NEWS BULLETIN
Jul-Sep 2020
IDRiM Virtual Workshop(23-24 September; Online)

We are looking forward to seeing you in the IDRiM Virtual Workshop for Interactive
Discussions between Senior and Early-Career Scientists later this month! The
Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) society, adapting to the current global
challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, organises the “IDRiM Virtual Workshop” as aninternational, virtual, communicative space to promote the exchange of ideas anddiscussion between well-established, experienced scientists and early-career
researchers. The workshop is open to everyone who is interested and motivated tolearn, share ideas, provide comments, and promote IDRiM from all over the world.
The programme features exciting keynote talks and provides opportunities fordiscussion between all attendees. Although participation submissions are now over,registrations to attend the online workshop are still open (and free of charge) for
everyone! For registrations and more updates please visit the IDRiM Virtual Workshop website.

http://idrim.jp/

Publication of Interest
Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience | Yokomatsu M. and Hochrainer-Stigler S. (Eds.)(July 2020; Springer)
This book from the GADRI’s Disaster and Risk Research Book Series provides insight on how disaster risk
management can increase the resilience of society to various natural hazards. The multi-dimensionalityof resilience and the various different perspectives in regards to disaster risk reduction are taken
explicitly into account by providing studies and approaches on different scales and ranging from naturalscience based methods to social science frameworks. For all chapters, special emphasis is placed on
implementation aspects and specifically in regards to the targets and priorities for action laid out in theSendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The chapters provide also a starting point for interested
readers on specific issues of resilience and therefore include extensive reference material and important
future directions for research.
https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811543197

Other Items of Interest
European wildfire danger and vulnerability under a changing climate:
towards integrating risk dimensions(2020; Joint Research Centre, EU)
This research of the EU JRC focuses on European wildfire danger and vulnerability under a changing climate, to support
the integration of some main climate-related components of wildfire risk. A detailed assessment is proposed on thevarying frequency of fire danger classes (from the relatively safer to the extreme danger conditions) under changing
climate. An integrated assessment of the findings supports a recommendation to focus on the Mediterranean areas ofEurope characterised by higher potential vegetation and population vulnerability, and higher potential fire danger.

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC119980/peseta-iv_task-9_forest-fires_final-report_2020-02.pdf

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