Annual Report 2018

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

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GADRI Formation

The First Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction was initiatedby the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus,
Kyoto, Japan in November 2011 and one of the outcomes was the proposition to establish
a network of disaster research institutes fostered by DPRI, Kyoto University to bring
together research institutes working on disaster risk prevention and mitigation in various
disciplines.
This was accomplished and by the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes(GADRI) was launched with a mandate to support the implementation of the Sendai
Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 during Second Global Summit held at
DPRI, Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto, Japan in March 2015 which was held soonafter the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, 2015) which took
place in Sendai, Japan.
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GADRI Formation

Currently, GADRI are members of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG),
and the Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF) of the United Nations Office forDisaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). GADRI works closely with the science andtechnology community endorsing policies related to disaster risk reduction, anddisseminating and sharing cutting-edge knowledge and information supported byevidence-based research among research institutions, international organizations andthe private sector in various nation states. GADRI community continue to evolve andstrengthen research activities towards disaster risk reduction and management.

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Table of Contents

We thank all our•

Message from the Secretary-General, GADRI

inputs for the GADRI•GADRI Activities in 2018

Annual Report 2018.

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Keeping in touch with Members of GADRI

members for providing••

Americas

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Asia

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Japan

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Europe•AfricaGeographical Distribution of GADRIGADRI Secretariat
Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute (DPRI) Kyoto University
Uji 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 2018 is the
Secretariat.

property of GADRI

Edited and designed by Hirokazu Tatano and Wilma James.
Copyright © 2018 by GADRI Secretariat.
All rights reserved. GADRI Annual Report 2017 or any portion
thereof may not be reproduced or used in any mannerwhatsoever without the express written permission of the

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Message from theSecretary-General, GADRI

I take pride in sharing with you the GADRI Annual
Report 2018. It highlights the many ways in whichGADRI moved forward in realising its goal of
making a significant and sustainable global
contribution in the area of disaster risk reduction
and resilience to disasters. I am delighted toreport another year of progress among membersof GADRI.
One significant note-worthy progress was GADRI
involvement with the Science and Technology
community of the UNDRR. Currently GADRI are
members of the Science and Technology Advisory
Group (STAG) and the Global Risk Assessment
Framework (GRAF) of the UNDRR.
GADRI
actively partook in various meetings and engaged
in many working groups. At the next GADRI
conference, 4th Global Summit of ResearchInstitutes for Disaster Risk Reduction in March
2019, the main focus of the conference will be tocontribute to the contextualization of the 2016
Science and Technology Roadmap adopted tosupport the implementation of the Sendai
Framework Agenda 2015-2030. In addition,
GADRI Secretariat will request all of its members
to continue voluntary evaluations of ongoing
research activities and research gaps.
On reflection, this year we were inundated with anincrease of disasters from earthquakes tohurricanes, typhoons, wild fires, tsunamis, floods,

climate change, and heat waves to melting of theglaciers and much more. These challenges reaffirm
our responsibilities and commitment to contribute toenhance disaster risk reduction and disaster
resilience in collaboration with world stakeholders
by networking, sharing our knowledge, experiences
and initiatives to make the world a better place.
With your support, GADRI continued to move
forward endorsing the voice of its members and its
objectives among various global platforms andstakeholders.
Much work is ahead of us and I have no doubt of
your support and contributions to fruitfully achieve
the goals set out by GADRI.
While we continue to expand the footprint of GADRI
among various stakeholders in the realm of disasterrisk reduction and resilience, we count on youramazing partnership with GADRI to work towards
fulfilling our mission.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all ofyou members, the Board of Directors, the Advisory
Board and everyone at the GADRI Secretariat for
devoting your valuable time, support, contributions
and resources toward GADRI and its activities.
I hope you will enjoy reading the GADRI Annual
Report 2018 and learn about the work carried out
by our members.

Hirokazu Tatano
Secretary-General, GADRIGADRI Annual Report 2018—6

GADRI Vision
To deepen the understanding of disasters and find implementable solutions to achieve
disaster resilience, by integrating knowledge and technologies 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 road map, 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.

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

evidence-based

GADRI Activities•

Planning and organization of regionally or globally collaborative disaster risk research initiatives•

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

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

Organization of conferences, workshops and meetings•

Dissemination and sharing of information, publications, reports, data and other research outputs•

Facilitation of rapid reconnaissance field surveys following disasters•

Preparation of GADRI news releases, policy recommendations, news bulletins, research reports, and other publications.

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Risk Research: GADRI Book Series

Disaster and Risk
Research:
GADRI
Book Series is publishedunder the auspices of the
Global Alliance of Disaster
Research Institutes (GADRI).
The global status of disaster
research reflects the major
strides made in the disastersciences. These volumes
present the forefront ofdisaster research, includingkeyscientificfindings,
methodologies,
policyrecommendations and casestudies. Whilst disaster riskneeds to be managed in an
integrated
manner,persistently
isolated
applications of knowledge,
practice and policy are fallingshort of ensuring disasterresilient societies.

https://www.springer.com/
series/16177

Responding to this deficit calls for measurement, tools,
techniques and institutional structures that can realisticallysupport comprehensive risk assessment and management acrossmultiple hazard landscape. As such, disaster research is now
faced with a multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder challenge.
Contributions to this series therefore address many varied andcritical opportunities to advance the subject area. A cross-cutting
vision shared across the Disaster and Risk Research volumes is
to improve the future of scientific and technological guidance withclearly identifiable roadmaps to ensure human safety andsecurity.
The Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes wasestablished in March 2015, directly after the United Nations World
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR 2015) in
Sendai, Japan, based on the belief that a multi-institutional
alliance can strengthen disaster research and its influences
around the world. GADRI has a mandate to support theimplementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015-2030 and is a member of the Scientific andTechnical Advisory Group (STAG) of the United Nations Office forDisaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). In addition, GADRI provides
a platform for scientific communities from different disciplines,
backgrounds and countries, helping them share their knowledge,
findings and views. This approach yields more holistic and farther-reaching insights, which can contribute to further steps ineffective disaster risk management.

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GADRI Connections with UNDRRGADRI closely worked with the United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction(UNDRR),
Geneva,Switzerland.
GADRI is a member of the Scienceand Technology Advisory Group(STAG); and GADRI was elected as amember of the Expert Group on the
Global Risk Assessment Framework(GRAF).

Science and Technology
Advisory Group (STAG)GADRI attended the Science andTechnology Advisory Group (STAG)
meeting held at the UNDRR, Geneva,
Switzerland from 30 to 31 August 2019.
Main focus of the meeting was thereview of the 2016 Science andTechnology Conference Roadmap andreporting the progress at the Global
Forum 2019.
Further details available at GADRI
Actions—http://gadri.net/resources/pdf/
GA-Newsletter_AugDec_2018.pdf

Global Risk Assessment Framework(GRAF)GADRI was elected as a member of the Expert
Group on the Global Risk Assessment Framework(GRAF) which was established as an important
global initiative to support the implementation of the
Sendai Framework Agenda for 2015-2030. The
establishment of the Expert Group was one of theprincipal recommendations of theExpert Meeting on the GRAF held in Geneva on 20
to 21 November 2017. The initial responsibility of
the Expert Group is to provide guidance anddirection in the co-design and collaborative
development of the GRAF, including strategic,
technical, functional and operational aspects. The
Expert Group will guide the development and cocreation of a preliminary implementation roadmap,
including the definition and possible composition of
the GRAF Sub-Working Groups that will need to beestablished to support the co-design anddevelopment process.
The first meeting of the Expert Group on the GRAF
took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 13 to 14
June 2018.

Further details available at GADRI Actions—http://
gadri.net/resources/pdf/GANewsletter_AugDec_2018.pdf

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GADRI Lecture Series
Various Lectures at DPRI by GADRI Affiliates

GADRI was visited by its
members and other partners.
During such visits, GADRISecretariat
took
theopportunity toorganized
variouslecturestobedelivered to DPRI faculty andstudents.
Two such events are listed
here.
Further details are available
at GADRI Actions—http://
gadri.net/resources/pdf/GANewsletter_AugDec_2018.pd
fLecture on"Addressing
Urban Risks
in Planningof Satellite
Towns
of
Mega
Cities: Caseofthe
Kolkata
Metropolitan
Area(KMA)” wasdelivered by
Dr. Uttam Kumar Roy, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute ofTechnology (IIT), Roorkee, India at the Room S-207D, DPRI
Main Building, Uji Campus, Kyoto University, Japan on 15
January 2018.

Dr. David Mendonça, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New
York, USA visited GADRI and DPRI, Kyoto University on 11
October 2018. During his visit, he delivered a lecture on
Empirical, Methodological and Organizational Frontiers inInterdisciplinary Hazards Research. The talk proposed threeempirical, methodological and organizational responses to an
emerging set of exogenous and endogenous threats toresearch excellence in the disaster domain. His remarks werebased on his own observations over the last two decades, butalso on his recent experience as a progam officer at the US
National Science Foundation--perhaps the major funder ofbasic research in the disaster domain in the US.

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Keeping in touchwith members

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Keeping in touchwith members

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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

BrazilUniversidade 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 has historically focused on
disasters in a broad sense, spanningseveral areas. This is partly motivated by
the institution’s location in the a semiarid
region of Brazil, high populated andsocially and economically vulnerable toenvironmental hazards, such as droughts,
desertification, land degradation, flash
floods, health vulnerability, leading tosocial inequality. Our present interests areon understanding local and regional needs
and the social aspects of Disaster Risk
Reduction, in partnerships with regional,
national and international networks. Our
research teams come from diverse
disciplines: climate, hydrology, geology,
environment, biology, ecology, agriculture,geography, engineering, computing andinformation technology, management,
health,medicine,law,sociology,
anthropology, education, urban andregional planning, architecture, design andeconomics.

In this report, we highlight the First Brazilian
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Disasters, hosted andorganized by the Department of Geography of ouruniversity in October 2018.
The topics addressed in the sessions of the event
were: disaster dynamics and connections to othercrises, planning and management for disaster risk
reduction (DRR) at municipal level, education for
DRR, psychology and DRR, participatory
approaches to DRR, desertification, people
displacement by dams, urban rivers disasters,
climate extremes, technological disasters, civil
defence and protection in metropolitan regions,social and environmental vulnerability due to urban
sprawl, the Brazilian information system on
disasters (S2ID), vulnerability analysis of risk-prone
areas through geo-technologies.

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

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We continued the development of remote sensing
based information systems on land use and land
cover change analysis, particularly to detecthuman-driven deforestation and its impacts on
climate and biodiversity in seasonally dry forests,
such as the Brazilian Caatinga. Our teams, incooperation with European colleagues, brought
new evidences that the use of surface albedo as aproxy for land-cover clearing in these forests
provides the detection of deforestation at theresolution of the Landsat satellite sensors (30meters) with higher accuracy than previous
approaches.

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Americas

Bioclimate: Scientific Gateway for Biodiversity and Climate Change

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Centro de Investigación para la Gestión
Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN),
Chile
https://www.cigiden.cl/en/home/

CIGIDEN has been developing multi-hazard
methodologies and transdisciplinary research
initiatives focused in central Chile:

Multi-hazard
assessment
watershed’ scale

at

the

The Maipo Basin is first order geographic
system from the western limit of the Andes
Mountain to the Pacific coast, where nearly 40%of the Chilean population lives. CIGIDEN isdeveloping an interdisciplinary project, where
fundamental
geologicalandgeophysicalknowledges are being integrated to elaborate
multi-hazard maps of the entire basin scale,
which consider landslides, strong ground motion
effects in foundation soils, volcanoes, flash
floods, and coastal erosion. This project aims at
defining specific areas where interactions withengineering and social sciences would lead toquantitative measures of potential risks, and toaddress potential impacts on infrastructures andcommunities. Two pilot areas have been
defined: the high-altitude mountain part of thebasin with potential impacts of landslides andflash floods, and the coastal border, where
Cartagena is located, where coastal hazards areto be addressed. Working at the watershedscale is intentionally aimed to develop a multirisk framework for Andean countries and toconnect with the two other initiatives described
next.

Disaster’ Scenarios and Resilience ofCritical Infrastructure Networks

We are addressing the complex physicalresponse and resilience of critical infrastructures
as well as the socio-economic impacts of natural
hazards in urban settings. The first goal is toevaluate
the
risk
and
resilienceofTransportation, Health, Electricity and Water
networks. This requires a comprehensive studyof the physical and functional responses of thesecomplex systems and their components, which
in turn impact different aspects of the socioeconomic dimension. Physical damage of these
networks resulting in functionality losses havesubstantial socioeconomic impact due to theextensive areas of the territory they cover. Thus,
natural systems disciplines are related to thecomplete characterization of the geographically
distributed hazard, while social sciences, arerelated to the social consequences of theselarge disruptions. Physical impacts on the
different
infrastructuresandevacuation
processes are assessed and socioeconomic
assessment of the impacts is being addressed incollaboration with researchers from the social
practices.

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

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Community-Based
Reduction Model

Disaster

Risk

Understanding
thecommunityresilience nexus at and from the local
level, and from there elaborate aCommunity-based
Disaster
Risk
Reduction Model, is a priority. During
2018 we set the bases for an
integrative case study in the Cartagena
bay. This project is a collaboration
betweensocial scientists,earthscientists,
geographers,urbanplanners, and engineers, with a strong
participative approach and a focus on
multi-hazards in complex coastal urban
settings.
Also,
we
conducted

community meetings to integrateneighborhood organizations into thedesign of the research questions andmethods. Institutional, educational, andindustry actors will also have a relevantrole. Being a unique case ofinterdisciplinary
andparticipatory
research on resilience and multihazards,
theobjectiveisamethodology for local risk reduction
strategies applicable to Chile and toother geographical contexts. We intend
to answer the question of how citizens
participate and educate themselves indeveloping resilient communities thatare better prepared for disaster risk
reduction.

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Workshop held by PEER with USGS

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research(PEER) Center, University of California,
Berkeley, USA
https://peer.berkeley.edu
1. PEER became the Pacific Regional Node,responsible for the earthquake hazard, oftheStructural
ExtremeEventsReconnaissance (StEER) Network, fundedby the US National Science Foundation in
August 2018 for two years.
2. PEER researchers published around 10
reports and briefings from the early virtual
reconnaissanceeffortsofmanyearthquakes around the world and in theUS, including the recent July 2019
Ridgecrest, California earthquakes (Mw 6,7
and Mw 8.1) and May 2019 Peru
earthquake (Mw 8.0). PEER director wasan editor of many virtual reconnaissancereports related to hurricanes.
3. TheCalifornia
EnergyCommission
awarded a $4.9 million grant to PEER on
May 15, 2019 to improve the seismic risk
assessment of natural gas storage andpipeline infrastructure. During the 2.5-year
project, PEER will develop open-source
software to better assess risks to natural
gas storage and pipeline systems fromseismic activity with the objective of
reducing the negative consequences of theearthquake hazard on communities.

potential modeling enhancements. Second
is the PEER Hub ImageNet Challenge forthe automated identification of damage
from images using machine learning andcomputer vision techniques, with the aim ofpromoting the tools of Artificial Intelligence
tools amongst the earthquake engineeringand other hazards communities. Bothcompetitions were well received with morethan a total of 75 teams attending thecompetitions.
5. PEER issued a brochure titled “Expected
Earthquake Performance of Buildings
Designed to the California Building Code,”with the objective of educating the generalpublic about the intentions of seismic codesand clarifying the common misunderstoodaspects. The brochure explained the intent
of the California Building Code, theexpected performance of code-compliant
new buildings when they are subjected tomoderate and large earthquakes, possible
consequences to residents, businesses,
and communities, and initial proactive
actions that can be taken.

4. PEER
organized
twoimportantcompetitions in 2018. First is the blindprediction competition on the numericalsimulation of a large-scale liquefaction
shaking table experiment, which aimed atevaluating the current abilities of theearthquake profession to model earthquake
induced liquefaction and suggesting

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

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6. PEER partnered with many importantorganizations, including the United States
Geological Survey (USGS) and theCalifornia Seismic Safety Commission, todevelop a report on the consequences of
the the HayWired earthquake scenario,
which anticipates the impacts of ahypothetical M7 earthquake on the
Hayward Fault, with epicenter in Oakland.
HayWired scenario creates a platform, orplausible basis, by which research can dig
deeper into developing solutions toproblems that are posed by the scenario,
with the aim of shortening the region’s
recovery time, shedding light into therecovery and resilience aspects of otherearthquake prone regions around the world.

7. PEER organized the Annual Meeting withnearly 250 participants consisting ofresearchers,
students,
governmental
agencies and industry partners. In addition,
PEER
organized
severalimportantworkshops on hybrid simulation, highperformance computing, and the fragility ofbridge columns. The aim of theseworkshops was to improve tools that areused for the evaluation of infrastructuressubjected to extreme events.
8. PEER funded 11 projects at the end of
2018 on a wide range of topics such as
ground motions, tsunami research, resilientsystems,
city-scalemodeling
anduncertainty quantification.

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Natural Hazards Center, University ofColorado, Boulder, USA
https://hazards.colorado.edu/

The Natural Hazards Center at the
University of Colorado Boulder is the
National Science Foundation-designatedinformation clearinghouse for the nation.
We are dedicated to reducing disasterharm through:(1) translating and sharing hazards anddisaster research and information;(2)
building
connections
betweenresearchers, non-profit and private sector
professionals, the media, policy makers,
and local, state, and federal officials;(3) advancing social science andinterdisciplinary knowledge, with a special
emphasis on the most vulnerable
populations
andplaces;and(4) training and mentoring the diverse
next generation of hazards and disaster
professionals.
Every day, we work to empower a culture
where all people are educated andinspired to take positive action to mitigate
hazards losses and to build stronger
communities.
In 2018, the Center team hosted the 43rd
Annual Natural Hazards Workshop, whichbrought together over 500 leading
researchers and practitioners. In addition,at the 2018 Workshop, the Center
convened a meeting of North American
directors of academic hazards anddisaster centers. At the meeting, thegroup voted on a charter to establish theNorth American Alliance of Hazards andDisaster Research Institutes (NAAHDRI).

Prof. Lori Peek
Director
E-mail: Lori.Peek@colorado.edu

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The Center currently has numerous active research projects in the areas of hazards,
disasters, and social vulnerability. Center Director Lori Peek is the Principal Investigator of
CONVERGE, which is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative headquartered at
the Natural Hazards Center.

CONVERGE advances social science, engineering, and interdisciplinary research andestablishes and strengthens networks between disciplinary communities. In the next five
years, CONVERGE will:•

Create and support the CONVERGE Leadership Corps for coordinating andadvancing rapid response disaster research.

•

Identify, map, and accelerate the training of social science and interdisciplinary
researchers through the Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) andInterdisciplinary Science and Engineering Extreme Events Research (ISEEER)
networks.

•

Develop a series of training modules to advance the ethical conduct of hazards anddisaster researchers.

•

Partner with the Natural Hazards Review journal to publish a new CONVERGE Quick
Response Research Briefing Sheets series to focus attention on best practices forhazards and disaster research.

•

Encourage and fund research projects across the disaster lifecycle among SSEER
and ISEEER researchers.

•

Work with the NHERI RAPID facility to advance mobile applications for social scienceand interdisciplinary reconnaissance.

•

Collaborate with NHERI DesignSafe-Cyberinfrastructure to build a novel social
science and interdisciplinary data model to curate and publish hazards and disaster
research instruments and data.

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

The Center has examined a number of testbed
communities in the United States recently earthquake and flood effects on the Memphis
Metropolitan Statistical Area, including Shelby
County, TN. The Galveston-Bolivar Peninsula,
TX testbed investigated coupled hurricanestorm surge impacts with a focus on better
understanding population dislocation and therole of housing recovery and business recovery
on the resilience of this coastal community on
the U.S. Gulf coast. A hindcast of the Joplin,
MO tornado of 2011 enabled a number ofalgorithms in IN-CORE to be validated against
the actual performance of the Joplin
infrastructure during and following the EF5
tornado.
A longitudinal resilience-focusedstudy of Lumberton, NC was initiated following
the severe flooding from Hurricane Matthew in2016 to document flood damage andcommunity recovery over an extended periodof time including key decision points made bycommunity leaders and published in 2018
(NIST SP 1230); the effect of race/ethnicity,
income, and education level on initial
population dislocation was quantified.

