The Earth Bites Back – Professor Bill McGuire’s Lunch Hour Lecture
Can climate transitions trigger potentially hazardous geological responses such as tsunamis, landslides, earthquakes and volcanic activity? It would appear so. UCL alumna Mel Green reports from...
View ArticleCNN’s Earth’s Frontiers – The Nuclear Debate
Mel Green, UCL alumna, reports on the event hosted by UCL in collaboration with CNN’s Earth’s Frontiers on 11 April to debate the motion: Nuclear energy remains the best option for powering our future....
View ArticleBill’s Hay Festival blog
Professor Bill McGuire, UCL Earth Sciences Literary festivals are always fantastic experiences; brimful of excitement, debate, discussion and the simple fun of meeting and interacting with a remarkable...
View ArticleGender and disasters: what causes the risk gap?
Written by Dr Joanna P Faure Walker, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. On Friday 8 March 2013, the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction hosted an open panel discussion on ‘Gender...
View ArticleThe way we cope with disasters is a disaster
A careful listener at David Alexander’s inaugural lecture, ‘Around the world in 80 disasters’ (7 October), might have been excused a hint of cognitive dissonance – his tone was consistently humourous...
View ArticleRisk and resilience in Japan after the Fukushima disaster
There is no amount of concrete that could have kept people safe from the 2011 Japanese tsunami – and in any case, the height of the wave could never have been predicted. But learning the right lessons...
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