. MS/MPhil Produced: 10

2. Professor, Department of Geography andGeomatics
3. Chairman, Department of Geography andGeomatics
4. Co-Convener, Advanced Studies &Research Board, Sub-Committee-II
5. Convener: International Conference
organized: 1

6. Convener: National Symposium: 1
7. Convener: Training Workshop: 2

11. Convener: Exhibition: 1
12. MoU Signed: 1
13. Conference/Seminar/workshop attended
as resource person: 13

Research Publications (2022):

1. Papers Published in Journals: 14
2. Book Chapters Published: 4•

Citations: 332

8. Convener: Seminar: 5

Prof. Atta-urRahman
E-mail: atta-urrahman@uop.edu.pk

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Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Unit, Graduate School ofBusiness (GSB), Philippine School of Business Administration(PSBA) – Manila Philippines
https://www.psba.edu

The Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Unit,
Graduate School of Business (GSB), Philippine
School of Business Administration (PSBA), Manila
participated as one of the partner in organizing andholding the International Seminar with a theme of“Disaster Risk Financing awareness towards
Disaster and Climate Change Resiliency” on March
06, 2022 at the Department of City and Regional
Planning, University of Engineering, Lahore,
Pakistan. Prof. Dr. Tabassam Raza represented

Specifically, the seminar aimed to:•

Seek fundamental awareness regarding
Disaster Risk Financing as an important part ofDisaster Risk Management Plan and make it apolicy priority.

•

Have knowledge about on-ground realities andchallenges faced by the institutional agencies
and organizations regarding disaster risk
financing.
• Provide knowledge on how todrive capital towards sustainableclimate change• Raise awareness and thereby
understanding of the impact of disasteron economic stability of a nation.

the PSBA chaired one of the technical sessions of
the seminar. He also participated as one of the
Resource Speaker during the seminar.
The main objective of the International Seminar
was to contribute to make our society resilient by
providing a stage in disaster risk financing. It also
aimed to foster closer ties among diversified
participants and provide an avenue to sharethoughts and exchange of ideas on how businessorganizations and its members can contribute moremeaningfully to resolve disaster-related challenges
faced and opportunities gained by Public Private
Partnership. Further, it was the intention of thisseminar to encourage governments and private
sectors including academia and business
community to adopt sustainable Inclusive Financial
Mechanism by integrating the poor at the core ofrisk management.

Prof. Dr. Tabassam participated as
one of the Winter School Meeting
Chair & Coordinator during the winterschool/conference on “Planning inGermany and Pakistan: Responding to
Challenges of Climate Change throughIntercultural Dialogue”. The winterschool was organized by the
Department of City and Regional
Planning, University of Engineering &Technology, from 17th to 23rd of December
2022. The aimed aims to start and stimulatedialogue between the students and young
academics from Germany and the higher
education institutes in Pakistan.

Prof. Tabassam Raza
Director, DRM Unit & Dean, External
Education, GSB
E-mail: tabassamr@psba.edu

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Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI)
University of Central Asia (UCA), Tajikistan
https://ucentralasia.org/schools/graduate-school-ofdevelopment/mountain-societies-research-instituteSnow avalanches and debris
flows impacting agricultural
fields and villages in northern
Afghanistan.

Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI)
applies scientific expertise to study complex earth
surface and environmental processes that affectmountain societies of Central Asia. MSRI’stransdisciplinary research focuses on improving
livelihoods, managing natural resources, mitigating
the effects of natural hazards and climate change,
and building community resilience in thesechallenging environments. As part of MSRI’s
research for development program, we conduct
training sessions related to climate change, disasterrisk reduction, and sustainable natural resourcesmanagement. Headquartered at University of Central
Asia’s (UCA) Khorog campus in Tajikistan, MSRI
staff also teach classes at the undergraduate Earthand Environmental Sciences Department. MSRI also
has a significant presence in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan at
UCA’s main administrative office.

cryosphere water sources (snow, glacier, andpermafrost) on water supplies and hazards in the
Pamir (Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan) and Tien
Shan (Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan), evaluating theimpacts of snow avalanches along roads in
Tajikistan, assessing sources and transport of
sediments into the Vakhsh River basin of Tajikistan,assessing the extent and sources of air pollution
exacerbated by a warming climate in Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan, evaluating climate change effects onwater resources in Kyrgyzstan, down-scaling climate
data across Central Asia, and addressing the foodsecurity crisis in poor mountain regions through abroader lens that includes hazard impacts andclimate change. These projects are supported byvarious donors and funding agencies,

During 2022, MSRI contributed
significantly
tobetterunderstandingofnaturalhazards
anddisaster mitigationin the greater Central Asian
region. Relevant
research
projects
included examining
climate change impacts in the Panj-Amu River basinof northern Afghanistan, assessing changes in
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Prof. Roy Sidle
Director
E-mail: roy.sidle@uncentralasia.org

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the journal Water
4441/14/15/2297).

Water sources in the cryosphere of the high Pamir, Tajikistan

including World Food Programme, World Bank,USAID, Aga Khan Foundation, IDRC (Canada),
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, and Japan
Meteorological Organization, among others. MSRI also
closely collaborates with the Ministry of Emergency
Situations of Kyrgyzstan, Aga Khan Agency for
Habitat, and Mountain Societies Development Support
Programme.
Because snow avalanches cause disasters in theregion every year, MSRI developed a unique algorithm
that can easily be applied in remote mountain regions
to assess the frequency of avalanche deposits. This
open-access script, named Snow Avalanche
Frequency Estimation (SAFE), maps all large
avalanche deposits that occurred over the last 33
years using Landsat archives across wide spatial
scales. SAFE is the first to automatically map
avalanches at such scales to support decision-making
for disaster mitigation. The model is freely available
and is easily accessed as it is implemented in Google
Engine. The initial research that supported thedevelopment of SAFE was through our Afghan Climate
Change Project funded by AKF and USAID. Further
development and implementation of SAFE isunderway supported by grants from the World Bankand World Food Programme. SAFE informs decisionmakers responsible for weather monitoring, as well as
villages and road and energy maintenance operations
in high mountain regions. This research was publishedin 2022 in The Cryosphere (https://tc.copernicus.org/
articles/16/3295/2022/) and appeared as a ResearchHighlight in Nature in September 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02772-y). The Google
Engine script for SAFE can be readily accessed thefollowing
link:
link:
https://zenodo.org/
record/6973757#.Y-22Dx_P13h To evaluate global
climate models in Kyrgyzstan, MSRI analyzed therelationshipbetweentree
growthandhydrometeorological features. Hydrometeorological
data are reconstructed using dendrochronology andmachine learning to bias-correct climate models innorthern Tien Shan in collaboration with theGovernment of Kyrgyzstan. Results were published in(https://www.mdpi.com/2073-

As part of in an international project funded by USAID
to assist governmental agencies in Central Asia tobetter assess their needs for water monitoring, MSRI
synthesized detailed water, climate, and cryospheredata and interviewed key agencies in Tajikistan,
Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to understand theircurrent strengths and challenges and identify ways toimprovewater
monitoring
equipment,
data
management, and collaboration. These agencies areinterested but need capacity to utilize advanced
remote sensing applications for water and hazard
monitoring. In these challenging mountainous
environments, MSRI is employing remote sensing
technologies and have recently completed anassessment of temporal and spatial trends
precipitation and temperature across the Pamir regionof Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan to address
future water issues and drought occurrence. We
currently have a paper in review on this topic in Nature
Water. As a follow-up of an IDRC (Canada)-funded
project, MSRI worked with dispersed faculty members
from Bamyan University, Afghanistan topublish apaper in Water on water sources and quality ofdrinking water supplies in central Bamyan (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/19/3060). This was thefirst international publication on this topic in this poor
region.
Dr. Erkin Isaev received an award to conduct research
on climate downscaling across Central Asia withJapan Meteorological Agency for a 2-month period
during late 2022. One paper is now in preparation fromthis research. Professor Sidle was awarded aDistinguished Professorship to conduct research at
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology andhas contributed to the submission of several jointly
authored papers and developed plans for researchcollaborations in Central Asia.

retreat at two
Kyrgyzstan’s
Tien
Shan documented bysatellite images.
GlacialGADRI Annual Report 2022 —80

sites
Sentinel-2

in

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National Science and Technology Center for Disaster
Reduction (NCDR), Chinese Taipei
https://www.ncdr.nat.gov.tw/

National Science and Technology Center for
Disaster
Reduction(NCDR),
Tzu
Chi
Foundation (Tzu Chi), and International
Cooperation
andDevelopment
Fund(TaiwanICDF) co- organized the International
Training Workshop - Youth Leadership Camp on
Disaster Risk Management from 15 to 17
January, 2022.
NCDR has held the International Training
Workshop since 2005. Each year, the organizer
designs the different diverse & inclusive themed
focusing on the most pressing issues to meetglobal or regional demands, to provide scientificbased disaster risk reduction training in order topromote regional capacity building.

invited undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate international and domestic students
majoring in disaster management or relevant
disciplines who are enthusiastic fast learners
with high mobility and genuine creativity. There
were 44 participants attending this meaningful
workshop, who are from 16 countries, including
Belize, Eswatini, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Malawi,
Malaysia, Myanmar, Peru, Tanzania, thePhilippines, Saint Lucia, the United States,
Vietnam, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, andTaiwan.

Through scenario simulations to hands-on
operations, the 2022 workshop aims at capacity
building for HA/DR in case ofearthquake scenario, andthe training courses
focusedontheplanning
andpracticeofthehumanitarianassistance with seismic technology,

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Ms. Kiri Ke Hui Chen
Assistant Researcher
E-mail: khc@ncdr.nat.gov.tw

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In order to inspire the participants' imagination,
activeness and executive power, the workshop was
designed to the major three parts: Keynote Speech,
HA/DR Best Practices, Planning and Operation. Prof.
Tan Sri Dr. Jemilah Mahmood MD FRCOG MOG,
Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary
Health of Sunway University, CEO Po-Wen Yen, Tzu
Chi Charity Foundation, and Director Joseph Martin,
Center for Excellence in Disaster Management andHumanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM) delivered theirimpressive speeches to the participants on-site as wellas the audience from all of the world by live streaming.
To encourage all participants could be more involved
in understanding the disaster scene and the actual
assistance situation, in the opening session, threepanelists from Tzu Chi were invited to share theirexperiences of on-site disaster relief, and hadinteractive discussion with all participants.

managed the hygiene and sanitation.
Though the real practice and team work, participants
could learn the decision making to deliver feasible
solutions and allocate resources for coping withchallenges, streamlining the data, photo andinformation collected for situation assessment on
cross-cutting issues for integrated communications,mobilizing the tangible and intangible resources for
emergency preparedness, integrating team efforts on
the scenario simulation for operations, and delivering
effective and efficient operation.
This was the second international training event that
NCDR corroborated with Tzu Chi and TaiwanICDF,
and it was an innovative “Cross-boundary Synergies”
event that connected the science and technology ofdisaster reduction, disaster relief, humanitarianassistance and international initiative.

Based on the magnitude 6.9 earthquake scenario in
Kathmandu Nepal, the participants practiced toorganize a team and coordinate several mission groupto carry out the tasks that included to set up an
emergency shelter, practice the HA/DR technologies,
and plan for a temporary shelter camp. Besides
building the temporary shelter for the victims, allparticipants needed to prepare hot meals for relief
teams, provided clean water and lighting, and

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Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
Thailandhttps://www.adpc.net

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is
an autonomous international organization forcooperation in and implementation of disasterrisk reduction and building climate resilience inAsia and the Pacific. It was established in 1986
as a regional disaster preparedness center(DMC) in Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in
Bangkok, Thailand. It has grown its activities overthe past three decades and in 2005, ADPC's
international Charter was signed by ninefounding
membercountries:
Bangladesh,
Cambodia, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan,Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The Charter
was put into effect in 2018 through the ratificationby all the founding members. As of January
2020, ADPC is operating as an autonomousinternational organization governed by the Boardof Trustees.

climate resilience, urban resilience, making
humanitarian response to disasters more
effective and give support and direction forrecovery and rehabilitation, building back better.

Here are some flagship
implemented by ADPC:

programs

being

The "Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CARE)
for South Asia" project is supporting the region inbuilding resilience to climate change byimproving the availability of regional data andknowledge, developing guidelines, tools andcapacities, and promoting climate-resilientdecisions, policies and investments across key
sectors. (https://www.careforsouthasia.info/ )The vision of ADPC is "safer communities andsustainable development through disaster risk
reduction" and its geographical remit is Asia andthe Pacific. In the current context it
providesan
excellentmechanism to address
existing and theemerging
negative
impacts of natural
hazard and climatechange, continue to support global initiatives on

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Dr. Bill Ho
Director, Academy
E-mail: bill@adpc.net

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Through a unique partnership between the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID) andthe U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency(NASA), SERVIR-SEA is harnessing such spacetechnology and open data to help addressdevelopment challenges related to a changing
climate. SERVIR-SEA works in partnership withleading regional organizations to help the sevencountries in the Southeast ASIA Region use
information provided by Earth observing satellites
and geospatial technologies to manage climate
risks. The region includes Cambodia, Indonesia,
Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand andVietnam. (https://servir.adpc.net/ )The Asian Preparedness Partnership (APP) is aunique multi-stakeholder regional partnershipestablished by its founding member countries which
include Cambodia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines,
Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Formed in 2017 withtechnical and secretariat support from the Asian
Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) as well as
assistance from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation (the Foundation) and the United States
Agency for International Development Bureau for
Humanitarian Assistance (USAID BHA), its goal isto achieve ‘‘safer and well-prepared communities
through locally led disaster risk management (DRM)
actions, so that disaster impacts on at-risk
communities of Asia will be reduced”.

APP strives to improve stakeholder coordinationand dialogue between governments, local
humanitarian organization networks, and the private
sector to enhance capacities through partnerships,
knowledge resources, training, and networking
opportunities. The APP serves as a network of
networks connecting these key local actors who are
working on emergency response and disaster risk
management at the national and sub-national levels
for a more coordinated and eﬀective response at
the time of disaster. It promotes locally-led disaster
preparedness, response, and recovery actions
through improved coordination mechanisms,
strengthened humanitarian leadership, training, andcapacity development, systems transformation,
innovation, South-South learning and knowledge
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Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)Thailandhttps://www.ait.ac.th

Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management(DPMM) at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand isregularly contributing to DRR higher education
through it’s Regular Certificate, Master, ProfessionalMaster and Doctoral program. Apart from the regularcourses significant projects and publications arelisted as follows,

Critical Infrastructure: A Case Study ofThailand" Year: 2021 – 2022, Location:
Thailand, Client: CDRI, Position Held: Project
Lead•

Title: “Capacity building for measuring multihazard livelihood security and resilience inthe Lower Mekong Basin”, Year: 2021 – 2022,
Location: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Client:
APN, Japan, Position Held: Project Lead•

Title: “Climate Resilient Infrastructure forSocial Transformation and Adaptation(CRISTA)”- Climate Innovation Challenge, Year:
2021 – 2022, Location: Bangladesh, Nepal,
Client: ADPC / World Bank, Position Held:
Project Lead

2020-2022—Research Projects:•

Title: “Living Deltas Hub”, Year: 2019 – 2024,
Location: Bangladesh, India, Vietnam , Position
Held: Co-Investigator.

•

Title: “Integrated Assessment of SDGs Using
Big Earth Observation Data for Bangkok
Metropolitan Region (BMR)”, Year: 2020 –2023, Location: Bangkok, Thailand, Position
Held: Co-Principal Investigator•

Title: “Risk perception and implication on risk
governance for dual disasters Cyclone
Amphanand
COVID-19
in
Kolkata
Metropolitan Area (KMA)”, Year: 2020 – 2021,
Location: India, Position Held: Principal
Investigator,••

Title:“Disaster
Educationfor
integrating SFDRR and SDG
in Asia”, Year: 2020 –2021,
Location:
Japan,
Thailand,Indonesia,
Client:ProSPER.Net,
Japan (United Nations
University, Tokyo,
Japan), Position Held: Principal Investigator
Title: “Multi-hazard Risk Indexing of Coastal
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Dr. Indrajit Pal
Associate Professor and Chair
E-mail: indrajit-pal@ait.ac.th

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Books:

Analysis. Springer Nature.

•

Pal, I., & Bhatt, M. (Eds.). (2020). Drought Risk
Management in South and South-East Asia. Sage
Publications Pvt. Limited.

•

Shaw, R., & Pal, I. (2022). Pandemic Risk,
Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses
in Cities Around the World. Elsevier.

•Shrestha, S., Djalante, R., Shaw, R., & Pal, I.
(Eds.).
(2021).
Disasterresilienceandsustainability:
Adaptationforsustainable
development. Elsevier.

••Kolathayar, S. (2022). Civil Engineering for Disaster
Risk Reduction. I. Pal, S. C. Chian, & A. Mondal(Eds.). Springer.

Pal, I., Shaw, R., Ichinose, T., & Oda, T. (Eds.).
(2022). Proceedings of the 2nd International
Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable
Development: Volume 1-Multi-hazard Vulnerability,
Climate Change and Resilience Building (Vol. 283).
Springer Nature.

•

Pal, I., Kolathayar, S., Islam, S. T., Mukhopadhyay,A., & Ahmed, I. (Eds.). (2022). Proceedings of the
2nd International Symposium on Disaster
Resilience and Sustainable Development: Volume
2-Disaster Risk Science and Technology (Vol. 294).
Springer Nature.

•

Kolathayar, S., Ghosh, C., Adhikari, B. R., Pal, I.,
Mondal, A., Prisco, M., ... & Wang, C. M.
(2022). Resilient Infrastructure. Springer Singapore.

•

Pal, I., & Kolathayar, S. (2022). Sustainable Cities
and Resilience. Springer Singapore.

•

Izumi, T., Pal, I., & Shaw, R. (Eds.). (2022). Safety
and Resilience of Higher Educational Institutions:
Considerations for a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

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JapanGADRI Annual Report 2022 —87

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Japan
Research Center for Potential Development of Disaster Prevention, Akita University
Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
Center for Disaster Management Informatics Research, Ehime University
International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO
International Consortium on Landslides (ICL)
Crisis & Security Management Research Center, Kagawa University
Research and Education Center for Natural Hazards, Kagoshima University
Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, Kanazawa University
Research Center for Social Safety Science, Faculty of Safety Science, Kansai University
Center for Disaster Countermeasures (CDC), The University of Kita Kyushu
Research Center for Urban Safety and Security (RCUSS), Kobe University
Implementation Research and Education System Center for Reducing Disaster Risk (IRESC), Kumamoto
University
Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization, Regrowth and Governance (IDiARRG), Research Institute for DisasterArea Reconstruction, Kwansei Gakuin University
Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (GSGES), Kyoto University
Disaster Risk Reduction Research Center, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University
Research Institute for Applied Mechanics (RIAM), Kyushu University
Center of Environmental Science and Disaster Mitigation for Advanced Research (CEDAR), Muroran Instituteof Technology
Advanced Disaster Prevention Engineering Center (ADPEC), Nagoya Institute of Technology
Disaster Mitigation Research Center (DMRC), Nagoya University
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)
Research Institute for Natural Hazards & Disaster Recovery, Niigata University
Research Initiative for Natural Disaster Prevention of Oil and Gas Spill in Industrial Parks, Graduate School ofEngineering, Osaka University
Graduate School of Human Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka University

Frontier Research Center for Natural Disaster Mitigation, Ritsumeikan University
Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage (R-DMUCH), Ritsumeikan University
Disaster Prevention Research Center for Island Regions, University of the Ryukyus
International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University
Center for Urban Earthquake Engineering (CUEE), Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)

Japan
https://www.adrc.asia/

Asian Disaster Reduction Center was engaged inmany activities during the year 2022. One of the high­lights is the report published on the Eruption of the
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apaivolcano (Tonga), 15
January 2022 with JAXA,and Sentinel Asia teams.

Further
information:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.adrc.asia/publications/disaster_report/pdf/2022/
Eruption_of_the_Hunga_TongaHunga_Haapai_01.pdf

Dr. Shiomi Yumi
Senior Researcher
E-mail: ys-shiomi@adrc.asia

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Center for Disaster Management Informatics Research, Ehime
University, Japan
http://www.cdmir.jp

Most of the center activities, both in education and 7. Disaster Symposium on Saving Life from Largeresearch, were focused on local disaster-related
scale Natural Disasters (2022.12.5)
issues and nearly all of them were conducted andpublished in Japanese only. The following is a list of(Details of the above activities are available here
major activities conducted by the center.
and here.)•
1. Bōsai-shi Distinguished Service Award receivedby Ehime University Bōsai Leaders’ Club
(2022.7.6)•
2. Four-time Bōsai-shi (i.e, Disaster expert) training
workshops in collaboration with Matsuyama Citytargeting the college students and local
residents of Matsuyama City (2022.8-11).