(IN-CORE), is the product of nearly five
years of research for the Center. It is an
opensourcePython-based
programming environment that will
enable users worldwide to create theirown natural hazard scenarios with their own
community topologies, explore alternative
improvements in design and/or policy, and help
communities make decisions that benefit theirstakeholders. IN-CORE is different than othernatural hazard software in that it couples thephysical, social, and economic domains using
advanced physical infrastructure models,computable general equilibrium economic
models, and data-driven social science models
such as population dislocation predictions
following an event. Going forward, we expectthat IN-CORE will be updates pushed out
approximately every six months to add content.
For more information, visit the Center website
and follow us on Twitter @commresilience tolearn more about IN -CORE’s public release.

Substantial effort has been devoted to thecomputational environment, the first public
release of which is scheduled for December
2019:
The
Interconnected
Networked
Community Resilience Modeling EnvironmentProf. John W. van de Lindt
Co-Director
E-mail: jwv@colostate.edu

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Community
Resilience-Focused
Technical Investigation of the 2016
Lumberton, North Carolina FloodMulti-disciplinary Approach”, NIST SP
1230, Editor, October 2018, https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.1230.
Available free on line.

•

Bruce R. Ellingwood, Co-director of
the Center, received the Geerhard
Haaijer Award for Excellence in
Education, American Institute of Steel
Construction, Awarded April, 2018•

Researcher Elaina Sutley received the
U.S. National Science Foundations
most prestigious funding source, the
CAREER Development Award.

•

Researcher Suren Chen was elected
to Fellow status of the American
Society of Civil Engineers.

•

ChristineStandohar-Alfano,
CoDirector John W. van de Lindt, andEric M Holt received the Best Journal
Article of 2018 Award for their paper
entitled“Comparative
Residential
Property Loss Estimation for the April
25-28, 2011 Tornado Outbreak” fromthe Architectural Engineering Institute.

•

Therese P. McAllister, Leader of theCommunity Resilience Program at
NIST, was co-recipient of the Ernest
Howard Award from ASCE.

•

Longtime Advisory Member of theCenter Jim Harris also was recognizedwith Honorary Membership in theAmerican Concrete Institute “forvisionaryleadershipinthedevelopment of codes and standards
for the design of safe and reliablebuildings and for dedicated service tothe structural engineering profession.”

From webpage—https://
nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/
SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.12

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

1. TheARRC’sresearch
expenditures were more than
$8.2M in FY2018 with funding
from NSF, NOAA, NASA,
DARPA,ONR,
AFRL,
AFOSR, private industry, andothers.
2. The ARRC team publishedmore than 80 peer-reviewed
journal papers and bookchapters having a major
impact on a variety of fields
including antenna and filter
design, adaptive scanningwith digital radar, polarimetric phased array
technology,
cloudphysics,
precipitation
measurement and validation, radar waveforms,
and other areas.
3. ARRC faculty organized and hosted the highly
successful 2018 IEEE Radar Conference in
Oklahoma City. Record attendance resulted inexcellent exposure and recognition for the ARRC
and OU.
4. Multiple students won paper competition or
research awards:• Mirhamed Mirmozafari (PhD): 2nd place student
paper at the 2018 IEEE APS Symposium;• Tony Segales (PhD): Outstanding Student Oral
Presentation Award at the AMS 23rd Symposium
on Boundary Layers and Turbulence;• Andrew Byrd (PhD): 1st place student poster atthe 2018 Texas Symposium on Wireless andMicrowave Circuits and Systems;• Andrew Mahre (Phd): 1st place poster
presentation at the AMS 34th Conference on
Environmental
Information
Processing
Technologies;

5. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation,
the ARRC has been developing a mobile C-bandpolarimetric atmospheric imaging radar (PAIR)
that will be shared by communities. The imaging
radar exploits the floodlight concept to achieve
unprecedented temporal resolution. PAIR will becapable of steering a fan beam and applying
digital beamforming techniques to received
signals from a number of independent receivers
to produce simultaneous range height indicator(RHI) of polarimetric variables. The PAIR teamand collaborators have shown strong interests inapplying PAIR to studies of severe andhazardous weather such as tornadoes,
hurricanes, cloud electrification, etc. Each of the
major subsystems of the truck platform issubstantially complete. The PTO generator,
chiller, pedestal with riser and hydraulicoutriggers have been installed on the truck, asshown in the figure. Significant progress has
made for the radar electronics including antenna,
RF front end, digital backend and signal
processor. PAIR is expected to be operational inlate 2022.

• Jay McDaniel (PhD): OU Grad. Student Senate
Outstanding Grad. Student Award in Research;• Russell Kenney (undergrad): 1st place in IEEE
local&
regional
IEEE
student
paper
competitions.

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

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Texas Tech University, USA
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/nwi/

Planning meeting for Industry/University
Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC)
was held during the year. The two
institutions involved in proposing the Wind
Hazard and Infrastructure Performance(WHIP) Center are Texas Tech University(located in Lubbock, Texas) and Florida
International University (located in Miami,
Florida). Several private companies wererepresented at this planning meeting heldin Miami, Florida. The companies included
State Farm Insurance Company, Swiss
Reinsurance, CBI, CDC consulting, North
America Glass Association, Simpson
Strong-tie, Permasteelisa, GAF Materials,
NHERI 12-Fan Wall of Wind Experimental Facility at FIU
SCOR Reinsurance, Berkshire Hathaway
Specialty Insurance, Risk Management
Solution, AIR-WORLDWIDE, and others. The
drawing from the institute’s interdisciplinary
universities and the industry partners agreed toapproach to research and education. The
submit a proposal to the National Science
International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) at
Foundation (NSF). The proposal was to establish
FIU was created in 1996 following the disastrous
Virtual Center for Phase 1 which would be of fiveeffects of Hurricane Andrew (1994) in South
year duration. If Phase 1 is successful additional
Florida. The Laboratory for Wind Engineering
Phases 2 and 3 (each five year duration) can be
Research (LWER) is one of the four laboratories
supported by NSF.
under IHRC and is home to the Wall of Wind
(WOW) research and testing facility. This unique
For almost 50 years, Texas Tech has been afacility will be the core of the FIU WHIP Site alongleader in wind hazard mitigation, wind engineeringwith a dedicated team of experts in Extreme
and wind science, and the WHIP Center will be
Events and Natural Hazards. In addition to TTU
affiliated with its National Wind Institute (NWI),
and FIU, Florida Institute of Technology (Florida
Tech)’s Wind and Hurricane Impact Research Lab(WHIRL), home to the engineering team of theFlorida Public Hurricane Loss Model (FPHLM), will
provide expertise in the area of wind vulnerability
modeling.
PS: The Center is funded by the NSF and began
operation in early 2019.

Prof. Kishor Mehta
VorTECH at TTU

E-mail: Kishor.Mehta@ttu.edu

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Asia
Japan and Oceania

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Japan and Oceania

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Asia — Members
Bangladesh

Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineeringand Technology (BUET)

Bangladesh

Department of Disaster Science and Management (DSM), Faculty of Earth andEnvironmental Sciences, University of Dhaka

China

Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing Institute ofTechnology (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 (CAS)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

Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (DMR), Sichuan University - The
Hong Kong Politechnic 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

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 ofTechnology

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

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 ofIndonesia

Indonesia JASA TIRTA I Public Corporation
Indonesia Research Center for Disaster Mitigation, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)
Iran

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

IranInternational Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES)

IranDepartment 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 andTechnology

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

Center for Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative (SEADPRI-UKM), Institutefor Environment and Development (LESTARI), University of Kebangsaan Malaysia

Malaysia 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 Institute of Noise and Vibration, 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)
Nepal

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

Nepal

Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University

Oman

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Philippines PEMSEA Resource Facility, Partnerships in Environmental Management for Seas of East Asia
Philippines R&D, Graduate School, Philippine School of Business Administration
Philippines

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

Philippines Philippine Society of Emergency Medical Technicians
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)TurkeyKandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University

Vietnam

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

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Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Beijing Institute of Technology (CEEP-BIT), China
http://ceep.bit.edu.cn/english/

In 2018, based on the National Natural
Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Innovative Research Team, CEEP-BIT
research group published 3 books: Energy
Economics:
UnderstandingandInterpreting Energy Poverty in China,
China Energy Report (2018): Green
Transition in Energy Intensive Sectors,
and Comprehensive Evaluation and Data
Envelopment Analysis; published 91
papers in peer-reviewed journals including
Nature-Energy,
Renewable
andSustainable Energy Reviews, Global
Environmental Change, etc.; had 2 policy
consulting reports adopted by the General
Office of CPC Central Committee or StateCouncil; were awarded 2 research outputs
by provincial authorities with First Prize andSecond Prize, respectively; developed the
China's
ClimateChangeIntegrated
Assessment Model (C3IAM); developed 13
softwaresystemswithindependent
intellectual property rights; were authorized
3 utility model patents; had 3 invention
patents
enteredinto
substantive
examination; cultivated more than 10
graduate students in the field of energy
economics and climate policy; took morethan 20 topics from NSFC, National Key
Research and Development Project ofChina,
Fok
Ying
Tung
Education
Foundation, Office of the National Energy
Leading Group, etc.

In addition, team members established close academic exchanges and cooperation with internationally renowned institutions such as the University ofCollege London, the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, the Australian National University, theUniversity of California, etc. Research team cohosted and participated in the Sino-Denmark
iCLIMATE workshop on sustainable energy,
health and climate change in Denmark. According to the rankings of RePEc in November 2018,
CEEP-BIT ranks 29 in the field of energy economics and ranks 33 in the field of Environmental Economics worldwide.

Prof. Yi-Ming Wei
E-mail: wei@bit.edu.cn

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China's Climate Change
Integrated
Assessment
Model (C3IAM) Link: http://
inems1.bit.edu.cn/C3IAM

Book
Link:
https://
books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/energy-economics-yiming-wei/?
k=9781787567801
Paper Link: https://www.nature.com/
articles/s41560-017-0053-4
Nature Research Highlights Link：
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586018-00121-6

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Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences (ITPCAS), China
http://ceep.bit.edu.cn/english/
Under the support of DPRI international
cooperative project, we worked on theclarification of seismic hazards in the TibetanHimalayan area. We studied source, faulting
information of recent large earthquakes andconducted seismic hazard assessment. We
found significant spatial variation in seismic
hazard levels. This information is needed forplanning seismic mitigation efforts of the growing
cites and towns that are close to the earthquake
prone Tibetan-Himalayan area. In additional, we
have published several papers and successfully
applied new projects, including the China
National Foundation Key project.

Projects•

2017.04～2019.03, Source and Structural
Properties of the 2015 Mw7.8 Nepal
earthquake, Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute of Kyoto University, Principal
investigator：Prof. Ling Bai from ITPCAS,
Prof. James of from DPRI•

2018.01～2020.12, The seismic controls ofgeohazards related to the 2015 Nepal
earthquake,
NSFC
International
CooperativeKey
project,
Principal
investigator：Prof. Ling Bai from ITPCAS

Prof. Ling Bai was awarded visiting professor
position at the Stanford University, USA.

Publications•

Rahman, M.M., Bai, L., 2018. Probabilistic
seismic hazard assessment of Nepal using
multiple seismic source models. Earth
Planet. Phys. 2: 327-341.

•

Rahman, M.M., Bai, L., Khan N. G., Li, G.,
2018.
Probabilistic
Seismic
HazardAssessment for Himalayan-Tibetan Region
from Historical and Instrumental Earthquake
Catalogs. PAGEOPH. 175: 685-705. doi:
10.1007/s00024-017-1659-y.

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

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Natural Disaster Research Institute (NDRI)
Northeast Normal University, China
http://ndri.nenu.edu.cn/

Forum of Jilin Association of Science and Technology Young Scientists

•

•

•

The Innovation Base of Application of Jilin •RemoteSensing
Information
Technology
Approved by Department of Science andTechnology of Jilin province .2018.08.
•
National Key R&D Program of China: Integrated
Risk Assessment and Cartographic Technologyof Multiple Major Natural Disasters.2018.12•
2012.12.
Key Scientific and Technological Research andDevelopment Projects of Science and Technology•
Development Plan for Jilin province: Technology
and Application of Changbai Mountain Volcano
Eruption Triggered Collapse and Landslide
Disaster Risk Assessment and Early warning &Forecasting.2018.01-2020.12.

Geological Hazard Risk Assessment
Emergency
Resources
SurveyofProvince:2018.06-2019.12.

and
Jilin

To Hold the Forum of Jilin Association of Scienceand Technology Young Scientists 2018.
2018.10.23-24. Changchun City, Jilin Province.
Over 31 academic papers related to disasters
were published in high-level international
academic journals.
Invited 10 experts in the field of disaster from theUnited States and other countries to conduct
academic exchanges and cooperative research.

Prof. Jiquan Zhang
Director
E-mail: zhangjq022@nenu.edu.cn

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

The faculty has been expanded in the past year – 8
new assistant professors has joined the institute.
Their research and teaching focus on earthquake
engineering, wind engineering, structural healthmonitoring, and structural vibration control. The
development of Western China Earthquake andHazards Mitigation Research Centre has been
accelerated in 2018. A new structural lab wascompleted and several new facilities for testinglarge scale structural components, seismic bearing,and energy dissipation devices were added. A
series of academic activities were held in 2018 inmemory of the 2008 Great Wenchuan Earthquake,
including International Conference for the Decade
Memory of the Wenchuan Earthquake, the 10th

National Conference on Earthquake Disaster
Prevention and Mitigation Engineering, andWorkshop on Integrated Disaster Reduction in
Active Seismic Zones. More than 3,000
participants visited Sichuan University and got
involved in these activities. These events remind
the world the disastrous consequence of strong
earthquakes – these activities work as special
educational program to those researchers,
professors, students, and engineers.

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

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Hong Kong Jockey Club Disaster
Preparedness and Response Institute(HKJCDPRI), Hong Kong, China
http://www.hkjcdpri.org.hk/

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Disaster
Preparedness
andResponse
Institute(HKJCDPRI) at The Hong Kong Academy ofMedicine was launched in November 2014 withthe generous donation from The Hong Kong
Jockey Club. Led by the Hong Kong Academyof Medicine in collaboration of The University ofHong Kong (HKU) and The Chinese Universityof Hong Kong (CUHK), and supported byinternational experts, the HKJCDPRI provides aplatform for training, research, policy discussion
and knowledge exchange to enhance theknowledge in building resilience in thecommunity.
The HKJCDPRI develops capacity building
programmes for emergency planners to enhancetheir knowledge and skills required for disaster
response. HKJCDPRI’s leadership development
courses highlight the importance of criticalCommunity Activity
decision making, effective communication andcoordination skills for emergency operations.

The HKJCDPRI utilises different teachingmodalities including online learning, Virtual Reality(VR) simulation, table-top exercises and casesharing for blended learning.
The Annual Conference of the HKJCDPRI has
become a flagship event since its establishment,
three annual conferences had been conducted.
Given the success of these conferences, the 4th
annual conference of HKJCDPRI titled “Emergency
Challenges and Opportunities Ahead” had beenorganized in January 2018 and was attended byover 300 participants.
“Adapting international norms and lessons learnt tomeet local needs” is the motto of HKJCDPRI. The
Overseas Training Fellowship programme of the
HKJCDPRI provided international learning andexchange opportunities for participants to gain
practical insights and inspiration from theprogramme.

Ms. Eva Lam
Director
E-mail: eva@hkam.org.hk
Overseas fellowship training activity
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Annual Conference 2018

In 2018, three overseas training fellowship
programmes had been organised to bring experts
together to the United Kingdom and Australia, incollaboration with overseas training institutes and the
local government.

Training simulation session

Research and knowledge dissemination is anotherimportant scope of work of the HKJCDPRI. In 2018,
the HKJCDPRI collaborated with the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on a
research to develop a Smart Landslide Barrier. The
Smart Landslide Barrier is capable of detecting theimpact of landslides of various types for enhancing
the landslide detection technology. In September
2018, super typhoon Mangkhut devastated the cityand caused substantial destruction including
blockage of more than 1,000 road sections by fallentrees and coastal damages. In response to thecatastrophe, the HKJCDPRI conducted a survey togauge the public views on typhoon preparedness for
Mangkhut to generate useful recommendations for
preparing for the next typhoon season.
Disaster resilience cannot exclude community-based
work. Through the “Community Campaign on
Disaster Resilience” project, the HKJCDPRI
collaborated with different organisations and schools
to design community-based disaster preparedness
and education programmes for specific target groups.

Overseas fellowship training programme

In the sector of tertiary education, the HKJCDPRI
works with HKU and CUHK to develop and launch
modules on disaster topics under their Master of
Public Health (MPH) programmes and e-learning
modules.
The HKJCDPRI keeps continuing its efforts inenhancing knowledge dissemination and regularly reassesses the needs of Hong Kong and the region to
set the way forward.

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Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation &Management Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Roorkee, India
https://www.iitr.ac.in/centers/COEDMM/ pages/Home.html

sirens at Dehradun and all district
HQs of Uttarakhand and installationof 100 sirens in the cities of
Dehradun and Haldwani. In future,
the EEW system can be used byGovernment and Semi-Governmentorganizations like Delhi Metro,
NuclearIndustry,
Hazardous
Industries and Public at large.
• National Mission on Himalayan
Studies (NMHS) has awarded
Himalayan Fellowship to the Centre
to do research activities under thefollowing• Seismic Safety of Hill Buildings
by using Low Cost Energy
Dissipating Device• Achievements, awards: The Centre has signed
MoU to work with the National Institute ofDisaster Management (NIDM), New Delhi in
November, 2018.
• The Centre has joined hands in joint researchon Lightning location system with Disaster
Prevention
Research
Institute,
Kyoto
University, Japan in continuation with the DPRIKyoto University, Japan.
• To initiate Earthquake Early Warning System(EEW) network in India, a team of faculty
members and students lead by Prof. Ashok
Kumar have deployed sensors at different
locations in the seismic gap region of Garhwal
Himalayas with the help of Ministry of Earth
Sciences in 2015. These Sensors are
streaming data in real time to a computer
server at the Institute. The sensors are used for
issuing warnings for earthquakes of magnitude
above 6 on Richter scale. The project was
successfully completed in 2017. After this,Government of Uttarakhand has funded thisproject to the Centre for maintenance of thisEEW System, installation of 100 additional
sensors covering Kumaun region, installation of• Conceptualization, design anddevelopment of forest-waste based sustainable
complete materials• Unraveling the hydrology of Hiamalayancatchment through high resolution hydrologicaldata• Impact of Future climate change on Himalayansnow and glacier melt runoff• The Centre has awarded research project by
ISRO Ahmedabad on “Vulnerability and Risk
Analysis of Geohazards in Himalayan Region”• 7 Ph.Ds. and 50 M.Tech. Degrees have been
awarded so far.

Prof. Mahua Mukherjee
Director
E-mail: coe_dmm@iitr.ac.in

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Nalanda University, India
http://www.nalandauniv.edu.in/

In 2018, Nalanda University placed muchemphasize on collaborative research withnumber of institutes
around the world.
One of the institutes
with
which
such
collaborative research
activities
undertaken
were the exchange
visits of researchers
with
DisasterPrevention
Research
Institute (DPRI). Kyoto
University, Japan,Dr
Subhajyoti
Samaddar from DPRI
visitedNalandaUniversity
andpresented his ongoing
research to students
and faculties and alsoorganizedashortcourse on disaster risk
assessment
attheSchool of Ecology andEnvironment Studies. (Fig. 1)

Figure 1. Guest lecture by Dr. Subhajyoti Samaddar at Nalanda
University

Similarly, Dr. Prabhakar Sharma from Nalanda
University spent a week at DPRI to explore theresearch collaboration. They also developed acollaborative research proposal and attempted
for funding through bilateral scientificcollaboration under India-Japan Cooperative
Science Programme. During his visit to DPRI,
he also delivered a lecture on "Pollutant Fate
and Transport of the Subsurface Systems”.
(Fig. 2)
His
presentation
covereddifferent
anthropogenic activities near the large water
bodies which can lead to a heavy load ofpollutant on the wetland and ultimately to thesubsurface systems.

