R.Klein_IRDRConference2014_Davos

Rüdiger Klein, Executive Director, IRDR
RADI - Chinese Academy of Sciences
IDRC V – Davos - 9 August 2014

IRDR co-sponsored by ICSU – ISSC – UNISDR
hosted at RADI (Chinese Academy of Sciences) through CAST & MOST
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IRDR bodies and networks: incl. Core and Collaborative Projects,
Fellows Networks, National and Regional Committees, International
Centres of Excellence, global secretariat and Science Committee.
Research Foci:
- AIRDR: Assessing and making useable the integrated science of DRR
- DATA: Characterising natural hazards and socio-economic losses as
constitutive for disasters (connecting relevant datasets)
- FORIN: Exploring root causes of disasters and refining in-depth
analysis of vulnerabilities (combining all fields of science & practice)
- RIA: Improving understanding of the practices of risk interpretation,
and communication, and of processes that can enhance the use of
useable knowledge in Integrated Disaster Risk Science

IRDR Conference 2014 Parameters
Objectives:
Take stock of IRDR research advances, capacity building and
enhance links with related research, action & policy initiatives
• Shared sessions in situ with related programmes: World
Landslide Forum; FutureEarth; Big Data Symposium
• Twice the number and much more diverse profiles of
participants compared to 2011 conference
• Strong intersectorial mix (incl. parliamentarians, NGO’s,
private sector, public admin.)
• Global representation (incl. new cohort of early career
scientists: CAS, TWAS, ICSU, ISSC fellows etc)
• Overwhelmingly interdisciplinary presentations: socio-economic,
cultural, natural, engineering, health sciences
• Multiple offers for special issues from impact journals

Call for IRDR papers produced rich mix of sessions :
• Translating science into action
• Assessing risk
• Community disaster reduction
• Risk Interpretation and Action
(RIA)
• Empowering Local Officials
• Risk Reduction and Sustainable
Development
• Integrated Risk Sciences
• Forensic Investigations of
Disasters (FORIN)
• Risk Reduction Planning
• The Role of Science in the
2015 Agenda
• Water and Disasters
• Science and National Politics
IRDR Conference 2014
Integrated Disaster Risk Science: A Tool for Sustainability
Beijing, China, 7-9 June 2014
• Indigenous and Vulnerable
Populations
• Capacity Building
• Science and the Post 2015
agenda
• Risk Indexing
• The gap between disaster
knowledge, policy and practice
• Data and technology
• Science and the Media
• Resiliency and Reconstruction
• Communications and the Media
• Meteorological issues
• Disaster risk and space
technology
• Data for Disaster Risk Science

World Social Science RIA Fellows invited
(following a seminar held in New Zealand in 2013)
to identify cross-cutting debates, to help shape
future research and action agendas
for integrated approaches / building bridges

Key emerging (and recurring) themes
• Different types of knowledge
• Risk assessment / indexing
• Water
• Science, decision making and
communication
• Science and Uncertainty
• Data and Technology
• Importance of scale: time,
geographic, scope
• Government, policy and planning
• Political drivers for science
• Local communities
• Risk reduction, mitigation and
planning
• Relocation / reconstruction /
recovery
• National, international networks
• Education
• Media
Integrated approaches needed
to bridge gaps between
- Scientific fields and datasets
- Science, policy and practice
- Diverse knowledge domains
- Different geographic and
governance levels

Integrating different types of knowledge in DRR
planning and implementation
• How to co-produce effective and actionable insights
with science and local / indigenous knowledge
(incl. gendered approaches)?
Integrated risk assessments / indexes / maps
• How to achieve holistic risk assessments that include
social vulnerability indices at high resolution (such as
sub-national, local, community levels) ?

Integrating sustainability and disaster risk awareness: water
• How to best translate the understanding of dynamics in
environmental degradation, demography and other socio-economic
factors into effective risk governance dealing
with primary and secondary hazards (water, drought and
floods, food security, migration and megacities)

Integrated risk science, decision making and communication
• How can narratives, data sets and models better reflect and
respond to the concerns of end-users, stakeholders, policy-makers
(incl. translatable terminology)?
Integrated risk science facing uncertainty
• How to build an ethics of risk interpretation and
communication (transparency of process and data)?
Integrating data sets and new technologies
• How to optimise costs and practices of making compatible
and sharable the growing bodies of DRR-relevant, but
unconnected datasets, all of diverse provenance and
authority?

Integrating scales for DRR: time, geography, scope
• How to reconcile higher degrees of uncertainty and lower
information granularity in long-term and supra-local
approaches with needs of accurate, localised predictions
and prevention (costs, governance of planning and
decision-making, responsibilities for resilience and
recovery)
Integrating levels of government, policy-making and planning
• How to best interconnect different geographic domains of
knowledge (global, national, local etc) to impact policy-making
and planning at all levels (use of case studies,
narratives, emotions, informal networks etc)?