Annual report of the center (in Japanese)(2022.6)
Proceedings of the Seminar on Disaster
Responsive New Technology, New Construction
Methods, and Human Resource Development(2022.7.5) (Link) (in Japanese)

3. Bōsai-shi Kōshien (i.e., Disaster experts national
convention) Grand Prize received by the Ehime
University Bōsai Leaders’ Club and UR
Resilience Prize received by Junior Bōsai
Leaders’ Club, both under the center
management (2022.3.17)
4. Seminar on Pre-disaster Reconstruction Plan for
Nankai Trough Earthquake (2022.4.8)
5. Seminar on My Timeline Usage and Saving Life
from Large-scale Rain-induced Disasters(2022.5.10)
6. Seminar on Disaster Responsive New
Technology, New Construction Methods, andHuman Resource Development (2022.7.5)

Prof. Netra Prakash Bhandary
E-mail: netra@ehime-u.ac.jp

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Center for Disaster Countermeasures (CDC)
The University of Kitakyushu, Japan
http://www.env.kitakyu-u.ac.jp/ja/shoubou/

Center for Disaster Countermeasures has helped
organizing a lecture course in the University of
Kitakyushu for sharing knowledge of local DRR
experts with students from various disciplines
since 2015. In 2022, the students from Kita
Kyushu College, National Institute of Technology
joined the course.

The lecture course featured a one-day student
workshop on DRR organized by the Kitakyushu
City government. Our students gathered oneplace, watched a plenary video presentation by
Prof. Katada Toshitaka, the University of Tokyo.
Then the students joined a workshop for reviewing
shelter operation from a perspective of LGBTQ
citizens. A singer and leader of the LGBTQ
movement in the Kitakyushu Area, Rose sanfacilitated discussion.

Workshop for Students held on 1 May 2022

Prof. Takaaki Kato
E-mail: tkato@kitakyu-u.ac.jp

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Program of the Course offered in 2022

TopicsProviders1Introduction

Prof. Kato Takaaki, University of Kitakyushu

2

Emergency exercise

Prof. Kato Takaaki

3

Meteorology and earthquake

Crisis Management Department, Kitakyushu City

4

Flood prevention

Construction Bureau, Kitakyushu City

5

Disaster prevention and firefighters

Fire and Disaster Management Bureau, Kitakyushu City

6

School education and DRR

Board of Education, Kitakyushu City

7

Coping with disaster stress

Public Health and Welfare Bureau, Kitakyushu City

8

Earthquake resistant architecture

9

Gender issues in DRR

10

Firefighting innovation through gov­
ernment-academics-business coop­erationProf. Uezu Kazuya, University of Kitakyushu

11

Emergency management and DRR
in Kitakyushu

Crisis Management Department, Kitakyushu City

12

Student volunteers

Prof. Murae Fumitoshi, University of Kitakyushu

13

Stakeholder involvement in DRR

Mr. Mochizuki Bun, and Prof. Murae Fumitoshi

Prof. Kido Masae, University of Kitakyushu
Prof. Ninomiya Masato, University of Kitakyushu

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International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the
auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM), Japan
http://www.icharm.pwri.go.jp/

Online follow-up seminar for all the graduate of the
ICHARM master's and Ph.D. Programs

Special Lecture given by Dr. Johannes
Cullmann, the director for Water andCryosphere of the World
Meteorological Organization

One and a half years after the establishment, ICHARM
launched the Disaster Management Policy Program (master's
program) in October 2007. Three years later, in October 2010,
the Disaster Management Doctoral Program started. As of
September 2021, 157 students completed the master's
program, and 15 students the Ph.D. program. They are active
as leaders in water-related disaster risk reduction at theirworkplaces and communities in 37 countries, mainly in Asia,
Africa, and Latin America. On February 25, 2022, a follow-up
seminar was held online, inviting all graduates. Over 100
participants were present, including 80 graduates and ICHARM
staff involved in the educational programs. The seminarconsisted of three special lectures, two sessions of Focus
Group Discussion, and General Sharing to share thediscussion results with all participants. The participants agreed
that opportunities like follow-up seminars are very important tostrengthen cooperation among the graduates and improveeach other's skills.

Prof. Toshio Koike
Executive Director
E-mail: t-koike@pwri.go.jp

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GADRI Annual Report — JapanE-learning Training Course

UNESCO project, "Water Disaster PlatformtoEnhance
ClimateResilienceinAfrica" (WADiRe-Africa)

One was the "Expert Training" and the other"Training of Trainers (ToT)," which was a moreadvanced course targeted at those who hadcompleted the Expert Training. The Expert
Training was held four times, which 197 out of
288 participants completed. The Training ofTrainers was held twice, which 30 out of 44
participants completed.

In collaboration with the UNESCO-IHP and the
AGRHYMET in West Africa, ICHARM
established the FEWS in the Niger and Volta
River basins in West Africa. ICHARM also
conducted e-learning capacity building training
for local staff to become able to utilize the
FEWS for disaster response. The training washeld from August 2020 to February 2021. Twotypes of training courses were conducted for
representatives from 11 countries located ineither river basin.

Myanmar-Agriculture development support
project: Technical support in flood simulation
for downstream areas of the Swa ChaungDam

the dam. A manual was also created to describe
these series of methods for their application toother areas with dams.

In August 2018, a spillway concrete weir of the
Swa Chaung Dam, located about 60 km south of
Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, failed andcaused large-scale flooding downstream, which
damaged more than 80 villages and forced morethan 60,000 people to evacuate and be
displaced. The World Bank decided that ICHARM
provide technical support to simulate the floodingin the downstream area at the time of the Swa
Chaung Dam failure. By using the bias-corrected
GSMaP data sets and the polarization
information of satellite SAR data, an integrated
modeling system developed by ICHARM
successfully reproduced dam failure flooding.
Risk assessment was performed using thissystem by simulating events of different scales,such as 1/200, 1/1000, and probable maximum
rainfall. The resulting information was provided
for local experts to plan disaster prevention
measures and crisis management downstream of
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GSMaP

Calibration

Ground gauge（daily）

Correction factor
Corrected rainfall distribution（ 0.1 degree grid, hourly ）Dam upstream model

Creation of corrected
rainfall data

Calibration

Dam storage data

Dam water level data

Dam model

Dam structure specifications
Satellite SAR

Residual basin model

Inundation model

Flood traces
Validation
Inundation area
Validation

Rainfall run-off
inundation model

Local disaster photo
Grasp the inundation area

Estimated flood area,
Creating a timeline

Probability
rainfall

Risk assessment

Ground gauge（daily）

Model
Original data
OutputCalculation results

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Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
Kyoto University, Japan
http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

Typhoons Impacts in Japan in 2022
Typhoons, tropical cyclones in the western North
Pacific, are significant meteorological hazards inEast and Southeast Asia including Japan. This
article, report the impacts of typhoons in Japan in
2022.

The figures below show the temporal changes of thenumber of typhoon occurrences (upper panel) andthe strongest typhoons (lower panel).

Tetsuya Takemi
Professor
E-mail: toiawase@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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GADRI Annual Report — JapanThe strongest typhoons are those having the
lifetime minimum surface pressure of 920 hPa or
lower. The both numbers indicate that the
typhoon activity in 2022 (as of December 13th,2022) is nearly normal.

tropical cyclone intensity, but caused heavy
rainfalls mainly, with record-breaking daily
rainfall at several places, in the central partof Japan. Fortunately, the number of thecasualties was limited to 12.

The number of the landfalling typhoons in Japan
in 2022 is 3, which also indicates that the 2022
condition is quite normal. One of the strongest
typhoons in 2022, Hinnamnor, the 11th typhoon
which occurred in late August to early
September, was anticipated to spawn significant
impacts in western Japan.

Considering that the recent extreme typhoons
and resulting heavy rainfalls/strong winds havecaused disastrous damages, the typhoon
impacts in 2022 seem to be not so damaging.

Owing to an early warning and preparedness ofthe public as well as the typhoon track shifted off
the coast of western Japan, the number ofconfirmed deaths was 0. Also, Hinnamnor rapidly
weakened than expected, as it approached theJapanese islands and moved northward. Wellpreparedness to this extreme typhoon wasconsidered to have work positively.
In September, there were two tmore yphoons
that have significant impacts:
TyphoonNanmadol, the 14th typhoon, and Talas, the 15th
typhoon.
•Nanmadol reached its maximum intensity ofthe minimum surface central pressure being
910 hPa nad the maximum surface wind
being 54 m/s, which is the strongest typhoonin this season, and caused heavy rainfalls
and strong winds on the Pacific side of theJapanese islands. Five people were dead,and more than 100 were injured. It should beemphasized that the number of casualties
and the damages to daily lives and socialeconomic activity were not so disastrous ascompared with the impacts due to the recent
strongest typhoons such as Jebi (2018),
Faxai (2019), and Hagibis (2019).

•

On the other hand, Talas did not reach aThis may be partly due to the improvement ofweather
forecastingandinformation
dissemination.
Also important is the adequate responses of the
public agencies and local governments to theweather forecasting and information.
Another important point is that general public
becomes more prepared to and aware of the
impacts of extreme weather and typhoons basedon the recent experiences of the recent heavy
rainfalls and damaging typhoons.

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Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
Kyoto University, Japan
http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

Open Campus Day at DPRI, Uji Campus, Kyoto
University, Japan
October 2022
all sort of garbage,
remove weeds, sweep
up the pavements, andmake it spick-and-spanprior to opening thedoors to the public in
the preceding weekend.

It is Open Campus Day at the Disaster Prevention
Research Institute (DPRI), Uji Campus, Kyoto
University, Japan, 22 and 23 October 2022. Thistime, after three years of online session, it is opened
to the public.
Days leading up to the event were days of springcleaning. A touch of aesthetics to laboratories to theexteriors of the building to the landscaping. Threedays prior to event, three working hours in theafternoon are allocated when everyone is required
to go out, and clean the surrounding area, pick up

This year, there was added attention and hustle andbustle as the President of the Kyoto University willvisit DPRI and interested in learning about the work
carried out by our talented researchers, especiallythe young professionals.
The President, Prof. Nagahiro Minato, took his termof office as the President of the Kyoto University in
October 2020. This was his irst time to visit the
DPRI facilities.
On Saturday, 22 October 2022, Prof. Minato was
welcomed to the DPRI and received by the DPRI
Director Prof. Eiichi Nakakita, and Prof. Hirokazu
Tatano, Secretary-General, the Global Alliance ofDisaster Research Institutes (GADRI); and Head,
Social Systems for Disaster Risk Governance,
DPRI; and other faculty members of DPRI.

Prof. Minato delivered a keynote speechat the Kihada Hall, Oubaku Plaza.

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have continued to investigate the impact of majordisasters on corporate production activities. With
regard to the economic damage to the east Japan
earthquake in 2011, we successfully made amodel to be replicated the impact. In addition to
the discussion on the challenges towards reducing
disaster risks, I would like to share my knowledge
gained during this research.

Prof. Minato’s speech was followed by apresentation by Prof. Hirokazu Tatano on the“Economic analysis of disasters: what we leared
from past research”.
Abstract of Prof. Tatano’s address:
Since the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004, weProf. Minato moved on to site visit the Wood Working Shop, Xylarium, ResearchInstitute for Sustainable Humanoshere (RISH) which was founded in 1980 where there
are collections of wood samples which are “botanically authenticated, and somecorresponding to herbarium specimens”.

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Public members participated in various games and exercises organised by the faculty of DPRI.

Prof. Minato attended presentations by DPRI faculty at the Wood Composite Hall (RISH). The presentations were paraded by young
and upcoming researchers which included many females too.

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There were various activities orgaised by the DPRI Ujigawa Open Laboratory too.

Prof. Minato proceeded to visit the DPRI Ujigawa Open Laboratory too.

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Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
Kyoto University, Japan
http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

Press Release – Flood Control Timeline ofDisaster Base Hospitals
This article appeared at the DPRI, Kyoto University website. https://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_en/16159/

prevention training at the Hitoyoshi Medical Center on
6 May 2022.
The timeline is designed to evaluate flood risk basedon the actual conditions of hospital architecture andfacilities, and organizes necessary disaster response
operations and implementation criteria (triggers) as
well as coordination methods among staff members. It
specifies to execute them in chronological orderaccording to the seven disaster stages.

•

Prof. Tetsuya Sumi, and Associate Professor
Takahiro Sayama of Disaster Prevention
Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University;•

Shimizu Corporation (President Kazuyuki
Inoue); and•Hitoyoshi Medical Center (Hospital Director
Masami Kimura)

In addition to public weather information, the mostimportant implementation decisions are based on datafrom the nation-wide RRI Model, which was developedby DPRI as part of the Strategic Innovation Promotion
Program (SIP) of the Cabinet Office. It is expected thatthe activity will become a new framework for disasterrisk reduction plans in the flood timeline of hospitals in
the future.

According to the report issued by the Disaster
Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University
on 2 April 2022, 34% of medical institutions designatedfor infectious diseases nationwide are positioned inflood potential areas due to heavy rainfall once in a
thousand years, and 26% of them are located in thearea even with once every 100 to 200 year floods. The
report details the survey conducted on the flooding of
the Kuma River in Kumamoto Prefecture and the
Hitoyoshi Medical Center.
Prof. Tetsuya Sumi, and Associate Professor Takahiro
Sayama of Disaster Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto University, Shimizu Corporation(President Kazuyuki Inoue), and Hitoyoshi Medical
Center (Hospital Director Masami Kimura) havedeveloped a timeline for flood management andverified its effectiveness by conducting a disaster

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Prof. Tetsuya Sumi
E-mail: toiawase@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
Kyoto University, Japan
http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/
Article on Climate-fuelled wave patterns pose an erosion risk for developing countries
By Prof. Nobuhito Mori et.al.
Published in The Conversation in June 2022
Article on “Climate-fuelled wave patterns posean erosion risk for developing countries” by
Prof. Nobuhito Mori et.al. was published in The
Conversation in June 2022.
In addition to sea level rise and coastal climatechange due to global warming, there is a riskthat the coastal environment will change
significantly due to changes in global wave
characteristics. Therefore, predicting futurechanges in waves is important for adapting tocoastal climate change.

Previous studies have shown that waves can beclassified into several global wave climate types.
This study analysed future ocean waves climate
reproduced by global climate models used by
IPCC, and revealed the types of waves andregional hotspots that are susceptible to global
warming.
With warming, the power of waves in the polar
regions and the Southern Ocean increases, andthe frequency of waves propagating from theeast on the coasts located in the western part ofthe ocean such as the Pacific Ocean, and thewave climate propagating from the south on theeastern coast.
In Japan, it was predicted that the frequency ofwave climate types propagating from the west inhigh latitudes would increase. In addition torising sea levels, this will further intensify theeffects of warming in coastal areas and will be afactor in changing coastal environment.

This information was published at DPRI, Kyoto
University website.
•

地球温暖化により変わる波浪―温暖化に伴う波浪変化リスクの高い沿岸域を解明―［京都大学］•

地球温暖化により変わる波浪 ―温暖化に伴う波浪変化リスクの高い沿岸域を解明―［京都大学・プレスリリース本文］•

Climate-fuelled wave patterns pose anerosion risk for developing countries [TheConversation; 本件の解説記事]•

The results of this research are expected to
expand into future changes and adaptation
measuresforcoastalvulnerability due to global
warming,
especially changes inbeaches and marine
ecosystems.
The results of this research were
publishedonline in the international academic journal“Nature Climate Change” on June 16, 2022.
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https://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
news_en/16584/

Prof. Nobuhito Mori
E-mail: toiawase@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
Kyoto University, Japan
http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

Volcanic Eruption Expected to Help Economy in Iceland
By Prof. James Mori(Professor Emeritus, Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Japan
A short report on the volcanic eruption in Iceland by Prof. James Mori after his visit to the volcano site in
Iceland on 12 August 2022.
The Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall in the Meradalir valley began a strong
lava eruption on 3 August 2022. The volcano is located in an unpopulatedarea so it is not causing any local damage. Also, the levels of ash
emissions are relatively low, so it is not disrupting airline traffic, as
Eyjafjallajökull did in 2010. On the contrary, there is the hope that theeruption will be good for the Iceland economy by attracting many tourists.
The volcano is located about 1 hour drive from the largest city of Reykjavik
and because of the type of effusive eruption, people can walk quite close to
the volcano relatively safely. This is providing a rare opportunity for people
to have a close encounter with an erupting volcano.

The hike passes the large lava
flow (dark gray rocks) from the2021 eruption.

The activity in March to
September 2021 was similar
to the current eruption, but ina slightly different location.
The volcano attracted several
hundred thousand Icelandic
andforeignobservers.
However, because of thetravel restrictions due to the Covid pandemic, there were relatively
few foreign visitors. This year with the improved health conditions,
Iceland is hoping that the presently erupting volcano will attract
more foreign tourists.

The volcano viewpoint is about a 2 hour hike from theparking lot.
This photo shows the first part of the trail which is easy to
walk. The path is very good because it also leads to thesite of the 2021 eruption last year. During that time, thecondition of the trail was greatly improved.
The 2nd half of the hike to the 2022 eruption is moredifficult with lots of rocks and no clear path. It is notrecommended for small children or people not in good
physical condition. However, to encourage visitors, they
are currently working to improve the path and every day
the portion of the trail that is in good condition is being
extended.

Prof. Emeritus James Mori
E-mail: toiawase@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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This is the current main vent which opened on 3 August 2022 aspart of a 360 meter long fissure eruption. The eruption is presently
no longer a fissure eruption, but concentrated from this one main
vent and a spatter cone is being built up. The black rocks are newlava which flowed out during the past 9 days.

Since the eruptive
style is mainly aneffusivelava
eruptionwithrelatively
low
explosive activity, it
seems fairly safe toobserve at close
distances of lessthan 1 km. Of
course, volcanoes
arealwaysdangerous and asuddenlarge
explosion or a sudden change in the location of the vent is possible.
The physical and volcanic conditions here are unique and enablepeople to approach close to an erupting volcano.
At the close distance where thepeople are sitting in the photo,
you can feel the heat and hearthesoundsofthelavafountaining. The temperature of
the erupting lava is over 1000oC.

This is another photo of the current lava
fountaining.

Video of the erupting lava taken on 12 August 2022.
https://youtu.be/IWPjhpn63uM
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The eruption last year in 2021 lasted for 6
months from March to September. The Iceland
tourist industry is hoping that the 2022 eruption
will also last for a similar or longer duration andattract many foreign visitors.

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Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization, Regrowth andGovernance, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
https://www.kwansei.ac.jp/fukkou/about/index_en.html

Events;•Institute organizes various study groups fordiscussing the following issues. Each groupcooperates with academics, government officers,
and NGO/NPO workers for cross sectoral
learning.

The institute organized an annual network
meeting of disaster-affected areas in Japan
from January 8-9, 2022. The theme was:There are various types of “recovery andrevitalization knowledge” which emerge aftera disaster. They serve as a useful policy andhelp us to design a new social system forsupporting the affected people who arestruggling in this disaster-prone country.
These valuable pieces of knowledge,
however, tend to be shared only within theaffected area, and often fails to transfer toother areas. We organize a network meeting oncea year to mutually share these lessons fromvarious disaster affected areas in Japan.

•
Project activities;
During 2022, the institute continued to implement
following research activities.
•

International comparative study on disasterrecovery and revitalization policies.

•

International study group on sustainableregional revitalization since 2020. Recovery
from catastrophic disasters need a long-term,
sustained community effort. It is important topass on the experience of past majordisasters as systematic wisdom andknowledge, and to conduct policy research toprepare for future major disasters. The groupbrought together researchers, practitioners,
and administrators from Japan and abroadfor exchanging knowledge.

•

Study group on revitalization and housing
support.

An annual network meeting and forum

International symposium and joint study groupon the theme of "Thinking about newcollaboration in East Asia" is held every year.
On February 18, 2021, a study group washeld jointly with Hope Bridge Korea Disaster
Relief Association and 4·16 foundation in
Korea, entitled " Sharing 'Reconstruction
knowledge about 4.16 Ferry Sewol Tragedy."

In Japan, The Nankai Trough earthquake is
expected to occur in the near future. The study
group conducted a questionnaire survey of theresidents of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture on
pre-reconstruction measures.

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Prof. Yoshiyuki Yama
Director
E-mail: yyama@kwansei.ac.jp

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Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage (RDMUCH), Ritsumeikan University Japan
http://www.r-dmuch.jp/en/

Pic1 Workshop on Disaster imagination game

The Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban
Cultural Heritage at Ritsumeikan University (RDMUCH) has been acting as a focal point fororganizing international research, training andinformation network in the field of cultural heritage
risk management and disaster mitigation. The
UNESCO Chair Programme on Cultural Heritage
and Risk Management – 16th INTERNATIONAL
TRAINING COURSE (ITC) on DISASTER RISKMANAGEMENT of CULTURAL HERITAGE 2022
was successfully held for eight weeks from 18th
August to 13th October 2022. This year’s course
had fifteen participants and six associatedobservers. These participants and observers werefrom Australia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cuba,
Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Iran, Italy,
Lebanon, Nepal, New Zealand, Portugal, Puerto
Rico, Republic of Mauritius, Romania, Taiwan
ROC, Turkey, United Kingdom
andUnitedStatesofAmerica.
They were selected
through a competitive
selection
process
which had 63 applicantsfromvariousregions of the world.

