Under the DBAR framework, CAS-TWAS Centre of Excellence on Space Technology for Disaster Mitigation (SDIM), jointly with Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) International Programme Office (IPO), IRDR China National Committee (IRDR CHINA), Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), and International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) conduct an international research programme and DBAR Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DBAR-Disaster) is formed to strengthen science capacities for sustainable development and disaster risk reduction, starting from year 2016. In May 2017, SDIM published a joint paper on Challenges of Disaster Risk Reduction in the Belt and Road at the Special Issue of the Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences including 16 authors from 14 countries.

Joint paper on Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences