Podcasts about disaster reduction

Wildfires raging across the Los Angeles area have claimed at least 11 lives and forced the evacuation of 179,000 residents from their homes. Professor David Alexander, who works at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London joins Anton to get the latest.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba called for stronger disaster reduction measures at a summit of the Group of 20 major economies on Monday.

Professor Monica Lakhanpaul and Professor Priti Parikh are joined by Professor Catalina Turcu, Professor of Sustainable Built Environment, Bartlett School of Planning and Professor Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health in the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. Today they're discussing the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals and climate change. Goal 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, and many people have argued that tackling climate change should be the highest priority of the goals because of its impact on all of the other targets. Date of episode recording: 2024-07-23T00:00:00Z Duration: 00:44:36 Language of episode: English Presenter:Professor Monica Lakhanpaul, Professor Priti Parikh Guests: Professor Catalina Turcu, Professor Ilan Kelman Producer: Front Ear

Japanese disaster management minister Manabu Sakai has pledged to boost measures to alleviate damage from natural disasters that are taken in advance.

The recently adopted Pact for the Future has been hailed as a significant milestone in global efforts to promote a disaster risk-informed approach to sustainable development worldwide.As the world marks International Day for Disaster Reduction on Sunday, Kamal Kishore, the UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction is emphasising the crucial need for ongoing disaster-risk assessments with up-to-the-minute data, particularly in regions vulnerable to rising sea levels.In an interview with UN News' Sachin Gaur, Mr. Kishore outlined some successful strategies that have helped significantly reduce cyclone-related deaths in countries like Bangladesh and India, adding that they could provide a blueprint the future.

Japan's land ministry said Tuesday that its fiscal 2025 budget request features disaster reduction measures after the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake and efforts to strengthen logistics networks to tackle driver shortages.

Philip Cunliffe joins us to talk about his recent book ‘The New 20 Year Crisis' which draws inspiration for the classic 1939 text ‘The 20 Year Crisis' by E. H. Carr to advance a powerful, incisive critique both of the liberal internationalist project of the past two decades, as well as the discipline of IR itself which beguiled by the ‘unipolar imaginary' has failed to comprehend the depth of the transformations currently underway in international politics. Philip provocatively argues that we are living through a wholesale structural reconfiguration of the international political order, a reconfiguration which spells the end of ‘the utopian dream of the receding era of unipolarity'. This claim sets the stage for a lively conversation where we touch upon questions of realism versus idealism, the autonomous logic of realpolitik, liberalism post-unipolarity, why Karl Rove is the ultimate constructivist(!), and, ultimately, why a fundamental rethink in how we practice and teach international relations is now essential if we are to fully reckon with rising multipolarity and shifting global power dynamics. Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor in International Relations at the Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction, University College London where he researches and teaches on the topics of international order, multinational military intervention and conflict management. He has 20 years of academic experience, having previously worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and a Temporary Lecturer at the UK's Joint Services Command and Staff College. He obtained his PhD in War Studies from King's College London. He has also worked as a contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit. He is a prolific author and editor, having published eight books and numerous academic articles and chapters on various aspects of international politics and security. He is committed to engaging with the public and the media, and writes for various outlets, including UnHerd, the New Statesman, the Spectator, the Times (London), Daily Telegraph, Compact, among others. He has also appeared on TV and radio including BBC Radio 4 and GB News. Philip co-hosts the @bungacast podcast: https://bungacast.com/ And tweets @thephilippics: https://x.com/thephilippics His Substack is at https://thephilippics.substack: https://thephilippics.substack.com/ Philip's UCL profile can be found here: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/88668-philip-cunliffe/publications We discussed: The New Twenty Years' Crisis A Critique of International Relations, 1999-2019 (2020): https://www.mqup.ca/new-twenty-years--crisis--the-products-9780228001027.php#:~:text=The%20New%20Twenty%20Years'%20Crisis%20reveals%20that%20the%20liberal%20international,of%20the%20crisis%20are%20internal. Cosmopolitan dystopia International intervention and the failure of the West (2020): https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526105738/

