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The Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment (IAFE) of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznan is the only research institute in Poland engaged in integrated research into the countryside environment.
The IAFE’s research have embraced a broad range of explorative areas: climate and water resources, climate change impacts, extreme weather events, geochemical and energy cycles, biodiversity with landscape structure, economy, sociology, and sustainable development. In the last two decades, the Institute has gradually increased its involvement in different aspects of flood studies. IAFE has successfully participated in a number of national and international research projects, therein several projects related to floods. Results of the research carried out in the Institute have been presented at many national and international conferences as well as published in scientific literature.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.