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Dr. Prabakar Sharma
Assistant Professor
E-mail: psharma@nalandauniv.edu.in

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Figure 2. Dr. Prabhakar Sharma visit and seminar at DPRIThe University had received a big grantfrom Australia to produce an effective
mechanism for social implementation ofdrought risk reduction strategies. Thissocial mechanism is critical in developing
country context where increasing numberof people are at risk and having lessresource to tackle them. This project is
attempting to deliver a demand-driven
convergent water solution for suddenly
available water. In this project, the farmer
beneficiaries from selected villages would
be co-participants in the process. The
socio-economic background, land holding
pattern and the willingness and active
interest of farmers is being analyzed for
drought risk reduction strategies. The
proposed institutional model is based on
an assessment of the proper channels andactors who can communicate and raise
concerns among the farmers regarding
their environmental vulnerability due towater
stress,andpossiblesolutions to address them.

Within the School of Ecology and Environment
Studies at the University, there is strongemphasis on disaster management and risk
assessment courses at the existing master’s
program at the School. It aims to cover theinterdisciplinary perspectives of characteristics,
mechanisms, impacts, prediction and risk
assessment of disasters. In addition, students
are trained on GIS and remote sensing based
technology for disaster risk and emergency
management. They are also exposed tosatellite positioning systems, communication
technologies, crowd-sourcing and WebGIS
techniques employed in different phases ofdisaster management cycle.

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

In 2018, following activities
were undertaken:•

DevelopmentofEarthquake-induced
Landslide
HazardZonation Model Using
Iran Database•

Application of Perfectly
Matched Layer (PML)in Dynamic Analysis of
Embankment
DamFoundation Interaction•

Anal ytic aldevelopm entofs eism ic
vulner ability
f unctionsforgas
transm iss ion pipelines
in Iran••

Structural Engineering Research Center

experimental investigations

Improving the existing methods forinclusion of kinematic interaction inseismic evaluation of soil-structure
systems•

Developm ent of Spatial Statis tics
Methods
toEvaluate
Seism ic
Vulnerability of Lifeline Networks

Self-Centering
W all,
Level
of
Structural
Damages,
EnergyDissipation, Outside Steel Plate,
Stiffener•

Developm ent of an Image Based on
Response recording Software•

Evaluating
theInter ac tionofSurf ac e Fault Rupture – foundation– Steel Str ucture•

Precising Measurement
Modulus and Damping
resonant Column Test•

Directtim eintegr ation
fromearthquak e-induced equations ofm otion with steps larger thanconventional
without
directdependence to the response•

Up gr ad a ti o n of N at i on a l Ce n ter of
Br oa d ba n d Se is m ic N e t work of
Ira n

•

The Increasing of Energy – Absorptionof CBFs by using of the new Steel oraluminum
Cases
based
on

of Shear
Ratio byProf. Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany
E-mail: ashtiany@iiees.ac.ir;
mohsen.ashtiany@gmail.com

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Soil Conservation and Watershed Management
Research Institute (SCWMRI), Iran
https://www.scwmri.ac.ir/

The Landslide group of soil conservationand Watershed Management research has
started its research activities since1992. More than 25 research project
has been initiated and implemented
since its establishment. In 2018 thefollowing are some of ongoingprojects:•

Landslideoccurrencerisk
assessment in the selectedwatersheds•

Evaluationoflandslidevulnerability potential in theselected watersheds•

Preparation of landslide hazard
zoning maps using Artificial
Neural Network (ANN) in theselected watersheds•

Research on the effect oflandslides on sediment delivery oflandslide susceptible basins. "Design and construction of prototype ‘Robotic
Landslide monitoring and logging system basedon neural network”

Dr. Zieaoddin Shoaei
Professor
E-mail: zshoaei@gmail.com,
zshoaei@scwmri.ac.ir

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College of Agriculture and Natural Resources(UTCAN) - Environmental changes Institute Universityof Tehran, Iran
https://utcan.ut.ac.ir/en
members.
4500
Students are currently
studying in 148 majors
and specializations in
17 departments.

Being the best in Iran, the University of Tehran
has been ranked as one of the top universities in
Asia.The foundation of the College of Agriculture& Natural Resources (UTCAN), goes back to theyear 1900, when it was first established as“School of Agriculture”. 120 years of education,
research and policy-making, has turned UTCAN
into a pioneering and leading focal point in Iranand also in Asia. UTCAN is honored to haveformer Minister of Agriculture, Minister of
Economy, Acting-Minister of Science, Parliament
member, President of the University of Tehran andother great leaders among its faculty members.
UTCAN, with more than 240 eminent faculty• Many regions of theworld are increasingly
facing challenges when
it
comes
to
managementofresourcesandenvironmental changes
and finding solutions for
those related problems.
The nature of thesechallenges differs fromone location to another.
Environmental changes
which result in floods
and droughts as well as
long term impacts ofclimatechangeondifferent elements ofenvironment can causesignificant
economiclossestovariousregions and nations
and also increase therisk of disasters. We
plan to establish a
specific institute on disaster risk management
and environmental changes in 2019, but by then
all activities are at UTCAN level.

Dr. Sharareh Purebrahim
Associate Professor
E-mail: Sh_pourebrahim@ut.ac.ir

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• To promote scientific research on theissues and problems related to disastermanagement
andenvironmental
changes.
• To create and reinforce networks for theexchange of scientific, technical andpolicy information on disaster andenvironmental issues among theinstitutions and individuals in the region
and in other countries.
• To develop and coordinate cooperative
research
activitiesondisastermanagement and environmental issues,
taking advantage particularly of theinstalled scientific and professional
capacity of the region and nongovernmental organizations.

GADRI Annual Report 2018—49• To organize knowledge and informationtransfer activities on the subject,including international training courses,
symposia or workshops, and to engage
in appropriate awareness raising
activities.
• To develop a strong program of
information
andcommunication
technology to further objectives.
• To provide technical consulting andadvisory services in the region andbeyond as required.
• To produce technical publications andother media items related to theactivities

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

The National Knowledge and ResearchCenter for Emergency Preparedness wasestablished in January 2018. The 8
disciplinary research teams (Law; Public
Policy; Social Science; Public Health andEmergency Medicine; Welfare and Social
Work;
Engineering,Technology
andPlanning;
Risk
Assessment
andManagement; and Environment) performed
gap/research needs assessments over a
period of 7 months leading to theidentificationof
disciplinary
andmultidisciplinary
areasofnecessary
research. The process involved academic
and gray literature surveys, interviews withresearchers, experts, and practitioners, andgroup brainstorming sessions. The Center's
subsequent areas of research focus onaddressing the multi-disciplinary gaps
identified (for a list of those gaps see here).
Four research projects were initiated in2018, chosen on the basis of the following
criteria: degree to which proposal addresses
identified gaps; degree to which it ismultidisciplinary; suitability of methodology;
contribution (theoretical and empirical);suitability of investigators; expected outputs;
budget.
The 2018 research projects chosen:• Robust Preparedness Against Surprisesin Extreme Events: Multi-Site Fires andEarthquakes• Insurance, Thresholds and Mechanisms
for Post Disaster Resilience• Managing a Nation and its Citizens
During a Crisis: Interrelation Test
Between Government and Public During
Emergency Times• Using Twitter for near real-time alerts
and damage analysis of natural hazards
in Israel and its close surrounding

Dr. Michal Ben Gal
Research CoordinatorE-mail: bmichal@geo.haifa.ac.il

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Risk Assessment and Management—two-day course

In addition, the following activities took place in2018:• Construction of database (ongoing)• Bi-monthly seminars, all on YouTube and canbe watched in real-time as well as archived –see “Events” on our website• Two day condensed course on Risk
Management for Emergency Readiness open
to stakeholder public• International workshop held in conjunction
with DIM2SEA project - Cascading Disasters:
Theory, Methods and Empirics, November 28-29, 2018. For program and videos from theevent – see here (publication forthcoming in
2020: Cascading Effects in Disaster Risk
Science: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives to beappear in the International Journal of Disaster
Risk Reduction (IJDRR), published by
Elsevier.

More
information
about Center researchis available on our
website at:
http://
muchanut.haifa.ac.il/
index.php/en/research/
center-research

Cascading Disasters Workshop

Cascading Disasters Workshop
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University of Kabangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
http://www.ukm.my/seadpri/

Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research
Initiative (SEADPRI-UKM) at the Institute forEnvironment and Development (LESTARI)
University of Kabangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Since 2016, SEADPRI-UKM was awarded as
Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)International Centre of Excellence (ICoE) for
Disaster Risk and Climate Extremes. Hence
SEADPRI-UKM is now one of the 16 ICoEs at
the global level, that aims to promote DRR
activities and programmes within the respective
regions. The ICoE represents, in this case of
SEADPRI-UKM, the South East Asian region,
focusing on strengthening localised inputs toaddress regional DRR related matters.
SEADPRI-UKM will continue to capitalise on thispartnership framework to further advance work
related on DRR.

SEADPRI-UKM embarked on a research project
involving teams from Malaysia and the United
Kingdom, awarded under the Newton-Ungku
Omar Fund, administered by Innovate UK and
the Malaysian Industry-Government Group forHigh Technology (MIGHT). The project, Disaster
Resilience Cities: Forecasting Local Level
Climate Extremes and Physical Hazards for
Kuala Lumpur focuses on ways to best adapt
selected meteorological and hazard models toenable better forecasting of climate extremes
and physical hazards in Kuala Lumpur. Pilot
studies will be conducted in Kuala Lumpur andadjacent areas, focusing on areas that include
meteorological forecasting, hazard modellingand multi-hazard forecasts for flash floods,
landslides, sink holes, strong winds, urban heat
and air pollution at very detailed scales.

Under the collaboration agreement between
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and theCambridge
Malaysian
Education
andDevelopment Trust (CMEDT), in association with
the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre(MCSC) that led to the Asian Network for
Climate Science and Technology (ANCST) and
Malaysia-Window-to-Cambridge at Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia (MW2C@UKM), with theobjective to enhance capacity-building in areas
related to atmospheric science and climatechange in Malaysia and the region, to help
strengthen the expertise required for futuredisaster prevention. The MW2C@UKM annually
hold programme to facilitate junior staffs andstudent exchanges to enhance awareness andstrengthen ties between the University ofCambridge and UKM. It also serves as agateway to Cambridge for scientists from
Malaysia and Asia.

Prof. Dato’ Mazlin Mokhtar
Director, LESTSRI, UKM
E-mail: seadpri@ukm.edu.my

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In 2018, SEADPRI was awarded 3 newproject namely Capacity Building Research in
Relation to IPCC, SDGs and the Paris
Agreement by Asia Pacific Global Network(APN); Development of Synthetic Biology
Sensors for Detection of L-arginine in Fruits
and Commercial Beverages by Malaysian
Research University Network Grant (MRUN);
and Development of Rapid and in-situ
Mycotoxin Detection Kit by Research
University Grant.

With technical support from SEADPRI-UKM
and the United Nations Office for Disaster
Reduction (UNISDR) Asia & Pacifi-c Regional
Office, the National Disaster Management
Agency in the Prime Minister’s Department of
Malaysia (NADMA Malaysia) successfullyorganised the Sendai Framework Monitor(SFM) Orientation and Training Workshop on
19-20 March 2018 at UKM Bangi.

The workshop was the fi-rst national training
workshop using the Sendai Framework
Monitor (SFM) System in the world, since its
inauguration on 6 December 2017 by UNDRR.
This workshop was designed specifically for
Malaysia to learn about SFM System and its
data entry, analytical capabilities as well as its
application at the global, regional, national andlocal levels, in achieving the Global Targets of
the Sendai Framework.

Besides, there are other on-going initiatives
such
adoptionofgreen
technology(collaboration between university and private
sector) to prevent pollution, adoption of
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into
National plans, and prevention of chemicalrelated disaster.

Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM) Orientation andTraining Workshop on 19-20 March 2018 at UKM

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Institute of Noise & Vibration (INV)
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia
http://inv.com.my/

The Institute of Noise & Vibration is a centre of
excellence of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
established in 1992 offering technical services
and industrial research of the University in noise& vibration and seismic engineering to industry.
It is a National Higher Institution Centre of
Excellence (HiCoE), recognised as a referral
centre by the industry and government agencies
for noise & vibration and structural integrity
assessment in the country. Personnel of theInstitute are leading authorities in thisspecialised field in the region.
Being a technical service provider operating
within an academic and research eco‐system,
we have strong skills in practical problem solving
and design—gained from more than 30 years ofhands on track proven experience andcontinuous involvement in industry driven
research.
Ouranalytical,
computational,
modeling
resources,
track
recordandexperience is unmatched in the ASEAN region.

Barriers. The Institute is the country’s leading
expert in highway noise, and is highly regarded
by the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM).
Furthermore, the same work also is being
carried out for Malaysia’s railways (Mass RailTransit and LRT). We undertake detailed designof trackform isolation and building isolation forground‐borne vibrations and noise affecting
buildings built adjacent and above railway lines.
INV also has successfully organizedEngineering
Applicationsof
Artificial
Intelligence (EAAI) Conference in Sabah,
Malaysia. This conference was held on 3 ~ 5
December 2018 at Sutera Harbour Resort,
Sabah, Malaysia. Engineering Applications ofArtificial Intelligence (EAAI) Conference is aconference that is held to bring together
scientists,
engineers,
researchersandpractitioners to share latest information, trends& technology in the field of engineering
applications of machine learning and artificial
intelligence.

INV is currently involved in several national-levelprojects as consultant for noise & vibration
mitigation work. All new highways development
and highway expansion projects in Malaysia
require a Detailed Noise Study, and where noise
mitigation is required, a Design Brief for Noise

Prof. Mohd Salman Leong
E-mail: salman.kl@utm.my

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Noise Barrier project for SPRINT Kerinchi Link affecting Taman Pantai, Malaysia

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German University of Technology, Oman
https://www.gutech.edu.om/

Work on the project “Towards a flood-resilient
Omani society: improved tools for flood
management”, funded by the Omani ResearchCouncil (TRC), was continued in 2018. Major
topics were the delineation of watersheds in the
study region (Al Batinah South) and theextension of the sediment transport model.
There were also preparations for finalizing the
project in spring 2019.
Concerning the delineation of watersheds
differences were examined that appear, when
an automatic delineation tool is applied using
different digital elevation maps (DEM). For that
demonstration we used the ARCGIS toolbox andDEMs from SRTM, GDEM and TanDEM (seecenter figure below). First results were
presented at the 4th Symposium on Flash Floods
in Wadi Systems (ISFF4) (Hadidi & Holzbecher,2018). There were also preparations on the printversion of this work.

The sediment transport simulation was
implemented as an extension of a shallow waterequation model for fluid flow. Bedload andsuspended load are considered in the model.
The simulation was examined on generic test
cases. The top-right figure below shows thechange of water table and bottom surface
around a cylindrical obstacle. The model waspresented at two conferences (Holzbecher &Hadidi, 2018a,b). The former presentation isavailable as a print version in the electronic
proceedings on the internet.

Prof. Ekkehard Holzbecher
E-mail: Ekkehard.holzbecher@gutech.edu.om

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As final part of the project work a study
was initiated dealing with quick on-line
simulation of flood events. For thispurpose collaboration was established
with
Nelen
&
Schuurmans,
The
Netherlands, in order to examine theapplication of the advanced 3Di model forthe creation of flood maps. A flood
scenario was established for a reduced
model region that includes the university
campus. There was field-work required forthe scenario set-up (see bottom figure).

Publications

The
international
cooperation
wasintensified in 2018. There was continuous
contact with the Atmosphere andHydrosphere Research group at Kyoto
University, Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute. Two members of the GUtech
team participated at the ISFF5, as
members of the scientific and organizing
committees, as reviewers and aspresenters (see Figure top left). At theconference there was extensive exchangewith the teams from Kyoto University andthe Moroccan hosts. At the end of
the year a new cooperation
was established with
the Dutch grouppromoting the 3Dimodel approach.

•

Holzbecher E. & Hadidi A., A
multiphysics approach to sedimenttransport
inshallow
water,COMSOL2018, Lausanne, October 22-24th, 2018a•Holzbecher E. & Hadidi A., Coupledflow and sediment transport in shallow
water, 4th Symp. On Flash Floods in
Wadi
Systems,
Casablanca,
December 4-6th, 2018b•

Hadidi A. & Holzbecher E., Delineationof catchment boundaries in wadis’
downstream in South Batinah, 4thSymp. On Flash Floods in Wadi
Systems, Casablanca, December 46th, 2018

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Philippine School of Business Administration (PSBA)
Philippines
http://psba.edu/

The Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Unit,
under its Graduate School of Business(GSB), Philippine School of Business
Administration – Manila (PSBA-Manila) won
First Place in the National Capital Region(NCR) Regional Gawad KALASAG Awards
2018 for the Higher Education Institutions
category organized by the Republic of thePhilippines Office of Civil Defense (OCD)
under its Department of National Defense
on July 30, 2018. This award is given to
Philippine institutions for their outstanding
contribution and excellence in disaster risk
reduction and management, as well as
humanitarian assistance.

Further, the DRM Unit of PSBA-Manila, incollaboration with its local and international
partners: the Quezon City Local Government;
University of the Philippines Planning andDevelopment Research Foundation; Asian
Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand; Lahore
College for Women University (LCWU),
Pakistan; and National Health Emergency
Preparedness & Response Network, Pakistan;co-organized two International Seminars heldin Quezon City Experience Theater, Philippines
as follows:•

International Symposium 2018 with theme“Public Private Trends In Business
Management – Understanding Disaster
Risk towards Business Continuity”. http://
psba.edu/proceedings/internationalsymposium-january-27-28/

From left: Ms. Marquinez, Engr. Lopez, Dir. Salvador, Dr. Raza,
MGen. Cabantac, Ms. Tiongson, Mr. Pandan, and Ms. Maala
receiving PSBA-Manila’s 2018 Gawad KALASAG Award forhigher education institution category in NCR•

International Research Colloquium 2018with theme “Business Management
Resiliency towards Risk Reduction in
Changing Climate, Promoting Financial,
Industrial and Environmental Safety”.
http://psba.edu/proceedings/3rdinternational-research-colloquium-october13/

Prof. Tabassa, Raza
Director, DRM Unit
E-mail: tabassamr@psba.edu

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An International Workshop held in AIT,
Thailand; and Faculty Strengthening Program
was held in LCWU, Lahore, Pakistan. The
proceedings for these events are disseminatedthrough the PSBA-Manila website at http://
psba.edu/downloads.

•

Researches produced in 2018 by the DRM Unit
Research Fellowship Program in collaboration
with partners include:••

Raza. T., Andres A., Castro J., Vinarao V.,
Rentoy F., Raza. TK., & Siddiqui T. (2018).
“Understanding and Managing Risks of
Climate Extremes: A Local Sustainable
Development Action Plan, Quezon City,
Philippines” presented at the Sixth Annual
International Conference on Sustainable
Development, also known as ICSD 2018,
held on the September 26 to 28, at the
Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University,
New York City

Raza. T., Andres A., Castro J., Vinarao V.,
Rentoy F., Raza. TK., and Espinosa R.
(2018). “Enhancing Urban Resilience
towards Water Sufficiency during Extreme
Weather Disastrous Impact: Sectoral
Adaptation Action Plan of Quezon City,
Philippines” presented in the International
Conference, Water Science for Impact,
October 16-18, 2018, Orion Wageningen,
The Netherlands

In addition, DRM Unit, GSB, PSBA-Manila
achieved the following recognitions as follows:

Raza. T., Andres A., Castro J., Vinarao V.,
Rentoy F., Raza. TK., & Siddiqui T. (2018).
“Climate-Related Disasters Challenges for
Sustainable Development: Innovating a
Science and Policy Framework towards
Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Quezon
City, Philippines” accepted in theInternational Conference on Building
Resilience (ICBR) Lisbon’ 2018, November
14-16, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, p11.