This year’s participants had diverse backgrounds,
including cultural heritage managers, disaster risk
management experts, decision-makers, andgovernment officials involved in cultural heritage
conservation and disaster management.
There were lectures from faculty members of
Ritsumeikan University and members of ICCROM .

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Prof. Kazumasa Hanaoka
Director
E-mail: rekibou@st.ritsumei.ac.jp

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Also, experts from institutions such as the Agency for
Cultural Affair, Kyoto City Fire Department, Kyoto
National Museum , Cultural Heritage disaster Risk
Management
Center,ICHCAP,UNDRR,
Loughborough University, Edge Hill University,
Potsdam University, University of Exeter, Sapienza
University of Rome, Miyagi University, Kathmandu
Valley Preservation Trust, Cultural Heritage without
Borders, Natural Disasters Research Institute, INAH,
the National Library of Latvia, INTACH Kashmir
Chapter and Croatian Conservation Institute gave
lectures, conducted workshops, and provided criticalknowledge and guidance. During the course, thetrainees gained a deepened understanding of various
aspects of disaster risk management of cultural
heritage. This year featured examples of best practices
and innovative initiatives in Japan as well as particularissues and lessons learned from the field of cultural
heritage conservation and disaster risk management inother nations.

It was challenging for us to conduct online course thisyear too. This year, we have created two originalvideos of Japanese townhouses from Kozagawa Town
and Fukuchiyama which show traditional dwellingculture to prevent/mitigate water flood disaster.

This year the theme of ITC was: Traditional knowledge
for disaster risk management of cultural heritage. The
examples included in the course span the government
level, community-based disaster mitigation efforts byneighborhood associations, and disaster response torecovery and reconstruction planning. In addition, tofocus on traditional knowledge for Disaster risk
management, the case studies from various countries
were introduced such as Kozagawa Town,
Fukuchiyama of Japan, Patan of Nepal and Assam ofIndia. The course included a separate panel discussion
on the topic with a number of international experts tounderstand various perspectives and to develop acomprehensive understanding of traditional knowledge
for disaster risk management.

The online training course is organized by the Instituteof Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage,
Ritsumeikan University in collaboration with ICCROM,
contributed by UNESCO, ICOM & ICOMOS/ICORP,
and relevant institutions of the government of Japan.
We will continue these outreach activities anddissemination of our research outcomes to theinternational society.

The live sessions for ITC were held twice a week for
two hours each. We set a theme for each week, withlectures and discussions on the first day, and related
workshops on the second day of every week. Prerecorded lectures were provided before the live
sessions. Additionally, we conducted mentoring/
feedback sessions where participants could have time
to discuss what they had learned that week with corelecturers and develop their individual case study
projects. Through these sessions, participants wereable to advance their pilot projects. The final outcomesof the participant’s work will be published inproceedings at the end of this fiscal year.

Pic2 Participants and some of the resource persons of the training
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International Research Institute of Disaster
Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University,Japan
http://www.r-dmuch.jp/en/

Establishing
Co-creation
Center for Disaster Resilience
In April 2022, the International
Research Institute of Disaster
Science, Tohoku University
founded the "Co-creation
Centerfor
Disaster
Resilience" which aims to cocreate disaster resilience, theability of societies and social
systems to respond promptly
and effectively to natural
disasters and exploiting lessons in the futuredisaster management.
Consistingoffour
researchareas;"Quantifying disaster resilience," "Humanresilience," "Curation of disaster information,"and "Practice of co-creation," we will conductcollaborative research on identifying disasterprocesses as both natural and social
phenomena and seeking ways to enhance
our resilience with the "emergence ofcollective intelligence" thorough our flag-ship
project of "Disaster Digital Twin for National
Resilience".

(Artificial Intelligence) is one of the key
elements of DDT but the goal is a
deployment of a mixed-initiative of humanand machine (computer) systems as the
emergence of collective intelligence. We
believe that it emerged from the convergenceof disaster science research from multiple
disciplines with a deep understanding ofphysical and social systems.

Disaster Digital Twin for National Resilience"Disaster Digital twin (DDT)" is the fusion ofdata-interpretation-inference, to capture thereal physical world from various sensors andsimulations, creating a copy (or twin) in thevirtual world (on a computer), runningsimulations with the copied data to find out
optimal solutions for enhancing disaster
resilience, and provide the insights into thephysical world’s policy or decision. AI

Prof. Shunichi Koshimura
E-mail: koshimura@irides.tohoku.ac.jp

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Earthquake Research Institute (ERI)The University of Tokyo, Japan
http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/

year before COVID-19 pandemic,
more
than
100
international
researchers and students studied in
ERI.

The mission of Earthquake Research Institute, theUniversity of Tokyo, since its beginning in 1925, isto promote scientific research on earthquakes andvolcanic eruptions and to develop methods for
mitigating related disasters. To achieve this goal,
about 80 faculty members with other staff of ERI
conduct wide variety of research such as studies on
the basis of geophysical observations in Japan andabroad, structure and dynamics of the Earth’s
interior which drive earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions, multidisciplinary research of science andliteratureonhistoricalearthquakes
withHistoriographical Institute, real-time delivery andanalysis of large amount of seismic data using
Science Information Network, earthquake hazard
assessment by merging big data and highperformance computation.

Research achievements of ERI in
2022 include the elucidation of theeruptive process of the shallow-sea
explosive eruption that occurred at
Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba volcano in the
Ogasawara Islands in August 2021.
This eruption caused damage tocoastal infrastructures in and around
the Japanese archipelago for morethan a year by pumice rafts. We
investigated the surface phenomena,
the eruption style transition, and their impact byremote observation, including satellite andinfrasound monitoring, modeling, and geochemical
analysis. The results showed that the heat andmass transport during eruptions in the shallow sea
was strongly influenced by the atmosphere-ocean
boundary and that the parameters determining
plume height and material transport significantly
differ from those of terrestrial eruptions. This
research highlights the importance of external
water on eruption dynamics and contributes to abetter understanding of explosive volcanism in theocean.
Article on this research: Seawater-magma
interactions sustained the high column during the2021 phreatomagmatic eruption of Fukutoku-Okano-Ba; https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00594-4.

Regarding the international collaboration, ERI hassigned agreements with about 20 foreignorganizations, and conducts or participates
collaborative
research
projects
suchasInternational Muography Cooperative Research
Organization, Next generation Neutrino Science
Organization, international marine geophysicalobservation networks such as Pacific Array. ERI
invites foreign researchers as visiting faculty or
researcher, educates graduate or internshipstudents from countries outside Japan, andorganizes international summer schools for bothundergraduate and graduate students. In normal

Prof. Kenji Satake
Director
E-mail: director@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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Oceania

Australia

Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University (ANU)

Australia

College of Health & Human Sciences, Charles Darwin University

Australia

Humanitarian, Emergency and Disaster Management, College of Indigenous
Futures, Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University

Australia

Centre for Disaster Studies, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook
University

Australia

Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability, School of Engineering, The
University of Newcastle

Australia

Sustainability Research Centre, University of Sunshine Coast

Australia

Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology

Australia

Humanitarian & Development Research Initiative (HADRI), School of Social
Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University

Australia

School pf Earth and Environmental Sciences (SMAH), University of Wollongong

New Zealand

GNS Science

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Centre for Disaster Studies (CDS)James Cook University, Australia
https://www.jcu.edu.au/centre-for-disaster-studies

In 2022 the Centre for Disaster
Studies has been involved in a
number of diverse research
projects and initiatives based on
local
risk
awareness,preparedness,knowledge,
inclusive practice and community
behavior. Following extensive
flooding, bushfires and othernatural hazards in Australia over
the year the research emphasis
remains on developing a greater
understanding of community for
improved proactive planning andresilience.
With travel andconference opportunities limited
by
COVID,
extensiveengagement
with
local
stakeholders, government, media
and emergency management
agencies continues to enable thetranslation of research into
practice.

Delivery of bushfire preparedness reportto Queensland Rural Fire Services

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Dr. Yetta Gurtner
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Publications•••

Gurtner, Y. (2022) Townsville Bushfire
Preparedness Case Study: Understanding
local peri-urban communities. Centre forDisaster Studies, James Cook University.

King David (2022) Hearing Minority
Voices:Institutional
Discrimination
Towards LGBTQ in Disaster andRecovery. Journal of Extreme Events, Vol.
8, No. 4

King, J., Gurtner, Y., Devine, S., Leggat,
P., Swinbourne, A &Franklin, R (2022)
Enhancing Awareness and Use of
Personal
Protective
EquipmentinCommunity
Disaster
Recovery[Conference Presentation]. Safety 2022
27-30 November Adelaide.

•

MacLean, V. & Gurtner, Y. (2022)“Tornadoes in Australia: are we prepared.”
Australian
JournalofEmergency
Management Vol 37 (3) pp. 25-28•

Schwartz, S.C. (2022). Preventive Searchand Rescue: Learning from the experts.
[Conference Presentation]. Disaster andEmergency Management Conference.
RACV, Gold Coast, Australia

PhD student and local State Emergency Service group leader puts search and rescue theory into practice

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GNS Science
New Zealandhttps://www.gns.cri.nz/

GNS Science is a New Zealand Governmentowned research organisation that unlocks
environmental, social, cultural, and economic
benefits through its works across four science
themes. They are - Natural Hazards and Risks;
Environment and Climate, Energy Futures; andLand and Marine Geoscience. GNS Science
employs 450 staff at five sites in New Zealand
and we can draw on a heritage of 150 years of
excellence in Earth sciences.

With New Zealand sitting astride an active plateboundary, GNS Science has a national
leadership role for monitoring and research on
the causes, risks, and impacts of geologicalhazards.

We have extensive scientific knowledge inEarth processes, and globally and nationallyrecognised expertise in hazard and risk
modelling, forecasting socio-economic impactsof events, and system modelling ofconsequences and resilience options. We
apply our social science capability to increase
community
resilience,
improverisk
communication and develop tools for hazard
preparedness.

Natural hazards and their consequences arepart of the ‘DNA’ of New Zealand. Increasingly
the risks imposed by earthquakes, volcanoes,
tsunami and landslides are compounded byweather events and the additional stresses ofclimate change. At the same time, the impactsof hazard events are intensifying throughpopulation growth, urbanisation, and businessvulnerabilities of fast-moving consumer goods
and just-in-time supply chains. Risk isincreasing and New Zealand’s ability to
manage future impacts from natural hazards isbeing tested.
Through its GeoNet project, GNS Science
operates a national network of instruments tomonitor earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes, andlandslides. This world-class operation is pairedwith our National Geohazards Monitoring
Centre, which provides 24/7 active monitoringof New Zealand’s geological hazards.
Our research aims to generate critical scientificknowledge for the benefit of New Zealand anddrive its uptake and use to improve resilienceto natural hazards at national, regional,
business, community and individual levels. Our
five outcome-oriented programmes span thefull value chain of information, fromunderpinningknowledge
tobetterunderstanding New Zealand’s natural hazards,
through to risk management options to help
communities mitigate their destructive effects
and advise on policy and regulation.

We are currently revising and updating our
National Seismic Hazard Model whichassesses the likelihood and strength ofearthquake shaking occurring in various partsof New Zealand over given time spans. We arealso part of a cross-government initiative that is
deploying 12 DART buoys to the north and eastof New Zealand. They are significantly boosting
New Zealand’s end-to-end arrangements formonitoring and detecting tsunamis and issuing
warnings about them.

Dr. Gill Jolly
Director
E-mail: g.jolly@gns.cri.na

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We are also developing the capability toforecast the likely location and size ofearthquake and rainfall-induced landslides toprovide rapid information for responding
agencies and infrastructure operators.

The technique is not accurate enough yet togive a firm prediction of an eruption happening
at a particular time, nor do it indicate the sizeor potential impact. But it remains under active
evaluation

For volcanoes, we are working with ouruniversity partners to assess a technique that
uses
computeranalysisofvolcanic
earthquakes to assess the risk of an eruption.
The technique could potentially be a usefuladdition to our volcano monitoring toolbox.

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Austria

Center for Digital Safety and Security, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)Austria

Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA)

AustriaInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, (IIASA)

Belgium

One Health Platform

Bulgaria

Department of Information Technologies and Communications, University of National and World
Economy (UNWE)

FranceBRGM (Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres)FranceCouncil of Europe

FranceInstitut Des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Grenoble University

Germany

Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM)

Germany

Disaster Research Unit, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Freie University Berlin

Germany

Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)

Germany

United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

Iceland

Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, University of Iceland

Italy

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Italy

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence (Universita degli Studi di Firenze)

Italy

GEM Foundation

PolandThe Main School of Fire (SGSP)

Slovakia

Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Zilina

SwedenStockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

SwedenRisk and Crisis Research Centre (RCRC), Mid Sweden University

Switzerland Global Risk Forum GRF Davos
Switzerland Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment, University of Lausanne
UK

Bournemouth University Disaster Management Centre (BUDMC)

UK

British Geological Survey

UK

Cabot Institute, University of Bristol

UK

Evidence Aid

UK

School of Business, Dept. Management, Innovation and Technology Division, University of Leicester

UK

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), University College of London

UK

Loughborough Water Engineering Group (LWEG), School of Architecture, Building and Civil
Engineering, Loughborough University

UK

Global Disaster Resilience Centre, School of Art Design and Architecture,
University of Huddersfield

UK

Disaster and Development Network (DDN), Department of Geography, Northumbria University

UK

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

UK

Global Public Health, Global Disaster Risk Reduction (GDRR), UK Health Security Agency(formerly Public Health England (PHE))

UK

Centre for Disaster Resilience, University of Salford

UK

Swansea University

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Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)Austria
https://dcna.at/index.php/en/home.html
INEGMA-E² (European Project)Throughout 2022 AIT conducted and started
several research projects in the field of disasterrisk management.
STAMINA (European Project)
Information exchange in the public safetydomain has been a research focus of AIT overthe last couple of years. To support pandemic
management, Stamina aims to provide a more
resilient and effective information exchange
betweenstakeholders
inpandemicmanagement, including different types of datafrom heterogeneous sensors such as drone
mounted, wearable sensors to obtain acomprehensive, timely and accurate overview
on the situation at hand
AITs own Emergency-Map-Tool (EMT) was
enhanced and deployed as a Common
Operational Picture (COP) tool acrossstakeholders in pandemic management, bothon national and international level. Varying
applications by different end users in several
countries encompassing Austria, Slovenia,
Romania, the Netherlands and Spaindemonstrated that the EMT is capable to fulfil
the requirement for a flexible COP tool allowing
the provision of a multitude of information.
The focus of the EMT is set on the provision of
information on the geo-referenced availability ofresources such as ambulances or hospital
beds. This information can be enriched byadditional data such as prediction on the futureavailability of resources in varying pandemic
settings.
Link: https://stamina-project.eu/

Evaluation plays a crucial role incivil protection exercises. It is used
to document good practices andshortcomings
which
ensuretraining exercises reflect thechanging needs and priorities of
the civil protection community.
Evaluation discovers and promotes what response units
in the EU and beyond are capable of, when it comes tomanaging disasters.
INEGMA-E2 builds a standardised approach to
independent evaluation and aims to reach a new level of
evaluation that meets the high standards for
documenting, replicating, and establishing goals. The
projects focuses on:•

developing a strong and versatile evaluation
methodology to address the range of exercises•

exploring the existing tools used for data collection
throughout the exercises•

creating an international pool of evaluators which
can be accessed by all relevant institutions.

Connecting the methodology, tools and network willcontribute to setting new standards for exercise
evaluation and ensuring a pool of competent evaluation
experts. INEGMA-E2 will connect specialists in exercise
evaluation through the Union Civil Protection Knowledge
Network.
AIT contributes by identifying user requirements ofexercise evaluation staff and developing an online
platform to match planned EU civil protection exerciseswith competent evaluators.
Link: https://civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/
projects/inegma-e2

Mr. Bernhard Bürger
E-mail: bernhard.buerger@ait.ac.at

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planning, implementation and evaluation of
exercise scenarios for emergency services. This
tool enables faster, more objective evaluation andmore individualized feedback with higher validity.

MEASURE (National Project)
Exercises not only play a key role in educating
and training first responders, they also provide agreat opportunity to check their effectiveness.
Usually, evaluators monitor exercise participants
and record their impressions on checklists andquestionnaires. Despite the high expenditure ofresources in the evaluation, results are hardly
comparable and biased by default, as theevaluators can only record their subjective
impressions.

With an integrated development of sensors, data
modelling mechanisms and artificial intelligence, it
provides technical support for the observation
during the exercise as well as subsequentevaluation afterwards. In this manner the tool
facilitates sustainable objective comparison andthus, at best, enables emergency services toimprove. The interaction of the individual project
partner organizations ensures user-oriented
technology development and insight into
application processes for science and technology.
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/measure-monitoring-exercises-using-ai-supportfor-reliable-evaluation/

With MEASURE (Monitoring Exercises using AISupport for Reliable Evaluation), AIT coordinatesa national project, that sets the goal to develop an
intelligent, technical support tool for easier

AI4Trees (National Project)
With AI4Trees AIT contributes towards disasterrisk reduction.
By monitoring tree growth, health status andcarbonsequestrationareanalysedandconclusions about the effects of changing climatic
circumstances are drawn.
The project aims at a unique modelling approachfor tree growth. Machine learning is enabled by theavailability of detailed long-time datasets on
ecological and climatic parameters through an
extensive forest monitoring network in Austria
respectively all over Europe. Within the network,
growth data is available on different time scales
allowing studying different aspects of growth
dynamics: physiological tree processes andinteractions between growth and climate variables
can be analysed using hourly single tree growth
data;
stand
characteristics
gathered every couple ofyears onthe other hand provide
information on longterm
tree
development
andcarbonsequestration.

Another important part of the project is theintegration of airborne and terrestrial laser
scanning in order to obtain detailed information on
the studied tree stands. Combined with satellite
derived parameters a model will be developed thatcan map both high- and low-frequency sampled
features for growth modelling. Furthermore, using
AI with an explainable error analysis module,
growth parameters can be identified, aiding
researchers in developing and planning monitoring
setups for different research questions.

Link: https://ai4trees-project.at/

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Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA)
Austria
www.dcna.at

Science and research play an essential role indisaster prevention and building resilient systems.
The transfer of scientific knowledge into practice, as
well as continuous collaboration with experts from civil
protection authorities, response organizations andindustry are crucial to address all stages of disasterrisk management and preventing hazards fromturning into disasters.
The Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA)
looks back on a highly successful year in pushing thisexchange between experts of different areas. We’ve
contributed to more than 20 national and international
research projects that include research on disasterrobotics (RoboMOLE, RoboNav, UAV Rescue, KISecAssist, EASIER), cross-border risk assessment(BORIS), civil protection exercise evaluation(INEGMA-E²), forest fires (TREEADS), and manymore.

One highlight of the past year was our conference on
disaster research and disaster management: From
October 13th to 14th, 170 researchers, practitioners,
and policy makers met at the University of Innsbruck
to focus on this vital discourse at the Disaster
Research Days 2022. In these two days, participants
were invited to present and discuss state of the art
knowledge, exchange ideas, and jointly advance all
aspects of disaster risk management.

We’ve
also
launched
our
podcastcalled“Wissenschaft im Einsatz” [Science on Mission] thathighlights the work of expert's various areas ofdisaster risk management (e.g. natural hazards,
critical infrastructure and CBRNE) and transfers theirknowledge
intoeasy-to-understandbitsofinformation. For the moment, the podcast is only
available in German.

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Dr. Christian ReschManaging Director
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This yearly event, organized by the Disaster
Competence Network Austria, has become abeacon of disaster research and aims at
transferring knowledge and technology fromscience to practice and vice versa. This transfer
was also one of the first prominently debated
topics in the opening panel discussion thatbrought together representatives from theAustrian Federal Ministry of Education, Scienceand Research, the Tyrolean Government, theAustrian Red Cross and the Austrian Fire Fighting
Association.
All in all, more than 50 contributions were
presented in seven thematic sessions as well as
an elevator pitch session. These sessions
included the latest research results on natural
hazards such as flood, rockfall, avalanche, andearthquake risk, but also the protection of criticalinfrastructure, and the use of new technologies incivil protection. Moreover, the event discussed
state of the art science on transboundary risk andinfectious diseases as well as risk and crisis
communication. A very current topic was
discussed vividly: scientific skepticism, as it draws
parallels to challenges faced in disaster risk
management.

In 2023, Disaster Competence Network Austria
will continue its efforts, conducting the Disaster
Research Days from 12th-13th of October 2023,
as international event, focusing on cross-border
aspects in civil protection and initiating anational
conference“Fachtagung
Katastrophenforschung” from11th-12th of
September 2023, in Leoben, Austria tostrengthen the translation from science topractice and to celebrate five years as national
knowledge network.

