Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards

Professor Greg Bankoff

Local Governance and Community Resilience: How Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and Communities Managed Flooding in England Nov 1, 2017 - Apr 30, 2022
This project examines forms of community flood risk management in the past in the form of IDBs and their precursors, to determine their viability as a model for future policy-making. It develops an approach that views flood as a social construction a... Read More about Local Governance and Community Resilience: How Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and Communities Managed Flooding in England.

Risks Hazards Disasters and Cultures Exploring an Integrated Humanities Natural Sciences and Disaster Studies Approach Mar 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2017

Hazards, Tipping Points, Adaptation and Collapse in the Indo-Pacific World Jan 1, 2016 - Jun 30, 2021

Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents Jul 1, 2012 - Jun 30, 2018
Disasters in seismically-prone regions are the outcome of physical hazards interacting with a vulnerable population (Wisner et al, 2004). Just as these disasters are ‘co-produced’, so research on increasing people's resilience to withstand, recover a... Read More about Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents.