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Ardhi and Gaston Berger Universities' Short Courses

Ardhi and Gaston Berger Universities Offering Course After Course Ardhi University’s School of Environmental Science and Technology...

Call for expressions of interest for FAO-EU project evaluation

Call for expressions of interest (EOIs) - Team Leader and members Evaluation of FAO-EU project “Establishing...

Student led Community Risk Assessment in Touws River, South Africa

Between 4 -7 May, students from RADAR’s Disaster Risk Studies course (an elective module from the...

Article of Interest: GNDR Nepal Earthquake Blog

An interesting article has been written concerning the recent earthquake in Nepal titled 'Overdevelopment and unsafe...

Article of Interest: Dire Prospects Seen When the Full Nepal Earthquake Death Toll is Tallied

An article was posted on the New York Times' website concerning the recent Nepalese earthquake's rising...

Call for applications for World social science Fellows seminar on Sustainable Urbanisation

The IRDR have put out the call for applications for World social science Fellows seminar on...

Dr Holloway representing Periperi U at the UN

23 April 2015, Dr Ailsa Holloway from Stellenbosch University South Africa, represented Periperi U as she...

Community Risk Assessment Short Course: Focus on Informal Settlements

The course, conducted biannually, focuses on strengthening community-based risk assessment capabilities in disaster-prone informal settlements. The...

19th WORLD CONGRESS ON DISASTER AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE

2015 is an important year for WCDEM, as it will be the first time that this...

Periperi U bringing the “Role of HEIs in advancing disaster risk knowledge” under spotlight at 2015 UN Conference in Japan

Periperi U is currently participating in the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction,...

New Periperi U Booklet launched

The Periperi U Consortium is proud to launch its latest publication A RISK EDUCATION NETWORK: Extending Connections Enhancing...

Community Risk Assessment Short Courses - hosted by RADAR, Stellenbosch University

CRA Short Course Flyer 2015 Winter or Summer

ORGANISATION D’UN COURS ACCELERE SUR L’UTILISATION GEOGRAPHIQUES (SIG) POUR LA GESTION DES RISQUES DE CATASTROPHES

LABORATOIRE BÂTI DANS L’ENVIRONEMENT UNIVERSITE DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE HOUARI BOUMEDIENE - USTHB FACULTE DE GENIE...

GFDRR and DFID Announce Challenge Fund

The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the UK Department for International Development...

IRDR Job Opening: Communications Officer

Current Opening: Job Title: Communications Officer [Download job opening] Office: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) International Programme Office (IPO) c/o Institute of...