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Hollywood turns its hand to the worst environmental disaster in US history – from which the environment is strangely missing.
It’s not uncommon for kids to experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress after a disaster. With thousands of children affected by Hurricane Harvey, how can parents help kids bounce back?
Ecuador is known for promoting the ‘Buen Vivir’ development policy agenda. But the state’s response to a recent earthquake brought its commitment into question.
The recent Canadian wildfires revealed the need for cutting-edge disaster management strategies.
Getting out in a crisis is often harder than it looks. But science can help.
One of the worst mining tragedies in Turkish history, the explosion at the Soma coal mine has taken at least 282 lives and many more miners remain unaccounted for. I come from a town 13kms away from the…
Soma, a little mining village in western Turkey, became host to one of the greatest industrial crimes in mining history when an explosion trapped 800 miners 2km underground and 4km from the exit. At the…
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Watts College, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor, Macquarie University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
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Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Oceanography, University of Miami
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Visiting Scientist, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Public and International Affairs, former Director of the Center for Disaster Management, University of Pittsburgh