•

Certificate of Recognition from Quezon
City Government to PSBA-Manila fortechnical and logistical support inpreparing the QC Local Climate
Change Action Plan (LCCAP) 20172027•

Certificate of Recognition from theLahore College for Women University•

Plaque of Appreciation from the
National
HealthPreparedness
Response
Network,
Ministryof
National Health Services & Regulations&
Coordination
Islamabad,
Government of Pakistan

Certificate of Recognition from Quezon City Government (QCG) to
PSBA-Manila for technical and logistical support in preparing the
QC LCCAP 2017-2027

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Center for Urban Water (CUrW)
Sri Lanka
https://www.curwsl.org/

Figure 1. Forecasting and Monitoring of rainfall and water levels in canals and wetlands in Metro Colombo

Prof. Srikantha Herath
Director
E-mail: srikantha.herath@gmail.com

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1. The building for center for flood control and water
management is now under construction and willhouse a state-of-the art real time forecasting andcontrol center to manage floods in Metro
Colombo. The center also has agreements with
the University of Peradeniya and the University of
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, so that center staff can beenrolled in the M.Sc. Eng. programmes of theuniversities in one-year research degrees basedon the research work carried out at the center.
Three students have completed and moved on in
2918 and currently 7 new staff enrolled in M.Eng.
programs. The center also can host visiting
postgraduate students who can conduct researchon various aspects of urban water management
where the Megapolis Development Programme
will serve as a “living laboratory”. The home page(full access require login accounts).

Figure 2: Stems used in

2. Monitoring and Forecasting
The center has established an automated system forflood early warning and risk assessment thatcomprise of interconnected systems of weather
forecasting, real time rainfall and water levelmonitoring system, hydrological and hydro dynamic
simulation, flood damage and potential flood risk
assessment and dissemination, Figure 1 showssome of the components related to monitoring andforecasting.
Figure 2 shows the system forestimating potential structural loss and people
affected in Colombo based on detailed building footprint, damage functions for different building types
and population distribution in the city. These
assessments were verified by checking with pastmajor floods in the city.

assessing potential flood impacts based on inundation forecast and building

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National Building Research Organisation (NBRO)
Sri Lanka
http://www.nbro.gov.lk

Nature Based Landslide Risk Management at NBROIn the past, when implementing structural
mitigation interventions for landslide risk
management, country has largely relied onengineering solutions and the application ofnature-based and hybrid (engineering andnature based) approaches was limited. It has
been demonstrated in many countries in Asia
that the risk-informed nature-based solutions
can be also effective in reducing theoccurrence and impact of such landslides.

Therefore, World Bank has launched an
Analytics and Advisory Services project on
Nature Based Landslide Risk Management inApril 2018. This project, which is implementedbytheNational
Building
Research
Organisation, aims to raise awareness anddeepen the knowledge on the role of nature
based and hybrid solutions for landslide risk
management within the country. The Asian
Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) has
been assigned to provide implementation
support and technical guidance in executing
the project activities.

•

Assessment of relevant legal, regulatory
and institutional framework. A full reporton the study outcome of relevant legal,
regulatory and institutional framework as
well as the recommendations for creating
an enabling environment are some of thehighlights of this task.

•

PreparationofaComprehensive
landslide risk management plan for
selected pilot sites. The activities under
this task have been carried out based on
two pilot sites in Badulusirigama in
Badulla District and Galaboda in
Rathnapura District.

•Preparation of a guidance document on
nature-based landslide management
approaches. This guidance manual has
been developed with the purpose ofproviding guidance to those who are
involved in landslide mitigation work
(such
as
NBRO,
relevant
local
authorities, other practitioners) to help indesigning,
implementation
andmonitoring the nature-based mitigation
solutions for landslide and erosion risk
reduction. Since measures are applied
under a range of physical conditions, themanual covers practical as well as
theoretical aspects of bio-engineering
measures that can be applied for
mitigating the landslide risk in Sri Lanka.

•

Dissemination /Validation Workshop andsubmissionoftheFinal Report
incorporating the suggestions madeduring the stakeholder workshop. The
said workshop has been organizedconsideringtheimportanceofdisseminating the outputs to a wider
audience.

Dr. Asiri Karunawardena
Director
E-mail: asiri13@hotmail.com

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The following important lessons could be
drawn from the activities project:•

Developing a process for application ofnature-based solutions (NBSs) forlandslide risk mitigation from scratch isdifficult but achievable. Availability ofdata plays a significant role in selecting
candidate sites. When data is limited
reasonable assumptions can be madebut better if data can be made available
through additional investigations andother efforts•

Advance work carried out for literature
survey has given lot of inputs fordesigning the project activities and lining
up them in a systematic order•

Limited awareness on the subject
increased the interest for learning aswell helped in developing better
understanding of the subject and for
creating appropriate knowledge basewithin the implementing organization
NBRO.

•

Creating an interest group consists of ayoung and enthusiastic set of scientists
representing multiple disciplines is agood indicator for success. Linking
projectstaff
withnationalandinternational level subject experts
selected to provide resource inputs
under different tasks could help inachieving the sustainability. They cancontinue extending help in enhancing
the capacity and knowledge of the groupbeyond the existence of the project.

•

There is a scope for promoting naturebased solutions in future as an effective
instrument for disaster risk mitigation.
This helps in creating an enabling
environment for promoting application ofnature-based solutions for protection
and conservation of the naturalenvironmental resources.

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National Center for Research on Earthquake
Engineering (NCREE), Chinese Taipei
https://www.ncree.org/

Developing Seismic Assessment and Retrofitting Techniques for Soft- and Weak-Story
Buildings

Taiwan has identified as many as 33
active faults in the island. The areas
within ten kilometers on both sides ofthese faults are subjected to theimpact of near-fault effects wheremore than 8.6 million people and 2.5
million buildings will be affected. The
situation is more dangerous forbuildings as near-fault ground motions
are characterized by their large
velocity pulses and large fault
displacements.
To
resolvetheproblem, the National Center for
Research on Earthquake Engineering(NCREE) has been continuing todevelop seismic assessment andretrofitting techniques for soft- andweak-story buildings by conducting aseries of large-scale shaking table
collapse experiments. The aim is to
explore the effects of near-fault
earthquakes on soft- and weak-story
buildings and devise solutions to
mitigate such effects, in order tosecure the safety of the public.

Fig.1. The shaking table test on soft- and weak-story building

Prof. Shyh-Jiann Hwang
Director-GeneralE-mail: sjhwang@ncree.narl.org.tw

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Fig.2. The automated report of bridge hazard evaluation

The Guardian of Bridge Safety: Life-Cycle
Based Bridge Management System forDisaster Prevention
Taiwan has nearly 28 thousand bridges, ensuring
bridge safety is far more crucial than we could
have imagined. Thereby, NCREE has developed
the Life-Cycle Based Bridge Management
System for Disaster Prevention, which aims to
manage bridge safety and can automaticallyassess the health condition of bridges in theireveryday uses. The system was inspired byhealthcare
managementforhumans.
Additionally, the cutting-edge, fully-automatedsystem also transmits timely warnings to bridge
safety management authorities before disasters
strike. Therefore, the developed system is adriving force that can thrust forward Taiwan toachieving a new milestone in bridge safety
management.

Design guidelines for the support structureof Taiwan offshore wind turbines-Domestic
design guidelines for offshore windturbines
Due to the site conditions in Taiwan Strait andextremeenvironmental
conditions
e.g.
earthquakes and typhoons which are different
from European experiences, the design ofoffshore wind turbines and the establishmentof wind farms require domestic guidelines toensure safe operations of the wind farms.
According to the DNV GL standard adopted by
the international certification system, NCREE
has formulated and finalized the “Design
guidelines for the support structures of Taiwan
offshore wind turbines” as a basis for thedomestic wind power industry. In addition,
NCREE cooperated with the Bureau ofStandards, Metrology and Inspection totransfer the contents of the seismic designforce and geotechnical surveys developed in
the guidelines to national standard.

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

In 2018, huge earthquake, typhoons
and torrential rains hit Taiwan. As
usual,
NCDR
has
offeredinformation
intelligenceforemergency operations, and theresults did improve efficiency tomakeeffective
decisionsforemergency
preparedness
andresponse. At the information age,big data and crowdsourcing data notjust facilitate trade activities andbusiness operation, but also bring
benefits to disaster risk reduction,
emergency preparedness, business
continuity planning, resilient global
supply chain, critical infrastructure
protection and tourism safety. In 2017 and 2018,
NCDR has kept on applying the big data andcommunication tools to promote the information
service. NCDR and LINE had announced a nonprofit collaboration in March 2018 to push presubscribed and location-based disaster alerts tousers’ mobile phones through NCDR Official
Channel. During the torrential rain event in the midof June, an exponential increased of number ofsubscribers, from fifty thousand to over half million
within 24 hours. From this fresh experience, NCDR
is still putting efforts how to prepare
understandable information for the general publicthrough a social media.

Ms. Kiri Chan
Assistant Researcher
E-mail: khc@ncdr.nat.gov.tw

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To enhance the joint efforts for private,civil and public sector on disaster
reduction, NCDR and the Daniel K.
Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security
Studies (DKI APCSS) cohost the“Integrating Private, Civil & Public Sector
Disaster Response” Workshop thatbrought
disastermanagement
professionals from 12 regional nations toTaipei City, Taiwan. The targets ofworkshop are to enhance partnerships
among all participants through lecturesand group discussions. In the workshop,
not only provided valuable experiences
and studies to share, but also mappedout several activities for discussions,dialogues and brainstorming. Taiwan has
worked in disaster response and alreadyintegrates private, civil, and public sector
response in planning and execution. Thatexperience was on display as Taiwan
representatives shared their experience
with other participants and cooperatively
developed solutions for improving sector
integration.

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Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management(DPMM), Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
https://www.ait.ac.th/

Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation andManagement (DPMM) at Asian Institute ofTechnology,
Thailandisregularly
conducting
Post
Graduate
program(Masters and PhD). Apart from the regularcourses significant projects and publications
are listed as follows,•

Project: “Evidence-based Analysis of
Flood Risk Management and Social
Vulnerability – A System Approach in
Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand” 2018-2019–
IRDR-ICoE(Taipei)/International Council for Science (ICSU).

The Sendai Framework Agenda for 2030
calls to increase awareness on disaster risk
reduction and resilience and implement
policies to prevent new risks.

The unique amalgamation of disaster resilienceand sustainable development educators in
Asian region is a vital need to develop crosscutting education system particularly invulnerable Asiapacific region. The “sharing ofresources and knowledge” and “mutual
learning” approaches are important ingredientsof resilient community. To inculcate theintegration of the Natural Science and Social
Science approach towards DRR and
Sustainable
development
throughmultidisciplinary higher education process, anInternational
Symposiumon“Disaster
Resilience and Sustainable Development” wasorganised by Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand from 7 - 8 March 2019. The
programme included keynote speeches, panel
discussions,
technical
session,posterpresentation and academic exhibition.
https://www.ait.ac.th/event/internationalsymposium-disaster-resilience-sustainabledevelopment/

Dr. Indrajit Pal
Assistant Professor
E-mail: indrajit-pal@ait.ac.th

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Project: “Disaster Resilience andSustainable Development Education
Network in Asia” 2018-2019– by
ProSPER.net, UNU, Tokyo, JAPAN.
This project aims to establish a working
group on Higher Education Institutions
on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable
Development under the ProSPER.Net
umbrella. Its aim is to form a robust
regional network with the collective
capacity to lead initiatives that protect
society from shocks to physical, sociocultural, politico-economic and natural
systems and hence enhance thepotential for sustainable development of
the region. The working group intends
to pursue curriculum reform to integratethesustainability
agendainto
postgraduate courses, curricula andprogrammes,
along
with
the
development of a multidisciplinary
curriculum mapping tool focussing on
the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction(SFDRR)
andthe
Sustainable
Development
Goals(SDGs). http://prospernet.ias.unu.edu/

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Project: Co-Principal Investigator for the
UKRI funded GCRF Project “Living
Deltas” 2019 – 2024.

•

Deputy Lead of the project “Capacity
Building
throughCurriculum
Development,
Conduct
Various
Trainings for Provincial and District
Disaster Management Authorities andLine Department Government Officials– Sindh Province, Pakistan” 20192020.

•

Book Publication: “An Interdisciplinary
Approach for Disaster Resilience andSustainability” – Springer Nature, 2019
(in Press).
This book includes selected papers
presented at the international expert
forum on “Mainstreaming Resilienceand Disaster Risk Reduction in
Education,” held at the Asian Instituteof Technology, Thailand on 1 to 2
December
2017.
https://
www.springer.com/gp/
book/9789813295261

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Japan and Oceania
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
Research and Development Center of Fire and Environmental Safety (RDFES), 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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Oceania
Australia

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

Australia

College of Health & Human Sciences, 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

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

New Zealand GNS Science

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Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC), Japan
https://www.adrc.asia

Asian Disaster Reduction Center(ADRC) was established in Kobe,
Japan in 1998. Since then, ADRC
has been committed to enhancedisaster resilience, build safe
communities and create a society
where sustainable development ispossible in its 31 member countries
in Asia and the Pacific.

Quasi Zenith Satellite System (QZSS)ADRC has been involved in a project for applicationof Quasi Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), theJapanese GNSS. Although it is a positioning satellite
system, it has a capacity to send early warning
message to a designated area. The early warning
message through QZSS is available with a QZSS
signal receiver when and where Wi-Fi, telephone,radio and TV are not available or not working. For
making this technology a practical disaster risk
reduction tool, there are some challenges. Since the
QZSS capacity for sending early warning message islimited, the message needs to be coded to reduce thevolume of the message. The protocol to convert the
text message into the coded message needs to be
developed. understanding of DRR, and strengthen
cooperation through the network of ADRC.

Dr. Shiomi Yumi
E-mail: ys-shiomi@adrc.asia
adrc.shiomi@gmail.com

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Publication

Capacity Development

In 2018, ADRC compiled a Casebook of
Infrastructure Build Back Better fromNatural Disasters: Enhancing Rural
Disaster Resilience through Effective
Infrastructure
Investment.
This
casebook is the output of the APEC
project, Enhancing Rural Disaster
Resiliencethrough
Effective
Infrastructure Investment, aimed at
facilitating
quality
infrastructure
investment at the Build Back Better(BBB) stage. Focus is placed on nonmetropolitan areas, including small- andmiddle-sized cities, and rural areas
facing growing demands for important
infrastructure investments in the coming
decades. The researchers and experts
from Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Japan,
Philippines, Vietnam and the US madecontribution to the casebook, after
conducting surveys in infrastructure
recovery situations after major disasters
in the region.

Among its major activities for capacity
development,
ADRC
has
been
promoting Visiting Researcher Program
since its inception. In 2018 six VRs fromits member countries, India, Maldives,
Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines andThailand, joined the program. During the
program, they were provided withvarious opportunities to obtain academic
and practical expertise, enhance
understanding of DRR, and strengthen
cooperation through the network of
ADRC.

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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/

International Centre for Water Hazard and
Risk Management (ICHARM) under the
auspices of UNESCO was established as a
UNESCO category II center and a part of the
Public Works Research Institute of Japan on
6th March 2006.
The mission is to serve as the Global Centreof Excellence for Water Hazard and Risk
Management by observing and analyzing
natural and social phenomena, developing
methodologies and tools, building capacities,
creating
knowledge
networks,
anddisseminating lessons and information in orderto help governments and all stakeholders
manage risks of water related hazards at
global, national, and community levels.
To achieve the mission, ICHARM has
conducted various activities based on its threepillars, i) innovative research, ii) effective
capacity building, and iii) efficient information
networking, including following special topics;i) Innovative research
The future flood risk associated with climatechange in three cities in Vietnam wasestimated on the ADB project. For theevaluation, GCMs that more appropriately
expresses the climate characteristics of thetarget area were selected from CMIP5, andthe uncertainty of the future results wasevaluated by statistically downscaling theselected GCMs. In addition, the results of MRI

Graduation Ceremony 2018

-AGCM was physically downscaled to create
future climate scenario and using RRI (Rainfall
runoff and inundation model), the increase inflood area and inundation depth in the futurecompared to the present condition was
evaluated. Establishment of monitoring andforecasting system for agricultural drought inCeara State, Brazil started on the WB project.

Flood inundation depth of 100-year return period simulated with RRI model for past (1979-2003) and RCP8.5 future (2075-2099) climate.

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

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Participants of the AWCI Session, 24 October 2018ii) Effective capacity building
ICHARM provides a one-year
M.Sc. program as a joint effort
with JICA and GRIPS. This
program is targeted at officialsof administrative organizations
and designed for them toobtain master’s degree within
a single year. In September
2018, the eleventh batch of 14
students from ten countries
graduated, and in the following
month, the twelfth batch ofeight students entered theprogram from eight countries.
And ICHARM also provides adoctoralprogramincollaboration with GRIPS to
produce experts who arecapable of making policies onwater-related disaster risk
management and taking theleadership in implementing
them. In October 2018, three
students from Japan, Sri
Lanka and Vietnam joined as
the ninth batch.

iii)
Efficientnetworking

information

The
International
Flood
Initiative (IFI) is a worldwide
frameworktopromotecollaborationinflood
management
among
international organizations suchas UNESCO, WMO, UNU and
UNISDR. As the IFI secretariat,
ICHARM proposed the basic
action plan of IFI, which was
adoptedasthe
JakartaStatement. Under the IFI,ICHARM
supports
theestablishment of “Platforms on
Water
Resilience
andDisasters” in the Philippines,
Myanmar, Sri Lanka andPakistan. At the opportunity ofthe
11th
GlobalEarth
Observation
Systemof
Systems (GEOSS) Asia-PacificSymposium held on October 24-26, 2018, in Kyoto, Japan, theAsian Water Cycle Initiative(AWCI) session was attended
by experts and representatives

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from the IFI implementing
countries,
where
the
participants discussed issues
on the promotion of regional
cooperation among the thesecountries.
ICHARM is also active increating and developing theinternational
networking
through organizing the sessions
and participating in the major
globalandregional
conferences such as the 9th
World Water Forum held during
17-23 March 2018 in Brasilia,
Brazil and the 50th Annual
Sessionofthe
TyphoonCommittee
(TC),
a
joint
intergovernmental
bodyof
WMO and UNESCAP, heldfrom February 25 to March 3,
2018, in Hanoi, Vietnam, forexample.

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

The Center for Disaster Countermeasures
started a new international cooperation
project in Hai Phong city, Vietnam. We aim
to enhance capability of cross-linkage
cooperation and coordination acrossvarious emergency management teams
that deal with natural and man-madehazards. Commonly used training methodof emergency responders in Vietnam is
drills. Use of table-top and functional
exercises is limited in its scope. In thisproject, we introduce methodology ofdesigning, conducting and evaluating tabletop and functional exercises that are
intended to improve communication among
emergency management teams andupgrade their cooperation/coordination
capability.

This project is funded by Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) as
one of its grassroot cooperation projects
and lasts until Aug 2021. Our counterpart inthe city is Hai Phong Firefighting andPrevention Police, which is a section of Hai
Phong Department of Public Security. From
the Japanese side, Kitakyushu City Crisis
Management
Department,
Fire
andDisaster Management Bureau, Kitakyushu
Foundation for the Advancement ofIndustry,
ScienceandTechnology,
Infogram
Inc.
and
Sompo
Risk
Management Inc. work together to drive thisproject. From the Vietnamese side,
University of Firefighting provides support
for our activity.

Major activities done in 2018 are;•Kick-off meeting in Hai Phong city that involved
major emergency management agencies•

Study tour to Kitakyushu, Japan by leading
emergency management officials of Hai Phong city•

Lectures by Japanese experts of emergency
management in Hai Phong city for firefighters andother emergency responders.

•

New table-top exercise method applied to discussionof rescue team operation in a hospital fire case in
Hai Phong

Table-top exercise in Hai Phong Firefighting Police on Dec
13, 2018

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

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Research Center for Urban Safety andSecurity (RCUSS), Kobe University, Japan
http://www.rcuss.kobe-u.ac.jp/

To prepare for future exogenous risks such as
natural disasters, we will construct a research
unit, MIRAI (Multidisciplinary Integration for
Resilience and Innovation), that can provide a
grand design of a new living space andenvironment.
This
project
promotescooperation with the local governments inneighboring areas (Kobe City, Hyogo
Prefecture, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism, Kinki Regional
Development Bureau), research institutes(RIKEN Center for Computational Science:
RCCS, NIED Hyogo Earthquake Engineering
Research Center: E-Defense, JAMSTEC) andprivate companies (Hanshin Expressway
Company) and the mass communication(Kobe Shimbun), and we collaborate to solve
various problems caused by exogenous risks
in cities, and achieve social implementation of
the outcome.

