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Disaster Science ~ Crisis Management ~ Emergency Preparedness ~ Healthcare Resilience

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Time for Legislative Reform?

At the University College London Institute of Disaster and Risk Reduction (UCL IRDR) 10th Annual Conference yesterday I had the...

Jul 16, 20203 min read

A category 5 tropical cyclone sweeping across America. A 14m high tsunami crashing into the shores of Japan. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake...

Jun 10, 20203 min read

Learning our lessons Learning from incidents is a critical activity in the world of disaster management, but do we do it effectively? The...

May 14, 20204 min read

"People do not tend to find themselves living in risky places because of cosmic bad luck. Structures of power push them there.”