This episode talks about the importance of data for climate change risk assessment and preparing for adversity caused by Climate Change; risk levels can be assessed using vulnerability, exposure, and hazard data. Further, into the episode, the importance of quantitative and qualitative data is also discussed to ensure a holistic risk assessment. Dr. Bapon is Chair of the CODATA Task Group on FAIR-DRR. Ilan Kelman is a Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England, and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest links disasters and health, integrating climate change into both.

This episode talks about the trends of disaster activities and how the Sendai Framework is being adapted globally to monitor disaster loss and understand the risk assessment aspects of the disasters. They also discussed integrating the exposure, risk, and vulnerability data to understand the damage assessment scenarios better. Dr. Bapon is Chair of the CODATA Task Group on FAIR-DRR. Dr. Animesh works for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction as the Bonn's head of office. The UNDRR Bonn Office serves as the organization’s global facility for climate action and comprehensive risk management, disaster data, and monitoring of the Sendai Framework and SDGs.

This episode talks about the role of Social Media Data in expediting emergency relief and the challenges while ensuring effective utilization of the earth observation data and how policy frameworks are one of the driving forces for the same. Dr. Bapon is Chair of the CODATA Task Group on FAIR-DRR. Dr. Shirish Ravan works for the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna, Austria, the UN Office dedicated to global space governance and promoting peaceful uses of outer space. He implements international programs facilitating space-based technologies in achieving SDGs, especially disaster and climate resilience.

Learn about data-driven response and recovery, data coordination, historical data management, required resources, and infrastructure. Insights into policies to be adopted to use technology for better disaster prediction. Kanza is a Consultant in Global Public Health for the Global Disaster Risk Reduction and Global Health Security functions at the newly formed UK Health Security Agency. She has extensive experience in epidemiology and statistics, having graduated from the UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme (UK-FETP) in 2020. Dr. Bapon is Chair for CODATA Task group on FAIR-DRR, a trained hydrologist with 17 years of working experience in water engineering, climate, and disaster risk management. His key areas of expertise are hydrological modeling, early warning system, emergency communication, climate-proofing infrastructure, and disaster risk reduction.

This episode talks about the importance of data in hazard modeling and the challenges faced while setting up an early warning system. Dr. Bapon Fakhruddin, Technical Director, Tonkin, and Taylor from New Zealand, co-chair of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), and Jill Bolland, Principal Natural Hazard and Climate Risk Consultant, Tonkin, and Taylor, share their views on the issues related to data quality and inequality in the data distribution, and how access to open data still is a long way to go while dealing with disaster risk assessment on a global scale.

In 2021, Emergency Event Database, the global database on disasters, recorded 432 events related to natural hazards worldwide. The first episode of the podcast series on Data for Disaster Risk Reduction explores data-driven response and recovery, data coordination, management, and required resources and infrastructure. Insights into policies to be adopted to use technology for better disaster prediction. The episode has Yan Wang, Data Stewardship Coordinator at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands and Bapon Fakhruddin, Technical Director, Tonkin and Taylor, New Zealand.

The Center for Applied Geomatics (CAG), CRDF is launching another series on Data for Disaster Risk Reduction that will go in-depth into the systematic use of data for handling disasters and making decisions for post-disaster recovery. It will have 6 episodes where eminent thinkers and practitioners will engage in meaningful discussions and offer their knowledge, case studies, and solutions to mitigate disaster risks. The integral part of the series is to understand how data plays a critical role at stages of disaster management cycle - Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. CAG, CODATA and Tonkin Taylor are jointly hosting this series. The series comes after two successful series on data - Data for Resilient Cities and Data-Knowledge-Action for Urban Systems. The first episode has Professor Virginia Murray, Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction, UK Health Security Agency and Bapon Fakhruddin, Technical Director, Tonkin and Taylor. In the first episode the two speakers will discuss emerging trends in climate change, disaster risks, and the role of data. Data system dynamics, and FAIR data for risk reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and health are discussed. Role of governments for utilisation of data and how International organisations can promote awareness.

In the last episode of Data-Knowledge-Action for Urban Systems, we have Arup Dasgupta, Managing Editor, Geospatial World. The podcast takes a deep dive into the impact of data for making cities healthy and talks about urban health, climate change, and action for policymaking. The podcast series by the Center for Applied Geomatics (CAG), CRDF focused on exploring the intersections of data and its importance for urban wellbeing. Arup Dasgupta is the Managing Editor of Geospatial World magazine. He has more than 50 years of experience in satellite communications, remote sensing and Geospatial systems and applications. He has worked in the Space Applications Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for 34 years and was an adjunct faculty in CEPT University and DAIICT. He is a Life Senior Member IEEE, Fellow IETE, Fellow ISG, Life Member INCA and ISRS. He is the recipient of several national awards from professional societies.

Learn about the quality of life, data for building healthy cities, green spaces, and the impact of climate change on cities' health. Suraj Bhattarai is a public health physician and urban health researcher and a research fellow at the Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, a scientific committee member of the International Science Council’s Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme, and a regional coordinator of the ISUH’s ‘Urban health mapping and analysis project’. Keiko Nakamura, MD PhD, is the Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research and Professor of the Department of Global Health Entrepreneurship, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. She is a public health scholar with over 25 years of experience in research in health and environment in urban areas, with a particular focus on healthy cities and urban policy; determinants of health; population ageing; use of information technology in health services; public health emergencies; planetary health; and implementation science. She has worked with the global Healthy Cities movement since the 1990s.

Insights into the kind of data we use and its value, the role of data in planning cities, and how to mitigate the risk of misuse of data. Andrew Young is the Knowledge Director at The GovLab, where he leads research efforts focusing on the impact of technology on public institutions. Among the grant-funded projects he has directed are global assessment of the impact of open government data; establishing principles and practices to inform responsible handling of children’s data in humanitarian and development contexts; a methodology for leveraging corporate data to benefit the public good; and crafting the experimental design for testing the adoption of technology innovations in federal agencies.