The major contents of this project are:(1) to consolidate disaster prevention /mitigation studies, to construct aninterdisciplinary study field on the safe andsecure urban resilience, thereby creating asustainable urban vision for the future
generation,(2) to organize a regional collaborative baseagainst exogenous risks such as natural
disasters, and deepen research bysynergistic achievement with external
research institutes of cooperation parties,(3) to establish ‘Dojo’ (Future Society Initiative
Study Group) in which what is the scienceof fusion is studied to realize a true
interdisciplinary fusion. We are going tosettle the urgent and serious social issuesof strengthening our lives and activities in
the city against various risks such as
disasters.

In addition we also held the Open Center day
on 2 December 2018.

Prof. Takashi Nagao
E-mail: nagao@people.kobe-u.ac.jp

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Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization,
Regrowth and Governance, Kwansei Gakuin
University Japan
http://www.kwansei.ac.jp

Anannualnetwork
meeting and forum
The institute organized an annual
network meeting of disasteraffected areas in Japan fromJanuary 7-8, 2018. There arevarious types of “recovery andrevitalization knowledge” which
emerge after a disaster. They
serve as a useful policy and help
us to design a new social system
for supporting the affected people
who are struggling in this disasterprone country. These valuable
The annual network meeting of disaster-affected areas in Japanpieces of knowledge, however,tend to be shared only within the
Project activities
affected area, and often fails to transfer to otherareas. We organize a network meeting once a
During 2018, the institute continued toyear to mutually share these lessons from
implement following research activities.
various disaster affected areas in Japan.
•

Study on establishment of mid-and longterm evacuation plans in nuclear power
plant regions.

•

Study on upland relocation in the planningof pre-disaster recovery and revitalization
for the Nankai trough Mega Earthquake•

International comparative study on disasterrecovery and revitalization policies

Various study groups were organized for
discussing the above issues. Each study groupcooperates with academics, government
officers, and NGO/NPO workers for crosssectoral learning.

In 2018, The theme was: “how can we transfer
our revitalization knowledge?” The first day wasa network meeting with the specialists fromvarious disaster-affected areas. The meeting
focused to transfer experiences from theaffected area to the area where disasters are
expected in the future. The second day was a
symposium and panel discussion. There weremore than 200 participants at the meeting andforum.

Policy advocacy
The institute has formulated and finalized adraft proposal for a comprehensive act for
affected people. We will promote the realizationof the draft proposal by the end of FY 2019.

Prof. Masayuki Noro
E-mail: masa1117yuki@kwansei.ac.jp

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The public forum at Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand

International network
We had opportunities to broaden our network with Thailand and Korea in 2018. Mae Fah Luang
University in Thailand organized a public forum on Disaster Management: Lessons Learnt fromJapan to Thailand. We were invited to share our experiences with them. We also organized a joint
research seminar in collaboration with Hallym university in Korea. We will continue to extend ourinternational network for sharing our lessons.

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

Atmosphere-Hydrosphere Research Group
Extreme Winds in
Urban Districts during
Typhoon Jebi (2018)
Typhoon Jebi (2018) made landfall in the
Osaka Bay area, Japan and caused
significant damages to buildings andhouses, trees, power lines, and so on. The
maximum instantaneous wind measured at
the meteorological observatory in Osakareached 47.4 m s-1, the third record in thehistory of the observatory. Here we report
the damages in an urban district of Osaka
City, Japan and the results of the numericalanalysis on extreme winds in the densely
built, urban district.
1. Introduction
Typhoon Jebi (2018) developed in thewestern North Pacific in August 2018 andobtained the lifetime minimum centralpressure of 915 hPa. After obtaining thisintensity, Typhoon Jebi maintained its
intensity while moving northward. On
September 4th, Typhoon Jebi finally madelandfall on the islands of Shikoku andHonshu, crossing over the Osaka Bay, andthe bay areas aswell as strong winds
overtheinlandareas.
KansaiInternational Airport(KIX) established ona reclaimed island in
the Osaka Bay in1994 was seriously
Figure 1: Damage to an old house indamaged by storm
Osaka City.
surge. Furthermore,a large number ofpoints observed extreme winds, which caused severe
damages to houses/buildings, trees/forests, power lines,
etc.
2. Damages by strong winds in the Namba area,
Osaka City
In the Namba area, one of the business district in Osaka
City, severe damages to houses, structures, trees along
streets and in parks, occurred. Figure 1 shows adamage to an old wooden house in the Namba area.
There were also damages to roofs, walls, signboards,
etc. of buildings and houses. A large number of trees
along streets and in parks in Osaka City were severely
damages. Figure 2 shows the damages to the trees
along the Midousuji street, the major street of Osaka
City.

Figure 2: Damages to trees on the Midousuji street.
spawned storm surges/high waves around

Dr. Tetsuya Takemi
E-mail: takemi@storm.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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3. Numerical analysis of strong winds
in Osaka City
After the severe damages occurred inurban districts, quantitative estimations ofwinds in the areas are necessary.
However, it is very difficult toquantitatively estimate strong winds inurban districts, because of the absenceof the observations within urban districts,
and because of the inability to simulate
airflows in urban districts only by anumerical weather prediction model.
Explicit
representationsofurban
buildings and structures are criticallyimportant to reproduce airflows within
urban districts.

Figure 4: The spatial distribution of the maximum
instantaneous wind speed at the 10-m height from thetime series of the wind speed at each grid point in abusiness district of Osaka City.

Our idea in this study is to combine theadvantages of a numerical weather prediction
model and a turbulence model (large-eddy
simulation model; LES) to quantitatively
estimate the wind speeds in the business
district of Osaka City. The weather prediction
model can reproduce actual meteorologicalsituations including Typhoon Jebi (2018), while
the LES model can incorporate the actual
buildings and structures and hence reproduce
turbulent airflows within actual urban districts.
The framework of this analysis is presented in

Figure 3: A conceptual framework of thenumerical analysis of strong winds in urban
Figure 3.
The LES model was able to simulate
fluctuating, turbulent airflows
within the business district ofOsaka City. By
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simulated by the LES model, the maximum
wind speeds in some areas within the district
analyzed here were estimated to be 60 - 70 m
s-1, owing to the downward transport of strong
winds at higher levels above the urban canopy(Figure 4).
4. Implications
We have successfully estimated the turbulent
airflows and the maximum wind gusts within theactual business district of Osaka City by
combining the meteorological simulations andbuilding-resolving turbulent airflow simulations.
Wind speeds are highly variable, depending on
the arrangement and vertical extent ofsurrounding buildings and structures. From ourstudy, we would emphasize that it is criticallyimportant to understand the risk of strong winds
hidden in urban districts by conducting similar
analyses on various metropolitan areas.
Considering the ongoing re-shaping of
metropolitan areas and the increasing numberof high-rise buildings in Japan and the possible
impacts of future climate change on theintensification of typhoons, we have tounderstand immerging risks of strong winds inurban districts.
References
Takemi, T., T. Yoshida, S. Yamasaki, and K.
Hase, 2019: Quantitative estimation of strong
winds in an urban district during Typhoon Jebi
(2018) by merging mesoscale meteorologicaland large-eddy simulations. SOLA, 15, 22-27,
doi:10.2151/sola.2019-005.

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

Atmosphere-Hydrosphere Research GroupInternational
Symposium on Flash
Floods in Wadi
Systems
By: Dr. Sameh Kantoush
In the last two decades, many Arabcities such as Riyadh (2016), Casablanca(2016), Doha (2015) and Guelmim (2014)
have experienced flash floods despite theirhighly arid and semi-arid climate. These
events have caused live losses andimportant damages. Such causalities areusually due to the combination of manyfactors such as extreme precipitations,weak or insufficient urban storm water
infrastructure and drainage system, urban
stream bursting their banks, uncontrolled
urban sprawl, groundwater table high riseor tides generated backwater effects on
drainage systems outlets in coastal cities.

Image from 4th ISFF website
These phenomena are still not well studied.
Besides, mitigation and adaptation measures arevery rare in such countries and regions because of
the prevailing arid or semi- arid climate andgrowing urbanization.
Tackling these problems requires a good analysisof climate change and meteorological data,
particularly precipitation, and good knowledge ofthe city vulnerability to floods in such territories.
Finding solutions to these challenging problems
requires close collaboration between scientists,
practitioners, and stakeholders fromlocal,
regional,
nationalandinternational organizations whether
they are public or private. So we
encourage you to contribute to thedevelopment of future solutions forurban floods in the MENA countries.

Dr. Sameh KantoushE-mail: kantoush.samehahmed.2n@kyoto-u.ac.jp

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This event was the fourth ina new series of annualinternational symposia on
flash floods in wadi systems.
Furthermore
this
symposium is supported by
the
Water
Resources
Research Center (WRRC)
and the Global Alliance ofDisaster Research Institutes(GARDI) of the Disaster
Prevention
Research
Institute(DPRI),
Kyoto
University, Japan. The first
International Symposium on
Flash
Floodsin
Wadi
Systems held in October
2015 in Kyoto, Japan, wasattended by about one
hundredscientists,
practitioners
andstakeholders
from11
countries(Japan,Arab
Region,Europe;see
http://
ecohyd.dpri.kyotou.ac.jp/en/index/1.html).
The second Symposium was held at
Technische Universität Berlin, Campus El
Gouna, Egypt. The third International
Symposium on Flash Floods in Wadi
Systems was held in Oman and the fourth
edition of this international symposium will
be held in Casablanca, Morocco
Symposium themes included:•River/Wadi basin management and flood
protection•

Storm water infrastructures and urban
drainage systems•

Urban planning, green infrastructure andflood mitigation•

Climatechangeimpacts,
weather
forecasting and flood warning systems•

Rainfall-runoff
analysisdatamonitoringand•Hydrology and hydraulic modeling offloods•Groundwater flooding and impacts on
urban areas•

Sediment management, water harvesting
and flood control•

Flood vulnerability and risk assessment

•

Flood
damageassessment:
environmental, social and economical
tools

•

Flood adaptation: structural and nonstructural measures•

Poster session—included nearly 50 oral
and poster presentations.

In addition, there was an excursion to Wadi
El Malleh Flood Protection Dam and west
Casablanca floodway channel for urban
Wadi Bouskoura diversion (West Super
Channel).

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

Integrated Arts and Sciences for
Disaster Reduction Research Group
Collaborative Activities
systems,
extremely
vulnerable to threats fromnatural and environmental
hazards.
The
very
features that make cities
feasible and desirable –theirarchitectural
structures,
population
concentrations, places ofassembly,andinterconnected
infrastructure systems –also put them at high risk
to floods, earthquake,
cyclones and so on.
Annual loses from natural
hazards in urban areas
are staggering. Most ofthese losses occurred at
Dr. Masamitsu Onishi interacting with students of Brawijaya University
locationswherevulnerable
urban
settlement
were
DPRI, Kyoto University and the GADRI
developed near known hazard areas , such as
Secretariat
promotedinternational
floodplains, earthquake fault zones andcollaborative activities on research andcyclone prone shorelines. Must we continue toexchange visits.
accept these looses? The short answer is no.
We must find ways to mitigate their impacts.
A group of nine members including doctoral
students
andfaculties
fromBrawijaya University, Indonesia visited DPRIon September, 2018. Associate Professor
Masamitsu Onishi and Subhajyoti Samaddarfrom Disaster Prevention Research Institute,
Kyoto University hosted Indonesian delegatesand conducted interactive course on disasterrisk communication and governance.
Dr. Subhajyoti Samaddar
A brief description of the session abstract:
Associate Professor
Cities are complex and interdependent
E-mail: samaddar@storm.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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group photo of the interactive session

Over the decades, however, it has beenrealized that solely engineering based
structural measures are inadequate toestablish resilient city. In retort to thischallenge, it is suggested to encourage
citizens to adopt innovative disasterpreventive measures , such as nailing
furniture, installing rainwater harvesting,raising plinth, following building bylaws,
evacuation etc. ). However, the reality isthat despite the enormous efforts of local
government and disaster management
authorities, urban communities living indisaster risk prone areas continue todemonstrate a reticence to adopt protective
measures.
Therefore,
theimportantquestion is how can we best facilitate
individual and collective changes inbehavior for better preparedness?

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Effective risk communication is critical forincreasing risk awareness and encouraging
preparedness among the community
members. But the decision making on
environmental and disaster risks faces
three major challenges that make risk
communication more difficult – complexity,
uncertainties and ambiguity. It became
evident that it is not the information per sethat determines whether people takeactions to manage their risks reflect how
people interpret and collate information to
make it meaningful to them. The risk
communication in urban planning context
becomes more challanging because there
involve diverse stakeholders and it is criticalto manage and incorporate the values,
interest and concerns of stakeholders in thedecision making process. The goal of thiscourse was to explain how planners andpractitioners can design and implement
communication plans related to urban
disaster risks.

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

Integrated Arts and Sciences for
Disaster Reduction Research Group
Collaborative Activities
Disaster Prevention Research Institute,
Kyoto University (DPRI-KU) has launched aresearch academic hub for emergency risk
management for Aviation under large-scale
eruption.
Mt. Sakurajima located at theSouth edge of Kyushu Island, the west ofJapan and it is expected that thetremendous volume of volcanic ash will bedisseminated and covers the most of
territory of Japan if its large-scale eruption
occurs.
The last large-scale eruption(Taisho eruption) occurred in 1914 after
135 years later of large-scale eruption(An'ei eruption) in 1779. Given the fact that
more than 100 years has passed since thelast large-scale eruption, a next large-scale
eruption is likely to occur in several
decades.

Volcanic ash Aircrafts’ jet engines are vulnerable
to volcanic ash floating in the air. Due to thetechnical vulnerability of aircraft, the global
aviation network, particularly in Europe suffered
great disruption in 2010 after the large-scale
eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland. Expectedlarge-scale eruption of Mt. Sakurajima will be thefirst catastrophic case after the modern aviation
network has developed in Japan.

Sakurajima Volcano Observatory of DPRI has
continuously promoted academic studies
researches to develop technologies forforecasting eruption and dissemination scenario
before the eruption.

volcanologist, atmospherics, air transportation,
decision-makings,
information
science,andpractitioners of civil aviation authority in Japan andairline operators.
In addition, an international
workshop will be held from 17 to 18 February 2019
in Kagoshima where Mt. Sakurajima locates,
inviting international academics and experts from
Iceland, Indonesia and Taiwan in additional todomestic members.
DPRI-KU and associateinstitutes, organizations including the civil aviation
authority and airlines are working closely for setting
up an emergency response system utilizing
precursors of eruption to minimize the damage on
domestic and international aviation transport due tolarge-scale eruption.

Dr. Masamitsu Onishi
DPRI-KU organized a domestic workshop on 19
May 2018 inviting relevant experts and practitioners
in
Japan
which
includesacademics
of

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Associate Professor
E-mail: onishi.masamitsu.7e@kyoto-u.ac.jp

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Japan Society for Civil Engineers (JSCE) andAmerican Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE)
memberships are jointly working fordeveloping a framework for infrastructure
resilience which defines processes, tools andoutcomes for system assessment, as well as
governance and management useful for
analyzing for the design of systems orfollowing actual disruptions. The project isinitiated by Prof. Kiyoshi Kobayashi (Presidentof JSCE in 2018) as the JSCE presidential
taskforce and Prof. Hirokazu Tatano and Dr
Masamitsu Onishi at Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, Kyoto University (DPRIKU) have actively participated as secretary
members of the project. ASCE memberships
includes Dr Craig Davis, the founding chair of
ASCE-IRD(Infrastructure
Resilience
Division), Prof. Bilal Ayyub, the former chair of
ASCE-IRD, Prof. John Willem Van De Lindt,
the vice-chair of ASCE-IRD, and Prof. Sue
McNeil, the Chief Editor of ASCE's Journal of
Infrastructure Systems.

The framework emphasizes infrastructure
systems and how they support community

resilience through eight key elements. Theseelements provide the foundation for systemassessments and governance and the
management of resilient infrastructure.
Elements underpinning assessments identify
the framework processes for evaluating
existing or proposed systems and provide astrongbasis
forgovernanceandmanagement.

Under this project, the 1st JSCE-ASCE Joint
Symposium on Infrastructure Resilience will
be held from 22 to 23 May 2019 at the JSCE
headquarter to share and discuss theframework with civil engineers in academics
and practitioners.
For more information,please visit the website. http://www.jsceint.org/node/596

The project is now moving on to the next stepthat develops Manual of Practice (MoP) for
infrastructure resilience. The framework isconceptual and MoP helps how theframework is actually used for management
and governance of infrastructure resilience.

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

Integrated Arts and Sciences for
Disaster Reduction Research GroupNATECH Project
By: Maria Camila Suarez
Paba and Ana Maria Cruz

The increased awareness on Natech
impacts and area-wide consequences has
calledtheattentionofdifferent
stakeholders. This has resulted in theincreasing
interestindeveloping
mechanisms to prevent, prepare, mitigate
and respond to Natech scenarios. Several
activities regarding Natech (joint naturaland technological) risk management andNatech research have been carried out thisyear highlighting the growing attention to
Natechs. Researchers at the Disaster Risk
Management laboratory (DRS), Disaster
Prevention Research Institute (DPRI),
Kyoto University, led by professor Ana
Maria Cruz, have actively participated inthese activities.

Another activity was the 2nd Natech Workshop
organized by the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) and coorganized with the United Nations. This high level
workshop, attended by representatives of member
states (e.g., civil protection authorities andgovernment officials responsible for chemical andNatechrisk
management),
internationalorganizations, local government, and researchers,
was held in Potsdam, Germany on 5-7 October
2018.
Presentations from different countries regarding
Natech regulations, best practices and lessons
learned, and implementation of prevention
measures and methodologies to improve Natech
risk assessment were given. Several researchers
from DPRI, including graduate students, presented
their work. As a result, there were fruitful
discussions that contributed to the consolidation of
the Discussion Document that will present
recommendations for further improvements in the
Natech Risk Management agenda and guidance
document on Natech risk management publishedby OECD.

One of these activities was the 4th
Natech Symposium hosted by the
Joint Research Centre, European
Commission, and co-organized by
Kyoto
University
and
Osaka
University, was held in Ispra, Italy on 3
October 2018. The 4th symposium
followed the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Natech
Symposiums which were carried out in
2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively, at
Osaka University and Kyoto University
in Japan. Over 30 people attended the
4th Natech Symposium including
expertsfromacademia
andgovernmentorganizations,andresearchers from DPRI.
Prof. Ana Maria Cruz (centre and Maria Camila Suarez
Paba (centre-right)
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Another highlight is the creation of the
Subgroup on Natech, in December 2017, by
the United Nations International Strategy for
Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) under the
Science and Technology Advisory Group(STAG). This is an important step toformalize the inclusion of Natech risk
management and risk reduction in the
Sendai Framework. This group has had
meetings in Geneva, with the participationof experts in the field. DPRI, as well asother GADRI member organizations aresupporting these activities.

their potential consequences.
For thisreason, Nanjing University will host a
Natech workshop in March 2019 where
several members of GADRI including Prof.
Cruz will be attending.
Finally, in November, Indonesia will carryout the ASEAN Regional Disaster
Emergency Response Simulation Exercise(ARDEX 2018), which seeks to evaluate theefficacyofemergency
responsemechanisms when a Natech event occurs.
Professors Cruz and some of her students
will participate in the event.

The next STAG meeting will be held during
the IRDR-SC Agenda for the 20th ScientificCommittee Meeting in Chengdu, China in
October, where the Natech STAG subgroupwill participate.
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Disaster Mitigation Research Center (DMRC)
Nagoya University, Japan
https://www.ncdr.nat.gov.tw/

Report on Evacuation Activity After Explosion of the Aluminum
Factory: Case of Sojya City of Okayama
One of the activities in 2018 included anevacuation activity after the explosion of thealuminum factory caused by floods in July
2018.

July 6. Staff members of the factory tried toremove high temperature aluminum from thefurnace prior to evacuating around 10 PM July
6 as the water reached up to the factory.