Links and references•

Projects:
https://dcna.at/index.php/en/
running-projects.html•

Podcast:podcast.html•

Disaster Research Days: https://dcna.at/index.php/en/disaster-research-days2022.html

The consensus of the event: continued
cooperation between science, research anddisaster management professionals, increased
activities in education and training to support
innovation in civil protection and targetedcommunication channels to facilitate bridging
science, research and practice.
Christian Resch on DRD22: “The event once
again made it evident, that is indispensable tohave translation channels, such as the Disaster
Research Days, in which state of the art
knowledge can be discussed at the same levelof understanding. And on the other hand, howcrucial it is, that civil protection organizations
continue to expand their innovation literacy,
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https://dcna.at/index.php/en/

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Science Research Center for Disaster Risk Reduction(SRCDRR), University of National and World Economy(UNWE), Bulgaria
http://www.unwe.bg/en/
The SCRDRR continues the work on two R&D
Projects in 2022:
1.
SMART RISK MANAGEMENT FOR
BUSINESS FROM ADVERSE EVENTS AND
NATURAL DISASTERS, (2021-2024), funded by
the National Science Fund of Bulgaria
The project develops an innovative methodology for
integrated risk assessment, which includes new andmodified classical and smart methods and models.
Each method and model is adapted to the specificsof the specific business at the level of economic
sector and individual company, taking into accountthe specific impacts of potential adverse events andnatural disasters in the specific region.
The main result of the project will be the developed
general framework for smart risk management ofadverse events and natural disasters based on an
innovative methodology for integrated risk
assessment. Smart risk management takes into
account the following important factors: theinteraction between various adverse events andnatural disasters, as well as their mutual impact on
business; the negative consequences on thebusiness, both in terms of material damages andintangible losses, and the lost revenues andbenefits;thevulnerability,
resilienceandadaptability of the specific business to the
disturbances caused by the observed natural
hazards.

(ICAICTSEE-2022), December 2 – 3rd, 2022,
UNWE, http://icaictsee.unwe.bg/. The conference
was coorganized together with 20 international
universities and it is officially registered as an
International Federation for Information Processing(IFIP, https://ifip.org/) event. The conference
covered topics, such as Biomedicine, Big Data, IoT,
Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, BI, AI, XR,
etc. More than 60 papers were presented.

The SRCDRR, as a member, took part in the
Annual meeting of CONRIS.eu (Cooperation
Network for Risk, Safety & Security Studies), held in
the Avans University of Applied Sciences, 'sHertogenbosch, the Netherlands, July 1 – 2, 2022.
Main topics were different aspects of risk andsecurity developments in practice and theirapplication, as well as expanding the network
activity and attracting new partners.
The SRCDRR director, prof. Velev, took part in the
launching event of the Resilience Platform RESILabex - Enhancing the Resilience to Disasters
for Sutainable Development - a project co-financed
under Venezia Guilia Regional funds (L.R.18/2011)- CEI-FVG operative programme 756/2021. The
SRCDRR has become a member of the RESILabex.
The event took place at the International Centre for
Mechanical Sciences (CISM) at the University of
Udine, Italy, October 24 - 25, 2022.

2. DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION AND THE
ECONOMY (2021-2024) funded by the University of
National and World Economy
The project has an extensive research andapplication area with a special focus is on theapplication of the Artificial Intelligence in disasterrisk reduction, in combination with complementary
technologies, such as 5G and XR.

The SRCDRR organized the virtual 12th
INTERNATIONALCONFERENCEON
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Prof. Dimiter Velev
Director
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The Director of SRCDRR, Prof. Dr.
Dimiter Velev, took part as a keynote
speaker in 6 international conferencesand events during 2022, mostly of themconducted online due to the still ongoing

COVID-19 pandemic. The topics covered
different aspects of the application ofadvancedICT
indisasterriskmanagement.

SCRDRR in the annual meeting of CONRIS.eu

The launching event of the Resilience Platform - RESILabex

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Center for Disaster Management andRisk Reduction Technology (CEDIM)
Germany
http://www.cedim.de/english

The Center for Disaster Management and Risk
Reduction
Technology(CEDIM)isaninterdisciplinary research center in the fields ofdisaster and resilience research that celebrated its
20th anniversary in 2021.

As part of its near-real time Forensic Disaster
Analysis (FDA), CEDIM investigates the dynamics
and interrelations of disasters, identifies major risk
drivers, estimates the impact (damage, fatalities,
displaced), and infers implications for disastermitigation. In 2022, CEDIM produced several
reports on hazards and disasters around the world.
A major topic was a comprehensive andinterdisciplinary follow-up study of the severe July
2021 flooding in central Europe, one of the majordisasters in Europe in the last half century (Mohr etal., 2023; Ludwig et al., 2022). Within the frameworkof a multi-disciplinary assessment, the complex
interactions of different process were investigated,
ranging from meteorological peculiarities tohydrological conditions and hydro-morphologicalprocesses and feedbacks to inundated areas (seeFigure) to the impacts on assets, infrastructure, andenvironment. In addition, we investigated how FDA
analysis may help in the early response stage ofdisaster management. Based on long-term rainfall
and runoff data, the event was put in the historicalcontext; using high-resolution model simulations, weestimated how climate change aggravated thedimensions of the flooding and thus the impact.

•

Impact of recent and future drought events onriver discharge and fluvial transport sector for
the Rhine River in Germany;•

Potential and feasibility study on the extensionof the use of reservoirs in the federal State of
Baden-Württemberg (SW Germany) for realtime management of heat, drought and flood.

The new real-world lab ERNIE (Real-time decisions
in the presence of risky ignorance in the impact
prediction of extreme events) including a tandem of
two professorships is currently being established at
KIT in close collaboration with CEDIM. ERNIE
focuses on forecasts and analyses of the impact ofshort-term extreme events as well as long-termclimate changes and their interactions with society,economy, and the environment in urban areas. The
way society deals with risks and uncertainties is ofparticular importance here.
As part of the BMBF CLIENT II project DAMAST(Dams and Induced Seismicity Technologies for Risk
Reduction), CEDIM has developed a new concept
for an AI-based early warning system that provides
the dam or hydropower plant operator with shortand medium-term risk forecasts in the context of
extreme precipitation events, thus enabling
appropriate measures to be taken in good time tomaintain safe operations (CEDIM - About CEDIM News archive - since 2017 (kit.edu).

CEDIM’s current research focus program, which
provides funding for PhD students, is on "Impacts ofheat waves and droughts in Central Europe onsociety, economy, and ecology" and currently
addressing the following topics:•

Capturing the effects of drought and heat waves
on forests in Central Europe;•

Perception of hot spells in public spaces:
Discrepancy of measurement and subjective
perception in a societal context;

Prof. Dr. Michael Kunz
CEDIM Spokesperson
E-mail: info@cedim.de

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After more than 2 years of COVID-19 datacollection, analyzes, and illustrations, CEDIM /Risklayer decided to terminated their Corona
Dashboard in March 2022. The highly granulated
data were used by various media, agencies, andpoliticians for their decisions (CEDIM - About
CEDIM - News archive - since 2017 (kit.edu)).
From May 30 to June 2, 2022, CEDIM together
with the KIT spin-off Risklayer were invited by
KIT to present their work on disaster research atthe Hannover Messe, one of the largest industrial
fairs worldwide (CEDIM - About CEDIM - Newsarchive - since 2017 (kit.edu)). KIT’s startup
Risklayer models and analyzes these risks andidentifies the solutions to reduce them.

•Mohr, S., Ehret, U., Kunz, M., Ludwig, P.,
Caldas-Alvarez, A., Daniell, J. E., Ehmele, F.,
Feldmann, H., Franca, M. J., Gattke, C.,
Hundhausen, M., Knippertz, P., Küpfer, K.,
Mühr, B., Pinto, J. G., Quinting, J., Schäfer,A. M., Scheibel, M., Seidel, F., and Wisotzky,
C.: A multi-disciplinary analysis of the
exceptional flood event of July 2021 incentral Europe – Part 1: Event description
and analysis, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.,
23, 525–551, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess23-525-2023, 2023.

•

Ludwig, P., Ehmele, F., Franca, M. J., Mohr,
S., Caldas-Alvarez, A., Daniell, J. E., Ehret,U., Feldmann, H., Hundhausen, M.,
Knippertz, P., Küpfer, K., Kunz, M., Mühr, B.,
Pinto, J. G., Quinting, J., Schäfer, A. M.,
Seidel, F., and Wisotzky, C.: A multidisciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood
event of July 2021 in central Europe. Part 2:
Historical context and relation to climatechange, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.
Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/
nhess-2022-225, in revision, 2022.

In October 2022, CEDIM celebrated its 20th
anniversary with a scientific lecture event.
The CEDIM news page can be found here:
CEDIM - About CEDIM - News archive - since2017 (kit.edu); the updated CEDIM flyer is here:
Flyer_CEDIM_2022_english_web.pdf (kit.edu)

References:

Comparison of the inundation area (municipality of Altenahr): based on CEDIM results (in blue) andother available products (source: Mohr et al., 2023).

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Institute for Advanced Sustainability
Studies (IASS), Germany
https://www.iass-potsdam.de/en

The research group Systemic Risks aims to identify
common structural features of systemic risks such as
climate change. The objective is to develop inclusive
and sustainable governance approaches for
systemic risk. Systemic risks are characterised by:•a high degree of complexity;•

cross-border effects (cascading effects);•

stochastic cause-effect relationships•

non-linear development and tipping points;•

long periods of stability following by the rapid
collapse of entire systems as tipping points arereached;•(often) attenuated risk perception and a lack ofadequate policy instruments to manage them.

Due to these characteristics, systemic risks areoverextending established risk management andcreate new, unsolved challenges for policymaking inrisk assessment and risk governance. The groupaddresses these challenges of systemic risk fromdifferent disciplinary and sectoral perspectives.

Third-Party Projects Starting in 2022

10/2022 – 9/2026 DIRECTED – DIsaster Resiliencefor Extreme ClimaTe Events providing interoperable
Data, models, communication and governancefunded by Horizon Europe Framework Programmeof the European Union under Grant Agreement No.
101073978, Pia-Johanna Schweizer is Principal
Investigator of work package 3 “Governance”.

2/2022 – 1/2025 REAL DEAL – Reshaping
European Advances towards green Leadership
Through Deliberative Approaches and Learning
funded by Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of
the European Union under Grant Agreement No.
101037071, Pia-Johanna Schweizer is Principal
Investigator of work package 1 “State-of-the-art
assessment of deliberative and participatory
approaches relevant to the European Green Deal”

Pia-Johanna Schweizer contributes to the Joint ISO/TC 262 - ISO/TC 292 JWG1 “Managing emerging
risks” by the International Organization forStandardization. She is Co-speaker of the DKN
Future Earth working group “Consistent technology
risk profiles for transitioning to sustainable low
carbonemission
scenarios(RiskTransScens)” (https://www.dkn-future-earth.org/
activities/working_groups/107372/index.php.en).

Dr. Pia-Johanna Schweizer
E-mail: pia-johanna.schweizer@iasspotsdam.de

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Publications•

risa.13657

Juhola, S., Filatova, T., Hochrainer-Stigler,S., Mechler, R., Scheffran, J., &Schweizer, P.-J. (2022). Social tipping
points and adaptation limits in the context
of systemic risk: Concepts, models andgovernance. Frontiers in Climate, 4.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.1009234•

Singh, S. J., Huang, T., Nagabhatla, N.,
Schweizer,
P.-J.,
Eckelman,
M.,
Verschuur, J., & Soman, R. (2022). Sociometabolic risk and tipping points on
islands. Environmental Research Letters,
17(6),
065009.
https://
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6f6c•Besley, J. C., & Schweizer, P.-J. (2022).
Risk Researchers’ Views About the Goalof Trying to Ensure Policymakers Consider
Scientific Evidence. Risk Analysis, 42(4),
786–798.
https://doi.org/10.1111/
risa.13813•

Schweizer, P.-J., Goble, R., & Renn, O.
(2022). Social Perception of Systemic
Risks. Risk Analysis, 42(7), 1455-1471.
https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13831•

Renn, O., Laubichler, M., Lucas, K.,
Kröger, W., Schanze, J., Scholz, R., &Schweizer, P.-J. (2022). Systemic Risks
from Different Perspectives. Risk Analysis.
42(9), 1902-1920. https://doi.org/10.1111/•

Schweizer, P.-J. & Renn, O. (eds.)(2022). Special Series: Systemic Risks.
Risk Analysis. 42(9), 1893-2124.

•

Sillmann, J., Christensen, I., HochrainerStigler, S., Huang-Lachmann, J.-T.,
Juhola, S., Kornhuber, K., Mahecha, M.
D., Mechler, R., Reichstein, M., Ruane, A.
C., Schweizer, P.-J., & Williams, S.
(2022). Briefing note on systemic risk:
Opportunities for research, policy andpractice from the perspective of climate,environmental and disaster risk scienceand management. Paris: International
Science Council, UNDRR, RISK KAN.
https://doi.org/10.24948/2022.01•

Andresen Oldervoll, J., Asenova, D.,
Dimova, A., Dreyer, M., Drivdal, L.E.,
Schweizer, P.-J., Sikma, T., van der
Sluijs, J., De Smedt, K., Tjelle Holm, N.-K.,
Trescher, D., & Vos, E. (2022). Precaution
for Responsible Innovation: Guidance on
the application of the precautionary
principle in the EU. Tjelle Holm, N.-K., &Dreyer,M.
(Eds.).
https://recipesproject.eu/sites/default/files/2022-04/
Final%20Guidance%
20Revisited_220426_3.pdf

Pia-Johanna Schweizer received the 2022 Presidential Merit Award from the Society of Risk Analysis.

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IASS Bids Farewell to Scientific Director Prof. Ortwin Renn
The following article by Dr. Bianca Schröder, Press and Communications Officer, IASS, Potsdam, appeared on
IASS webpage on 19 December 2022. Bianca kindly permitted GADRI to use the excerpts from the article andsent the photos too.
As 2022 draws to a close, the IASS bids
farewell to Ortwin Renn, one of theInstitute’s two scientific directors, whowill retire at the end of the year. At a
joyful and moving celebration, staff at
the IASS paid tribute to Renn’s
achievementsasanoutstanding
researcher and leader.
Ortwin Renn joined the IASS in February
2016 after a long and successful career
as a scientist and university lecturer.
Six of the Institute’s research groupleaders also lauded Renn’s contribution
to the IASS in their speeches. In theirview, Ortwin Renn was “an enabler, a leader,and a very decent human being,” “one of the few
people in science who is incredibly successful
and yet so nice,” “an insanely great director,” and“a gifted leader who allowed us great creative
freedom and always helped us when we neededit.” The team that led preparations for theevaluation described Renn as a “unshakablebastion of patience and resolve”. He was “always
responsive to everyone” and “proposedcompromises without watering down the issues
at stake”.
For his part, Ortwin Renn had warm words ofgratitude for the staff of the IASS. He expressed
his sentiments by reciting the opening lines from
Hermann Hesse's poem “Stages” (Stufen). “Asevery flower fades and as all youth / Departs, solife at every stage / So every virtue, so our graspof truth / Blooms in its day and may not lastforever.” (Translated by Richard and Clara
Winston in: The Glass Bead Game) And while
Renn may be retiring, he will continue to actively
cooperate with the IASS - operating under its
new name “Research Institute For Sustainability– Helmholtz Centre Potsdam” (RIFS).
Full article:
https://www.rifs-potsdam.de/en/news/iass-bidsfarewell-scientific-director-ortwin-renn
Prof. Ortwin Renn will maintain his affiliation with
the IASS in his retirement.

Mark
Lawrence*left) prepared his
own version of Billy
Joel’s “Piano Man”
which he sang andaccompaniedontheguitarandpiano.

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European Commission
Joint Research Centre, Italy
https://ec.europa.ei/jrc/en

Vulnerability to Disasters in Europe, Risk Data Hub Story Map © 2022 EU

We are proud to share that the Disaster Risk
Management
unit
of
the
EuropeanCommission’s Joint Research Centre has been
involved in several projects throughout 2022.
Our unit hosts the Disaster Risk Management
Knowledge Centre, which is the Science Pillarof the Civil Protection Knowledge Network. The
team added new functionalities to the Risk Data
Hub, a GIS platform of European wide risk datathat now has an interactive storymap. Anothergreat project we actively contributed to was the
INFORM suite of quantitative, analyticalproducts to support decision-making on
humanitarian crises and disasters – it now has a
Climate Change Risk Index.

Intelligence from the Open Source project,which was awarded for its valuable impact
during the Paris Peace Forum in 2022. It aims
to bring together public health authorities
worldwide for early detection and monitoring of
public health risks.

The team has also been leading the Epidemic

Dr. Tom De Groeve
Deputy Head, Disster Risk
Management Unit
E-mail: tom.de-groeve@ec.europa.eu

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It’s not easy to name our key highlight of the year,
but the DRMKC Annual Seminar in Paris wascertainly among them. Co-hosted with the French
Ministry of Interior and co-organised by DG ECHO,
the participants shared best practices andchallenges across areas like risk communication,
disaster resilience goals monitoring and DRM

science operationalisation. Other events we we’re
glad to have joined or organised include theEuropean Civil Protection Forum, the Global Conflict
Risk Index workshop or COP27 Side Event on “Dataand systems for understanding and acting on
current and future risks”.

6th DRMKC Annual Seminar has been recorded and can be watched via https://
drmkc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events-news/drmkc-annual-seminars/6th-drmkc-annual-seminar © 2022 EU

Every year our team summarizes the main
Disaster
RiskManagement
Science
Knowledge Publications produced internally.
On the side of the Copernicus Emergency
Management
Service(CEMS),
reports
produced by the European and Global
Drought Observatories on the drought
situation in Europe – but also in East Africa or
China – added invaluable information on theneed to mitigate and adapt to drought andclimate change as a whole.

The Combined Drought Indicator map shows that 11% of the EU territory was in Warning conditions
and 6% was in Alert conditions during the 1st ten-day period of December 2022.
Moreover, data from the European Forest
Fires System (EFFIS) also allowed producing
a report at Pan-European level analyzing thewildfire situation in 2021 and looking at the2022 season, as well as a Pan-European
wildfire risk assessment. Through the Global
Wildfire Information System (GWIS), the JRC
has also been providing support to wildfire
communities in the Amazon region throughthe provision of timely information on wildfire
danger and impacts, supporting EU efforts to
reducedeforestation
andforest degradation
by wildfires in the
Amazon region and
Latin America.
EFFIS Current Situation Viewer, pictured above for 22 August 2022, provides upto-date fire danger information in the region. EFFIS © 2022 EU
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Going beyond scientific publications, the new aerial
component of CEMS used for the first time thisyear allowed the service to support the aftermath of
the Ischia (Italy) mudflow emergency with
unprecedented precision. The mapping service has
also been activated for several other emergencies
like multiple wildfires during summer, the floods inAustralia and Pakistan or the volcanic eruption in
Tonga.

Among other purposes, it can help identify
settlements located in disaster-prone regions –more susceptible to flooding or wildfires – andhence support disaster risk management activities.
These urban performances significantly impact theimplementation and monitoring of all the global
development agendas and, in particular, the New
Urban Agenda and the SDG 11.

Another example of disaster-related work deliveredby the JRC is the degree of urbanisation(DEGURBA) training to help countries worldwide
delineate cities, towns, suburbs and rural areas with unprecedented accuracy since June 2022.

GHSL built-up surface fraction at 10 m resolution in the area of Delhi (India). GHSBUILT-S year 2020

Finally, we cannot forget the important work on
Natech. The JRC published new technicalguidance on Natech risk management as well as
the RAPID-N tool for analyzing and mapping therisk of natural hazard impacts on industrial sites.
We also revamped the eNATECH database which

provides access to the eNATECH database ispublic and free, and registered users can introduce
their own accident data to increase the pool of
information available for Natech forensic analysis.

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Department of Earth Sciences, Civil Protection Centre,
University of Florence, Italy
https://www.unesco-geohazards.unifi.it

UNESCO Chair on Prevention and Sustainable Management of
Geo-hydrological Hazards
https://www.dst.unifi.it
https://www.protezionecivile.unifi.it

Figure 1. The involvement in natural disasters risk management

The Department of Earth Sciences of the University
of Florence (DST-UNIFI; https://www.dst.unifi.it) is arecognized center for international research andhigher training in Italy, with an Engineering Geology
group counting almost over than 60 persons amongprofessors, researchers, technicians, post-doc
fellows, PhD students, collaborators and visiting
fellows. The DST-UNIFI was entitled in 2008 as a
World Centre of Excellence (WCoE) by the Global
Promotion Committee of International Programmeon Landslides (IPL) of UNISDR. This recognition
after the first triennium (2008-2011) was reaffirmed
four times 2011-2014, 2014-2017, 2017-2020 and
2021-2023.

DST-UNIFI in 2018 and is currently composed ofabout 20 staff members (amongst professors,researchers, technicians, administratives, andseveral temporary positions).

