IIASA at IDRiM2024

The annual conference brings together leading disaster risk management researchers with practice and policy from around the globe with the aim to promote knowledge sharing, interdisciplinary research, and the development on integrated disaster risk management approaches for eventually contributing to efficient and equitable disaster risk management implementation.

This year's conference encourages the scientific, practice and policy community to consider transformational perspectives beyond traditional risk management concepts, which seem more and more deficient in terms of well addressing emerging risks and uncertainties. As the nature of risk becomes increasingly systemic and complex, a need has been voiced to further identify what knowledge and measures are suitable for enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to “build back better” in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. This imperative and vision is shared by the host country Colombia, which has been pursuing collective responsiveness for the sustainable stewardship of ecological and social systems.

IIASA Research Group Leader Reinhard Mechler from the Systemic Risk and Reslience Group (SYRR) in ASA, as one of the founding members of the IDRiM Society, will present on "Reflections on measuring disaster resilience at community scale: lessons from applying the flood and climate resilience measurement tool".

Accompanied by the following researchers from the SYRR group:

Senior Research Scholar Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler will give a presentation on "Multi-Risk Instruments for Emergency Response: A multi-hazard and multi-risk assessment of the European Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve".

Senior Research Scholar Muneta Yokomatsu, who is a member of the Board of Directors of the society, will give an online presentation on "A simple model of the excess-of-loss insurance contract for a government in a disaster prone country".

Researcher Qinhan Zhu will give an online presentation on "Managing Sovereign Climate Risk in Vulnerable Developing Countries Smart Support Guidance for Donors and Policy Makers."