In this episode of the Crisis Conflict Emergency Management podcast, host Kyle King interviews Professor Dewald van Niekerk, an expert in disaster risk and governance based in Africa. They explore African disaster risk governance, addressing challenges, stakeholder roles, successes, past lessons, and climate change's impact. Dewald van Niekerk, a Professor at North-West University, specializes in disaster risk governance, resilience, and transdisciplinary disaster risk reduction. He's an expert with numerous publications and extensive project leadership experience, including founding the Southern Africa Society for Disaster Reduction. His research aims to reduce the impacts of natural hazards and climate change on vulnerable communities. Show Highlights [01:49] How Dewald established the African Center for Disaster Studies [04:42] The challenges of implementing disaster risk reduction strategies amid climate change [08:43] Why the conventional disaster response framework may no longer be efficient [14:59] The role of different stakeholders in advancing disaster risk governance in Africa [22:38] Why climate change is two sides of the same coin [25:58] Initiatives in empowering local ownership and enhancing urban resilience [30:20] On disaster risk reduction being “lost in translation” within African national governments Connect with Dewald van Niekerk -LinkedIn-Website

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor in International Relations at the Institute or Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London. He is one of the co-hosts of the @bungacast podcast and is widely published on questions of sovereignty and international politics. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr. Norman Fenton is Professor of Risk Information Management at Queen Mary University of London and a Director of Agena, a company that specialises in risk management for critical systems. He is a mathematician by training with current focus on critical decision-making and, in particular, on quantifying uncertainty using causal, probabilistic models that combine data and knowledge (Bayesian networks).

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: eter Ramsay is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He mainly teaches and writes about criminal law and punishment. His academic research focuses on the relationship between the criminal law, civil liberty and the state's sovereignty. After the Brexit referendum in 2016 he was one of the founders of The Full Brexit, a network of academics, journalists and other writers who supported leaving the European Union but were not traditional conservative Eurosceptics. He blogs about politics at The Northern Star online. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor in International Relations at the Institute or Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London. He is one of the co-hosts of the @bungacast podcast and is widely published on questions of sovereignty and international politics.

Welcome to the Harvard Center for International Development's Road to GEM23 Climate & Development podcast. CID's Road to GEM23 series precedes and helps launch CID's Global Empowerment Meeting 2023 (GEM23), Growing in a Green World on May 10th and 11th. At CID, we work across a global network of researchers and practitioners to build, convene, and deploy talent to address the world's most pressing challenges. On our Road to GEM23, we strive to elevate and learn from voices from the countries on the frontlines of the climate crisis and will feature learnings from leading researchers and practitioners working to combat climate change. In this episode, we are joined by Rui Su, a consultant at the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the Social Sustainability and Inclusion (SSI) GP. She conducts data analytics on social resilience and inclusion by combining machine learning methods, geospatial analysis, and interactive visualization. CID Student Ambassador and Harvard Graduate Student at the Graduate School of Design, Manasa Acharya, interviewed Rui Su to learn more about her work with City Resilience Program (CRP) and using data to inform communities about climate change and resilience across the world.

