Cross-sector collaboration
Registration opens for the United Kingdom Alliance for Disaster Research Annual Conference 2023
15 November 2023Registration for the United Kingdom Alliance for Disaster Research Annual Conference 2023 has opened. The conference takes place between 18-19 December 2023 at the University of Huddersfield. This year’s… Read more
Global Risk Dialogue: Hazards with escalation Potential – Implications for risk research
10 November 2023The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, International Science Council, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance have collaborated to develop a briefing… Read more
AI for numerical weather prediction
31 October 2023The Alan Turing Institute and the Met Office have teamed up for a new collaboration to develop AI models to improve weather forecasting, including extreme weather events, to save lives… Read more
COVINFORM Project’s Insightful Risk Assessment Dashboard
27 October 2023COVINFORM is a multi-disciplinary, international project funded by EU Horizon 2020 to investigate the risks and vulnerabilities associated with Covid-19 in the UK and EU. One of the project’s key… Read more
Children at ‘existential risk’ from climate crisis, UK’s top paediatrician says
21 October 2023Dr Camilla Kingdon, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, has warned that the climate crisis poses a significant threat to the health and well-being of… Read more
New international security project to improve disaster risk management for unexpected events
19 October 2023The AGILE project, which the European Union funds, aims to develop tools and methodologies to assist in understanding, anticipating, and managing High Impact Low Probability (HILP) events. HILP events are… Read more
Co-creating a platform for disaster management and risk reduction
18 October 2023Researchers from International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) are participating in a Horizon Europe funded initiative called the PARATUS project. This brings together a consortium of 19 partners from… Read more
State of Global Water Resources 2022
12 October 2023The WMO State of Global Water Resources Report 2022 highlights the critical state of the hydrological cycle due to climate change and human activities. It emphasises the adverse impacts of… Read more
Avoiding disasters; Society and Economy
29 September 2023Society An article “Dodge the disaster” published in the Crisis Response Journal (by Gareth Byatt and Ilan Kelman), explores the extent to which disasters might be avoidable based on an… Read more
State of Nature report 2023
27 September 2023Biodiversity loss in the UK poses a significant risk in building long-term resilience to disasters. The 2023 State of Nature report is the most comprehensive report on our biodiversity, developed… Read more