Integrating knowledge about political drivers for science
• How to better factor in the political pressures resulting
from disaster events that affect the science – policy -
community interface (incl. controversies surrounding
scientific policy advice)?
Integrating local communities into DRR methodologies
• How to leverage the localised nature of disasters to
empower communities for resilience-building measures
that reflect and draw strength from cultural norms, and
improve early warning systems (citizen science)?

Integrating risk reduction, mitigation and planning
• How to best move from managing disasters to managing
risks (complex notion of cost-effectiveness and of
preventive priority-setting in multi-risk environments:
extreme events vs. frequent, small-scale, slow-onset)?
Integrating risks and opportunities into recovery planning
• How can recovery become an opportunity for positive
social change in risk awareness (ex.: framing relocation
plans by including socio-economic context and history)?
Integrating communities of practice
• How best to harness formal and informal peer networks
among scientists, communities, businesses, policy-/ law-
/decision-makers, at all levels (local, national, internat.)
for advisory purposes and transformative DRM practices?

Integrative approaches to education
• How to enhance DRR literacy among present and future
citizens and decision-makers (community approach,
involving and creating local DRR knowledge; capacity
building, at all levels from pre-school to higher education;
professionalization: specific skills training)
Integrating the Media into DRR strategies
• How best to use the power of the media to enhance DRR
awareness (highlight political obligations; translate
science for citizens; involve in prevention debate and
emergency planning)?

Integrated approaches towards useful, useable & used DRR science:
• Advance integrated risk
management at all levels, local
through to global
• Promote best practice and tools to
support integrated collaborations
• Advocate participatory / inclusive /
co-responsible approaches of all
sectors and actors (incl. Sci &Tech);
• Expand community engagement
(knowledge co-production; capacity
building; case studies)
UNISDR STAG and IRDR Conference call for success stories

IRDR Conference debates London Statement: An International Scientific
Advisory Mechanism on Disaster Risk Reduction to Strengthen Resilience

The “London statement” suggests
• producing periodic reports on current and future disaster risks and on
efforts to manage such risks at global, regional, national and local
scales.
• monitoring progress toward internationally-agreed targets for reducing
disaster losses and building resilience to disasters.
• providing guidance on terminology, methodologies and standards for
risk assessments, risk modelling, taxonomies and the use of data.
• convening stakeholders to identify and address demands for scientific
research, information and evidence on disaster risk and resilience.
• enhancing the communication of complex scientific information and
evidence to support the decision-making of policy makers and other
stakeholders.

IRDR Conference 2014: Integrating DRR into SDG and CCA processes
March 2015: post-2015 framework for (HFA 2)
Sept. 2015: Sustainable development goals
Dec. 2015: Climate change agreements through (UNFCCC)

DRR, SDG’s and Climate Change Adaptation
Achievements:
• DRR embedded in IPCC process (SREX Report 2012)
• ICSU-IRDR pioneering role in UN Open Working Group
“Sustainable Development Goals” (2013/2014)
• ICSU-IRDR lead Major Group Science & Technology (2014)
during preparatory phase / Geneva PrepCom’s for Sendai:
link DRR – SDG – CCA included in Plenary Statement
Challenges:
• Need to better articulate DRR among mitigating strategies
in SDG language and documents (e.g.: emphasis on
systems of education and health care)
• Achieve better recognition of HFA (& HFA2) among the
global partnerships for sustainable development

Preview: IRDR Japan / Tokyo Conference on International
Study for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience, Jan.2015
Objectives:
• Take stock of / review research agenda of
integrated approaches to DRR
(incl.: search for root causes; quest for resilience)
• Articulate role of S&T under HFA2
• Also: promote inclusion of S&T informed DRR / prevention
approaches as part long-term development investments
Opportunities:
• Showcase relevance of S&T in strengthening DRR policies
(incl. for advice, assessments, benchmarking, monitoring)
• Still time to register:
http://monsoon.t.u-
Tokyo.ac.jp/AWCI/TokyoSDRRR_Jan2014.index.htm

Preview: IRDR Consultative Fora and Networking 2014/2015
Objectives:
• Establish sustained dialogue with all stakeholders and
UN(ISDR) Major Groups on role of S&T in advancing DRR
(incl.: search for root causes; quest for resilience)
• Translate principles on role of S&T into concrete actions
under HFA2 (joint commitments?)
Opportunities:
• Express interest well before end of PrepCom process
(planned pre-meeting on Monday, 29 Sept., Paris)
• Partner for joint public fora at Sendai (deadline!)
contact@irdrinternational.org

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