The Civil Protection Centre of the University of
Florence (CPC-UNIFI) is part of the National ItalianService of Civil Protection, as it is Centre ofCompetence for Civil Protection in the field ofgeological risk prevention. It was established at the

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Prof. Nicola Casigli
E-mail: nicola.casagli@unifi.it

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In 2022 the activities of the DST and CPC-UNIFI
continued by providing the scientific support of the
security of the University of Florence, byorganizing dissemination and training events, andby the involvement with the National Civil
Protection Service in several emergency
operational activities for the technical support in
the geo-hydrological hazards treating human life
and infrastructures. Among these in 2022 the CPC-UNIFI was involved in several and unfortunately
deadly natural disaster emergencies, from thecollapse of a serac in the Marmolada glacier, theflooding of the Marche Region, landsliding andtsunami connected to the volcanic activity ofStromboli, to a debris flow at Ischia Island (Fig. 1).

(AlUla Old Town, Dadan, Hegra), providing
technical support, capacity building and scientificdissemination to local authorities, agencies, andresearch centers. In this framework the Chair
carried out in September 2022 a field mission in
the High City of Antananarivo (Madagascar) for
assessing building vulnerability to landslides, inthe framework of risk assessment activities carriedout as a contribution to the Dossier of the site’senrolment in the UNESCO World Heritage List. In
2022 the Chair also concluded the World Bankfunded
Project“Strengthening
Financial
Resilience and Accelerating Risk Reduction inCentral Asia” in which was involved as leader of
Task 7 “Landslide Scenario Assessment”.

The UNESCO Chair on Prevention andSustainable Management of Geo-hydrological
Hazards (UNESCO Chair - https://www.unescogeohazards.unifi.it), funded at the DST-UNIFI in
2016, has the mission of carrying out researchand development (R&D) for the prevention andmanagement of landslides, in order to support
policies and actions of risk reduction. The Chair
has been signatory and promoter of the Kyoto
2020 Commitment (KLC2020) for global
promotion of understanding and reducing
landslide disaster risk. The Kyoto 2020
Commitment is a duty to the Sendai LandslidePartnerships 2015-2025, the Sendai Frameworkfor Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030
Agenda Sustainable Development Goals, the New
Urban Agenda’ and the Paris Climate Agreement.
The Kyoto Commitment was preliminarily signed
during the ICL-IPL conference on September 18th,
2019, at UNESCO in Paris, and definitively signed
during the virtual Launching session, which washeld on November 5th, 2020, with the participationof United Nations organizations and all thesignatories of the Commitment. The UNESCO
Chair is currently organizing the 6th World
Landslide Forum, which will be held in Florence
from the 14th to the 17th of November 2023. The
Forum is focused on Landslide Science for
Sustainable Development, as a contribution to the
KLC2020. During the reporting period the Forumwebsite (https://wlf6.org) was created and the Callfor session proposal was opened. Furthermore,
the UNESCO Chair keeps promoting theprotection of cultural heritage threatened by geohydrological hazards, with special regards to
UNESCO world Heritage sites and developing
countries, such as Madagascar (high City of
Antananarivo), Georgia (Rock cut sites of Vardzia,
Uplithsikhe and David Gareja), Saudi Arabia

The DST-UNIFI, the CPC-UNIFI and the
UNESCO Chair in 2022 participated to several
research projects in the field of prevention andmanagement of geo-hydrological hazards withspecial emphasis to landslides, subsidence, andfloods,fundedbyseveralinternationalorganizations, such as ICL/IPL, EU and ECHO,ROMERO and ESMERA consortiums, European
Space Agency (ESA) and European Environment
Agency (EEA). The research activities carried out
as a WCoE were performed in the framework of
the project ATLaS (Advanced Technologies for
LandSlides) project, which objective is to develop
new methodologies and advanced technologies
for landslide risk reduction. In this framework in
2022, 40 scientific papers were published on peer
reviewed ISI international scientific journals,
dealing with landslide analysis, mapping,monitoring, modelling and prediction, remotesensing, geophysics, geotechnics, volcanic flankinstability, subsidence, natural risk assessment,
resilience to natural disasters, hydrogeology, andenvironmental geology.

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Global Earthquake Model (GEM)
Foundation, Italy
https://www.globalquakemodel.org

Atlas 1.0 - a new and easier way of accessing seismic
hazard and risk information

The year 2022 was another packed and busy year for
GEM, with the release of the updated Africa Exposure
Model, partnerships with RMS, Allianz and the launchof the of Atlas 1.0 - a new and easier way of accessing
seismic hazard and risk information jumpstarting thefirst quarter and setting the tone for the rest of theyear.

Future Directions; Eigenrisk- Global Mosaic of Models- approaches in creating globally consistentearthquake hazard and risk models; EFEHR for the
release of the European Seismic Hazard and Risk
Models; and with a diverse team of GEM sponsors forthe development and release of a new earthquake
loss model for China.

GEM successfully completed the USAID-supported
TREQ project, delivering and sharing all the results
aimed at contributing to the understanding ofearthquake risk at the urban/city levels. In the project,
we worked closely with local partners and scientists todevelop the capacity for urban earthquake hazard andrisk assessment in Latin America, and to produce
training, educational and communication materials forbetter understanding of earthquake risk.

The CAREC project, funded by ADB released 10
country risk profiles, where GEM, a member of theconsortium of organizations that implemented the
project from 2020-2022 provided the exposure andseismic vulnerability data as contributions to thedevelopment of disaster risk assessments andmodeling in all Central Asia Regional Economic
Cooperation Region (CAREC) countries.

On the heels of the successful completion of the
TREQ project, the last quarter featured the launch of anew
GEM-USAID
Project:
ForecastingandCommunicating Earthquake Hazard and Risk
(FORCE). FORCE aims to strengthen the capacities
and understanding of small communities to manage
and respond to future earthquake risk.
GEM worked with its partners on several events
covering earthquake hazard and risk research andapplication topics: Safehub- The Future ofCatastrophe Risk Management; Geoscience AustraliaThe Global Earthquake Model: Achievements andProf. John Schneider
Secretary-GeneralE-mail: john.schneider@globalquakemodel.org

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Africa Exposure: residential buildings
GEM open Products downloads crossed the 11,000
mark as of December. In addition to this milestone,
GEM has updated its Products page to better serve
the needs of its stakeholders. Searching for a model
has been made easier with the addition of aninteractive point-and-click global map.
The OpenQuake development team released
versions 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15 featuring the capability
to run the new European model (ESHM20);
complete vectorisation of the hazardlib andperformance optimisations for classical, eventbased and disaggregation calculators; andoptimization of point-like sources resulting in a
speedup from 1.5 to 50 times, and many otherperformance improvements. The development teamalso released an online user manual to help support
users with updated information about the OQ
engine.
In the spirit of DRR Day, GEM shared throughsocial media and other online platforms the seismic
risk assessment reports for the cities of Cali, Quito
and Santiago de los Caballeros to help increaseavailability of and access to disaster risk information
and assessments of our stakeholders in Latin
America.

Africa Exposure: concrete masonry buildings
The Global Resilience Index Initiative (GRII) where
GEM is a founding member launched theDemonstrator at COP27. The launch of the GRII
demonstrator aims to provide the initial set ofpeople, planet and prosperity indices to guide
financial decisions to scale up adaptation to natural
hazard risks, particularly those affected by climatechange . The GRII will be fully launched in
November 2023 at COP28.
GEM released eight peer-reviewed papers on the
exposure, building classification for multi-hazard
risk assessment, benefit-cost analysis to support
earthquake mitigation, forecasting seismic risk, risk
scenarios for Latin America, and road network andhospital accessibility seismic risk assessment. See
more on GEM’s Publications page.
The year was capped with the official welcome at
the Governing Board meeting of new partnerships
with Allianz, Aon and CelsiusPro, and sponsorshiprenewals from Guy Carpenter/ MarshMcLennan andWillis Towers Watson to further advancecollaborative risk analysis and expand earthquake
and climate risk financing options throughparametric insurance.

TREQ Projectcompletion

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Release of the European model

GRII Demonstrator Launch

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Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, University of Iceland
https://www.eerc.hi.is

The EERC is one of the research institutes of theFaculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of
the University of Iceland and specializes inengineering
seismology
andearthquake
engineering related fields. It operates andmaintains the Icelandic Strong Motion Network(IceSMN), which is the only country-wide strong
ground motion network in Iceland. It completed alarge project of structural vibration monitoring
system in Iceland. The project was funded by the
Icelandic Centre for Research (www.rannis.is)
and resulted in extensive instrumentation of the
10 tallest structures in Iceland for monitoring their

Courses 2022 - 2023•

BYG401G - Computational Mechanics
1•

BYG301G - Continuum Mechanics 1

wind- and earthquake-induced vibrations. The
EERC, as one of the leading investigators,
received one of the most prestigious research
grants in Iceland, the grant of excellence from the
Icelandic Centre for Research. The grant is for a
project called Seismic Risk in Iceland (SERICE),
which aims at a multi-disciplinary andcomprehensive study of seismic hazard,
vulnerability, and risk in Iceland. Dr. Rajesh
Rupakhety, director of research at the EERC, is
one of the three principal investigators of the
SERICE project.

•

Seismic Fragility of Aging Elevated
Water Tank with Smooth Bars
Considering
Soil
Structure
InteractionBuildings•

Comparison and modelling of building
losses in South Iceland caused bydifferent size earthquakesJournal of
Building Engineering

Published works 2022•••

Recent Advancement in Assessment
and Control of Structures under Multi- •HazardApplied Sciences
Seismic Vulnerability of Vernacular
Residential Buildings in BhutanJournal•of Earthquake Engineering
Seismic Sequence Vulnerability of LowRise Special Moment-Resisting Frame
Buildings with Brick InfillsApplied
Sciences

Seismic Fragility Analysis of Low-Rise
RC Buildings with Brick Infills in High
Seismic
Regionwith
Alluvial
DepositsBuildings
Optimal design and performanceassessment of multiple tuned massdamper inerters to mitigate seismic
pounding of adjacent buildingsJournalof Building Engineeringhttps://english.hi.is/staff/rajesh

Prof. Rajesh Rupakhety
E-mail: rajesh@hi.is

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Nord University, NORDLAB
Norwayhttps://www.nord.no/en
Nord University innovation center for safety, security and preparedness collaboration (NORDLAB)
https://www.nord.no/en/about/faculties-and-centres/business-school/research-centres/nordlab/Pages/
default.aspx

Events and Exercises:• Tourism Safety Exercise, onsite• Student Barents Rescue• ARCSAR live exercise on cruise ship on
Svalbard• Tourism Safety Seminar in Rovaniemi, hybrid
Activities in 2022 are listed as follows:
Research Projects;• Research
project
MAREC:
The
interorganizational coordination of mass rescue
operations in complex environments
Associate professor Natalia Andreassen fromNORDLAB at the Nord University Business School
has been leading the MAREC research project since
January 2018. The project, which has been studying
coordination of response resources involved inmass rescue operations is now scheduled forcompletion late June of this year.

Graduate (Masters & PhD) courses, summer &field schools, online courses• Arctic Safety courses at UNIS
• Shipping in the Arctic• Preparedness and emergency management• Change management and crisis management• Emergency preparedness
emergency responseorganizations

and• Master Course on Resilience, Risk and Crisis
Management at University of Portsmouth, UK• Final scientific meeting of the joint research
project MAREC

https://www.nord.no/en/about/faculties-and-centres/business-school/articles/Pages/MAREC-The-interorganizational-coordination-of-mass-rescueoperations-in-complex-environments.aspx

Prof. Odd Jarl Borch
E-mail: odd.j.borch@nord.no

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Mobility activities:•• Mobility in Greenland• Mobility in The Faroe Islands• Mobility in Svalbard

Andreassen,
Natalia;
Borch,
Odd
Jarl.
International Cooperation in Emergency Responsein the Arctic Sea Areas. I: Global Development in
the Arctic : International Cooperation for the
Future. Routledge 2022 ISBN 9781003246015

Research Reports Publications/Scientific Articles(peer reviewed) :• Mobility to Finland• Mobility to UK•

ArcticRisk – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual
Fellowships Grant number:894623

Other Outreach activities:•• Andreassen, Natalia. Joint Collaboration Exerciseson Arctic Safety and Security. The Arctic Magazine
Shared Voices 2022

Building resilience in the high-north, NordPlus,
Nordic Council•

SECUREU: Security Risk Management in EU,
Erasmus + Strategic Partnerships• Andreassen, Natalia; Dominguez Cainzos, Mikel.
Tabletop Exercise ARCSAR TTX 2021 “OIL IN
ICE”. Exercise Report. : The ARCSAR project
2022•

RNSARCARDS: Operationalization of radiationand SAR cooperation in radiologocal and nuclear
rescue operations, financed by Nordic Nuclear
Safety Research• Elvegård, Rune; Andreassen, Natalia. International
cooperation with focus on marine environmental
response in the Arctic. High North News 2022•

ARCSAR: Arctic and North Atlantic Security andEmergency Preparedness Network, EU Horison
2020• MAREC GIS map with incidents and exercises inemergency management•

Student Barents Rescue: Enhanced Education
Capabilities Through Cooperation (SBR)• MAREC GIS ONLINE: How to show data andlearn from cases. Report for MAREC project

Sessions in international conferences (either
onsiteoronline),webinars,conferences,
workshops, events organized, art exhibitions :• Mobility to Netherlands• Uarctic fundraising, thematic group•

ESREL (European Safety
Conference), Dublin, Ireland

and•

NEEDS (Northern Europe
Disaster Studies Conference)

Emergency•

Side-event at High North Dialogue 2022•

Side-event at Arctic Frontiers 2022

Publication/Scientific Articles (Peer Reviewed):•

NEON conference 2022•

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2022) “Managing
Business Continuity in the Arctic - Experiencesfrom Mining”, Risk Analysis – An international
journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14098

Arctic Circle•

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2022) “Community
resilience – systems and approaches in remotesettlements”, Progress in Disaster Science, Http://
doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2022.100253•

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob & Gudemestad, Ove
Tobias (2022) “Reliability in
Arctic supply chains –Challenges
andopportunitiesforindustrial
development in Baffin Bay
and Greenland”,
Polar
Geography
https://
doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2022.2032447• Tourism
Safetytrainings
forentrepreneurs, Helsinki and Kuusamo

tourism

Publications:•

Multi-criteria mapping and prioritization of Arctic
and North Atlantic maritime safety and security
needs. European Journal of Operational Research.

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The Main School of Fire Service (SGSP)
Polandhttps://www.sgsp.edu.pl/

Ms. Mami Mizutori, SRSG, UNDRR Opening thesession of the INTERED Conference
Source: https://www.sgsp.edu.pl/?page_id=29327.

Beata Janowczyk, Polish Focal Point for
UNDRR, during her presentation in the IN­
TERED conference
Source: https://www.sgsp.edu.pl/?
page_id=29327.

In 2022 four organizational units of the Main School ofFire Service (Szkola Glowna Sluzby Pozarniczej,
SGSP) actively participated in disaster risk reduction(DRR) due to natural hazards and man-made events.
There were the Institute of Safety Engineering, theInstitute of Internal Security, the Faculty of Safety
Engineering and Civil Protection and the Firefighting
Rescue Unit of SGSP. Consequently, during the third
full year of participation in GADRI, SGSP covered
research, educational and operational areas of the
reduction, also in the pandemic conditions andconsidering military conflict in Ukraine.

3. Support for social prevention in Ukraine throughdevelopment of education for security for children
and youths with the use of educational rooms.
Module I. Polish Development Support.
Doctoral dissertations were carried out in security
studies (in social sciences) and in environmental
engineering, mining and power engineering (intechnical sciences).

In the period reported, SGSP was conducting
research in following international projects related to
DRR aspects:

1. Integrated Technological and Information Platform
for wildfire Management (SILVANUS), Horizon2020.

2. Protection System for large gatherings of People
in Religious Sites (ProSPeReS), Horizon 2020.
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In relation to SILVANUS project, SGSP
organized 3 online International Scientific
Seminars on Preparation and Pre-Planning
Activities for Wildfire Response (29 June
2022, 29 September 2022 and 15 December2022). The seminars were focused on training
scope, objectives, materials and methods aswell as on specification of wildfire response
training – from particular entities tocooperation, general requirements for training
materials.

The main DRR event in SGSP was theInternational
Scientific
Conference
onInternational Emergency Mechanisms andDisaster Risk Reduction (15 September 2022,
in hybrid formula). The conference was under
honorary patronage of The United Nations
Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR),
The United Nations Office for the
Coordinationof
Humanitarian
Affairs(UNOCHA), Prime Minister of the Republic of
Poland and The Main Headquarters of theState Fire Service of the Republic of Poland.
Media patronages were given from Routledge(Taylor&Francis Group), Adam Marszałek
Publishing Group and Firefighting Review
Journal. GADRI partners made great efforts to
support SGSP in organization of this event(especially The Center for Risk-Based
Community Resilience Planning Colorado
State University (USA), Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan),Israel National Knowledge and ResearchCenter for Emergency Readiness Universityof Haifa (Israel), Pacific International Center

for Disaster Risk Reduction (Ecuador),
University of Żilina (Slovak Republic)). Book
entitled ‘International Emergency Mechanisms
and Disaster Risk Reduction. A Supplement
Way to Shape National Security’, which is
directly related to this event, is planned to be
published by Routledge in 2024.

SGSP representative, Pawel Gromek, shared
his research findings in internationalmonograph entitled ‘Epidemic Risk Reduction.
A Civil Protection Approach’. The book was
published by Routledge and has beenaccessible
since
July
2022
(https://www.routledge.com/Epidemic-Risk-Reduction-A-Civil-Protection-Approach/Gromek/p/book/9781032181004).

SGSP, as an organizational unit of the State
Fire Service, actively supported Ukrainian
refugees on Ukrainian-Polish border and inrefugee centers in Poland. University also
helped Ukrainian emergency services as aninternational hub for delivering rescue
equipment from European countries andentity which co-organised common scientificevents.

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Faculty of Security Engineering,
University of Žilina Slovakia
https://www.fbi.uniza.sk/en/

1. FSE UNIZA organizes two times per year “A dropof blood” where blood donors participates. The
local association of the Slovak Red Cross at the
FSE and the National Transfusion Society tookcharge of the organization.There were 29 donors
present and helped those who needed this mostly.

2. Nowadays, virtual reality, augmented reality andmixed reality are used in education in almost every
field, both in companies and in universities. We
had a testing day of scenarios with Microsoft
HoloLens 2 that were created as part of theFightARs project that took place at the Universityof Žilina in Žilina. They are mainly focused on crisis
management and rescue services professionals
training. The Faculty of Security Engineering,
University of Zilina organized the conference incooperation with partners from Estonia, Lithuania,
Germany, Cyprus and the Czech Republic. (moreinfos: http://fight-ar.com/sk/)other interesting activities. As every year, the campwent well this year as well.
4. On May 18th and 19th, 2022, the 25th edition of
the international scientific conference "Solving
crisis situations in a specific environment" was heldon University of Žilina in Žilina under the auspicesof the Rector of the University of Žilina in Žilina,
Prof. Ing. Jozef JANDAČKA, PhD. The content wasa presentation and discussion of current
knowledge from scientific research and practicalexperience in solving crisis situations in companies
and in public administration, as well as current
questions in connection with the current security
situation.

3. The Young Rescuer summer school for children
aged 7-12 was also held in 2022. We welcomed 50
children and experienced an unforgettable
program. They learned the basics of providing firstaid, civil protection activities, forensic methods and

Dr. Katarina Holla
Associate Professor;
Vice-Dean, International Relations
and Marketing
E-mail: katarina.holla@fbi.uniza.sk

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Stockholm Environment Institute
Swedenhttps://www.sei.org/

Here is a selection of examples of SEI’s work on disaster risk related issues during the year 2022:•

Tran, M. and Boyland, M.(2022). The state ofknowledge on disaster risk. IRDR Working Paper
Series, 24 pages.

•

As part of the development process for a global
research agenda for risk-informed development,
this paper provides context, baseline information
and a ‘state of knowledge’ on disaster risk
science.