An aluminum factory explosion happened byflood inundation at midnight of 6 July 2018 in
Sojya city of Okayama. Shimobara area was hit
by explosion and was heavily damaged before
the area was flooded. The residents of
Shimobara area were evacuated after the
explosion based on the previous community
works prepared for the flood.

Around 11:35 PM the aluminum factory
exploded. Highly-heated scatters from thefactory caused multiple fires and demolishedrooftops. Air blast of the explosion destroyed
window glasses and walls of houses in thesurrounding area of the factory in Sojya city andKurashiki city and some people were taken by
ambulance to hospital.

2018.7 Japan Flood—Heavy downpourscontinued from 28 June to 8 July 2018 mainly inwest Japan by typhoon 7 and the seasonal rain
front. Special heavy rain warnings were issued
in 11 prefectures by weather officials. 224
people were dead and 8 people were missing
by floods and landslides (Cabinet office report,
9 Sep. 2018).

Evacuation process of Shimobara area
residents—Shimobara area is located west sideof the aluminum factory and surrounded by 157
householders. Jishubousaisoshiki (Jisyubou) is
the community-based organization counter for
major disasters in Japan. Shimobara Sako
Jishubou was established in April 2012.

The
aluminumfactory
explosion—The
aluminum factory was located at the point of
Shinpon river flow into Takahashi river which
has been around since 1975. They produce
deoxidizer for steelmaking and aluminum alloy
ingots by recycling of aluminum. According to
the news reports, the aluminum factory
operates a melting furnace to produce
aluminum over 24 hours in general.
However, to prepare for the forecasted heavy
rain, the factory had been requested to stop
operating the melting furnace since morning of
Dr. Yuko Araki
Research Associate Professor
E-mail: arakiy@nagoya-u.jp

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Since 2013, they had included nightevacuation drills in the evacuation drills
conducted for the community. Through thisactivity Jisyubou
members
graspedinformation of the residents and they
identify how and who help vulnerable
people at times of disaster.
At the time of the factory explosion, theleaders of Jishubou were in the Shimobara
community hall to respond for the flood
warning. Police and Sojya city disastermanagement headquarter (DRM) indicatedto Jisyubou leaders to evacuate to Kibiji
Arena of Sojya city to prepare for the
additional explosion. Jisyubou leaders
requested for vehicles through the city
DMH for evacuation activity and tried toprovideevacuation
information
bydesignated 7 area leaders of Jishubou toresidents.
Around 1 AM, 5 minivans arrived driven bycity officers. The residents evacuated to
Kibiji Arena by the minivans or by their own
car sharing. Jishubou leaders confirmed aplace of evacuation for about 270 residents
at 2AM. They used the check list ofresidents used in the evacuation drill.
Jisyubou leaders finally moved to
Kibiji
Arena
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the

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confirming the residents have evacuateddesignated area of evacuation around 4
AM of July 7.
That was a good case of community-based
activity worked well by the cooperation
between Jisyubou and administrative
agencies even in the unexpected accident.
But it cannot say they could do the same ifflood water would come in the resident
area before the explosion or those occur atthe same time. It could be harder toextinguish the fire and stop spread-out offire. Additionally, information transfer andevacuation activity were could be difficult.
Preventive Evacuation is necessary if there
are risks of complex disaster and Natech.
The residents had no information or
knowledge of the risk of explosion if thealuminum factory were flooded. In order to
response and reduce the risk, it isnecessarytoconductprior
risk
communication by the business operator,
residents' organization and administrative
agencies.

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

Site visit for learning the Firefighting Facilities

The Institute of Disaster Mitigation for
Urban Cultural Heritage at Ritsumeikan
University (R-DMUCH) has been acting asa focal point for organizing international
research, training and information networkin the field of cultural heritage risk
management and disaster mitigation.

The UNESCO Chair Programme on
Cultural Heritage and Risk Management 12th
INTERNATIONAL
TRAINING
COURSE (ITC) on DISASTER RISKMANAGEMENT of CULTURAL HERITAGE
2018 was held for 3weeks from 29 August
to 19 September 2018 with 15 participantsfrom Brazil, Bhutan, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia,
Mexico, Nepal, Georgia, India, Pakistan,Iran, Belgium, Romania, and Italy.
Participants were managers of cultural
heritage,disasterriskmanagement
experts, decision makers and government
officials involved in cultural heritage

conservationordisastermanagement.

Just as last year, this year the ITC focusedon theme “Towards Integrated Protection of
Immovable and Movable Cultural Heritage
from Disasters”. During the course, thetrainees have deepened an understandingof not only various aspects of disaster risk
management of cultural heritage in Japan,
but also the distinctive issues and theprevious lessons which involve in the fieldof cultural heritage conservation and thedisaster risk management in the world. All
the lectures, site visits, exercises andworkshops are performed by the worldwide
experts.

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Prof. Takeyuki Okubo
E-mail: rekibou@st.ritsumei.ac.jp

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This year also Ritsumeikan
University cooperated with
the Japanese experts. So,
the trainees could learn astudy of risk management
for both immovable andmovable cultural heritage
from last disasters in Japan
andcomprehensive
countermeasuresandapproaches. As the detailsof the course, the trainees
learned the disaster risk
management of cultural
heritage from the various
kind of disasters, and theemergency response formovable cultural heritage
through the lectures in theinstitute,thepractical
exercises in the Kyoto
National Museum, and site
visits on the temples andthe Ponto-cho district inKyoto. In addition, theylearned about the flood
disaster occurred in the
Hirafuku, Sayo-cho and
Takeda, Asago-shi and alsoalong-term
recoveryprocess in Kobe area fromthe Great Hanshin-Awaji(Kobe) Earthquake in 1995.
After this training course,
theInternational
Symposium “Working with
the Local Communities on
DisasterPreventionfor
Cultural
Heritage-theExperiences of the Worldand the Future of Japan(holdingbyNational
InstitutesforCultural
Heritage)” was held andapproximately
65
international experts andaudienceswereparticipated. It could discuss
potential roles of disasterrisk management for cultural
heritage from the global
perspective, based on theexperienceandacknowledges which havebeen obtained from the pastdisasters.
Two
representative
trainees
made presentation throughthe symposium, and thepresentations
weredeveloping their relevant
efforts to the disaster risk
management for cultural
heritage in their countries.
We strongly expect theiractivities in the future.
The training course isorganized in cooperation
withthe
UNESCO,ICCROM, ICOM, ICOMOS/
ICORP
and
relevant
institutions
ofthegovernment of Japan. We
will continue this outreachactivities and disseminationof our research outcomes tothe international society.

Call for application for the
ITC2019 will be announced
at our website:
http://www.r-dmuch.jp/en/
project/itc.html

Exercise for
Emergency
Response

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

The mission of Earthquake ResearchInstitute, the University of Tokyo, since
its beginning in 1925, is to promotescientific 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
geophysicalobservations in Japan and abroad,structure and dynamics of the Earth’s
interior which drive earthquakes andvolcanic eruptions, multidisciplinary
research of science and literature on
historicalearthquakes
withHistoriographical Institute, real-time
delivery and analysis of large amount of seismic
data using Science Information Network, earthquake
hazard assessment by merging big data and highperformance computation.
Research highlights in 2018 include: Monitoring of
Nishinoshima volcano using ocean bottom
seismometers (photo), Chemical composition
measurement of deep Earth using HyperKamiokande, Beginning of Pacific Array, Integrated
program for next generation volcano research andhuman resource development, Enhancement ofsolid earth science simulations by combining
artificial
intelligencewithhigh-performancecomputing, New system to evaluate building safety
soon after a destructive earthquake, Science of slow
earthquakes, Integration of the next-generation
seismic observations and the forefront of Bayesianstatistics, Integrated Research Project on Seismic
and Tsunami Hazards around the Sea of Japan.

current project, hence summarized the last five
years’ activities.
Regarding the international collaboration, ERI hassigned agreements with about 20 foreignorganizations, and conducts or participates
collaborative research projects such as International
Muography Cooperative Research Organization,
Next generation Neutrino Science Organization,international marine geophysical observation
networks such as Pacific Array. ERI invites foreign
researchers as visiting faculty or researcher,educates graduate or internship students fromcountries outside Japan, and organizes international
summer schools for both undergraduate andgraduate students. Every year, more than 100
international researchers and students study in ERI.

As a Joint Usage/Research Center of Japanese
universities on earthquake and volcano sciences,
ERI organizes various joint research projects andactively conducts collaborative activities, Thenationwide “Earthquake and Volcano Hazards
Observation and Research Program” involving many
universities and research institutes across Japan isa five year project, and 2018 was the last year of theProf. Kenji Satake
Director
E-mail: director@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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EuropeAustria

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
EconomyFranceBRGM (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

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

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

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

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

UK

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

UK

Global Public Health, Public Health England (PHE)

UK

Centre for Disaster Resilience, University of Salford

UK

Swansea University

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Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA)
Austria
http://dcna.at/

DCNA as a non-profit and open association
under university management established a
network with 12 ordinary and 3 associate
members up to the end of 2018. Ordinary
members are all Austrian institutions whose
tasks include scientific disaster research.
Associate members are those institutions which
are interested in the activities of DCNA and its
support but who are not engaged in scientificresearch.
Strategic partnerships with national (e.g.
we4DDR,
CCCA)
andinternationalorganizations (GADRI) were entered into for

DCNA is currently involved in three research projects
under the Austrian Security Research Program KIRAS;
covering contents of tunnel incident response, CBRN
public sensor network development and live risk
mapping for first responders. Other projects withinvolvementoftheresearch
networkare
IRONORE2019, an EU co-funded project where aninternational civil protection exercise with 600
stakeholders will be evaluated. DCNA is also
contributing to a technological project with the aim ofdeveloping an operational scientific laboratory
container for scientific advice to policy makers anddisaster management.

EU Presidency Event “Austrian Disaster Network Days 2018”
further collaborations in science and research.
At national level five scientific working groups
focusing on (1) Mass movements andearthquakes, (2) Floods, (3) Extreme weather
conditions, (4) Critical infrastructure andindustrial hazards and (5) Socio-economic
disaster aspects, were launched with a Kick-Off
meeting in November 2018.

Dr. Christian Resch
E-mail: christian.resch@dcna.at

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Members of the scientific working groups

DCNA jointly organized with the EC/JRC
DRMKC under the Austrian EU presidency
the Austrian Disaster Network Days from11th to 12th October, held in Vienna at the
University of Natural Resources and Life
Sciences. Experts from about 30 nations
were coming together, aiming to discuss theusability of the disaster risk data for national
applications and the roll-out of an EU-wide
Risk Data Hub.

DCNA was presented at several different
national and international events (e.g.:
Hydraulic Engineering Symposium Graz in
September 2018, Understanding Risk
Balkans Conference Belgrade in September
2108, AGIT – Symposium and Expo for
Applied Geoinformatics Salzburg in July
2018, 3rd Annual Scientific Seminar
DRMKC Sofia in April 2018 etc.).

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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis(IIASA) Austria
https://www.iiasa.ac.at/

Located near Vienna, Austria, IIASA is aninternational institute that conducts policy-oriented
research into problems that are too large or complex
to be solved by a single country or discipline.

thesis and IIASA’s research agenda, the goal
being to write a publishable paper. All YSSP
participants are personally mentored by IIASA
senior scientists.

These problems—which include climate change,energy security, and sustainable development—
must be resolved by international cooperation.

For further details, visit the website—http://
www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/education/yssp/
about.html

IIASA research comes under the following programs:

A book project based on results found during theThird Global Summit of Research Institutes for
Disaster Risk Reduction, which was held in March2017 at the Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute, Kyoto University, Japan, was launchedby GADRI in November 2017 with Springer under
the theme of Disaster and Risk Research: GADRIBook Series. During the initial meeting a total of 12
books were proposed under the series.

•

Advanced Systems Analysis•

Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases•

Ecosystems Services and Management•

Energy•Evolution and Ecology•

Risk and Resilience•

Transitions to New Technologies

•

Water

•

World Population.

Information on the
Young Scientists
Summer Program(YSSP) at IIASA
was shared withGADRI member
institutes.
IIASA
Every
summerfrom 1 June to 31
August,
IIASA
hosts up to 50
doctoral students
from around theworld in its Young
Scientists
Summer Program(YSSP).
Eachparticipant works
on a topic related
to his or her PhD

The book on “Disaster Risk Reduction andResilience” is one of the proposed books under
the series and could be the first to be publishedunder GADRI Book Series in the near future. The
focus of the book is on the multidimensionality ofresilience and the various perspectives throughwhich disaster risk reduction can be viewed. Sucha discussion of the multidimensionality ofresilience is very much needed given its short but
intense history as a concept related to disaster risk
reduction. Editors for the book are Dr. Muneta
Yokomatsu from the Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, andDr.
StefanHochrainer-Stigler
fromtheInternational Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
GADRI Book Series—https://www.springer.com/
series/16177

Dr. Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Senior Research Scholar
E-mail: hochrain@iiasa.ac.at

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University of National and World Economy (UNWE)
Bulgaria
https://www.unwe.bg/en/

Science Research Center for
Disaster Risk Reduction(SRCDRR) at the University of
National and World Economy(UNWE), Sofia, Bulgaria
The ITDRR 2018 Conference

The Science Research Center for Disaster
Risk Reduction (SRCDRR) co-organized
the 3rd IFIP Conference on Information
Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction(ITDRR 2018), September 20 – 21st, 2018,at the Poznan University of Technology,
Poznan, Poland, http://itdrr.unwe.bg/.

ITDRR-2018 provided an international
forum for researchers and practitioners topresent their latest R&D findings andinnovations. The conference was focusedon the various IT aspects and challenges
of copying with disaster risk reduction.
ITDDR-2018 invited experts, researchers,
academicians and all other, interested todisseminate their work. The conference
continues to establish an academic
environment that fosters the dialogue andexchange of ideas between different
levels of academic, research, businessand public communities.

The conference emphasized on topics, such as:
Advanced ICT and disasters, Big Data anddisasters, Climate change and disaster risk,
Communications in disasters, Crowdsourcing
andemergency
management,
Disasterinformation processing, Disaster prevention andmitigation, Disaster relief, resilience andresearch, Disaster risk management capability
assessment, Emergency preparedness, Hazard,
vulnerability and risk mapping, ICT challenges inemergency management, Disaster monitoring,
Disaster risk assessment, Security and privacy
issues in disaster management, Simulation andgaming for disaster management, Socioeconomic impacts of disasters, etc.

The Program Committee received 34 paper
submissions, out of which 15 research papers
were finally accepted and presented at theconference. The ITDRR-2018 Proceedings will
be published by Springer, as the previous twovolumes.

Prof. Dimiter Velev
Director
E-mail: dgvelev@unwe.bg

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Participationin
Disaster-related
Conferences and Events

SRCDRR members took part in 11 disasterrelated conferences and events during 2018with a special focus on the Asian Science andTechnology Conference for Disaster Risk
Reduction, (ASTCDRR), April 17-18, 2018,
Beijing, China; the European Emergency
Number
Association
(EENA
2018)
Conference, April 25-27, 2018, Ljubljana,
Slovenia; the European Forum on Disaster
Risk Reduction (EFDRR 2018), November 2123, 2018, Rome, Italy.

Ongoing R&D project

The SCRDRR continues activity on the R&D
university project titled: “Research on the
Applicability of Virtual Reality in Education andTraining”, with a 2017-2019 time frame.
Special focus of the project in 2018 isAugmented reality (AR) and Virtual reality (VR)in Disaster Preparedness Training for Society
Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis ofElectricity Networks from Natural Hazards
Using Virtual Reality.

3rd IFIP ITDRR-2018,
Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland,
September 20 – 21st, 2018
http://itdrr.unwe.bg/

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French Geological Survey (BRGM)
Francehttp://www.brgm.eu/

Photograph of the city ofKourouBRGM teams achieved several major
projects concerning risk reduction in 2018.
The most famous one is about the volcanotectonic crisis at Mayotte, Comoros islands.
Hundreds of earthquakes have occurred in
Mayotte since May 2018, including thebiggest shock ever recorded in the Comoros
area with a magnitude of 5.8. Since thebeginning of this crisis, BRGM provides
seismological monitoring, informs the State
services and regularly publishes on its
website to inform the public (https://www.brgm.fr/actualite/essaim-seismesmayotte-connaissance-phenomene-seprecise). A scientific mission bringing
together several French institutes (CNRS,IPGP, BRGM, etc.) has just found the originof this crisis: a young submarine volcano.

runoff to organize emergency measures.
In 2018, BRGM also helped the city ofKourou to set up a medium and long-term
management strategy for its coastline, inreaction to the erosion and marine
submersion phenomena of 2016. BRGM,
with partners AUDEG, and ARTELIA
characterized stakes and hazards, developed
scenarios as well as an economic andenvironmental analysis of these solutions toallow choosing the most relevant one. This
project resulted in a field survey tocharacterize some of the stakes, marine
submersion maps, the projection of thecoastline by 2050, and the development ofdifferent solutions for coast management.

Another major project of BRGM deals with
the impact of the 2017 and 2018 fires in
Corsica. BRGM was asked to assess theirconsequences on slope instabilities using an
innovative approach. An erosion model wasbuilt using field surveys (amount of clay,
thickness of soil that can be mobilized, etc.)
and was used to carry out simulations toquantify peak flows and volumes resulting
from sediment transport. The objective wasto target areas that could be impacted by

Dr. LEVY Clara
E-mail: c.levy@brgm.fr

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BRGM is concerned by strategies to increase
our knowledge on natural hazards. Thus, BRGM
contributed to the prefiguration of the website of
the French National Network of Coast
Observatories (RNOTC, http://observatoireslittoral.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/), alongwith the Ministry for the Ecological and Solidary
Transition and Cerema. BRGM coordinates thisnetwork, which aims at federating local
structures in charge of coastal monitoring. Its
website allows now privileged exchanges, withthe objective of promoting the sharing anddissemination of knowledge among the public aswell as promoting common actions in terms ofobservation, expertise and communication on
the coastline.
One of BRGM’s missions is to ensure the link
between research and policymaking. As such,
BRGM participated to the ESPREssO European

project that aimed at improving synergies fordisaster prevention in the European Union.
ESPREssO main challenges were: 1) to create
more coherent national and European
approaches on Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate
ChangeAdaptation
andresiliencestrengthening; 2) to enhance risk management
capabilities by bridging the gap between scienceand legal/policy issues at local and national
levels in six European countries; 3) to address
the issue of effective management of transboundary crises. ESPREssO's main products
were the Guidelines on risk management
capability and a Vision Paper on future researchstrategies in order to better define the research
priorities following the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

Location of earthquakes of magnitude greater than 3.8 since the beginning of
the volcano-tectonic crisis at Mayotte, Comoros islands, until October 29,
2018. © BRGM / Bathymetry HOMONIM, SHOM and GEBCO (2014)

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Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM), Germany
http://www.cedim.de/english

TheCenterfor
DisasterManagement
andRisk
Reduction
Technology (CEDIM)
is an interdisciplinary
research center inthe field of disasterandresilience
research.
Bysynergisticallycombining
competencesfromdifferent disciplines,
CEDIM
develops
new models andFig: Area under drought in Germany (Data source: German Drought monitor, UFZ).
concepts for novel
solutions in the fields
of natural disasters, hazards and resilience.
them the President of the German Technisches
Hilfswerk (THW), China Earthquake Association
Within the current research focus on near-real time(CEA), the Universidad de Chile, or the DKKV.
Forensic Disaster Analysis (FDA), CEDIM
Other knowledge transfer activities were:
investigates the dynamics and interrelations ofOrganization of a session at the European
disasters, identifies major risk drivers, estimates
Geosciences Union (EGU) conference (including
the impact as fast as possible, and infers
invitation to the official press conference); various
implications for disaster mitigation. In 2018,presentations (e.g., Forumg Public Security in the
CEDIM produced FDA reports for the 2018
German parliament; WMO High-Impact Weather
German drought / heat wave (see Figure) and theworkshop in Bejing); various press releases andTyphoon Mangkhut (Philippinen) and FDA shortnumerous citations in highly-ranked media (e.g.,reports for the storm Friederike (Western and
The New York Times, Washington Post, Science,Central Europe), the earthquake Lombok
BBC, NZZ, Bloomberg).
(Indonesia), the hurricane Florence (US), and thevolcano-tsunami Anak Krakatoa (Indonesia).
CEDIM is currently beginning cooperation with theWorld Bank as part of its Global Rapid
CEDIM R&D projects in 2018 included Rapid
post‑disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE)
Earthquake Impact Modeling, Energy risks towardinitiative. GRADE is an approach that can provide
2025: Disaster risk and resilience assessment of
an initial rapid estimation of the physical postrenewable and traditional systems, Resilience ofdisaster damage incurred by key sectors within
urban infrastructures in the course of time,
two weeks of the disaster.
Vulnerability and resilience of the criticalinfrastructure as exemplified by Chile, Rapid
Earthquake Impact Modeling, Willis Hail Hazard
Assessment, and the internet platforms Early
Warning of Hazardous Weather and CATDAT, oneof the world’s largest and most detailed historicalcatastrophe loss databases developed by
Prof. Michael Kunz
founding partner James Daniell since 2003.
CEDIM Spokesman
CEDIM was visited by several official delegations
E-mail: info@cedim.deof international organizations institutions, among

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Disaster Research Unit (DRU)
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
http://polsoz.fu-berlin.de/dru

The DRU is pleased to announce the launchof the research project WAKE (MigrationRelated Knowledge Management for Civil
Protection of the Future), which is funded by
the German Federal Ministry of Education
and Research. The Hans Ertel Centre for
Weather Research decided to extend the
project WEXICOM (Weather warnings: from
EXtreme event Information to COMunication
and action) for a third research phase.

