Climate and Natural Hazard Risks

Auteur

Peter Sammonds is Professor of Geophysics and Climate Risks. He was the founding Director and Head of Department of the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. He works at the interface of natural and social sciences. His research and knowledge exchange is on natural hazard risks, disasters and recovery. He has worked on earthquake mechanics, volcanoes and ice physics in the Arctic. He currently works on research council, British Academy and Royal Society-funded projects on Increasing Resilience to Environmental Hazards in Border Conflict Zones and Resilience Futures for the Rohingya Refugees. He has advised the UK research councils on the increasing resilience to natural hazards programme; been a member of EEFIT Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation teams, contributing to inter-disciplinary reports on disasters, taken up widely by government for policy advice; and been a Commissioner on the UCLLancet Commission on Migration and Health, 201718, whose report has been influential. He is currently the Gender and Intersectionality Ambassador for the UKRI network+ GRRIPP project led by the IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster.

Lisa Guppy is Lecturer in Global Humanitarian Studies in the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. She has worked across humanitarian, peace and development fields, primarily with United Nations organisations, in Asia, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East. Her roles have spanned local to global level and experience in humanitarian responses from the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka to drought in the Horn of Africa and ongoing complex emergency in Afghanistan. Most recently she has worked in the Asia Pacific Region, focusing on the environmental and climate dimensions of disasters, displacement and insecurity. She currently lectures in humanitarian studies, drawing on more than a decade of delivered training, teaching and other capacity development modalities to humanitarian practitioners, senior government staff, students and others in locations from, amongst others, Kenya, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Thailand, South Africa and globally online. She has particular interest in protracted and chronic crises and the implementation of nexus solutions in fragile humanitarian settings. She also focuses on how more considered water and environmental management can improve resilience and peacebuilding in these places.

Ting Sun is Lecturer in Climate and Meteorological Hazard Risks in the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. He is a climate scholar for cities with multidisciplinary background in hydrology, meteorology and built environment. His research interests include impacts of weather and climate extremes (e.g., heat waves, extreme rainfall, etc.) in cities and urban climate modelling across multiple scales (from neighbourhood to globe) as well their broad linkages with public health and building energy sectors. He held a NERC Independent Research Fellowship to lead the project entitled Building Resilient Cities for Heat Waves”. He is enthusiastic about urban climate modellingin particular in the role of lead developer of a state-of-the-art urban climate model SUEWS (Surface Urban Energy and Water balance Scheme). He is a core member of the UMEP (Urban Multi-scale Environment Predictor) development team. Building upon his multidisciplinary background centred in hydro-climate and multi-scale modelling skills, at the IRDR he envisions improving understanding of and preparedness for climate and meteorological hazards.

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Climate and Natural Hazard Risks is an in-depth examination of the physical, environmental, economic, and social impacts of climate change and natural hazards on vulnerable populations in different areas around the world. The authors open with the simple question "what is risk?," taking a detailed look at global trends and risk frameworks as they relate to climate change. From there, the chapters systematically review different hazards and their implications for risk and resilience (hurricanes, cyclones, flooding, extreme temperatures, food insecurity, earthquakes, tsunamis). The authors then delve into the latest research and data surrounding probabilistic hazard assessment and multi-hazard risk assessment. The book closes with a thoughtful discussion on resilience and the wide-reaching impacts of environmental transitions. Professionals working across climate change, environmental risk assessment, and disaster resilience will find much to consider in this thought-provoking text.

Contenu

1. What is Risk?
   
   2. Global Trends
   3. Risk Frameworks and Mechanisms
   4. Dynamic Earth
   5. Earth’s Climate
   6. Climate Change: Threat Multiplier
   7. Hurricanes and Cyclones
   8. Flooding
   9. Heat and Cold Waves
   10. Drought and Food Security
   11. Geological Hazards
   12. Probabilistic Hazard Assessment
   13. Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment
   14. Resilience
   15. Transitions