【Conference】2020 Master Forum Series – Gordon McBean

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Presenter: Dr. Gordon McBean
Theme: Rebuilding from COVID-19 to Achieve Global Agenda 2030
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Time: 10 am (Taipei time, UTC+8)
Venue: On Cisco Webex
Registration Form: https://reurl.cc/r8Rl5E
Organizer: Center for Sustainability Science, Academia Sinica

Introduction:
Our planet Earth is presently being impacted by a global corona virus and governments are addressing it in many ways. There is an opportunity now to build upon global scientific expertise crossing the span of Global Agenda 2030 – Climate Agreement, Sendai Framework, Sustainable Development and related issues – to bring together an integrated, transdisciplinary scientific partnerships and international research programs to respond and recover from COVID-19 through strategic approaches that also address the Global Agenda. For example, the science within the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk program brings together the characterization of hazards, vulnerability and risk in an integrated way, leading to effective decision making in complex and changing risk contexts, including societies respond so that there are governmental led knowledge-based actions to reduce risk and curb losses, across the full Agenda.

In order to address this issue and to share insight, IRDR ICoE-Taipei starts a Master Forum Series. It is our great honor to have Dr. Gordon McBean as our first keynote speaker.

Professor Gordon McBean, CM, OOnt, PhD, FRSC was the President of the International Council for Science and Co-Chair of the Governing Council for Future Earth: Research for Global Sustainability. He is a Professor at Western University, London, Canada and with the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction and the Centre for Environment and Sustainability. He was a member of the IUGG Bureau (1987-95), Chair (1985-87) Canadian National Committee for the IUGG (and member,1980-87) and Chair, National Organizing Committee for IUGG 1987 [Vancouver, over 4,000 participants]. He is Advisory Board Member of the IUGG Union Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GRC) (2011- ). Additionally, he has been Chair of the World Climate Research Programme (1988-94), START (2009-15) and the Scoping Group, Planning Committee and then Science Committee for the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Program (2005-2011).