Tokio Marine Group

Tokio Marine Group is a global insurance group that continuously works to solve various social issues through business activities and raise the group’s corporate value for all our stakeholders, including future generations. Since origins of the group lie in natural disaster-prone Japan, with expertise in natural disaster protection and mitigation, Tokio Marine group designated ‘Disaster resilience’ and ‘Climate action’ as priority issues to realize a sustainable society where everyone can live safely and securely.

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APRU x IRIDeS Multi-Hazards Summer School 2015

11th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium, University of the Philippines 2015

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2nd Multi-Hazards Summer School 2014

June 22, 2014

Multi-Hazards

APRU Multi-Hazards Summer School Resumed In-person Trainings in 2023 at Tohoku University

August 20, 2023

Multi-Hazards

20th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium Advances Resilience Across the Asia Pacific

December 5, 2025

Higher Education in the Asia Pacific

APRU on Bloomberg: APRU Readies for Looming Book Launch with Springer on Safety and Resilience of Higher Educational Institutions

June 28, 2022

Multi-Hazards

Partnering for a less hazardous planet: Interview with Professor John Rundle

January 16, 2013

Multi-Hazards

Multi-Hazard Data Science Workshop Report

September 18, 2019

APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium 2021 Strengthens Preparedness for Future Disaster Management

December 15, 2021

Multi-Hazards

9th APRU Multi-Hazards Summer School offers insights into post-disaster recovery in Fukushima

September 23, 2024

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The 16TH APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium 2021: Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Disaster Resilience

December 2, 2021

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19th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium aimed at transforming past lessons into resilient futures with innovation

November 1, 2024

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APRU-IRIDeS Multi-Hazards Program 2014 Summer School Report

The 2014 summer school entitled “Prepare for high impact disasters: towards the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction” was organized on July 22–25, 2014 at Tohoku University and attended by 47 participants from seven countries. This year’s summer school consisted of a seminar with a series of presentations as well as group discussions on campus safety and regional priorities in DRR. A field trip was also conducted to Kesennuma City, which was very severely affected by the 2011 disaster.

APRU-IRIDeS Multi-Hazards Program Campus Safety Report 2015

Multi-Hazards Program Report 2020

For more information about the Multi-Hazards Program, please visit https://apru.org/programs/pacific-rim-challenges/multi-hazards/.

APRU-IRIDeS Multi-Hazards Program 2016 Summer School Report

The 4th APRU-IRIDeS Multi-Hazards Summer School, organised by the APRU Multi-Hazards Program and hosted by the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University was held in Sendai from 19 to 22 July 2016.

30 Innovations for Disaster Risk Reduction

Developed by a group of individuals from the International Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University, Keio University, the University of Tokyo, the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), and Church World Service (CWS) Japan in collaboration with the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Multi-Hazards Program, this publication features 30 innovations for DRR including products and approaches.

The volume is a response from the world of academia to the Sendai Framework’s call for the promotion of scientific research and to support the application of science and technology in decision-making.

30 Innovations: Linking DRR with SDGs

This publication entitled “30 Innovations linking DRR with SDGs” is the second volume in the “30 Innovations” series, and includes an additional 30 innovations focusing on 10 sectors— Emergency response, Gender, Health, Agriculture, Water, Children, Education, Disabilities, Livelihood, and Early warning—to demonstrate the strong association between DRR and SDGs. These 10 sectors were selected following detailed discussions by a group of experts in DRR, taking into consideration the 17 SDGs.

Similar to the first volume, another survey was conducted on the most effective DRR innovations, which received 200 responses from academia, governments, the private sector, NGOs, and international and regional organizations. The innovation that was selected as the most effective from the 30 listed items in this publication was “Ecosystem-based DRR” under the “Livelihood” section. The outcome shows that we should consider how to maintain or channel these existing ideas, instead of focusing on developing expensive new technologies that require complicated procedures to apply.

A first volume “30 Innovations for Disaster Risk Reduction” was released at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in Geneva in May 2019. Find out more information here.

APRU-IRIDeS Multi-Hazards Program 2017 Summer School Report

The 5th APRU Multi-Hazards Summer School was held at Tohoku University on July 18-21, 2017. Nearly 40 participants from 10 countries participated in the event to learn the lessons learnt and experience from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, the recovery efforts in the affected areas and discuss the contribution of academia in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).

New Journal: Progress in Disaster Science

Progress in Disaster Science is an open-access Journal that aims to report on the substantial progress in disaster research field for the purpose of better integrating disaster research and policy.

APRU-IRIDeS Campus Safety Workshop Report 2018

APRU-IRIDeS Multi-Hazards Program Campus Safety Workshop 2018: Building Disaster Resistant Universities: Is Your University Ready for the Next Natural Disaster?

April 3-5, 2018, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

APRU Multi-Hazards Program Brochure

The main objectives of the Multi-Hazards Program are to harness the collective capacities of APRU Universities for cutting-edge research on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and to contribute to international policy-making discussions to steadily improve DRR.

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