•

To read more https://www.sei.org/publications/irdr-wp-state-of-knowledge-on-dr/•

Up on the launch of the Global Assessment
Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR 2022),
SEI researchers shared their reflections ahead of
the 2022 Global Platform for DRR, and its
implications for addressing emerging new risklandscapes. To read more: https://www.sei.org/
perspectives/global-disaster-risk-transformativeapproaches/•

Finalization of the Programme - Building
resilience through inclusive and climate-adaptive
disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific, 2018-2022.
This programme aims to enhance regional
cooperationon
inclusiverisk
reduction
approaches by building on good practice
examples and providing scientific evidence andtechnical assistance on new and innovative
methods, tools and practices to key actors in theregion. To read more: https://www.sei.org/
projects-and-tools/projects/resilience-inclusiveclimate-adaptive-drr-asia-pacific/•

As part of the Adaptation without Borders (https://
adaptationwithoutborders.org/) global partnershipinitiated by and anchored at SEI, in 2022, SEI
published a major analysis tackling cascadingclimate risk to meet global adaption challenge,

suggested potential coalitions of countries thatmight ignite a new era of global climate
diplomacy on adaption. To read more: https://www.sei.org/perspectives/countries-tacklingclimate-risks/•

A perspective on disaster risk reduction for foodand security and nutrition, linking to theattendance of the Global Platform for Disaster
Risk Reduction (GPDRR) 2022, which was anopportunity to discuss the need for holistic andmulti-sectoral disaster risk reduction interventions
on climate-triggered disaster risks and mitigate
their repercussions. It provided a platform tointegrate agri-food systems in Disaster Risk
Reduction(DRR)
andClimateChangeAdaptation (CCA) to guarantee their resilience.
To read more: https://www.sei.org/featured/disaster-risk-reduction-for-food-security-andnutrition/

Dr. Guoyi Han
E-mail: guoyi.hn@sei.org

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Project: RISKSEC 2.0 Local climate change
adaptation: from risk governance tosecuritisation strategies? Without a proper
understanding of the characteristics of local
governance and society, climate change
adaptation is doomed to fail, withconsequent economic, environmental andhuman costs. Using the literatures on risk
governance and securitisation, this projectuncovers how climate change adaptation
can be framed through risk governancethinking, with a focus on accommodating
everyday risks, or through securitisation
dynamics, by which extraordinary measuresand particular actors are required. Readmore:
https://www.sei.org/projects-andtools/projects/risksec-2-0/

Climate policies need to be better prepared
to deal with transboundary climate risks
resulting from the cascading effects of bothclimate hazards and adaptation responses.
SEI colleagues co-authored a IDDRI Blog
post questioning the scientific feasibility andpolicyrelevanceofassessingtransboundary climate risks. Read more:https://www.sei.org/perspectives/scientificfeasibility-policy-transboundary-climate-risks/•

Harris, K., Lager, F., Jansen, M. K., &Benzie, M. (2022). Rising to a New
Challenge: A Protocol for Case-Study
Research on Transboundary Climate Risk.
Weather, Climate, and Society, 14(3), 755768.
https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-210022.1•

Ghosh, A. and Raha, S. (2022). Renewed
multilateralism to alleviate chronic risks andenhance human security.Stockholm+50
background paper series. Stockholm
Environment Institute, Stockholm.

•

Perspective on Ensuring gender equality iscore to effective disaster risk reduction
policies
https://www.sei.org/perspectives/
gender-equality-disaster-risk/•

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Evidence Aid
United Kingdom
https://www.evidenceaid.org/

Evidence Aid has continued to expand theirresources this year, thanks to the work of acore team of staff and volunteers. We
continued work on our COVID evidencecollection which currently includes summaries
more than 600 summaries. These summaries
have been routinely translated into Arabic,
Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese
and Spanish.
In June 2021, we started working with the Pan
American Health Organization on Phase 2 ofthe evidence collection on Resilient Health
Systems with a particular focus on low andmiddle income countries. At the end of
December 2022, this contained more than 220
summaries of systematic reviews. All
summaries have been translated into French,
Portuguese and Spanish. We are planning towork with them again in 2023 to create a Phase
3 of the collection.

Health Organization, Kobe Centre to develop
new materials to be included in a Knowledge
Hub. The work centred around the online book
‘WHO Guidance on Research Methods for
Health Emergency and Disaster Risk
Management’. In 2021, a small teamsummarised the chapters, further readings, andothers brought together slideshows (some withvideo), podcasts and held three webinars.
These materials have been uploaded to a
dedicated Knowledge Hub. In 2022, we worked
on expanding the number of podcasts andslideshows with video and will continue ourwork with them into the first part of 2023.

Continuing our work from June 2021,
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man-madehazards
characterizedbycommunities with high vulnerability andexposure. More about the project can be foundhere.
We were lucky to have 10 interns from
McMaster University who worked to update ourevidence collections on Earthquakes andWindstorms. The collection currently contains
60 summaries with more to come later in theyear. The summaries are being translated into
various languages.

In June 2021, we recruited Epa La Bella andSumra Ali to work on Phase 2 of the WHO
WKC project, and Cristian Mansilla, Ana
Pizarro, Jane McHugh and Yasmeen Saeed towork on Phase 2 of the PAHO project. They
have been supported by hard-working
volunteers.
We worked with the Florida International
University (Extreme Events Institute) on a
Disaster risk in informal settlements projectfrom July – September 2022, preparing shortsummaries of 11 articles to assess what the
project meant as a whole in terms of evidence
going forward both within and outside of theLatin American and Caribbean region (where
the studies were carried out). This included
sections on implementation and impact. This
was aimed at professionals and technicians
who work in public, private andcivil society sectors responsible
for the design, implementationand evaluation of projects/
activities of social interest in
precarious urban settlements
where a high level of risk
prevails in the fact of natural andWe would like to take this opportunity to thankall our interns and volunteers without whom wewould not have had such a successful year.
Our Board of Trustees was delighted towelcome Xavier Bosch Capblanch, Ngoy
Nsenga, Lisa Robinson and Rik Viergeve.

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Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR)
University College London, United Kingdom
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/

Photo: IRDR Global Engagement
The UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction(IRDR) was launched in 2010 with a mission from the
Provost to lead transdisciplinary research, teaching
and knowledge exchange in risk and disaster
reduction in the UK and internationally. In those 12
years, economic globalisation has gone into retreat
with increases in protectionism and economic
nationalism, heightening tensions between economic
blocks as Phil Mullan has pointed out (spiked,
7/3/22). According to the World Trade Organization,
protectionist measures are now imposed on 10% oftrade by G20 countries – up ten-fold since the 2008
global financial crisis. While COP-26 in many ways
was a success, in other fields international cooperation is in retreat.

Exodus. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia may set apattern for increasing global conflict between rival
blocks. The war again has shown the weakness ofinternational institutions to prevent it. The IRDR has
increasing developed its research and public
engagements in conflict and disasters, forced
migration driven by conflict and environmental
change, and humanitarian action.

Coordination of a global response to the Covid-19
pandemic was largely ineffective according to a
World Health Organization (WHO) report that blamed
the inadequate leadership by the UN, G7 and G20.
The WHO itself was embroiled in disputes over its
independence and unable to lead a global response.
Geopolitics stops any resolution of the Rohingya
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Prof. Peter Sammonds
Director
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So, the launch in 2021 of our Global HumanitarianStudies BSc programme, an exciting multidisciplinary
programme that aims to educate and train future
generations of humanitarian leaders in the theory
and practice of humanitarian action, is an importantstep.
We believe there is a real need for such a
programme. Sixty students from 24 countries joined
this international and internationalist programme. With
the launch of the BSc, the IRDR has gone through an
unprecedented expansion. Ten academic andteaching staff joined the IRDR this year, taking us to
22 in total. But this has also been the last year withPeter Sammonds as IRDR Director, the post he has
held since 2010 when we launched with a just two
staff. Dr Joanna Faure Walker, our first academic
appointment in 2011, took over a Head of Department
in September.
• Our mission remains to develop the IRDR themedaround disaster resilience, cascading crises,
natural hazards, humanitarian crisis response,
conflict and migration, climate change adaptation,
health emergencies, and gender responsive
resilience, in order to integrate education, research,innovation and enterprise for the long-term benefitof humanity. Highlights of some of thedevelopments and achievements within the IRDR
during 2021–22 include:• Global Humanitarian Studies BSc started in
September 2021 with 60 students. Half of BSc
students are international students coming from 24
countries.
• In an unprecedented expansion of the IRDR, we
are delighted that Mark Pelling joined as Professor
for Risk and Disaster Reduction and Fatemeh
Jalayer as Professor for Geophysical Hazard Risks,

Dr Philip Cunliffe has joined us as Associate
Professor, Drs Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Roberto
Gentile, Estella Carpi, Lisa Danquah, Saman
Ghaffarian, Ting Sun, Yasmine Sabri, Megnaa
Mehta and Aeron O’Connor as Lecturers andVictoria Maynard as Teaching Fellow. Pamila
Bhatia and Afsana Begum joined us asprofessional service staff.
• IRDR Master's programmes
popularity with 90 students.

continue

their• Moved back to in-person teaching from hybrid
teaching with most students returning to London.
• Professor David Alexander, Professor Ilan Kelman,
Professor Maureen Fordham, Professor Mark
Pelling and Dr Bayes Ahmed have been listed in
the world’s top 2% of scientists in their respective
fields.
• Professor David Alexander completed ten months
Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords SelectCommittee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning.
• Launched the Warning Research Centre as a joint
centre with the Department of Science andTechnology Studies.
• Congratulated Claudia Sgambato, Gillian Dacey,
and Justine Uyimieshi, graduating with PhDs, whilst
welcoming Christiana Iliya, Ava Sullivan, Aimee
Colgate, Zerong Li, Umut Lagap, Musaad
Almuthaybiri, Zhu Yu, Dan Thompson and Mhari
Gordon as new IRDR research students.
• More than 400 participants attended IRDR online
events.
• Published over 130 peer-reviewed papers

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Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN)

University of Leicester, United Kingdom
https://www.avoidable-deaths.net/
Picture from the RN4FR project:Hybrid Meeting at the Regional Security
System Paragon Base with Mark Boyce(Regional Security System/ Emergency
Ambulance Service), Clemens Buter(Pan American Health Organisation),Frank
Caswell(WorldFood
Programme), Errol Maynard (Caribbean
Association of Fire Chiefs/ Barbados
Fire Service), David Byer OBE (Queen
Elizabeth
Hospital
Emergency
Ambulance Service), Nibedita RayBennett (University of Leicester),Rasheed Pinder (Caribbean Disaster
Emergency
Management
Agency),Krishna Clarke (Avoidable Deaths
Network), Keisha Linton (Regional
Security System), Paul Saunders(Caribbean
Development
Bank),
Rochelle Hunte (Barbados Red Cross),
Jeffrey Forde(Regional Security
System) and Peterson Yearwood(Barbados Red Cross) on 04 July 2022.

The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) organised anddelivered its debut Symposium on 10 December 2021
in the Caribbean region, entitled ‘Integrating Disaster
Risk management with Emergency Services andDefence to Reduce Avoidable Disaster Deaths’. A key
conclusion of the Symposium was to create a regional
network connecting first responders operating in the
Caribbean and their critical support partners, tofacilitate familiarity and trust, promote interaction, andshare knowledge and experience.

convener. Drawing on the ideas and perspectives
gained from the consultations, a “Roadmap” has been
prepared to realise the intentions expressed forconnecting the key actors engaged in and supporting
efforts to respond to disaster events in the countries
and sovereign territories of the Caribbean. This willleverage the power of community to reinforce theRegional Comprehensive Disaster Management(CDM) Strategy and the Regional Response
Mechanism (RRM), reduce avoidable disaster deaths,
and mitigate the extent of disruption through enhanced
3Cs in the Caribbean region.

To assess the need for this network, ADN carried out aseries of stakeholder consultations from April to July
2022 funded by the University of Leicester’s
Knowledge Exchange Proof of Concept Fund for the
project ‘Regional Network for First Responders(RN4FR)’. Consultations revealed a strong interest
from all parties in addressing capacity gaps, inparticular the coordination, collaboration andcommunication (3C) gaps, through this network. There
was a positive reception from Caribbean Disaster
Emergency Management Agency, drawing on its
coordination mandate, to act as the network’s

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E-mail: Nsrb1@leicester.ac.uk

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Knowledge exchange events update:
The ADN organised eight knowledge exchange
special session webinars with seven partners inIran, the Caribbean, Switzerland, Uganda,
Pakistan and the UK. These events featured 43
Speakers from 42 Organisations and 798
registrants.

Publications update:
The ADN team published two Bulletins, one
Newsletter & Annual Report, two Technical
Reports and one Refereed Journal Article on
Sendai Targets A and B https://doi.org/10.1007/
s13753-022-00432-3

Outreach update:••

ADN is selected to be on UNDRR’s Voluntary
Commitment Platform for Sendai Framework:https://sendaicommitments.undrr.org/
commitments/20211123_001
ADN is part of the University of Leicester’s
newly established Institute for Environmental
Futures
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/
environmental-futures

Future Leader Programme update:grade children of Hama Elementary School in theCentral part of Osaka who are producing
Information, Education and Communication (IEC)
materials and magazines for tsunami warnings.
They are furthermore raising awareness andpreparedness through simulation exercises anddrills with “at risk” communities to create a cultureof tsunami preparedness. The noteworthy
activities undertaken by the Future Leaders overa period of two years are identifying and mapping
the number of colleges and universities that offer
programmes related to risk, crisis, disastermanagement, development, and avoidable
deaths in the 10 eastern states of India andexploring the feasibility of developing a networkof these colleges and universities for avoidable
deaths, disaster risk reduction and sustainable
development.

ADN India Hub update:
Led by Orissa State Volunteers Social Worker’s
Association (OSVSWA)•

Distributed 1,119 packed meals across 27
villages of the Kandamahal and Nayagarh
districts.

•

Distributed 1,500 information, education andcommunication flyers on ‘How to Prevent
Snakebite Deaths’ across 11 districts
targeting more than 250,000 people.

The ADN’s Presidents Drs Nibedita Ray-Bennett
and Hideyuki Shiroshita mentored in excess of 70
interns from 10 different countries. Of these, 19interns are Future Leaders (18 years of age andabove) and the remainder is Junior Champions(10-17 years of age). The noteworthy activities
undertaken by the Junior Champions are the 5th-

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Water Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Loughborough University
United Kingdom
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/wedc/

In the last year, the Water Engineering andDevelopment Centre (WEDC) of Loughborough
University has continued to deliver disasterrelated research projects and have been
awarded several new projects related to climatechange adaptation and disaster risk reduction. In
these research projects, the Loughborough
University researchers work with internationaland multi-disciplinary teams to deliver innovative
research, models and tools to help society toenhance resilience to natural hazards andclimate change.

The Chair will establish and sustain an
integrated, interdisciplinary research, education/
training, and capacity enhancement programme
to co-develop, disseminate, and support
implementationof
informatics
technology
solutions for multi-hazard risk assessment andmanagement in Low- and Middle-income
Countries, thus contributing to the UN’s 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Award:UNESCO has approved the application of
establishing UNESCO Chair in Informatics andMulti-hazard Risk Reduction (IMRR) at
Loughborough University, with Professor Qiuhua
Liang being the chairholder. The core team of the
UNESCO Chair comprises a multidisciplinary
team of 14 academics at different career stages.

Prof. Qiuhua Liang
E-mail: q.liang@lboro.ac.uk

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Research projects:••

National Engineered Slope Simulator, The
Wolfson Foundation (Neil Dixon; Alister
Smith)
UKRI Expert call to inform the progamme on
Nature-based
Solutionsfor
Equitable
Climate Resilience, NERC (involving Tim
Marjoribanks; Bart Hill; Lee Bosher; Qiuhua
Liang; Andrew Longley; Ksenia Chmutina;
Robby Soetanto)•

NERC discipline hopping(involving Ksenia Chmutina)•

RAEng Diversity Impact Programme Award,
RAEng (involving Ksenia Chmutina)

grant,

dependencies and interactions. Journal of
Hydrology, 607, 127477.
•

Xing, Y., Chen, H., Liang, Q., & Ma, X.
(2022). Improving the performance of cityscale hydrodynamic flood modelling througha GIS-based DEM correction method.
Natural Hazards, 1-23.

•

Chen, H., Zhao, J., Liang, Q., Maharjan, S.
B., & Joshi, S. P. (2022). Assessing thepotential impact of glacial lake outburst
floods on individual objects using a highperformance hydrodynamic model and opensource data. Science of The Total
Environment, 806, 151289.

•

Su, X., Xia, X., Liang, Q., & Hou, J. (2022). A
coupled discrete element and depthaveraged model for dynamic simulation offlow-likelandslides.
ComputersandGeotechnics, 141, 104537.

•

Chmutina, K., von Meding, J., Williams, D.
A., Vickery, J., & Purdum, C. (2022). Frompity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability. Disasters.

•

Chmutina, K., & von Meding, J. (2022).
Towards a liberatory pedagogy of disasterrisk reduction among built environment
educators.
DisasterPrevention
andManagement: An International Journal.

•

Chmutina, K., Cheek, W., & von Meding, J.
(2022). “Critique is not a verb”: is peer
review stifling the dialogue in disasterscholarship?. Disaster Prevention andManagement: An International Journal.

•

Booth, A., Bosher, L., & Chmutina, K. (2022).
The protection of crowded places fromterrorist threats: does protective security
advice meet the needs of security
managers?. Security Journal, 1-24.

NERC

Representative Journal publications:•

Xiong, Y., Liang, Q., Zheng, J., Stolle, J.,
Nistor, I., & Wang, G. (2022). A fully coupledhydrodynamic-DEM model for simulating
debris dynamics and impact forces. Ocean
Engineering, 255, 111468.

•

Su, X., Liang, Q., & Xia, X. (2022). A new
GPU-accelerated coupled discrete elementand depth-averaged model for simulation offlow-like landslides. Environmental Modelling& Software, 153, 105412.

•

Zhao, J., Chen, H., Liang, Q., Xia, X., Xu, J.,
Hoey, T., ... & Zhou, X. (2022). Large-scale
flood risk assessment under different
development strategies: the Luanhe River
Basin in China. Sustainability Science, 17(4),1365-1384.

•

Zhao, J., & Liang, Q. (2022). Novel variable
reconstruction and friction term discretisation
schemes for hydrodynamic modelling ofoverland flow and surface water flooding.
Advances in Water Resources, 163, 104187.

•

Ming, X., Liang, Q., Dawson, R., Xia, X., &Hou, J. (2022). A quantitative multi-hazard
risk assessment framework for compoundflooding
considering
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Cheek, W., & Chmutina, K. (2022). Measuring
Resilience in the Assumed City. International
Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 1-13.

•

Li, S., & Smith, A. (2022). Relationship between
acoustic emission and energy dissipation: a
DEM study of soil–structure interaction. Acta
Geotechnica, 1-20.

•

Wang, H., Barone, G., & Smith, A. Current andfuture role of data fusion and machine learning ininfrastructure health monitoring. Structure andInfrastructure Engineering - Maintenance,
Management,
Life-Cycle
DesignandPerformance [accepted]•

Dixon, N., Smith, A., & Pietz, M. (2022). A
community-operated landslide early warning
approach:
Myanmarcase
study. Geoenvironmental Disasters, 9(1), 1-15.

•

Smith, A., Barone, G., Wackrow, R., & Stanley,
R. (2022). Interpretation of uplift pipeline–soilinteraction behaviour using acoustic emission
measurements.
Canadian
Geotechnical
Journal, 1-13.

•

Dixon N, Smith A and Pietz M (2022) A

community-operated landslide early warning
approach:
Myanmarcase
study. Geoenvironmental Disasters, 9(1), 1-15.

EventsLoughborough University and the International
Centre for Integrated Mountain Development(ICIMOD) organized the workshop on 18 May 2022
to disseminate findings from the UK NERC funded
WeACT (Web-based Natural Dam-Burst Flood
Hazard Assessment and Forecasting System)
project.

