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Sunday, October 30, 2016

What’s new in Italy? Some notes on this October seismic swarm

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Before starting:  While I was writing today this piece about the Italian earthquake on 26th October, a new earthquake occurred in the s...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Flood Disaster in Central Vietnam: The Need to Involve Experts

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by Chinh Luu and Jason von Meding From 12-15 October, 2016, Central Vietnam faced an all too common occurance - disastrous flooding. ...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Change, or the Same Old Thing?

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Sometimes it appears that nothing is changing. The rich and powerful continue to find new ways to subjugate, oppress, control and generally...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Transition Through Disaster: Christchurch

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In April 2016, a group from UON visited Christchurch to learn more about the 2011 earthquake and the subsequent response and recovery effort...
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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Why Study Disasters?

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People often ask me how I got into research, and disaster research in particular. It was actually quite accidental. In late 2005, I was a po...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

We Must Democratise Disaster Risk Creation

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As we know all to well, those impacted most by disasters are the poor, the marginalised and the dispossessed. Base vulnerability underpins d...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

The US Presidential Election: Lesser Evil for Whom?

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Trump or Clinton? Who will America choose? This is the question on everyone's lips, from Brooklyn to Bangkok. The U.S. Commander-in-Ch...