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Climate change, in its impacts on our society, will have the capacity to destabilise and push social, political and economic systems to their limits. We will have to be bold.
We often underestimate dangerous risks because they are slow or we think we are in more control of them than we actually are.
Natural disaster is a misnomer. Disasters occur due to societal failures, not nature.
India had the legal ability to classify migrant workers as internally displaced and offer them protection, but instead they were marooned and left to the mercy of fate.
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Professor of Globalisation and Development; Director of the Oxford Martin Programmes on Technological and Economic Change, The Future of Work and the Future of Development, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, UCL
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Director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone (DHEZ), University of Bradford, Professor of Health Service Operations, University of Bradford
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Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta
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Principal Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta
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Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University College Dublin
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Senior Ecological Economist, Charles Darwin University
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Profesor asociado en "Retos medioambientales globales" y Miembro del Grupo de Investigación en Sociología del Cambio Climático y el Desarrollo Sostenible de la UC3M, Universidad Carlos III
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PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant, International Law, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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Research Fellow, Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Director of Capacity Building, SurveyMETER
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Norb F. Schaefer Professor of International Studies, Duke University