歡迎留言告訴我們你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/cl81kivnk00dn01wffhwxdg2s/comments 每日英語跟讀 Ep.K527: Why was the Turkey-Syria earthquake so bad? The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday last week is likely to be one of the deadliest this decade, seismologists said, with a more than 100km rupture between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. 地震學家表示，上週一襲擊土耳其和敘利亞的7.8級地震，可能是十年來傷亡最慘重的地震之一，安納托利亞和阿拉伯板塊之間斷裂了超過100公里。 Here is what scientists said happened beneath the Earth's surface and what to expect in the aftermath: 以下是科學家所描述地表下所發生的事，以及預期後果： WHERE DID THE EARTHQUAKE ORIGINATE? 震源位於何處？ The epicenter was about 26km east of the Turkish city of Nurdagi at a depth of about 18km on the East Anatolian Fault. The quake radiated towards the northeast, bringing devastation to central Turkey and Syria. 震央位於土耳其城市努爾達伊以東約26公里處，深度約18公里，處於東安納托利亞斷層上。地震朝東北方向發散出去，蹂躪土耳其中部及敘利亞。 During the 20th Century, the East Anatolian Fault yielded little major seismic activity. “If we were going simply by (major) earthquakes that were recorded by seismometers, it would look more or less blank,” said Roger Musson, an honorary research associate at the British Geological Survey. 東安納托利亞斷層在二十世紀幾乎沒有重大地震活動。「如果我們只根據地震儀記錄的（大）地震來判斷，它看來多少是空白的」，英國地質調查局名譽研究員羅傑．穆森說。 Only three earthquakes have registered above 6.0 on the Richter Scale since 1970 in the area, according to the US Geological Survey. But in 1822, a 7.0 quake hit the region, killing an estimated 20,000 people. 根據美國地質調查局的資料，自1970年以來，該地區僅發生過三次芮氏6.0級以上的地震。但在1822年，一場7.0級地震襲擊了該地區，估計有兩萬人喪生。 HOW BAD WAS THIS EARTHQUAKE? 這次地震有多嚴重？ On average, there are fewer than 20 quakes over 7.0 magnitude in any year, making last Monday's event severe. 平均來說，每年超過7.0級的地震只有不到20次，這讓上週一的地震變得非常嚴重。 Compared with the 6.2 earthquake that hit central Italy in 2016 and killed some 300 people, the Turkey-Syria earthquake released 250 times as much energy, according to Joanna Faure Walker, head of the University College London Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. 倫敦大學學院風險與減災研究所所長喬安娜‧佛爾‧沃克表示，與2016年發生在義大利中部、造成約300人死亡的6.2級地震相比，土耳其—敘利亞地震所釋放的能量，是義大利地震的250倍。 Only two of the deadliest earthquakes from 2013 to 2022 were of the same magnitude as last Monday's quake. 2013年至2022年傷亡最嚴重的地震中，只有兩次與上週一的地震震度相同。 WHY WAS IT SO SEVERE? 為何如此慘烈？ The East Anatolian Fault is a strike-slip fault. 東安納托利亞斷層屬於橫移斷層 In those, solid rock plates are pushing up against each other across a vertical fault line, building stress until one finally slips in a horizontal motion, releasing a tremendous amount of strain that can trigger an earthquake. 在橫移斷層中，堅硬的岩石板塊在垂直斷層線上相互推擠，不斷增加壓力，最後造成一塊岩石板塊水平滑動，釋放出可引發地震的巨大壓力。 The San Andreas Fault in California is perhaps the world's most famous strike-slip fault, with scientists warning that a catastrophic quake is long overdue. 加州的聖安德列斯斷層或許是最著名的橫移斷層，科學家警告說，一場災難性的地震早該發生了。 The initial rupture for the Turkey-Syria earthquake kicked off at a relatively shallow depth. “The shaking at the ground surface will have been more severe than for a deeper earthquake of the same magnitude at source,” David Rothery, a planetary geoscientist at the Open University in Britain, said. 土耳其—敘利亞地震的斷裂是從深度較淺的地方開始。英國空中大學的行星地質學家大衛．羅瑟里表示：「相同的震級，若發生在地表，其震度將比震源更深的地震更加嚴重」。Source article: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2023/02/14/2003794282 Powered by Firstory Hosting

Extreme weather is becoming even more extreme thanks to climate change. Countless lives are claimed by heatwaves, cold snaps, cyclones, droughts and torrential rains every year around the world. Climate change threatens to make things worse. But the United Nations is spearheading new action to make sure every person on Earth is protected by early warning systems within the next five years. It's hoped that this could dramatically reduce the numbers of deaths caused by extreme weather. Presenters Neal Razzell and Graihagh Jackson were joined by: Laura Paterson, from the World Meteorological Organization Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College, London, UK and University of Agder, in Kristiansand, Norway. Hasin Jahan, the Director of WaterAid in Banglasdesh Reporter: BBC's Nicolas Négoce in Senegal Email us: theclimatequestion@bbc.com Production Team Producer: Claire Bowes Production coordinators: Helena Warick-Cross and Siobhan Reed Series producers: Jordan Dunbar & Alex Lewis Editor: Richard Fenton Smith Sound Engineer: James Beard

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Welcome to the 10th installment for Season 3 of Moments of Clarity with Matthew Sortino and Toby Kent. We have something a little different for you in this episode - 2 guests! And not just any guests, Matt and Toby are joined by Toby's former business partner and good friend Brett Ellis ESM and Toby's dad, Dr Randolph Kent.   Brett has a stellar record of achievement as a senior executive in state and local government, community organisations and small business in areas as diverse as emergency management, public safety, environmental management, risk management and societal resilience.   During a 30-year career Brett has held senior strategic planning, culture change and operational roles in organisations tasked with supporting communities and implementing major change management programs. As a result of his expertise and experience, a number of initiatives he led inform state, national and international disaster and resilience policies and frameworks.   His expertise has seen him perform senior government operational roles during significant emergency events and disasters including the State Consequence Manager, State Relief and Recovery Manager and Municipal Emergency Manager. Brett has been awarded the Emergency Services Medal (ESM) for distinguished services to the community for improvements to Public Safety and the National Emergency Medal for sustained service during the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires.   Dr Randolph Kent is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a Visiting Professor at the African Leadership Centre at King's College London, Honorary Professor at University College London's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, as well as a member of the Global Science Forum of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).   Previously he has directed the Humanitarian Futures Programme at King's College London, where he and his staff worked from 2004 to 2016 with a wide range of multilateral, bilateral and non-governmental organisations to strengthen their strategic and planning capacities for dealing with longer-term disaster threats.   Prior to this Dr Kent was assigned as UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia (2003), UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Kosovo (1999), UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Rwanda [1994-1995], Chief of the UN Emergency Unit in Sudan [1989-1991] and Chief of Emergency Prevention and Preparedness in Ethiopia [1987-1989].   Since leaving the United Nations, much of Dr Kent's attention has been focused on projects dealing with organisational and systems behaviour. These interests had led to appointments on a range of governmental and non-governmental committees in Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In the private sector, he had served on the policy committees of DHL Deutsche Post Sustainability Advisory Council and Deloitte's Humanitarian Innovation Panel.   Dr Kent's publications include include 'Anatomy of Disaster: The Relief Network in Action' as well as 57 book chapters and journal articles and co-edited, 'The Study and Teaching of International Relations'. He is also currently writing a book – Planning from the Future: Why it Matters - intended to guide governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations on ways to address new types and ever more complex disaster threats.     Links https://www.firesticks.org.au/ https://www.resilientco.au/ www.linkedin.com/in/brett-ellis-esm https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/randolph-kent Humanitarianism InFocus with Randolph Kent - A New Debate Production
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On this week's show: NASA's unprecedented asteroid-deflection mission, and making storage space for fresh water underground in Bangladesh First up on the podcast this week, News Intern Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the upcoming NASA mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, that aims to ram a vending machine–size spacecraft into an asteroid and test out ideas about planetary defense. Also this week, Sarah talks with Mohammad Shamsudduha, an associate professor in humanitarian science at University College London's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. He explains how millions of individual farmers in Bangladesh are creating the “Bengal water machine,” a giant underground sponge to soak up fresh water during monsoon season. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: SW Photography/Getty; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: photo of agricultural fields and a big river at sunset in the city of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, with podcast overlay symbol] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Zack Savitsky Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade8885  About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's show: NASA's unprecedented asteroid-deflection mission, and making storage space for fresh water underground in Bangladesh First up on the podcast this week, News Intern Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the upcoming NASA mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, that aims to ram a vending machine–size spacecraft into an asteroid and test out ideas about planetary defense. Also this week, Sarah talks with Mohammad Shamsudduha, an associate professor in humanitarian science at University College London's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. He explains how millions of individual farmers in Bangladesh are creating the “Bengal water machine,” a giant underground sponge to soak up fresh water during monsoon season. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: SW Photography/Getty; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: photo of agricultural fields and a big river at sunset in the city of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, with podcast overlay symbol] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Zack Savitsky Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade8885  About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

英语新闻︱Xi urges all-out rescue effortsPresident Xi Jinping called on Monday for all-out efforts to rescue people affected by the magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Luding county in southwestern China's Sichuan province, and he emphasized that saving lives and minimizing casualties should be the primary task.9月5日，四川甘孜藏族自治州泸定县发生6.8级地震，习近平主席呼吁要求把抢救生命作为首要任务，全力救援受灾群众。Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an instruction shortly after the earthquake occurred.地震发生后，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平高度重视并作出重要指示。The temblor jolted the county, which is in the Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefecture, at 12:52 pm on Monday.北京时间9月5日12时52分，四川甘孜藏族自治州泸定县发生6.8级地震。By press time, the disaster had killed at least 46 people — 29 in Ganzi and 17 in neighboring Ya'an — and 16 were missing. It also injured more than 50 and damaged water, electricity, transportation and telecommunication facilities in the region.截至发稿时，地震已造成46人死亡（其中甘孜州29人、雅安市17人）、16人失联、50余人受伤，部分水、电、交通、通信等基础设施受损。Xi underlined the need to strengthen earthquake monitoring work to guard against secondary disasters. Efforts should be made to resettle people hit by the earthquake to enable them to get away from danger, he added.习近平强调，要加强震情监测，防范发生次生灾害，妥善做好受灾群众避险安置等工作。While instructing the Ministry of Emergency Management to send a task force to Sichuan to help with the rescue operation, Xi also urged the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police Force to cooperate with local governments in the rescue operation to use every means to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.习近平作出批示，要求应急管理部等部门派工作组前往四川指导抗震救灾工作，解放军和武警部队需要积极配合地方开展工作，尽最大努力确保人民群众生命财产安全。Also on Monday, Premier Li Keqiang urged efforts to assess the damage caused by the disaster, properly resettle quake-hit residents and repair infrastructure destroyed by the earthquake as soon as possible.9月5日，中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理李克强作出批示，要求抓紧核实灾情，妥善安置受灾群众，尽快抢修受损的交通、通信等基础设施。Sun Guangjun, a 72-year-old resident of Luding, said: "Although the epicenter was over 40 kilometers from the Luding county seat, my apartment on the second floor of an old residential building in the county seat shook from south to north for seven or eight seconds. The shaking was more severe than what I felt during the Wenchuan earthquake (on May 12, 2008)."72岁的泸定县居民孙广军（音译）说：“我家住在泸定县的一栋老居民楼二楼，虽然距离震中有40多公里，但还是上下晃了7到8秒。这次的震感比汶川地震还要强。”"Very soon, all my neighbors fled outdoors," said Sun, former chairman of the Luding county committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.中国人民政治协商会议泸定县委员会前主席孙广军说：“我的邻居都很迅速地跑到了户外。”