Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service (DRR) team visited Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences of UNESCO at France from Sep. 16 to Sep. 19, 2018.
Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service (DRR) team visited Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences of UNESCO at France from Sep. 16 to Sep. 19, 2018.
Prof. Juanle Wang, the executive leader of DRR of IKCEST, reported the progress of DRR since its launch on May 30, 2017, including disaster metadata standard, global disaster metadata aggregation, disaster scientific data set, expert database, institution database, thematic knowledge application, training videos, etc., then introduced the highlight work of DRR in exploring the mining and utilization of network disaster big data, expanding international and domestic expert research network, carrying out international training and seminars continuously, and actively submitting technical reports on disaster risk reduction to UNISDR and IRDR, etc. A thematic introduction was given to the Second International Workshop for Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service scheduled to be held on Oct. 20, 2018 in Beijing. At the end of report, Prof. Wang also briefly introduced the plans to strengthen the development of disaster risk reduction knowledge service data and product of "One Belt And One Road" area.
Miguel Clusene-Godt, the director of Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences and Soichiro Yasukawa, program specialist of UNESCO DRR, were pleasure that the DRR team members were very attentive and made great progress, and expressed gratitude to the DRR team. The participants conducted in-depth and detailed discussions on the Second International Workshop for Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service and the schedule of post-conference visitation, the practical case collection of disaster prevention and reduction with local context, user demand research, DRR international cooperation, DRR future planning, etc., and finally formed a series of good consensus. Dr. Liu Chang, Director of division of international cooperation, IKCEST joined the exchange.
In order to implement the achievements of this visit, the DRR team has drawn up the next step plan, which will promote the construction of DRR and further enhance its influence in UNESCO.
Provided by the IKCEST Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System
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