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Global Disaster Resilience Centre (GDRC)
University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
http://www.hud.ac.uk/gdrc

A). Projects
GDRC has been successful with the following
funded projects during 2022:
An exploratory study into nature-inspired
solutions for disaster risk reduction in coastal
regions
The Project is an exploratory study to better
understand the state of the art and potential
application of nature inspired solutions (NIS) to
reduce the impact of coastal hazards. The project
outcomes will identify key research gaps in NIS for
disaster risk reduction (DRR), and provide a basis
for the development of future, externally funded
research project proposals.
Our role: Project lead
Funder: University of Huddersfield, URF Scheme
Partnership: 12 partners from 4 countries
20 years after - then and now : An explorative
study of the status of communities relocated in
the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunamiin Sri Lanka
No other time is more appropriate to delve into thelives of relocated communities and to explore thestatus of their lives 20 years after the Tsunami. The
study expects to collect data from selected
relocation settlements in Sri Lanka by paying
specific attention to areas such as
the status of relocation
settlements
built
qualityof
built
environment , statusoftheinfrastructure,
livelihoods, social
relations, host and relocated community
relations, vulnerable groups such as children, elderly
and disabled, challenges and impacts created by therelocation process and locations of the settlements,
coping strategies and adaptation measures
employed by the communities etc.
Our role : Joint project lead with University ofColombo, Sri Lanka
Funder: University of Huddersfield
Partnership: 6 partners from 4 countries
International Network "Connect4Resilience" Disaster Research, Climate Crisis & Social Work
The overall aim of the Connect4Resilience Network
is to connect various stakeholders from research,
policy, practice, and society to:(1) better prepare
and plan for future disaster(s) and crises;(2) better
integrateandestablishknowledge
andimplementation capacities for resilient andsustainable
DRR
planning
anddoing;(3) build capacity and create awareness of the roleof social work and social services in disaster
contexts; ND (4) foster societal transformation onvarious scales (SDG1, SDG5, SDG10, SDG11,
SDG17).
Our role : Partner
Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).
Partnership: 9 institutions from 14 countries
Community engagement programme on publichealth emergencies in the context of multihazards in Sri Lanka
to promote community involvement in public healthemergencies (such as epidemics and pandemics)
by building up networks with affected communities,
CBOs and local NGOs that are closely working withthe selected community groups in selected multihazard-prone areas in Sri Lanka.
Our role : Project lead
Funder: University of Huddersfield
Partnership: 9 institutions from 2 countries

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B ) Events ; There have been a large
examples are listed below :number of events organised by GDRC during 2022. Some

National event to commemorate the International
Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) on
Early warning and early action for all: Leave noone behind, Launched from Hotel Cinnamon

Lakeside, Colombo, Sri Lanka
The United Nations General Assembly has
designated 13th October as the International Day for
Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) to promote a
global culture of disaster risk reduction. It was anopportunity given to member countries toacknowledge the progress being made towards
reducing disaster risk and losses in lives, health andlivelihoods in line with the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2020. The 2022
edition of this international day focused on theobjective of “substantially increasing the availabilityof and access to multi-hazard early warning systems
and disaster risk information and assessments topeople by 2030”, which is the seventh and final
target of the Sendai Framework under the core
theme of “Early warning and Early action for all”.
Organised by: Disaster Management Centre, Sri
Lanka; Days: 13th October 2022 (Hybrid event)
Our role: event partner
International
ResearchandInnovation
Symposium on Dengue Amidst the Pandemic:
Improving preparedness and response for multihazard scenarios – March 2022, Colombo, Sri
Lanka
The main aim of this event was to discuss anddebate on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic andother communicable diseases, such as dengue andmalaria, and their role as part of overall multi hazard
scenarios, integrating both natural and biologicalhazards.
Organised by: Project consortium of the UKRI/EPSRC funded research collaboration: Improving
COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness andresponse through the downstream of multi-hazard
early warning systems, led by University of
Huddersfield, UK; Ministry of Health Sri Lanka(National Dengue Control Unit, Anti Malaria
Campaign, Disaster Preparedness & Response

Division);andNational
Science Foundation of Sri
Lanka
Dates: 16-17 March 2022
Our role: Conference cochairs(Profs.
DilanthiAmaratunga and Richard
Haigh),
Organising
Committee(Thushara
Kamalrathne, Asitha de Silva)
URL:
http://pandemic-mhew.org/index.php/
symposium-2022
13th International Conference on Sustainable
Built Environment (ICSBE) 2022 , Kandy, Sri
Lanka
ICSBE 2022’s vision was to drive innovative
research for tomorrow’s development, to bring
together experts, researchers and colleagues in thefield of sustainable development, and to exchange
workable concepts, innovative ideas in the line ofsustainable built environment. Themes included:
Sustainable construction; Urban green infrastructure& planning; Impacts of climate change; Climate risk
management & mitigation; Sustainable infrastructuredevelopment & planning; Sustainable cities &villages.
Organised by: University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka;
University of Melbourne, Australia; University of
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka; The Open University of Sri
Lanka (OUSL); University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka;
University of Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka andCouncil on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Days: 16th to 18th December 2022.
Our role: event partner
URL: https://www.icsbe.org
COP27 - 27th Conference of the Parties of the
UNFCCC
Egypt hosted the event in Sharm El-Sheikh, with aview to building on previous successes and paving
the way for future ambition. It was an important
opportunity for all stakeholders to rise to theoccasion and tackle effectively the global challengeof climate change facilitated by Egypt on the African
continent.
Organised by: the Government of the Arab Republicof Egypt
Dates: 6 – 20 November 2022
Role: Abhilash Panda led the Climate Financing
andInfrastructure
Resilience Pillars for
UNDRR
URL: https://cop27.eg/

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Seventh SessionoftheGlobalPlatformfor
Disaster
Risk
Reduction(GP2022) ; From
Risk to Resilience:
Towards
Sustainable
Development for All in a COVID-19 TransformedWorldsolidarity and cooperation, as well as to discuss ways totackle underlying risk drivers, locally and globally,strengthen disaster risk governance, build stronger
systems for managing all types of risks, and torecommit, with urgency, to accelerate progress toward
the reduction of disaster risk and the achievement of the
SDGs.
Organised by: UNDRR and hosted
Government of Indonesia
Dates: 23-28 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia

by

The

Role: Abhilash Panda, organiser, moderator of theGP2022 was held under the theme “From Risk toTechnical Session on the Role of Anticipatory
Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development for All in
Financing for Disaster Recovery, noting thata COVID-19 Transformed World” and was organised
anticipatory financing is an important connector toacross three main sub-themes on: disaster risk
successful humanitarian action.
governance; COVID-19 recovery; and DRR financing.
The 2022 Global Platform provided a unique and timely URL: https://globalplatform.undrr.org
opportunity to showcase the importance of international
MHEWC-III: The Third Multi-Hazard Early Warning
Conference
From Stock Take to Scaling Actions on Target G:
Accelerating the Knowledge and Practice of
Early Warning Systems for Risk Informed
Resilience.
The MHEWC-III consisted of varied Sessions,Learning Events, and Receptions hosted by INMHEWS Partners and spread over two days.
Sessions covered topics including: The state of playon early warning systems - progress on Target G andstocktake for the Sendai Framework Mid-Term
Review; Status, gaps, and ways forward; High-level
Panel on scaled-up action; and Public-Private
engagement for early warnings. Learning Events
South Asian Heritage
Month:
Journeys of
EmpireBased on our work in
South Asian region, incelebrating
theSouth Asian Heritage Month (18th July-17th August2022) , we organised a range of events andcommunications, including
a research poster
exhibition. Much of the exhibition was also madeavailable online. There were 38
project posters,
research
12
PhD
project posters , and aCollection of rolemodel profiles . 2022 theme
was Journeysof Empire

coveredtopicsincluding:Theeffectivenessof
early
warningsystems;
Impactbased Forecastingand Forecast-based
Financing; Gender mainstreaming; Common Alerting
Protocols (CAP); Words Into Action reports; andInnovation and next generation forecasting
Organised by: International Network for MultiHazard Early Warning Systems (IN-MHEWS)
Dates: 23-24 May, 2022, Held at
International Convention Centre (BICC)

the

Bali

Role: Abhilash Panda - organizer
Disaster Risk Reduction
Presenters from academia discussed the use oftechnologies such as AI, XR, Drones and Big data in
DRR while the DRR practitioners provided insights on
how the IT, AI, and Big data applications areprominent as water solutions, weather solutions andin overall for DRR. Representatives from theJapanese local government and central government
presented their views about the contribution and roleof governance and civil society in capitalising
disruptive technologies in disaster risk reduction.
Organiser: Keio University Japan. There were bothon-site participants and online participants, including
DRR learners and educators in Universities, as wellas policymakers, and DRR practitioners in bothprivate and public sectors
Our role: Joint workshop facilitators
Date: 1st of December, 2022, Keio University, Japan

Dialogue on Role of Disruptive Technologies in
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Making Cities
Resilient 2030
(MCR2030)
Regional
Coordination
Committee –Europe Region
meeting (RCCECA)
Taking stock of progress and partner engagement;
Moving forward and planning for 2023-2024; andEngagement of the Resilience Hubs and their
network in the region. Our intervention was on
Disaster Risk Reduction new dimensions: COVID19 Preparedness at local level.
Organiser: UNDRR, MCR 2030 Secretariat for
Europe and Central Asia
Our role: Member and Facilitator, Professor
Dilanthi Amaratunga
Date: 23rd November 2022
Introduction to academic publishing: Why
publish, selecting a journal, publication or
article type, and writing philosophy
Continuing Professional Development for theInstitute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, the apex national
body of engineers in Sri Lanka.
Organiser: The Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka
Our role: Sole facilitator, Professor Dilanthi
Amaratunga
Date: 23rd November 2022
Certificate course on ScientificEvaluation of research proposals

Writing:

Continuing Professional Development for theInstitute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, the apex national
body of engineers in Sri Lanka.
Organiser: The Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka
Our role: Sole facilitator, Professor Dilanthi
Amaratunga
Date: 17th September 2022
5th International Workshop on Building
Resilience in Tropical Agro-Ecosystems,
Organised by: University of Huddersfield and the
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Building Resilience in Tropical Agro – ecosystems(BRITAE) project covers many prioritized areas suchas Education, Agriculture, Forestry and Environmentand some of these key concepts were discussed anddeliberated
duringtheworkshop.
https://
www.britae.lk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/
Agenda.pdf
Our role: Workshop lead
University of Huddersfield, UK

Swanston Farm, The Royal
Edinburgh, Whitelee Wind Farm.

Botanic

Our role: Site visit organizer
University of Huddersfield, UK

Date: Sept 2022,

Workshop
Education

Disasteron

Inclusive

GardenDigitalOrganiser: Lund University, Sweden. There were on-site participants as well as online participants,
including DRR learners and educators in
Universities. Our role: Facilitators for the event anda co-orgnaiser Date: 15th of June, 2022
Financial incentives as a strategy to promotedisaster resilience of the house sector
A research collaboration event with the National
Building Research Organisation (NBRO) on potential
DRR based research collaboration. NBRO is thedesignated national focal point for landslide risk
management in Sri Lanka
Organiser:
National
Organisation, Sri Lanka

Building

Research

Our role: Facilitators – Shavindree Nissanka &Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga
Date: 19th April 2022, 2.15 pm, National Building
Research Organisation, Head Office
Tsunami Ready Community Launch Event
Programme in Sri Lanka, State Ministry ofDisaster Management, Sri Lanka
Indian Ocean Tsunami Ready Programme, led by the
ICG/IOTWMS, encourages member states to commit
to implement the UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Readyguideline and indicators.
Organiser: Disaster Management Cente,
Government of Sri Lanka
Our role: Joint organiser

Date: 20 April 2022

Workshop on climate change and its impact on
the built environment
Organized by: The University of Moratuwa, Sri
Lanka

Our role: Facilitaors and joint organsiers – Professor
Dilanthi Amaatunga, Dr Chamindi Malalgoda &Shavindree Nissanka, with more than 55
stakeholders representing policymakers, national andlocal government officials, UN organisations andNGOs in Sri Lanka who are linked to Climate Change
Adaptation Date: 3rd March 2022, Colombo, Sri
Lanka

Date: Sept 2022,

Building Resilience in Tropical Agro-Ecosystems
Technical visit to Scotland
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GADRI Annual Report — EuropeC) key notes : In 2022, GDRC members were invited to deliver, several high profile key note speeches.
Some examples are listed below:
Protecting coastal communities from the impactsof climate change
Title of the event: Universities UK International
research collaboration webinar: UK-Indonesia by Prof.
Richard Haigh Organised by: Universities UK on 8th
November 2022 [Online]
Disaster trends and drivers: The role of Scienceand Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, and a
new agenda for the science and policy community
on DRR
Prof. Dilanthi Amaratunga at the event: International
Conference on Disaster Management (ICDM 2022)
Organised by: University of Andalas, Padang,Indonesia from 30 September – 1st October 2022
[Online]
Challenges to Disaster Risk Reduction andResilient Habitat
Prof. Dilanthi Amaratunga
Title of the event: International conferenceon Challenges to Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilient
Habitat Organised in: collaboration with National
Institute of Disaster Management, Government of India,

International Geographical Union Commission on
Hazard and Risk, UNDRR, Centre for Disaster
Management Studies, University of Delhi, India in April
2022 [Online]
Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of
Sustainable Technologies: How Technology canfast track the SDGs
Prof. Dilanthi Amaratunga
Title of the event: Thrive the SDGs, Engineering andTechnology Organised by: University of Kelaniya, Sri
Lanka in March 2022 [Online]
Challenges and approaches
reduction in the global Southtodisasterrisk

Prof. Dilanthi Amaratunga
Title of the event: Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk
Reduction in the East African Rift: Challenges,
Methods and Policies Natural Hazards and Disaster
Risk Reduction in the East African Rift: Challenges,
Methods and Policies – East Arica Seismic Risk
Partnership Organised by: University of Bristol and
UKRI on 4th March 2022.

(D) Notable international roles commenced in 2022
well as temporary lockdowns of entire communities. Thishas the potential to create ambiguity or confusion withregards to tsunami warning services and response
actions like evacuation, under co- existing COVID-19
Appointed Expert (one of the two from the UK) of UN protocols. The study targeted the fourteen of Sri Lanka’s
Women - Women's Resilience to Disasters twenty-five districts that are located on the coastal belt,
Programme—Prof.
DilanthiAmaratunga and potentially exposed to a tsunami threat. The survey
UN Women, The Women's Resilience to Disasters was designed and conducted by GDRC in conjunction(WRD) programme proposes a comprehensive package with ICG/IOTWMS Working Group 1 Tsunami Risk,
to strengthen women’s resilience to disasters and Community Awareness and Preparedness, the Institutethreats, including climate change and COVID-19. It of Technology Bandung, Indonesia, and Disasteradvances women leadership and gender-responsiveness Management Centre of Sri Lanka.
in global disaster risk reduction and climate change
Two Members, Expert Group on Principles forprocesses and frameworks. . It strengthens coordination
Resilient
Infrastructure—Professor
Dilanthiacross key stakeholders working to build the enabling
Amaratunga & Professor Richard Haighenvironment for women’s resilience to disasters.
UNDRR, University College London and the Institution
Appointed leads, IOC UNESCO IOTWMS Survey toof Civil Engineers. The Principles for Resilient
better understand local responses in tsunami
Infrastructure are being developed to: Assist in raising
warning services, evacuation, and sheltering toawareness and setting a common basic understanding
COVID-19 in Sri Lanka - Professor Richard Haigh &of what “resilient infrastructure” constitutes; Form theProfessor Dilanthi Amaratunga
basis for planning and implementation of infrastructure
The survey also looked to understand local level uptake projects that take resilience as a core value;of the guidelines which were issued by the Communicate the desired outcomes of national
Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian infrastructure systems to establish resilience of critical
Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/ services; and, Assist the public and private sectors in
IOTWMS) in June 2020. The survey was launched in making risk-informed policy and investment decisions. A
recognition of the COVID-19 response having resulted handbook will be developed to allow designatedin a shift of priorities, alterations in work patterns, Ministries in National Governments, Infrastructure
processes and venues, the introduction of physical Regulators, Investors and other stakeholder todistancing, self-isolation, and quarantine measures, as implement these principles and monitor its inclusion.
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E). Publications
Like with the previous years, there have been a large
number of publications written by our members during2022, including: Books and book chapters; Refereed
research papers; Editorials; Conference proceedings;
Vision papers, Briefing Papers, and Research reports,
and are available at: https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/organisations/global-disaster-resilience-centre

other multi-hazard preparedness into urban
planning in Sri Lanka: Ministry of Rural Roads andotherInfrastructure,
Sri
Lanka
.
http://
www.pandemic-mhew.org/media/
attachments/2023/01/11/finalurbandevpolicy.pdf•

Fernando, S., Vithanage, C.,
Ratnayake, J., Ranawana, C.,
Fernando, N., Jayasinghe, N.,
Haigh, R. & Amaratunga (2022),
COVID
19:
Economic
Preparedness
andBuilding
Resilience - Ensuring Disaster
Preparedness
andBusiness
Continuity: Recommendations for
the Private Sector: Ceylon Chamber of Commerce,
Sri
Lanka.
http://www.pandemic-mhew.org/
images/2022/08/21/position_paper_2.pdf•

Malalgoda, C., Amaratunga, D., Haigh, R.,
Senanayeke, A. & Jayakodi, C. (2022) Upgrading
Professional
Competencies
in
the
Built
Environment to Address the Needs of Host and
Displaced Communities. University of Huddersfield.
A
Policy Brief.
https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/
publications/policy-brief-upgrading-professionalcompetencies-in-the-built-env•

Siriwardana, C., Jayasekara, R., Amaratunga, D.,
Haigh, R. &Perera, T. (2022).Preparedness
Planning Associated with Systemic Risks andActions during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sri
Lanka – Policy brief, University of Moratuwa. http://
www.pandemic-mhew.org/media/
attachments/2023/01/11/policypaper.pdf

Some examples are listed below :• Amaratunga, D., Malalgoda, C.,
Haigh,R.,
Jayakody,C.,
Senanayake, A., Fernando, N.,
Hamza, M., Liyanage, C., Lill, I. &Witt, E. (2022). A built environment
perspective on post-disaster andconflict-induced displacement. A
report of the REGARD project:
Rebuilding after Displacement. ISBN:
978-1-86218-208-0.
https://
pure.hud.ac.uk/en/publications/a-built-environmentperspective-on-post-disaster-and-conflict-ind•

Amaratunga, D., Haigh, R. Nissanka, S. Ross, C.,
Conlon, M., Dissanayake, R. & Crouch, S. (2022),
Rethinking Construction to Reduce Disaster Risks:
A Guide for Built Environment Professionals(2022). ISBN: 978-1-86218-215-8: University of
Huddersfield, UK. https://www.preventionweb.net/
publication/rethinking-construction-reduce-disasterrisks-guide-built-environment-professionals• Amaratunga, D., Haigh, R.,
Kamalrathne, T., Fernando, N.,
Jayasinghe, N., Siriwardana, C.,
Jayasekara,R.,
Herath,H.,
Ranaweera, P., Ariyasinghe, U.,
Rathnayake, S., Rupasinghe, C. &Kodithuwakku, L. (2022). Policy
Brief:
Current
statusandrecommendations on the integrationof pandemics within national/local DRR strategies
in Sri Lanka: University of Huddersfield, UK. http://
www.pandemic-mhew.org/images/2022/09/30/
PolicyBriefCorona2V6.pdf•

Amaratunga, D., Haigh, R., Kamalrathne, T.,
Fernando, N., Jayasinghe, N., Siriwardana, C.,
Jayasekara, R., Herath, H., Ranaweera, P.,
Ariyasinghe, U., Kodithuwakku, L., Rathnayake, S.
& Rupasinghe, C.(2022).A Vision Paper on the
Integration of Pandemics into a Multi-Hazard Early
Warning (MHEW) Environment for Sri Lanka:
Universityof
Huddersfield,
UK.
http://
www.pandemic-mhew.org/images/2022/09/30/
VisionPpaerV4.pdf•

Dissanayake, R., De Zoysa, C., Abeysinghe, S.,
Haigh, R., Amaratunga, D. & Perera, T. (2022),
Briefing Paper: Integrating pandemic, tsunami, andWe are also pleased to share the 2022
Annual Report of the Global Disaster Resilience Centre
has been published, detailing our 2022 activities. This
reflects the work from all our members and researchcollaborators.
The
reportcanbeviewedat:
gdrc.buildresilience.org/gdrc-report-2022/

http://A news article about the Report is available at:https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2023/february/gdrc-annual-report-2022-published/

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Disaster and Development Network (DDN)
Northumbria University
United Kingdom
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/ddn

The Disaster and Development Network (DDN)
spans research, enterprise and teachingorientated by the disaster management andsustainable development nexus. Operating from
Northumbria
University’s
DepartmentofGeography and Environmental Sciences since
2000, the network engages the work of theDisaster and Development Centre (DDC)(20042012), Disaster and Development Postgraduate
programme of study (2000-present), Disaster,Development and Sustainability (DDR) researchgroup (2012-present), affiliated student led
Disaster and Development Society (DDS)(2015present), and an inter-Faculty Geographies ofDevelopment and Disaster (DDG) Research
Excellence Framework (REF) cluster (2018present).
The predominant effort of the DDN is to progress
the knowledge and skills that engage hazards,
disasters and complex emergencies from theperspective of intersecting disasters anddevelopment
experiencesandnarratives
spanning
science,practiceandpolicyenvironments. It is committed to delivering impact
on future survivability and resilience of people
and systems facing critical levels of rapid andslow onset environmental, economic, and politicalchange. Some achievements and updates for2021 include:

Indicative research:
Francis Massé – “Identifying and mitigating theimpacts of COVID-19 on legal and sustainablewildlife trade in LMICs”. This includes a new PhD
Scholarship, Mridula Paul, supervised by Francis
and Andrew.
Katie Oven – UKRI-NERC GCRF “Sajag-Nepal–
Planning and preparedness for the mountainhazard and risk chain in Nepal”. This includes
one full time researcher, Amy Johnson, a PhD
Researcher, Bina Limbu and new Research
Fellow, Katherine Arrell.
Andrew Collins is a Co-I with the UKRI-NERC,GCRF “Tomorrow’s Cities, Multi-hazard Urban
Risk Transitions” research hub. This includes
supervision of a PhD being conducted by Becky
Richardson,
focusingon“child-centred
approaches to health risk communication in
Nairobi primary schools” and through support to
the TC Decision Support Environment in theimplementation period of the project.

Prof. Andrew Collins
E-mail: andrew.collins@northumbria.ac.uk

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Kevin Glynn – progressed the field research
aspects of the UKRI GCRF project “Ixchel:
Building understanding of the physical, culturaland socio-economic drivers of risk forstrengthening resilience in the Guatemalan
cordillera”.
Richard Kotter - advanced new initiatives for
local and external engagement alongside UK
and South Asia based Emergency Services.