The National Commission for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Emergency Management activated a Level IV emergency response to the earthquake. Under China's four-tier emergency response system, Level I represents the most severe response.国家减灾委、应急管理部启动国家Ⅳ级救灾应急响应。根据我国的四级应急响应分级标准，一级严重程度最高。The ministry said in a news release that it had sent a team headed by Min Yiren, chief of the China Earthquake Administration, to guide disaster relief work in Luding.应急管理部表示，已派出中国地震局局长闵宜仁带队的工作组赴现场指导做好抗震救灾工作。Wang Xiangxi, minister of emergency management, arrived at the ministry's command center soon after the quake to coordinate disaster relief work, according to the release.据悉，地震发生后，国务院抗震救灾指挥部副指挥长、应急管理部部长王祥喜第一时间赶到部指挥中心调度部署救灾工作。Officials from the Ganzi prefectural government said at a news conference on Monday that damage to roads, communications facilities and homes was being checked. The prefecture sent 635 rescue personnel, including armed police officers, firefighters, medical workers, communication professionals and power technicians, to carry out rescue and relief work, they said.9月5日下午，四川省甘孜州人民政府新闻办召开新闻发布会表示，道路、通讯、房屋等受损情况正在核查中。州级相关部门已派出武警、消防、医疗救治、通讯电力、交通保畅等救援力量635人开展抢险工作。Five seconds after the earthquake, a real-time early warning system developed by the Institute of Care-Life in Chengdu, capital of Si­chuan, said that seismic waves would reach Kangding, the capital of Ganzi prefecture, seven seconds later, the city of Ya'an, adjacent to Luding, in 20 seconds, and Chengdu in 50 seconds.成都高新减灾研究所开发的预警系统在泸定6.8级地震发生时第5秒发出预警，给康定市提前7秒预警，雅安市提前20秒预警，给成都市提前50秒预警。Kangding is 53 km from the epicenter, while Ya'an is 99 km and Chengdu is 226 km away from it.康定距震中53公里，雅安距震中99公里，成都距震中226公里。In many parts of China, the real-time early warning system operates on TV sets and mobile phones, which people can use in case of an earthquake.在我国大部分地区，实时预警系统可以通过电视和手机发出预警，以备地震发生时使用。The system sends warnings seconds after an earthquake is detected and can help save lives because the warnings are transmitted via radio waves, which are able to travel at 300,000 kilometers per second, while seismic shock waves travel at only 3 to 6 km/s, according to Chen Huizhong, a senior researcher at the China Earthquake Administration's Institute of Geophysics.中国地震局地球物理研究所研究员陈会忠介绍，地震预警系统探测到地震后，迅速发出警报，有助于减少伤亡。因为警报通过电波传输，速度可达30万公里/秒，而地震波的速度仅为3至6公里/秒。Mountainous Sichuan is prone to earthquakes. The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake killed more than 69,000 people, with 17,923 others reported as missing.四川千峰万仞，地震频发。2008年汶川地震共造成6.9万多人死亡，17923人失踪。记者：黄志凌曹德胜侯黎强、杜鹃对本文亦有贡献temblor 英['temblə(r)]；美['temblər]n. 地震jolt英[dʒəʊlt]；美[dʒoʊlt]vt. （使）摇动，（使）震惊;使震惊;使颠簸vi. 摇晃，颠簸而行n. 颠簸，摇，震惊，严重挫折;震惊，引起震惊的事情;突然的猛击;意外的挫折seismic英[ˈsaɪzmɪk]；美[ˈsaɪzmɪk]adj. 地震的;由地震引起的;震撼世界的adjacent英[əˈdʒeɪsnt]；美[əˈdʒeɪsnt]adj. 邻近的;毗邻的

