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Centre for Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS)
The Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS) is an interdisciplinary research centre in Sweden that brings together early career scientist and leading researchers from engineering, social and earth sciences to work together on collaborative projects on natural hazards, social vulnerability, and societal security. It is a joint initiative between Uppsala University, Karlstad University and Swedish Defence University. The centre was founded in 2010 by senior fellows coordinated by Professor Emeritus Sven Halldin, Uppsala University.

CNDS’s mission is to carry out work that promotes a deeper understanding on how human-nature systems and reciprocal feedback mechanisms between natural hazards and socio-technical vulnerability are coupled. Its other missions are to advance disaster risk reduction and contribute to enhancing society’s ability to prevent and cope with natural hazard risks in the national and international context.

CNDS is governed by its board, under the leadership of Director Giuliano Di Baldassarre and Co-Director Malin Göteman. The centre has a management group of leading researchers actively involved in the centre that provides input to the scientific development. CNDS also has a reference group that provides a link between government authorities, private companies, community organizations, including members from the Swedish Civil Contingency Agencies (MSB), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute Research (SMHI), and Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI). Together, CNDS and its reference group secure a meaningful and fruitful exchange between policy and decision makers, practitioners, and researchers so that research results are shared and that issues in need of more research are identified.

Over 70 international research fellows are affiliated with CNDS, of which 25 are active early career scientists (postdocs and PhD candidates). CNDS also has a thriving doctoral training programme, with over 30 PhD students who have successfully completed their doctoral studies since CNDS was established in 2010. The centre also contributes to the international educational curricula of disaster risk reduction through its international research summer school for early career scientists, primarily doctoral students, an annual event since 2018 that is supported by the European Geosciences Union (EGU). By organizing the biannual conference Forum for Natural Hazards and Disasters, CNDS has created a meeting place that facilitates an open dialogue with practitioners and other societal actors who also have a sincere interest in reducing the risks and consequences of natural hazards and disasters.