Abstract: Main research progresses made by the disaster risk team at Beijing Normal University in the past 33 years are reviewed, main challenges are analyzed, future research trends and mainstream areas are identified．Major contributions made include works in regional natural disaster system theory, comprehensive disaster reduction and disaster risk governance research, major natural disaster assessment and national disaster reduction planning, initiating and organizing international core scientific plan of “Integrated Risk Governance”．Imperfect discipline system, insufficient academic leaders, small research team and weak integration of experimental platforms are major challenges．Global and national disaster prevention and mitigation, integrated risk governance, green development and sustainability need to be addressed urgently．We will need to strive for major breakthroughs in regional disaster damage mechanism and dynamic simulation, accurate risk assessment of changing global population and economic system, and modelling multi-disaster (especially carbon emission) risk mitigation．We will strive to lead global disaster risk science, to build a world-class discipline of geography．