Join Zakaria Sheikh and Raza Ahmed for Tuesday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: "Maths" and "Natural Disasters" Maths Katharine Birbalsingh, the Social Mobility Commissioner for England suggested that the reason so few girls take Maths based A-levels was because they found the subject too hard. Is there any truth in this or could it be due to a lack of female role models in STEM subjects as the Children's Commissioner has suggested? Join us as we discuss STEM subjects and female representation. Natural Disasters With many parts of the world including Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan facing natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes we explore the main causes of them including climate change and look at the theological link – are all natural disasters a sign of divine punishment? Guests David Alexander (Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London) Anastasios Sextos (Professor of Earthquake Engineering at the University of Bristol) Producers: Ruhi Yaqub, Arub Anwar and Cemal Inam

On this week's episode, we'll discuss lunar surface waste management, the important role this will play as humanity scales to a presence in space, and attempt to answer the very important question, “who takes out the trash on the moon?”My guest on the show, Nadia Khan, is a first year graduate student at MIT pursuing an M.S. in Technology and Policy at the Institute for Data Systems and Society.  Nadia has a dual research assistantship position at the Engineering Systems Lab in the AeroAstro department as well as being a project leader at the MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative, where she is leading the development of MIT's Lunar Open Architecture platform.  Nadia has an eclectic background, in international relations, disaster risk reduction, space weather and space exploration.  She's also the operations lead for MIT's Global Start Up Workshop, a member of the MIT Grad Arts Forum's Executive Committee, professional development lead and executive committee member at the Graduate Women of Aerospace at MIT's AeroAstro lab.  Prior to starting her second M.S. at MIT, Nadia was an Aziz Foundation Scholar at University College London where she completed a MSc in Space, Risk and Disaster Reduction.  She also completed a BA in International Relations from Queen Mary, University of London.  In 2019, Nadia was recognised by HM Queen Elizabeth II for her services to mental health in the UK, in setting up her award winning Not for Profit - The Delicate Mind C.I.C.  Nadia is a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum and a Local Leader as part of the Franco British Programme.Support the show

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Today Is Bullying Prevention Day, Emergency Nurses Day, Good Samaritan Day, English Language Day,  International Day for Disaster Reduction,  International Top Spinning Day, International Suit Up Day, International Plain Language Day, Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day,  National Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day,  National Chess Day,  National Curves Day,  National Depression Screening Day,  National Fossil Day, National M and M's Day, National Train Your Brain Day, National Yorkshire Pudding Day,  National No Bra Day, National Stop Bullying Day, National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day,  The Navy's Birthday,  National Pet Obesity Awareness Day,  Stop America's Violence Everywhere Day,  Silly Sayings Day, and World Thrombosis Day. Celebrate each day with the It's Today Podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Itstoday)

In this episode (#87) we talk with an expert on disaster mitigation. He is Professor Satoru Nishikawa, Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. We had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Nishikawa about the topics that connect Japan and California - natural disasters. We each have a long history of disasters and as such, we each acknowledge we are disaster-prone. However, we don't just accept that fact; we are both actively involved in research and the development of new ways to mitigate, respond to, and recover from those emergencies. In fact, we have shared information with each other, learning from our collective experiences and share a common history of helping one another during times of need. Dr. Nishikawa talks about all of that and much more. Dr. Satoru NISHIKAWA Professor, Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University Dr. Nishikawa joined Japanese Government service in 1982 and has held various positions in the Japanese Government, the United Nations, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, as well as a number of international organizations. In 1992, he took the position of Senior Disaster Relief Coordination Officer at United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-DHA) where he coordinated international assistance to numerous disaster-stricken countries. In 2001, he was appointed as the Executive Director of Asian Disaster Reduction Center. After resuming Japanese government service in 2004, he held senior positions in the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan. In the wake of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004, he coordinated the Japanese Government technical assistance to the affected countries. He was also the on-site coordinator for the Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004. He hosted and coordinated the 2005 UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction where the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (HFA) was adopted. In 2005, he proposed the Japanese Business Continuity Plan (BCP) guideline. He initiated the long-term regional recovery planning for Tohoku after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. He was a member of the Advisory Group to the UN SRSG for DRR on the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global Platform. He was the chair of the WEF Global Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risk. From 2013 to 2015, he served as Vice President of the Japan Water Agency. He currently serves as: • Member, Science Council of Japan • Board Member, Institute of Social Safety Science • Board Member, Business Continuity Advancement Organization • Adviser, Japan Bosai Platform • Board of Trustees Member, Asian Disaster Reduction Center • Board Member, Save the Children Japan Links OCHA - UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS KIDS WEB JAPAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN GOVT. HOLDS DRILL ON DISASTER PREVENTION DAY The Great Japan Earthquake of 1923 (the Great Kanto Earthquake) Cal OES - Plan and Prepare Earthquake Warning California Cal OES Preparedness Day 2019 California Day of Preparedness 2018 Ready.gov

