Title：Increasing Resilience to Environmental hazards

Speaker：Prof. Peter Sammonds

Time：10:30, Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Venue:：Room 204, No.5 Building, Wushan Campus

Abstract:

The inter-connectedness of world trade means that the UK economy is dependent upon supply lines that stretch back to China. So the UK has a direct interest in the level of resilience in China to natural hazards. Focusing on resilience, recovery and reconstruction will open up the potential for further UK-China collaboration in the economic sphere. This report introduces the Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards in Earthquake Prone Regions in China (IRNHiC) programme, and discusses its impacts.

Biography:  

Prof Peter Sammonds is the director of UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. His research themes cover geophysical hazard risks, human wellbeing, migration, and risk & security. His current research activities include: INSPIRE: Indonesia School Programme to Increase Resilience, increasing Resilience to Environmental Hazards in Border Conflict Zones; Rohingya Journeys of Violence and Resilience in Bangladesh and its Neighbours: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: The Rohingya Exodus: Issues and Implications for Stability, Security and Peace in South Asia.

UCL is one of the world’s leading universities, regularly featuring in the top 10 in global rankings. UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) is a young and growing institute with a mission from the Provost to lead transdisciplinary research, advanced teaching and knowledge exchange in London, the UK and internationally.