Disaster Risk Training for East Java Government

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Through the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership, our lab members Dr Aaron Opdyke and Grace Muir, hosted a 3-day training for 20 representatives from the East Java provincial government in Indonesia. The programme included 2 days of classroom sessions with speakers on gender and inclusion, policy design, disaster risk reduction theory, project monitoring and evaluation, and an interactive simulation in which participants played Uncertain Waters - a serious game previously developed by our lab. The programme also included from and to the New South Wales Reconstruction Authority and State Emergency Services.

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New APN Grant to Advance Flood Risk Decision-Making Under Climate Change

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The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research Collaborative Regional Research Programme has awarded funding (USD 70,000) to a team led by Dr Aaron Opdyke to build decision-making capacity for flood risk under climate change. The project “Advancing Local Flood Decision-Making for Disaster Risk Reduction” aims to transform disaster risk assessments by understanding how climate change will impact localised flood risk and unpack how these assessments can be better incorporated into local planning processes. The project team will accomplish this through an in-depth study of two catchment basins located in the Municipality of Carigara (Leyte, Philippines) and the Regency of Singkil…

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