The DRU successfully completed two IndoGerman research projects, funded by theGerman Federal Ministry of Education andResearch: “INVOLVE - INitiate VOLunteerism
to counter VulnErability, coordinated by DRU”
on volunteerism and vulnerability, and“FloodEvac”, Subproject “Cultures andCatastrophe in Germany and India during
climate change, Catastrophe Culture”.

The DRU successfully completed theresearch-project “KOPHIS – Care-dependent
Persons in Disaster Situations” which goal
wastodevelopascenario-based
understanding of the needs for assistanceand resilience potentials of aid and caredependent persons in their social relations for
all phases of the disaster process.

Security in a Just City”. The theoretical andempirical aim of the project was to generate
in-depth understanding of the habitational andresidential conditions of the various social
milieus, which should then give forth toconclusions about the relationship between
the subjective and objectified conceptions ofsafety and security. Upon the basis of ourtheoretical analysis, the principle practicalgoal of the project was to develop a process
for negotiation, with which a (more) justdistribution of safety and security in the city
can be achieved.

Furthermore, the DRU was able to extend its
international networks, among others via two
definition projects: The DRU led the GermanIranian definition project REVISE (Integrated
Disaster Risk Management and Involvementof Volunteers for Disaster Preparedness inTeheran). The DRU also participated in theGerman-Ghanaian definition project EARLYINFOCAT (Early-warning-based optimizationof information, communication, warning andpractices in floods and droughts in Ghana),
both funded by the German Federal Ministryof Education and Research.

The DRU successfully completed theresearch project VERSS - Aspects of a morejust distribution of safety andsecurity
incities”,
subproject“Vulnerability,
Safety,andProf. Martin Voss
Head
E-mail: martin.voss@fu-berlin.de

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

The Systemic Risks
group investigates theprimary, secondary andtertiaryeffectsofsystemicinterdependencies at theinterface of technology,
natureandsociety.
Systemic risk is the term
used to describe risks
whose effects are global,
complexandfarreaching, for example
climatechange,ubiquitous
naturalGovernor Winfried Kretschmann awards the Order of Merit of the federal state ofdisasters, financial crises
Baden-Württemberg to Professor Ortwin Renn, Scientific Director at the Institute forand social inequity. The
Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS). Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg
research undertaken by
this group yields policy
recommendations for effective, efficient, resilientand fair resolution of risk conflicts. The concept of
The Order of Merit of the federal state of Badensystemic risks offers a new perspective on socioWürttemberg – known as the “Medal of Merit” until
technical and socio-ecological transformations. This
June 2009 – is awarded by the State Governor toperspective focuses attention on decision-making
honouroutstanding
servicestoBadenprocesses in a situation characterized by
Württemberg, in particular in the areas of politics,
complexity, uncertainty and social ambiguity, andculture, economics, and civil society. The Order ofopens avenues for better transdisciplinary risk
Merit is generally awarded once a year at agovernance. Policy recommendations for reducing
ceremony. It has been awarded to 1,941 people
disaster risk derived from an analysis of thesince 1975.
interdependencies of critical infrastructure, natural
For further information visit website—https://hazards and institutions or social interactionwww.iass-potsdam.de/en/search?
processes are a case in point.
search_for=Medal+of+Honor+awarded+by+the+Sta
In 2018, the group was engaged in empiricalte+of+Baden-W%C3%
research on resilient coastal management in
BCrttemberg+for+outstanding+scientific+and+publi
Germany, in assessing and evaluating the risk pf
c+services+to+the+State
plastic waste on soil and assessing the likely
impacts of climate engineering. Furthermore, it
investigated strategies to avoid global financial risks
in combination with major environmental changes(climate, biodiversity, ware shortage) and provided
policy advice to the International Risk GovernanceCouncil as well as the International Standard
Organization (ISO).
Prof. Ortwin Renn
In 2018, scientific director Ortwin Renn received theMedal of Honor awarded by the State of BadenWürttemberg for outstanding scientific and public
services to the State.

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Department of Earth Sciences
University of Florence, Italy
https://www.unescogeohazards.unifi.it

Engineering Geology group of the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence
The Department of Earth Sciences, UNESCO Chairon Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geohydrological hazards of the University of Florence(DST-UNIFI), is an important center for research andhigher training in Italy with an Engineering Geology
group counting nearly 60 persons among which areprofessors, researchers, technicians, post-doc
fellows, PhD students, collaborators and visiting
fellows.
In 2018 at DST-UNIFI has been established the Civil
Protection Centre that gives scientific and technicalsupport to the University of Florence and the
National Civil Protection Service through operational
activities in national emergencies and was involved
in several sites for emergency support related to geo-hydrological hazards treating human life andinfrastructures.
Research activities focused on the use of innovativetechnologies (Ground-based SAR interferometry,
UAV, Laser Scanner) for landslide monitoring andearly warning; on the exploitation of EO (Earth
Observation) data and technology to detect, map,
monitor and forecast ground deformations anddevelopment of regional landslide forecastingmodels under the framework of the national andinternational projects and the outcomes were
published in more than 50 published papers in peerreviewed scientific journals, winning 2018 Best
Paper Award of the journal Geoenvironmental
disasters.

by geo-hydrological hazards, some of which are partof the UNESCO World Heritage list, especially indeveloping countries. organizations and institutions(at different levels).
The Chair has developed a new International
Academic Master’s Degree (totally in English
language) on “Geoengineering” (http://www.inggem.unifi.it), with the joint competences of all thecore members of the Chair, focusing to train experts
on prevention, management and mitigation of geohydrological risks. Several lectures, seminars andpresentations have been hosted by the Chair,aiming at promoting a knowledge sharing network,through capacity building and dissemination towards
different actors. Training were addressed to thescientific community, Italian and foreign researchersand students, associations,
As a member of the International Consortium on
Landslides (ICL) the DST-UNIFI is signatory of the
ISDR- ICL Sendai Partnership 2015-2025.The
Sendai Partnership was accepted and signed during
the 3rd United Nations World Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai (March
11- 15th 2015). In 2018 DST-UNIFI has worked tothe drafting of the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for
global promotion of understanding and reducing
landslide disaster risk and it will be signed during thenext World Landslide Forum in Kyoto in 2020.

The DST-UNIFI was appointed as UNESCO Chair in
2016, and has participated in several national andinternational missions in 2018, in collaboration with
UNESCO and official partners, to promote theprotection of the World’s cultural heritage threatened

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

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

GEM Secretary-General, John Schneider receives the award on behalf of GEM from UNISDR Head, Mami
Mizutori, at the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction in November 2018, Rome, Italy.
The year 2018 was a milestone year for GEM
because of the completion and release of the
Global Earthquake Hazard and Risk Maps tothe public, and for being accorded the
UNISDR's Damir Čemerin 2018 Award at theEuropean Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction,
Rome, Italy.
GEM
scientists
presented
theglobalearthquake hazard and risk maps in Pavia, Italy
to more than 130 delegates around the worldfrompublic,privateandacademicorganizations that participated in the GEM2018
launch on December 5th. More than 5000
downloads of GEM’s global earthquake hazard
and risk maps have occurred since they werereleased, and there has been extensive online
media coverage, with the global maps pageaccessed from more than 140 countries.

2. Interactive map tool•

Global hazard map with PGA value forselected cell•

Global exposure with number & valueof buildings per country•

Global risk map with average annual
economic losses per country, link torisk profile

3. V1.0 Country Profiles for around 120
countries (PDF download)
4. Updated Active Fault Database (on github)
5. Updated
functions)

vulnerability

Database(300

The products released at the December 2018
event were as follows:
1. Hazard and risk maps (print and PDF/PNG
downloadable files)

Prof. John Schneider
Secretary-GeneralE-mail: john.schneider@globalquakemodel.org

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Before the release of the global maps, theUN
Secretary-General’sSpecialRepresentative for Disaster Risk Reduction,
Mami Mizutori awarded GEM (represented
by John Schneider, GEM SecretaryGeneral) the Damir Čemerin Award at aceremony in Rome in November 2018. The
prestigious award was accorded to GEM inrecognition of GEM’s leadership in
supporting disaster risk reduction globally.

The award is named after Mr. DamirČemerin, a founder member of theEuropean Forum for Disaster Risk
Reduction, who died in 2013 after longservice in support of disaster risk reduction
in his home country of Croatia as well as
globally.

GEM presentation of the
global earthquake hazard
and risk maps, December
5th 2018, Pavia, Italy.

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

The Faculty of Security Engineering is oriented
towards the managerial and technological studies
in security and safety area. There are 4
departments: Department of Fire Engineering,
Department of Security Management, DepartmentofTechnical
Sciences
andInformatics
and Department of Crisis Management.

In 2018 faculty employer and university ViceRector Prof. Jozef Ristvej achieved an award of
popularization of science in Slovak Republic
between young people, from Ministry of Education,science and sport of Slovak Republic. His intention
has always been to show young people not to beafraid of science and technical disciplines.

Faculty has organized in February a big OpenDay in cooperation with all local rescue services
encompassing very dynamic and interesting

programe for students in all levels of study andpublic. This activity was awarded as one of themost interesting Open Days of faculties
organized in 2018.

We have started close cooperation
between our faculty and stateadministration bodies represented
by certain ministries in Slovak
republic e.g Ministry of Interior,
Ministry od Education, Ministry of
Education, science and sport inarea of security and safety issues
and have started scientific projects
solving in call Effective State
Administration.

Dr. Katarina Holla
Associate Professor
E-mail: katarina.holla@fbi.uniza.sk

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Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
https://www.sei.org/

SEI’s
International
Centre of Excellence on
Transforming
Development
andDisaster Risk (ICoETDDR) launched two
major
capacity
development
events:the TDDR Forum and
TDDR Academy, heldin Bangkok in October
2018. The Forum was
well-received
andattendedbyParticipants at SEI’s Transforming Development and Disaster Risk
approximately
100
Forum
participants.
Participants included anumber of UN organizations, NGOs,
studies involving 19+ countries in Asia, theacademics, and local and national
Pacific, Africa, North and South America,
government officials. It was co-hosted by theand focused on the complex relationshipAsian Disaster
Preparedness Centre
between development and disaster risk.
(ADPC) and Chulalongkorn University. The
SEI researchers conducted fieldwork in
Forum examined how current development
Tacloban, Philippines to understand how
models in Asia may increase disaster risk
disaster recovery efforts following Typhoonand suggested actions for development andHaiyan in 2013 have contributed to
DRR actors to transform the relationshipdifferential resilience levels among affected
between development and disaster risk forcommunities in the years following themore equitable, resilient, and sustainabletyphoon. A number of interviews and Focus
communities, now and for the future. The
Group Discussions were held to identify the
TDDR Academy brought together 30 PhD
drivers of inequitable resilience postand Masters students and early-career
disaster.
researchers from major universities in
Bangkok (Asian Institute of Technology,
King Mongkhut’s Institute of Technology,
andChulalongkorn
University).
The
Academy enabled SEI researchers to shareourpathwaysandapproachestotransformation in the context of development
and disaster risk.
Membersof
SEI’s
Transforming
Development and TDDR Initiativeedited a special issue in
Sustainability
journalwhichpublished 11 papers
from 51 authors
in 15 with case

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Dr. Karlee Johnson
Research Associate
E-mail: karlee.johnson@sei.org

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Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTE)
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
http://wp.unil.ch/risk/
https://www.unil.ch/iste/home.html

The group risk continued several projects
dedicated to the characterization of slope mass
movements hazards, mainly by remote sensing
data. The study about Kii Mountain (Japan) incollaboration with Prof. Chigira has been
completed in 2018 and finally published in
2019. The project dedicated to the thermal
effect on rock slope dishabituation is ongoingon rock slope in Yosemite park. We arecharged to evaluate the hazard of a large rockslope instability “La Brenva” in the Mont Blanc
massif which produced a large rock avalanche
in 1997. Modelling dedicated to rockfall using
real 3D data (point cloud) and tsunami
generated by landslide are still underdevelopments. Our group discovered the firstrock avalanche in Tunisia that was probably
triggered by an earthquake. In addition, we
stated to work on the Pizzo Cengalo disasterthat killed eight persons and destroyed par ofvillage. This was a rockslide- rock avalanches– debris-flows. We are trying to understand thisinstability and we tried to simulate thepropagation.

Conference (June 3-6, 2018) in Canmore(Alberta). We were involved in the scientificcommittee of the 3rd Virtual Geoscience
Conference in Kingston (Canada). Prof.
Jaboyedoff has been invited for lectures at the
5th International Symposium on Mega
Earthquake Induced Geo-disasters and LongTerm Effects Effects (MEIGLE 2018) during
May 11-16, 2018 in Chengdu, to the LargeScale Landslide Workshop in Taipei (October11th), to the Australian Geoscience Council
Convention 2018 in October 2019 in Adelaide
and in the International Symposium Rock
Slope Stability 2018, was held in Chambéry (13-15 November 2018).

Finally, Prof. Jaboyedoff has been appointed
as scientific officer for landslide for the General
Assembly of the European Geosciences Unionand he is a member of the International
Advisory Board of the Risk@Univ. Grenoble
Alpes project.

We invited two visiting scientists at ISTE tosupport our research. Professor Chigira (DPRI)
spent 1 month to study the slope instability in
Switzerland, the ongoing project is tounderstand the creation of deep-seatedlandslides in southern Alps. Dr. Pudasaini (UniBonn) spent three months to work on landslide
propagation modelling, about super-elevationof debris-flows and multiphase flow.

The risk group participated to several
conferences such as 7th Canadian Geohazards

Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff
Director
E-mail: michel.jaboyedoff@unil.ch

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

Evidence Aid had many achievements during
2018, but one of the most significant was the
publication of our new evidence guide‘Research evidence in the humanitarian sector:
A practice guide’. This is now available in
English, French and Spanish from our website
http://www.evidenceaid.org/use-of-evidence-inthe-humanitarian-sector-a-practice-guide/. We
had three launches of the English version of
the guide – one at Save the Children in
London, UK, one in the Houses of Parliament,
London, UK and one in Kellogg College,
Oxford, UK where many people attended. We
have hard copies of the guide (English only)
which we are offering to post to people if theyshould like one.
Humanitarian Evidence Week was a great
success with lectures, webinars, training
courses, blogs, podcasts, publication launches
and videos. More than twenty organisations
providedcontent,
which
rangedfromacademia, publishers, NGOs and consultants,
and the website statistics show a measured
increase in traffic.
We also held a number of training courses
which we will build upon in 2019, extending ourcourse content, and reach to those who mighttake part. We held an inaugural course titled‘Evaluating complex humanitarian interventions– utilising evidence-based approaches’ which
was facilitated by Professor Paul Montgomery
and which was very successful. This will be run
again, alongside other courses, in 2019.
Our blog series grew, adding 14 new blogs to
the series.
We also expanded our evidence collections.
We launched the expanded evidence collection‘The health of refugees and asylum seekers’ toinclude oral health. We published a newly
updated collection of evidence on‘Windstorms’ and started to
update our collection on‘Ebola’. All thesummaries of thesystematic reviewsin the collections

have also been translated into French andSpanish, which resulted in a greatly increased
number of both Spanish and French speakers
to our site. We also submitted a paper to the
Journal of Humanitarian Action which
described the process of our evidencecollection ‘Prevention and treatment of acutemalnutrition in humanitarian emergencies’
which has since been accepted for publication.
Finally, we appointed a new Chief Executive
Officer, Ben Heaven Taylor. Ben has been withus since June 2018, and has established
Evidence Aid’s focus on its three key objectives
and mission ‘to alleviate suffering and save
lives by providing the best available evidence
on the effectiveness of humanitarian action andenabling its use’.

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Ms. Claire Allen
Operations Manager
E-mail: callen@evidenceaid.org

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Global Disaster Resilience Centre
University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
http://www.hud.ac.uk/gdrc

In 2018, academics at the Global Disaster
Resilience Centre, University of Huddersfield,
UK have been successful in receiving key
international grants, awards, esteemed positions
and with key publications:•

NERC/ODA funded Mitigating hydrometeorological hazard impacts throughtransboundary river management in the
Ciliwong River basin project This projectwill examine how and why the current
transboundary
river
management
arrangements are mitigating or exacerbating
flood hazard impacts in urban and periurban areas of the Ciliwung river basin, inlight of key physical flood variables and any
future changes to statistically significant
future flood variables. Value is within therange of £ 700,000.00. it is led by Professor
Richard Haigh and the South-east Asianbased PI is Institute of Technology
Bandung, Indonesia. Other partners of thisinitiative include: School of BMKG; BNPB;BMKG;Bappenas;
ResearchandDevelopment Agency, Ministry of Public
Works and Housing; Ciliwung Cisadane
River Basin Organisation; Local Disaster
Management Organization at West Jawa
Province; The Indonesian Association ofDisaster Experts (IABI); Jakarta Provincial
Government.

•

Governance of the upstream-downstream
interface in end-to-end tsunami early
warning systems was funded by the
GCRF/QR/URF. Its objectives included
development of a self-assessment tool ontsunami early warning at the interface
between upstream and downstream activity,and development and testing of decisionmaking criteria for Tsunami when theevidence is less straightforward, or the
scenario is marginal.

•

Prof. Amaratunga and Prof. Haigh were
the International Observer, Exercise
Indian Ocean Wave 2018: An Indian Oceanwide
TsunamiWarningandCommunications, UNESCO IOTWMS. 2018.

•

REGARD–
Rebuilding
AfteR
Displacement is funded by
EuripeanCommssion
Erasmus+
Strategic
Partnerships for higher education. Prof.
Dilanthi Amaratunga is leading this initiativeand other partners include: Tallinn University(Estonia), Lund University (Sweden) andUniversity of Colombo (Sri Lanka). Grant
Amount is €449,000.

Prof. Dilanthi Amaratunga
HeadE-mail: d.amaratunga@hud.ac.uk

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In 2018, Prof. Dilanthi Amaratunga
Received the “His Excellency the
President of Sri Lanka Award” from
His
Excellency,
Maithreepala
Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, forthecontribution
toDisaster
Resilience in Sri Lanka .
GDRC was also the Winner of the
UALL International Award for2018 for its CADRE (Collaborative
Action towards Disaster Resilience
Education)
project.
UALL
InternationalAwardrecognises
innovative engagement, including
partnerships, that create change in
an international and transnational
context. Criteria for assessment
included: Innovation and Creativity,
Impact and Transferability.

