About this Course This course introduces the fundamentals of Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) through real-world case studies that highlight the difficult trade-offs governments face in the aftermath of ...

St. Xavier's University has introduced a disaster risk reduction management course in collaboration with the India Japan Laboratory, Keio University. St Xavier's University has launched disaster risk ...

The Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan is organizing the 6th International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural ...

The course is an outcome of an MOU signed earlier between St Xavier’s University, Kolkata and India Japan Laboratory of Keio University, Japan Along with students, scholars, and social workers, a ...

In disaster-prone central Vietnam, community-based disaster risk management puts local villages and communities at the center of preparedness efforts. The Government of Vietnam is spending $18.5 ...

Chennai: To create awareness about disasters among students, the University Grants Commission (UGC) directed all higher education institutions to introduce a two-credit disaster risk reduction (DRR) ...

I have always been interested in how people make decisions under uncertainty—especially decisions about safety. But it was ...

World Heritage properties and heritage sites in general are exposed to the impacts of natural and man-triggered catastrophic events, which threaten their integrity and may compromise their value. The ...

According to him, the Sendai Framework, which was adopted in 2015, represents a landmark internal agreement to chart the course for global disaster risk reduction efforts. The Director-General, ...