Mission
The Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management (ADREM) was founded at Beijing Normal University (BNU) by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Education (MOE) of China in 2006. Its mission is to conduct high quality scientific research in disaster prevention and reduction to support government decision making processes. To date, ADREM has become the country’s research base and education center for disaster reduction and risk governance, emergency management and response, and environmental change and resource ecology.
ADREM consists of two laboratories and 6 field experiment bases which are used to not only support domestic policy making processes but also help the international research, application and training activities on natural disasters, natural resources, and global climate change issues. ADREM has natural disaster science and natural resource science as its pillar disciplines, and engages in research and education in integrated disaster prevention and reduction, risk governance, rational and efficient use of natural resources, patterns of and adaptation to global environmental change, and earth observation technologies within the disciplines of physical geography, natural resource science, global environmental change, geographic information science, disaster risk science, disaster prevention and reduction engineering, and geographical information technology.
- To achieve advances in risk research by focusing on a specific phenomenon through a series of comparative case studies, ADREM is currently hosting a ten-year international cooperative research project - IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project, which was launched in Beijing, China on May 10 2011 for the purpose of improving the management and governance of new risks that exceed current human coping capacities.
- To better improve our understanding of crises in socio-ecological systems and practices of integrated risk governance worldwide, IRG Project coordinates 6 research themes, i.e., Socio-ecological Systems, Entry and Exit Transitions, Early Warning Systems, Models and Modeling, Comparative Case Studies, and Governance and Paradigms.
Voluntary Commitments
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.