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Prof. Amaratunga was appointed asa Member of the European
Commission’s Joint ResearchCenter(JRC)
and
UNISDR,
European Science & Technology
AdvisoryGroup(E-STAG).The
principal goal of the European
Scientific and Technical Advisory
Group (E-STAG) is to provide
scientific and technical support to the
56 European and Central Asian
countries for the implementation of
the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction, and other DRR
related relevant frameworks orpolicies in the EU.
Further details about
GDRC
activities in 2017 can be read byvisiting: http://www.hud.ac.uk/gdrc

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Innovation and Technology Division
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business

Report on Avoidable Deaths
Ray-Bennett, N.S. 2018. Avoidable Deaths: A
Systems Failure Approach to Disaster Risk
Management. Springer Nature: Switzerland.
Environmental
HazardSeries.
http://
www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319669502
Book abstract:
This book addresses one of the mostfundamental questions of the 21st century: why
deaths continue to occur in natural disasters
despite the tremendous advancements in
disaster management science and weather
forecasting
systems,theincreased
sophistication of human-built environments andthe ongoing economic and policy development
worldwide. By presenting an interdisciplinary
tool for analysing ‘systems failure’, the bookprovides concrete suggestions on how deaths
may be reduced in resource-poor contexts. It
goes beyond traditional risk and vulnerability
perspectives and demonstrates that deaths in
disasters are complex problems that can besolvedbyadoptingasocio-technicalperspective to improve current disastermanagement systems in the developing world.
The book is a timely contribution, as it directly
addresses the Global Target A of the UN’s
‘Sendai Frameworkfor Disaster Risk
Reduction’, which has urged 185 UN Member
States to reduce disaster mortality by 2030.
Further, it offers a valuable resource forstudents, researchers, policy-makers andpractitioners interested in disaster risk
reduction, human rights, gender, sociology ofrisk, crisis and disasters, environmental
science, organisation and management
studies.
Nibedita Ray-Bennett launched her book on
the 6th of March 2018 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
The expert panel included Mr Mihir Bhatt fromthe All India Institute of Disaster Management
and Mr Ambika Prasad Nanda from TESCOCSR. Please see the picture.

The book was reviewed by Professor Michael
Petterson (Auckland Institute of Technology)
To read the book review published in Disaster
Prevention and Management: An International
Journal, please follow this weblink: https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2018-301

Related publications to the book:•

Ray-Bennett, N.S. 2017. Disasters, Deaths
and the Sendai Goal One: Lessons from
Odisha, India. World Development. 103(2018):
27-39.
https://doi.org/10.1016/
j.worlddev.2017.10.003•

Ray-Bennett, N.S. 2018. ‘How Can Asia
Address Avoidable Deaths?’, Avoidable
Deaths: A Way Ahead. 178(2018): 7.
https://www.preventionweb.net/
files/62165_62165178snetavoidabledeaths.pdf

Dr. Nibedita Ray-Bennett
Associate Professor
E-mail: nsrb1@leicester.ac.uk

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ExploringtheChallenges
andOpportunities
AroundReproductive Health inDisasters in Bangladesh(2015-2018)
In August 2018, as a
Principal
Investigator
Dr
Nibedita
Ray-Bennett
concludeda32-months
International
PlannedParenthood
Federation(IPPF)-funded
consortiumbased
research
project
called:Exploringthechallenges and opportunities
of reproductive health during
disasters in Bangladesh. For
details on the project, please
visit this weblink:
https://www2.le.ac.uk/
departments/business/
research/affiliated/cssu/cssuresearch/Reproductive%
20Health%20in%
20Disasters%20-%
20Bangladesh
The consortium included: The
Government of Bangladesh’s
Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare, IPPF-South Asia
Region (IPPF-SAR), ICDDR,
B, and Data Management Aid
Bangladesh.
This Leicester-led consortium
testedanintervention
packagecalledRHCC(Reproductive Health Kit,
Capacitybuilding
andCommunity awareness) toimprove the quality andavailability of post-abortion
care during a flood in
Belkuchi/Bangladesh. RHCC
demonstrated: an increase inskilledmanagement
for
Nurses and Family Welfare
Visitors;
improved
quality of life forclients of the Kits; andchanged practices in thedelivery of the Government of

Bangladesh’s national familyplanning programme.
This Leicester-led consortium
produced two policy briefs fortheGovernmentofBangladesh,atechnical
report for IPPF and IPPFSAR, two facility assessment
tools that can facilitate theimplementation
ofthe
UNFPA’s
Reproductive
Health Kit in disasters andhumanitarian crises, andbehaviourchangecommunication
posters(BCC) to manage postabortion care in Bengali andEnglish. To access theseproducts, please visit thisweblink: https://www.ippf.org/
resource/improving-qualityand-availability-post-abortioncare-humanitarian-crisis
The research findings havebeen disseminated in 6
international
conferences,including the:‘Asian Ministerial Conference
on Disaster Risk Reduction in
NewDelhi,
India’ (4 November 2016);‘The Impact of Hazard, Risk,
and Disasters on Societies
ConferenceinDurham,UK’ (19 September 2017);‘AsianMinisterial
Conference in Disaster Risk
Reduction in Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia’ (3-6 July 2018);‘International Family Planning
Conferencein
Kigali,Rwanda’ (12-15 November2018);‘International
Congresson
Women's
Health and Unsafe Abortionin Bangkok, Thailand’ (21February 2019); and ‘19th
General Membership Meeting
Reproductive
HealthSupplies in
Kathmandu,
Nepal’ (25-28 March 2019).

The research project was
shortlisted
for
the

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Leicester’s ‘Research
Excellence Award 2018’ andis currently selected as an‘Impact Case Study’ for the
SchoolofBusiness’
Research
Exercise
Framework
2021.
The
research findings have been
published in the Gates Open
Journal: https://gatesopenresearch.org/
articles/3-788/v1 ,Gaveshana:https://
www.gaveshana.lk/about andan Input Paper for the
UNISDR’s
GlobalAssessment Report 2019.
Nibedita has secured afurther grant from Economic
and Social Science ResearchCouncil-Impact Accelerator
Award(ESRC-IAA)
toshowcasetheresearch
project at the ESRC Social
Science Festival at Leicesteron the 6th of November 2019.
This forthcoming event will
engagewithschools,
colleges and Universities
from the East and West
Midlands in the UK. It will
also
engagewithkey
stakeholders
suchas
Leicester’sCity
Council,UNDRR,UNFPA,
pharmaceutical companies,
IPPF,
GovernmentofBangladesh – among others– to upscale the impact of
this research project.

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Water Engineering and Development
Centre (WEDC), Loughborough University
United Kingdom
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/wedc/

The School of Architecture, Building and Civil
Engineering, Loughborough University has secured
over £1.2 million research funding from UK researchcouncils on disaster-related research projects. In
these research projects, the Loughborough
University researchers work with multi-disciplinary
and international teams to build resilience todisasters to achieve sustainable development.
• GCRF Living Deltas Hub, Research Councils UK,
2019-2024• Web-Based Natural Dam-Burst Flood Hazard
Assessment and ForeCasting SysTem (WeACT),
NERC-DFID, 2019-2021• 'River basins as living laboratories' for achieving
sustainable development goals across nationaland sub-national scales, NERC, 2019-2021• FUTURE-DRAINAGE: Ensemble climate change
rainfall estimates for sustainable drainage,
NERC, 2019-2020• Valuing the benefits of blue/green infrastructure
for flood resilience, natural capital and urban
development in Viet Nam (ValBGI), NERC, 20192021• Safer Self-Recovery, interdisciplinary research
intopost-disasterperi-urban
shelterreconstruction in Nepal and Philippines, British
Academy, 2017-2018

The organizing committee and key speakers of the 2018
2nd international symposium on new techniques forgeohazards research and management, held at Lanzhou
University, Gansu Province.
• Exploring community-based geohazard response
schemes in Gansu, China. CENTA Doctoral
Training Programme, NERC, 2018-2022• Hydro-geohazards and resilient urban growth,
Research Link workshop, British Council, 20182019
The school has successfully organized the 2nd
International Symposium on New Techniques for
Geohazards Research and Management together
with the British Geological Survey, Lanzhou
University, Xi’an Center of Geological
Surveyand
Gansu
Geohazards
Emergency Response Centre (Geoenvironmental Monitoring Institute).

The inception meeting for the “'River basins as living
laboratories' for achieving sustainable development goals
across national and sub-national scales” project at Nankai
University

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Prof. Qiuhua Liang
E-mail: q.liang@lboro.ac.uk

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Disaster and Development Network (DDN)
Northumbria University Newcastle, United
Kingdomhttps://www.northumbria.ac.uk
During 2018 the DDN maderepresentations on Disaster
Risk Reduction, Resilience
Building and Sustainability inmore 15 international forums
including as co-leader of the
first‘Sustainability
andResilience’ conference to take place in the Gulf
region hosted by University of Bahrain, in theformation of a new ‘Peace Ecology in the
Anthropocene’ commission with the International
Peace Research Association (IPRA) launched at
IPRA 2018 in Gujarat, India, and in supporting theWorld Health Organization facilitated Health
Emergency and Disaster Risk Management
platform and research group through events inHong Kong and Geneva. The DDN continued todevelop initiatives with the United Nations Scienceand Technology Advisory Group (STAG) in
particular in developing a strategic approach tobetter use of data for achieving the targets of the
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
2015-2030. The DDN, Northumbria also continued
to co-chair the United Kingdom Alliance forDisaster Research (UKADR) who’s annual
conference was hosted by University of Bristol andin preparation for the 2019 conference being
hosted by Northumbria University. Northumbria
DDN is also honored to continue as an elected
Board institution and to provide the Chair for the
Board of the Global Alliance of Disaster ResearchInstitutes (GADRI).
Several significant research projects have beenfurther developed including with civil societalorganizations and NGO’s. One particularly
innovative project that has been funded for asecond phase involves the development of risk
communication techniques with children in schoolsof some of the poorest neighborhoods of Nairobi
using puppetry and for which an understanding of
the processes of engagement and behaviourchange have been observed.
techniques are being
developed with a local
NGO for further
adaptation
during2019
withinthe
MyanmarborderRefugee areas of south- west Bangladesh.
The work is orientated during this phase to water,

sanitation and hygiene related hazards and assuch the project follows on from multiple earlier
projects DDN had developed with partners in bothregions using people centred health risk reduction
approaches. Initiatives were also made in
developing a multiple institution £20 million bid to
the Global Challenges Research Fund for work infour regions of the world on multi-hazard disasterrisk transitioning. Notification of the success of this
proposal, for which Northumbria DDN is a Co-I
institution, arrived at the end of 2018 and will bereported on further in the 2019 annual report.
Students of the Department of Geography andEnvironmental Sciences that hosts the DDN at
Northumbria continued to select disaster anddevelopment studies as a focal area of theirstudies, attracting the largest cohort ofundergraduate students selecting this focus todate. The autumn term of 2018 witnessed also thelargest numbers of graduating MSc Disaster
Management and Sustainable Development
students in one go since the programme began in
2000. The 2018 year however also brought one
point of great sadness in that one of the earlyfounding members, alumnus by MSc and by PhD,
and an early employee who had recently been
recruited back into the group following a period at
Manchester University, died suddenly whilst on
fieldwork with our partnerships in Southern Africa.
Dr. Bernard is sadly missed by all who knew him
and will be remembered evermore for his warmand enthusiastic commitment and passion for thisfield of work.

The

Prof. Andrew Collins
LeaderE-mail: andrew.collins@northumbria.ac.uk

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Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom
https://www.odi.org/

The
Overseas
Development
Institute (ODI) is an independent
think tank with more than 230
staff,
includingresearchers,
communicators and specialist
operational staff. We provide high-quality research, policy advice,consultancy services and tailored
training – bridging the gap
between research and policy andusing innovative communication
to mobilise audiences.
ODI at COP24
ODI’s Risk and Resilience
Programme delivers high quality
research, analysis and policy
advice on the distribution of risk,
impacts of climate, weather extremes and other
Below is a selection of publications and events
hazards on development, and the politicalby the Risk and Resilience Programme at ODI
economy of resilience strategies.

The team’s ways of working include:•

Understanding current and emerging risks
at the global, regional, national and subnational levels and their implications forpoverty, vulnerability, economic growthand sustainable development;•

Analysing the distribution and differential
impacts of risk management strategies;•

Identifying strategies for building resilience
in relation to risks in areas ranging fromclimate, extreme weather events andgeophysical hazards, to infrastructure
investment, urbanisation, rural livelihoods
and disasters;•

Developing analytical frameworks that
explore the inequalities in the distributionof risk and risk management capabilities.

•

Building Resilience and Adaptation to
Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED)The role of multilateral climate funds insupporting resilience and adaptation throughinsurance initiatives Lena Weingartner, Alice
Caravani and Pablo Suarez•

How does resilience change over time?
Tracking post-disaster recovery using mobile
phone surveys Lindsey Jones, Paola Ballon
and Johannes von Engelhardt

Ms. Emma Lovell
E-mail: e.lovell@odi.org.uk

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Pathways to Resilience in Semi-arid
Economies (PRISE)••

Unlockingclimate-resilient
economic development in drylands:
pathways to a resilient world Eva
Ludi, Erin Roberts, Rebecca Nadin,
Margherita Calderone, Rajeshree
Sisodia, Guy Jobbins and Nathalie
Nathe‘Leaving no one behind’ throughenabling climate-resilient economic
development in dryland regions
Guy Jobbins, Eva Ludi, Margherita
Calderone, Rajeshree Sisodia,
Moizza B. Sarwar•

EVENT: PRISE
Futures 2018•

EVENT: PRISE at the United
Nations High-Level Political Forumon Sustainable Development

at•

Disability inclusion and disasterrisk reduction: overcoming barriers
to progress John Twigg, Maria Kettand Emma Lovell•

Disaster Risk Reduction andviolent conflict in Africa and Arabstates: implications for the Sendai
Framework priorities Katie Petersand Laura E.R. Peters•'Leave no one behind' index 2018
Marcus Manuel, Francesca Grandi,
Stephanie Manea, Amy Kirbyshire
and Emma Lovell•

Towardsamoreresilient
Caribbean
after
the
2017
hurricanes Emily Wilkinson

Adaptation

Other Publications••

Meeting the global challenge ofadaptationbyaddressing
transboundary
climaterisk
Magnus Benzie, Kevin M. Adams,
Erin
Roberts,
Alexandre
K.
Magnan, Åsa Persson, Rebecca
Nadin, Richard J.T. Klein, Katy
Harris and Sébastien Treyer

Oher Events•

Building resilient food systems andvalue chains through financial
services COP24 in Katowice•

Exploring transboundary climate
risks and opportunities COP24 in
Katowice•

Disaster risk reduction in fragile
and conflict affected contexts ODI

Forecastinghazards,
averting
disasters: implementing forecastbased early action at scale Emily
Wilkinson,
Lena
Weingartner,
Richard
Choularton,
MeghanBailey, Martin Todd, Dominic
Kniveton and Courtenay Cabot
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Africa—Members
Algeria

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
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University for Development Studies (UDS)
Ghana
http://www.uds.edu.gh
Research Theme 1: Biodiversity, Ecosystems
and Agro ecological Systems
Undertaking research within the larger context of
the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
framework at the local level by deepening theunderstanding of biodiversity and ecosystemservice inter-linkages especially through local
knowledge.
Addressing the disruptive changes in agricultural
systems by focusing on the understanding ofdrivers of change, impact assessments,
adaptation management and value chain
management.
The University for Development Studies(UDS) reports on activities of the
Kazuhiko
TakeuchiCentrefor
Sustainability and Resilience (KTCSR)
which was established as a research,development and extension centre forissues of sustainability and resilience toclimate and ecosystem change in 2017.
The Centre has since continued with
dissemination engagements with various
stakeholders on strategies for enhancing
resilience against climate and ecosystemchanges in Africa through workshops andpeer review journal article publications:• In collaboration with United Nations
University
Institutefor
NaturalResources in Africa UNU-INRA, theCentre has secured a 3-year funding
from USAID to carry out joint researchwith Hophoubouny University in Cote
D’ivoire on Fresco Coastal landscapes
under the West Africa Biodiversity andClimate Change Project (WA BiCC).

Research
Theme
2:
Water
Systems
Management and Disaster Risk Reduction
Focusing on research geared towards theholistic understanding of climate risks andadaptation planning.
Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Addressing thecomplexities, material flows, inter-linkages,
synergies and trade-offs among water, energy
and food sectors in both rural and urban areas ofAfrica.
Seeking funding support for research into coping
measures for annual flooding of the Volta River
Basin for recommendation to Government of
Ghana and local communities.
Research Theme 3: Capacity Development andPolicy Research
Undertake policy driven research on Sustainable
Development Goals and capacity development(i.e. through trainings and short courses) tailoredto the human resource needs of the African
continent. This thematic group is also working on
a postgraduate program in Disaster Risks
Reduction (DRR)• The Centre has secured support fromthe UNDP adaptation fund tocollaborate with an NGO, ProNET
North
inupscalingtheadoptionoflocally
constructed improved mudcookstove by sheabutter and foodprocessors across the three northern
Regions.
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Dr. Godfred Jasaw
Director
Email: gjasaw@uds.edu.gh

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Faculty of Sciences and Technics ofMohamadia, University of Hassan IIof Casablanca, Morocco
https://www.fstm.ac.ma/

1

A Moroccan delegation made a visit
to DRPI and GADRI on 12 to 16 ofMarch, 2018. The main outcomes ofthis visit are:•

MOU signing between Faculty of
SciencesandTechnics
ofMohamadia - Morocco (FSTM) and
DRPI during the visit of the
Moroccan Delegates to Kyoto
University,•

Giving the 'Morocco Seminar' at
DRPI on 13 of March, 2018•

Participating in GADRI Forum
where the Moroccan delegation
gave a presentation entitled " AnOverview
on
Disaster
RiskManagement and Research in
Morocco", at DRPI, 14 March,
2018.

Prof. Dalila Loudyi
Email: Loudyi.d@gmail.com

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2 Organized the 4th International Symposium on
Flash Floods 2018 in Casablanca, Morocco,
in collaboration with GADRI and DRPI, 6-8 ofDecember, 2018. This year edition was
about: " Urban Flood Risk Management:
Mitigation and Adaptation Measures in the
MENA Region". The event gathered morethan 150 participants from different countries(Algeria, Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Germany,
Japan, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia,
Sudan, Taiwan, USA).

3. Meeting with high officials at the Moroccan
Ministry of
Equipment, Transportation,
Logistics and Water for the "Promotion ofTechnical and Financial Support by Japan for
Serious Problems of Dam Reservoir
Sedimentation in Morocco", 07 December,
2018

Participation at GADRI Forum

4th International Symposium on Flash Floods

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Africa Alliance for Disaster Risk Institutions (AADRI),
Bindura University, Zimbabwe
https://www.aadri.org.zw/

Prof Manatsa (far right) with colleagues during one of the field trip to revisit
the agro-ecological regions of Zimbabwe which have been affected byclimate change.
Africa Alliance for Disaster Risk Institution(AADRI) which is a member of GADRI, wasformed recently as a collaborative platform forengaging discussion, sharing knowledge andpromoting networks on topics related to risk
reduction and resilience to disasters related to
Africa. The interim chairman who coordinated
AADRI formation is by Prof. Manatsa from Bindura
University of Science Education. Bindura
University is one of the few institutions outside
South Africa, with Disaster Research that is very
active to the extent that it has disaster relateddegree programs from undergraduate to PhD
level. Although AADRI activities are currently
confined to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia andMalawi, the aim is to spread regionally to cover
the whole of Africa. The following are the activities
and projects related to AADRI during the reporting
period:••AADRI is engaged in the flood mapping
exercise in the Zambezi Valley for which
encompasses
Zambia,Zimbabwe
andMozambique•

AADRI is involved in the distribution of food forchildren in drought affected areas.

•

AADRI is spearheading coming up with the
Climate Change National Adaptation Plans for
Zimbabwe.

AADRI is participating in the revisiting the
Zimbabwe Agro-Ecological Zones whose
traditional boundaries have been shifted byclimate change.

Prof. Desmond Manatsa
Email: dmanatsa@gmail.com

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Distributing food to children in drought affected areas of Mashonaland Province of Zimbabwe

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Geographical Distribution of

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Members of GADRI as of 31 December 2018

simplifying IT
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GADRI Secretariat, Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University

GADRI SECRETARIAT

Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
Gokasho, Uji-shi, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Tel: +81-774-38-4651
E-mail: secretariat-gadri@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Website: http://gadri.net/

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