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I have heard a lot about the African Centre for Disaster Studies (ACDS) of North-West University want details about this center. Can you provide me list of fields and areas in which programs offered by this ACDS departments also provide address and contacts of ACDS?

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The African Centre for Disaster Studies (ACDS) was established in January 2002 at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (now North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus within the School of Social and Government Studies.

The Centre was moved to the Research Focus Area: Sustainable Social Development (now called Social Transformation) within the Faculty of Arts, in October 2006

The ACDS included the following subsections of members:

Core Centre Staff
Faculty Associates
National Associates
International Associates
Ph.D Candidates

The ACDS team are actively pursuing a research agenda in the following areas:

Resilience and anticipation;
Climate and Beliefs;
Climate change adaptation;
Gender and disaster risk reduction;
Drought and veld fires in the South African context;
Eco-disaster risk reduction; and
Governance of disaster risk reduction.


Contact:

North-West University
Potchefstroom Campus
11 Hoffman Street, Potchefstroom. 2531

Phone numbers:
+27 (0)18 299 1620

Email:
suna.meyer@acds.co.za