Community announcements

How do girls and women in the USA build disaster resilience? Ask the young people in your life to explain through art or an essay. Please encourage them to enter this exciting contest marking October 13, 2012 as the International Day for Disaster Reduction, with the theme 'Women and Girls–the (in)Visible Forces of Resilience'...

IDRC Davos 2012 announced the JTI Foundation Resilience Award of CHF 175’000.- for the best project proposal on resilience increase at city or community level submitted...

Asia-Pacific cartoons depicting the effects of climate change on children, Chinese cities, the Pacific Islands and mangrove forests won a regional contest sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of France...

GRF Davos issued a call for papers to be presented in Davos. The call for abstracts is still open until 30 April 2012. Submit your proposals for oral or poster presentations, or for whole sessions and workshops...

The 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is calling for abstracts until Friday 30 March (extended). The purpose is to encourage more research on how public regulation and private investment shape disaster risk, in the context of broader changes in the global political economy...

What can we learn from studies in security to make natural hazard evacuations more effective? How do hazard mitigation efforts impact upon, for example, food security? And, how do disasters create and/or exacerbate issues areas around biosecurity, war, and conflict? ...

This call for project proposals will support the implementation of the objective of the Fund to build and enhance tsunami, disaster and climate preparedness capacities for early warning for coastal hazards...

The poster-making contest has become a venue for children to express their views and concerns on disaster-related issues and the importance of biodiversity in reducing the impact of disasters...

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) give an advance notice of a new global research call which includes a theme on disaster risk management and resilience to open on Thursday 1st September 2011...

PLoS Currents: Disasters is a new open-access publication from the Public Library of Science for the rapid communication of new research results and operational analyses derived from the study or management of all types of disasters. It will be launched in August 2011...