Canadian’s implements towards the Sendai Framework

The 6th Annual National Roundtable on Disaster Risk Reduction was held in Calgary, Alberta on November 2 and 3. Based on the United Nations’ Sendai Framework 2015-2030, this roundtable gathered professionals in the fields of disaster risk reduction and crisis management to decipher Canadian implements towards the Sendai Framework in order to chart the future...

From October 21-23, 2015, Dr. Wu attended the 8th Biennial Settlement Conference organized by Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies, in Edmonton, AB, Canada. A number of federal and provincial governmental organizations, immigrant servicing agencies, community service agencies and other related organizations within the province of Alberta and throughout Canada convened and shared their research,...

“Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster” International Partnership Research Team Met in Vienna, Austria, July 11-12, 2015 The members of the “Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster” research team met in Vienna, Austria from July 11-12, 2015. This international partnership research project, concentrating on rebuilding people’s lives in the post-disaster scenario, will be concluded by the end of March 2016. This...

Research Team Revisited the Wenchuan Earthquake Epicenter in September, 2015 Seven years after the Wenchuan earthquake, in September, 2015, the principle investigator Professor Chaoping Hou (left) and co-investigator Dr. Haorui Wu (right) led their research team to revisit the town of Yinxiu (the epicenter of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake) and other communities in the worst-hit...

The First Annual Meeting of the Alberta Resilient Communities Research Project The first annual meeting of Alberta Resilient Communities Research Project: Engaging Children and Youth in Community Resilience Post-Flood in Southern Alberta was held on September 17, 2015, at the Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Based on the 2013 flood that took place...

The research findings of a report, entitled “Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Social Planning and Social Recovery”, which comes from the project, “Enhancement of the Community’s Resilience Against Emergency Events” was presented at the 2015 Canadian Association for Social Work Education – Association canadienne pour la formation en travail social (CASWE-ACFTS) annual conference, which took place at the...

Research team presented a poster at the Alberta College of Social Works 2015 Annual conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada The Project of “Rebuilding Lives Post-Disaster” brings together an international research team to investigate the social, economic and gender impacts of the reconstruction efforts. This study has shown that there is much to learn about how...