CUDRR+R's Ebru Gencer was a panelist the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Session on Climate Change and Urban Displacement at Berlin Security Conference on September 2020. The Session moderated by IIED's…
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Seed Grant from Royal Academy of Engineers
We are very happy to announce that CUDRR+R and partners' project on "Low-carbon seismic resistant building model for Istanbul" received seed-funding from the UK Royal Academy of Engineers. We look…
Last Steering Committee Meeting of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign
CUDRR+R's Ebru Gencer attended the final Steering Committee Meeting of UNDRR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign. The Campaign which was originally launched in 2010 is moving into a new phase to…
CUDRR+R Statement on Racial Injustice and Equitable Resilience
CUDRR+R Statement on Racial Injustice and Equitable Resilience The Center for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CUDRR+R) is a non-profit research center with a mission to produce knowledge…
Right-to-Heal
Esra Akcan, CUDRR+R Board Member and Cornell University Professor of Architecture received the prestigious Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. During her time at Harvard, Akcan researched her next book project, Right-to-heal:…
Resilience Learning Module: Localizing the Sendai Framework for DRR
United Cities Local Governments (UCLG) the international organization that represents Local Governments and their Associations tasked CUDRR+R's Ebru Gencer to develop a Resilience Learning Module that will support Localization of…
Frontiers of Development: Disaster Resilience
CUDRR+R's Ebru Gencer chaired "Efficient Post-Disaster Recovery Phase that Supports Well-Being and Diversity" session at the Frontiers of Development: Disaster Resilience Symposium that took place in Istanbul during 2-4 March,…
New Article on Urban Risk Governance
Effective risk governance at the #urban scale requires participation, from decision-making to planning and implementation. Read more from Ebru Gencer, Center for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CUDRR+R) about how regional and local contexts…
CUDRR+R attended Workshop on Local-Level Data at University College London
CUDRR+R attended Workshop on Urban Resilience Metrics for Policy Action organized by the Bartlett Development Unit at University College London in September 26-27, 2019. The aim of this meeting was…
UCCRN Session at the UN Climate Summit
CUDRR+R participated at the Urban Climate Change Research Network's (UCCRN) Science for 1.5 Degrees Session during the #climatesummit and at its strategic meeting at the Roosevelt House, joining the discussion on how…