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Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Time: 11:00 a.m.- Noon (Taipei time, UTC+8)
Venue: On Cisco Webex & YouTube Live (Link will be sent after registration)
Speaker: Dr. John Handmer
Title: A Framework for Global Risk Science: Priorities, Production and Debates
Organizer: IRDR ICoE-Taipei
Registration Form: https://forms.gle/mudPiaM8PJxAeu2GA
Contact: Dr. Yi-Chun Lin, yclin2020@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Introduction:
As Senior Research Scholar at IIASA (Vienna), Dr. John Handmer is Emeritus Professor with the RMIT School of Science, an Honorary Professorial Fellow with Geography, University of Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Social Science Academy. He chaired the Scientific Committee of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Program of ISC (International Council of Science and the UNDRR) in 2019-2020, and has recently been on a number of Australian advisory bodies.
The International Science Council, UN Disaster Risk Reduction office and the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk have developed and published a new “Framework for global science in support of risk-informed sustainable development and planetary health”. This project is in the form of a set of research priorities developed in response to the changing global risk landscape, with supporting material and a discussion on implementation.
To help meet these challenges disaster risk reduction needs to be reimagined with much broader reach into climate change adaptation and mitigation and the Sustainable Development Goals.  The need now is to maximize the effect that risk science can have in changing the future towards better outcomes with stakeholders working collaboratively across sectors, disciplines and types of knowledge. 
In the Master Forum, Dr. John Handmer will examine the Framework from three perspectives:  

• Priorities: what are the research priority areas?
• Production: how were these arrived at? The process used to develop the document and the research priority areas; and
• Debates: what issues and debates of a substantive and philosophical nature arose during the development of the framework?

Speaker:
Dr. John Handmer is a Senior Research Scholar at IIASA (Vienna), an Emeritus Professor with the RMIT School of Science, an Honorary Professorial Fellow with Geography, University of Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Social Science Academy. He chaired the Scientific Committee of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Program of ISC (International Council of Science and the UNDRR) in 2019-2020, and has recently been on a number of Australian advisory bodies. These include climate change adaptation, disaster risk and resilience, and the National Vulnerability Profile project.  His research group at RMIT was one of 20 cases nationally selected for its impact on policy and practice by the Excellence in Innovation for Australia 2014 report. He received the 2016 RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Research Award for Impact for his and his colleagues’ work on the human dimensions of disaster risk. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow at the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and in 2019 was nominated as the country’s top researcher in Emergency Management by the Australian Research Magazine.