New collaborative research links were alsoestablished during this period, with University ofMissouri USA, Farmers Voice Bangladesh and
IIT-Roorkee India. The network is also active
with
the
wider
Northumbria University
collaborations, including with the International
Centre for Climate Change and Development(ICCCD) Bangladesh and the UK Universities
Climate Network whilst continuing active with its
longer standing affiliations and memberships,
particularly GADRI, United Kingdom Alliance forDisaster Research (UKADR) and long term local
friends and partners locally and around theworld.
UK Research Excellence Framework (REF)
results of May 2022 indicated an outstanding
surge in Northumbria’s overall research
performance, including in its disaster anddevelopment field:
Northumbria University for the second time in a
row achieved the highest increase in Research
Power across all UK universities in this once in
7 year assessment exercise. Its submission in
the Geography unit of assessment within which

its disasters research sits was ranked 2 nd in the
UK for research power (just below the 1st place
Oxford Colleges consortia for Geography). The
Geographies of Disaster and Development
theme formed one of several hazards, people
and environment related aspects of thesubmission. The performance was ranked
particularly strong in terms of Research Impact,with the bulk of Impact Case Studies ranked‘World Leading’. One example is the Impact
Case Study centred on “Embedding a peoplecentred approach to health in Disaster Risk
Reduction at the Local and International scales”.
A summary version of that impact is at: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/researchimpact-at-northumbria/societal-impact/newpeople-centred-global-policies-preparecommunities-better-for-diasasters/
The outstanding research assessment results inthis round is likely to have significantly
contributed to achieving the Times Higher
Education (THE) Award of UK University of theYear.

13th Dealing with Disasters Conference,
Northumbria University 9th-10th June
Theme: Next Generation Disaster Prevention
and Recovery:
The 13th conference in the series was deliveredin hybrid mode there being a mix of delegateson site at Northumbria
City Campus andonlineacrossmultipletimezones.

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The event accepted over 300 registrations from58 countries. There were 13 sessions and 60
speakers spanning focal topics elaborating theconference theme within the current precarity ofpandemic, climate and conflict. Some of thehighlights included:•

Opening presentation on Day One by Sir
Andrew Haines, recipient of the Tyler Prize
for Environmental Achievement•

Opening presentation on Day Two by Dr
Robert McFarlane OBE, DWP UK, a recent
Cabinet Office lead for UK Resilience andformer staff member of Northumbria’s
DepartmentofGeography
andEnvironmental Sciences and member ofDDN•

A special WHO Session on Health
Emergency and Disaster Risk Management(Health EDRM) involving inputs from WHO
Head Office, the UK, Japan, Hong Kong,
Australia, Canada, USA and Sweden.

•

A session on Disaster-related Employability
celebrating
22
years
of
DisasterManagement and Sustainable Development
at Northumbria, chaired by Eileen Brady
from the first intake of students in 2000 anda current registrant Jacinta Lepcha with 12
inputs from former students of varied
nationalities presenting on their current
professional roles across the sector in
Europe, Asia, Africa, America and the
Caribbean.

Developments in Research and Practicebased Teaching and Learning:

The MSc
DisasterManagement
andSustainable Development (MSc DMSD)
established 23 years ago (2000), recruited afurther 29 students in the September intake, witha high number of international students. An
increasing number of the students now also
select the additional work of “Advanced
Practice”, which increases their final credits to
240 instead of 180 and involves a 2 nd year ofregistration. The recent overlapping pool ofstudents for part of the year therefore became 60
registered taught postgraduate students at
one time. These recent high numbers represent
a record expansion for this programme. A further
78 undergraduate students selected disasterand development studies amongst their
specialist final year option modules.
Published and media outputs:

A wide range of newly published articles in wellrankedjournalsareavailable.
Media
engagement this year included for the BBC
World Service, BBC Radio Four, Sky News andvarious local outlets including comment oncurrent
emergencies,acampaign
onhomelessness and disaster and a debate
regards changing mortality data in contexts ofclimate related disasters. An input was also
made on data and society in disaster prevention
and response to the United Nations General
Assembly Science Summit in Sept, 2022.

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Overseas Development Institute
United Kingdom
https://www.odi.org/

One of several events hosted by ODI at the UN climate conference COP27, on climate change
adaptation in fragile and conflict-affected states.

One of a series of infographics created as part of the project to build climate-resilient cities in the
Eastern Caribbean.
ODI’s Global Risks and Resilience Programme •published a range of publications, blogs, media andpodcasts in 2022, including:•Publications:•

Opportunities and co-benefits of transitioning to a
net-zero economy in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and •Uzbekistan

Climate adaptation investments in conflict-affectedstatesThe Caribbean - a region of excellence for urban
climate resilience: lifelong learning for urban
planners
Climate risk report for the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) region•

Managing climate risks to protect net-zero energy •goals

Embracing discomfort: a call to enable finance forclimate-change adaptation in conflict settings•

Exploring the conflict blind spots in climate •adaptation finance in the Sahel and Horn of Africa

Country platforms for climate action: somethingborrowed, something new?

•

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: factsheets for
decision-makers•

Anticipatory action and disaster risk finance:
Guiding the setting of humanitarian targets•

Rethinking climate-security narratives: integrating
systemicdisasterriskmanagementindevelopment

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Blogs:•

Operationalising the new ‘Loss and Damage’fund: six questions•

ODI is the knowledge management andcommunications lead for the Climate Ambition
Support Alliance (CASA), which seeks tostrengthen the capacity and support theengagement of climate-vulnerable countries ininternational climate negotiations•

ODI’s Global China 2049 Initiative•

ODI has been leading work with GIZ on
rethinking climate-security narratives andintegrating systemic disaster risk management
in development•

As attention turns to Small Island Developing
States at HLPF, the international community
must step up its commitment

ODI is hosting Resilient and Sustainable
Islands Initiative (RESI)•

Climate change is causing havoc worldwide –we can still limit the damage

Emily Wilkinson is supporting the Climate
Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica(CREAD) as Chief Scientific Adviser.

Events•

COP27: adapting to a new climate reality•

Common symptoms, related cures: after
climate summit, governments convene on
biodiversity•

Women’s economic empowerment: the missing
piece in low-carbon plans and actions•

Securing Somalia’s future under climate risks
and natural capital depletion•

Putting food systems at the heart of climate
dialogue and action••

assess and manage transboundary climate
risks

•

ODI attended the UN climate conference
COP27, where the Global Risks and Resilienceteam spoke in or co-organized nine events,
which featured Minister-level representationfrom Niger, Somalia and the UK (See‘Anticipating crises and taking early action infragile and conflict affected states’), as well as
high-level representatives from internationalorganisations including the International
Committee of the Red Cross, UK Foreign andCommonwealth
Office,theFrenchDevelopment
Agency,the
Stockholm
Environment Institute, UN OCHA and the UN
ClimateSecurity Mechanism
andtheAdaptation Fund.

•ODI hosted an event, ‘Pre-agreed disaster
finance: The agenda that women's advocatesshould be influencing’.

•

ODI hosted an event, ‘Building resilience andemployment opportunities for youth within rural
economies in the Sahel’.

•

ODI and the British Red Cross hosted awebinar and panel discussion on Changing
climate, changing realities: migration in the
Sahel, which explored how people are affectedby climate change and the pressure on people
to leave their homes.

Mixed multimedia resources:•

Building climate-resilient cities in the Eastern
Caribbean through enhanced urban planningknowledge•

Podcasts:•

Think Change episode 15: the climate andconflict double challenge – has COP27
delivered?

•Think Change episode 14: climate loss anddamage – who should pay?

Projects•

The programme continues to run numerous
multi-year projects/initiatives, including:•

ODI is the research and communications leadfor Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in
Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)(2020 – 2025), which aims to generate
evidence and address knowledge gaps to build
the resilience of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists
and farmers in Africa and the Middle East•

Adaptation Without Borders, an ODI, SEI andIDDRI collaboration supporting policymakers
and planners to more effectively identify,

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ODI attended the Asia-Pacific Ministerial
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction(APMCDRR) and Katie Peters chaired ameeting of senior officials on the topic of
Disaster Risk Reduction in Crisis and Conflict
Settings
In Senegal, Katie Peters presented thefindings of a year-long study (forthcoming)assessing the progress made in 7 Saheliancountries against the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction and corresponding
African Programme of Action.
In a virtual ‘Think Resilience’ dialogue, Katie
Peters presented on the topic of disaster risk
governance in fragile contexts to a group ofover 15 Ambassadors in New York, in a
dialogue series convened by UNDRR and theFord Foundation.

•

Rebecca Nadin was interviewed about China’s
climate change priorities for PBS in November:‘China pressured to reduce its carbon
emissions at global climate change summit’•

Emily Wilkinson was widely quoted on loss anddamage in Small Island Developing States
during COP27 in November, including The
Times, The Guardian.

•

Olena Borodyna was interviewed for Climate
Home News about the energy crisis in August;Emily Wilkinson was interviewed for the same
publication about Hurricane Ian in September.

•Content from ODI researchers appeared in a
number of external publications and partner
websites, including Climate Home News, The
Conversation, Devex, CDKN and more

ODI hosted a session at the World Bank
Fragility Forum named ‘Addressing theCompound Risks of Fragility and Climate
Change’Key media achievements:

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Disaster Resilience Research Group
University of Salford
United Kingdom
https://www.hub.salford..ac.uk/

Year 2022 has been a remarkable year for us. We
are grateful that the UK Research and Innovation
Global Challenges Research Fund continues tosupport our investigative work into socio-technicalsystemsthat
help
risk-sensitive
urban
development. Our partners in Sri Lanka, Pakistan,and Malaysia collaborate with local stakeholders topromote participatory methods that support
sustainable development plans. These strategies
help build resilience against climate change's
effects, which we communicate at local levels
through our community engagement work.
During this year, the group has been working onstrengthening its international collaborations,developing new research initiatives, conducing
plannedresearch
activities,
disseminating
research outcomes and contributing to theacademic publications. Majority of our work thisyear centered around two of our research projects,
TRANSCEND (https://transcend-project.org.uk/ )and
MOBILISE(https://www.mobiliseproject.org.uk/).

One of the highlight of year 2022 is that we havelaunched our Mobilise 3.0 platform (https://hub.salford.ac.uk/mobilise/) and the “Me`ga”
mobile app, to strengthen the local disaster risk
reduction efforts globally. MOBILISE 3.0 is adigital platform which provides users with acollaborative environment so they can build theirintelligence in disaster risk reduction and,ultimately, save lives .
We worked with Kalutara District in Sri Lanka topilot the MOBILISE digital platform and help tobuild climate resilience and community-based early
warnings systems. Thanks to our partners, theNational Building Research Organisation (NBRO)
and the Kalutara District Secretariat, together wehave successfully secured an innovation grant topilot the MOBILISE platform to strengthencommunity-based disaster risk reduction activities.
This project will help local agencies andcommunities to work together to build theirresilience against climate-induced disasters suchas landslides and floods.

We have started year 2022 with a TRANSCEND
Seminar: The ground reality of “success” inresettlement projects – the role of community
engagement. Dr Kaushal Keraminiyage facilitatedthis seminar and Mr Kishan
Sugathapala,
Director
National
Building
Research
Organisation (NBRO),
Sri Lanka and Ms
DevindiGeekiyanage from the Think Lab,
have
presented at this seminar.

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Three “Living Labs” have been established in
Kalutara (Sri Lanka), Sarawak and Selangor(Malaysia) and Peshawar (Pakistan) to implement
MOBILISE and TRANSCEND project deliverables.
These Living Labs will help us to test anddisseminate our research outcomes to the target
groups and create real world impacts.
The 'TRANSCEND Sarawak 2022' launch event
wassuccessfully
concluded attheDigitalVillage,
Kuching
Sarawak.
The project
highlights
theprocesses,
governance,
policies, and technologies involved with disaster risk
reduction that help with sensitive and transformative
urban developments.
We thank our partners Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia (UTM), for conducting the workshop:‘Advancing Urban Resilience and Disaster
Informatics Technology’ which covered our work in
the Selangor region and the support systems thatare in use for effective disaster management anddisaster relief.
SDPI Pakistan ‘Sustainable Development in
Unusual Times: Building Forward Better’ took placein Islamabad, Pakistan. A collaboration with theUnited Nations, it aims to raise awareness ofProgress on the Sustainable Development Goals
Agenda across the South Asia region. Our teampresented two interactive workshops, which were
centered around the themes of Technology for
Adaptive Governance and Community Engagementfor Resilience Building.

been delivered to strengthen the research
capacity of our partner, National Building
Research Organisation (NBRO), Sri Lanka.
•

A two-day training event was conducted whichlooked at Stakeholder Initialization and Systems
Thinking for Adaptive Resilience.

•

A TRANSCEND seminar was conducted on
Strengthening Urban Resilience in the World
Heritage Sites, in collaboration with the Disaster
Preparedness and Prevention Center, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology(MJIIT) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia(UTM).

•

Online seminar was conducted on collaborative
governance structures to facilitate stakeholder
collaboration in risk-sensitive urban planning.

Following are some of the publications for year2022:•

Dasandara M, Ingirige B, Kulatunga U,
Fernando T. (2022). Climate financing barriers
and strategies: the case of Sri Lanka. Journal of
Financial Management of Property andConstruction, doi: 10.1108/jfmpc-12-2021-0069•

Sridarran, P., Keraminiyage, K., & Amaratunga,
D. (2022). Dissatisfaction after post-disaster
resettlement. In Investing in Disaster Risk
Reduction for Resilience (pp. 213-235).
Elsevier.

Following are some of the research training
activities and seminars have been conducted by ourteam within 2022:•

A monthly seminar series (10 seminars) has

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AfricaAlgeria

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Built Environment Research Laboratory (LBE), University of
Science & Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB)

Egypt

Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University

Egypt

Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University

Egypt

German University in Cairo (GUC)

Egypt

Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI), National Water Research Center（NWRC),
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation

Ghana

University for Development Studies (UDS)

Ghana

Department of Geography & Resource Development, University of Ghana

Ghana

Hydrology and Water Resource Engineering,
Water Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

MoroccoFaculty of Sciences and Technics of Mohammedia, University of Hassan II of Casablanca

South Africa

Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa (DiMTEC), University of theFree State

Sudan
Zimbabwe

UNESCO Chair in Water Resources
Geography Department, Bindura University of Science Education
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Africa Alliance for Disaster Risk Institutions (AADRI), Bindura
University, Zimbabwe
https://www.aadri.org.zw/

Conferences
Important Achievements

Published national books entitled:

1.Manatsa, D., Mushore, T.D., et al.
(2020). Revision of Zimbabwe’s AgroEcological Zones. ISBN 978-1-77920535-3
2.Manatsa, D., Mushore, T.D., et al.
(2020). Building Resilience to Natural
Disasters in populated African Mountain
Ecosystems: Case of Cyclone Idai’.
TSURO Trust Research Report, ISBN 1177925489-4

AADRI actively contributed and participated in the 5th
Global Summit of GADRI that took place virtually from the
31st August to 2 of September 202 and especially
supported the regional session on Europe with Africa andthe Middle East. Prof. Manatsa was a panelist of the
discussion panel session 1 of Asia and Oceania; and theEurope with Africa and the Middle East. Prof. Chipo
Muzenda moderated the panel discussion session four on
Bridging the General Gap of the Europe with Africa andthe Middle East. Further details of the 5th Global Summitof GADRI can be found at the newsletter, GADRI Actions
15 issue at GADRI website.

Projects including ongoing research grant projects:

1. World Ban funded Project: Mavhura E. Manatsa
D. Manyangadze T. (2021). A Technical
Assessment for updating Drought Risk Mappingin Zimbabwe SPF – Support to Zimbabwe
Recovery and Resilience Grant No.: P172176.
(completed)
2.

World Ban funded Project: Mavhura E. Manatsa
D. Manyangadze T. (2021). Institutionalization of
the Combined Drought Index in Zimbabwe. SPF– Support to Zimbabwe Recovery and Resilience
Grant No.: P172176. (ongoing 2022)

Prof. Desmond Manatsa
Acting President
Email: dmanatsa@gmail.com

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Publications•

Munsaka, E., Mudavanhu, C., Sakala, L. et al. •When Disaster Risk Management Systems Fail:
The Case of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani
District, Zimbabwe. Int J Disaster Risk Sci 12,
689–699 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753021-00370-6

Mavhura, E., Manyangadze, T. & Aryal, K.R.
Perceived impacts of climate variability andchange: an exploration of farmers’ adaptation
strategies in Zimbabwe’s intensive farming
region.
GeoJournal(2021).
https://
doi.org/10.1007/s10708-021-10451– 0•

Manyangadze, T., Mavhura, E., Mudavanhu, C. •et al. An exploratory analysis of the spatial
variation of malaria cases and associatedhousehold socio-economic factors in flood-prone
areas of Mbire district, Zimbabwe. GeoJournal(2021).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-02110505-3

Mavhura, E., Manyangadze, T. & Aryal, K.R(2021) A composite inherent resilience index
for Zimbabwe: An adaptation of the disaster
resilience of place model. International Journalof Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol 57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102152.

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Mavhura E, Manyangadze T (2021). A
comprehensive spatial analysis of social
vulnerability to natural hazards in Zimbabwe:
Driving factors and policy implications,•International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction,
56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102139.

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University of Development Studies (UDS)
Ghana
http://www.uds.edu.gh/ktcsr

The Kazuhiko Takeuchi Centre for Sustainability
and Resilience (KTCSR) is a research Centre in
the University for Development Studies (UDS). It
was established as a Research, Development
and Extension Centre for issues of Sustainability
and Resilience in Climate and Ecosystem
Changes and Disaster Risks Reduction.

During the period under review these were theactivities undertaken by KTCSR ;1. AIMS collaborated with KTCSR to organize
training on the UNESCO Recommendation
on Science and Scientific Researchers(RSSR)
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Ghana (AIMS – Ghana) collaborated with
Kazuhiko Takeuchi Centre for Sustainability and
Resilience (KTCSR), University for Development
Studies (UDS), to organize a training andsensitization workshop on the UNESCO’s 2017RSSR at the University for Development
Studies, Dr. Naa Andani Chamber, Central
Administration, Tamale on 3rd November, 2022.

Group picture of participants at the training workshop

Prof. Hamdiyah Alhassan
Director
Email: ahamdiyah@uds.edu.gh

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2.
Dialogue
ChangeMulti-Stakeholder
on
ClimateOn Friday, 23rd September
2022, Youth Advocacy on
Rights and Opportunities(YARO) in partnership withFriedrich-Ebert
Stiftung(FES) Ghana Foundation
collaborated with Kazuhiko
TakeuchiCentrefor
Sustainability and Resilience(KTCSR)
and
Ghana
Group picture of the participant at the dialogue
Agricultural Workers Union
Municipality of the North East Region. The aim(GAWU) and brought together experts andwas to co-produce knowledge that incorporates
practitioners in the development practice spaceindigenous practices into scientific floodfor a critical assessment of climate change andknowledge and management practices for
new strategies to mitigate and adapt to its effects
effective flood adaptation and preparedness. The
in Northern Ghana. The dialogue included short
information acquired will be used to build theexpert presentations by specialists and structured
capacity of farmers in other flood-prone areas
discussion sessions on the challenges of climate
which will enhance their resilience to flood. Thischange and strategies farmers in northern Ghana
activity was from 22nd to 23rd April, 2022.
are currently using to mitigate and adapt to the
5. Participation in the XI International Summer
effects of climate change. The theme of the
School, in Brescia, Italy.
dialogue was “Building inclusive climate change
mitigation and adaptation in Northern Ghana”. It
The Director of KTCSR, participated in the XI
venue was Regal Hotel, Tamale, Ghana and theInternational Summer School organized by theparticipants were 35 people from 10 different
Research Center for Appropriate Technologies fororganizations.
Environmental Management in Resource-Limited
Countries (CeTAmb), University of Brescia,
3. KTCSR Sustainability Webinar
Brescia, Italy. The XI International Summer
The centre organized its Maiden KTCSR
School was on the theme, “Appropriate
Sustainability webinar. The speaker was Dr.
Technologies for Sustainable Development: A
Giovanni Vinti a researcher from the University of
Focus on Low and Middle Income Countries”. The
Brescia, Italy. He presented on the topic “ Solid
Director made a presentation on the topic, ‘Solid
waste safety plan- Case studies presentation”,
Waste Management in Ghana: The Way
held virtually on 24th August, 2022.. The KTCSR
Forward”, where she shared the Ghanaian
Sustainability Webinar is aimed at creating acontext on the issue of solid waste management.
platformforscholarly
discussions
andThis was held from 20th to 24th June, 2022 at thedeliberations on sustainability and resilience
University of Brescia, DICATEM, Italy.
issues.
Publications:
4. Fact finding mission in flood prone areas innorthern Ghana• Owusu-Sekyere, E., Alhassan, H., Jengre,
E., Amoah S.T., Opare-Asamoah, K., and
KTCSR undertook a fact finding mission in
Toku, A. (2022). The societal significance of
Pwalugu in the Talensi District of the Upper East
informal economics during the COVID-19
Region and Kpasenkpe in the West Mamprusi
pandemic in an African city. International
Journal of Social Quality, 12(1), 29-53.
doi:10.3167/IJSQ.2022.120103

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GADRI Secretariat, Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute (DPRI), Kyoto University, JapanGADRI SECRETARIAT
Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
Kyoto University
Gokasho, Uji-shi, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Tel: +81-774-38-4651
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