The World Bank estimates that climate change will push an additional 100 million people globally into poverty in the coming years.  In Part 1, we talked with Dr. Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Lead for Engineering With Nature®, and Dr. Brenden Jongman, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist with the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). Todd and Brenden discussed the World Bank’s approach to using natural infrastructure solutions to address some of the most pressing climate change challenges and the synergies with Engineering With Nature’s approach of using innovative natural and nature-based solutions.   In Part 2 we continue our discussion. Coping with environmental and climate crises in a normal year is one thing, but the past year, as the world has been responding to COVID-19, has been unprecedented. Todd and Brenden discuss the opportunity for nature-based solutions to support post-pandemic recovery efforts. And they discuss the importance of the natural infrastructure guidelines their organizations have been working on to help policy- and decision-makers, project managers, and communities think differently about the role and value of nature-based solutions.       Related Links:  EWN Website ERDC Website Todd Bridges at LinkedIn Todd Bridges at EWN Brenden Jongman at LinkedIn   Leveraging Nature-Based Solutions for Resilience (YouTube) What if we could use nature to prevent disasters? Factsheet on NBS portfolio Flagship report on NBS Nature-based solutions: A cost-effective Approach for Disaster Risk and Water Resource Management   Upscaling nature-based flood protection in Mozambique's cities: Lessons Learnt from Beira NY Times: Mozambique looks beyond Cyclone Idai to better protection in the future Blue barriers: A nature-based solution to build resilience Urban planning and nature-based solutions, keys for reducing flood risk in Panama Restoring a long-lost relationship with Rio Bogotá

Donna Childs is the Founder and CEO of Prisere LLC, which she founded to develop capacity for climate and disaster risk resilience. Building on her previous experience as a senior executive in the reinsurance industry, Prisere was named one of the 50 most innovative startups by the Kauffman Foundation. Donna and Prisere have led projects for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Asian Development Bank. She serves as the Risk Partnership Advisor to the Climate Change Group of the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery. Donna began her career as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, where she contributed to research and case development on insurance and risk management topics. She then worked on capital strategies and capital raising for global insurance companies as an investment banker on Wall Street. She subsequently served as a Senior Columnist for Dow Jones, where her commentary on insurance and risk were featured in The Wall Street Journal. Donna is also the author of an acclaimed book on small business disaster preparation and recovery, a past winner at the International Women's Entrepreneurial Challenge, and recipient of the Woman Business Owner of the Year award by the National Association of Women Business Owners. She holds a BS from Yale University, an MBA from Columbia Business School, and is a graduate of the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School. In this episode… Regardless of how much people prepare for possible future disasters, sometimes the unexpected happens and tragedy strikes. This always leads to major shifts in people's lives, and in most cases, people experience long-term effects of the disaster. After the 9/11 tragedy, Donna Childs' life changed. She was left homeless and had to close her business. Her emotional and physical being were affected, and she often had nightmares months after the disaster. She, however, was able to get back on track and help other people and businesses with disaster management through her company, Prisere LLC. Donna Childs, the Founder and CEO of Prisere LLC, is Andrea Heuston's guest in this episode of the Lead Like A Woman Show, where she talks about her experience overcoming tragedy and helping others prepare for disaster management. Donna also explains how Prisere LLC was founded, her process of writing a book, and her advice for those working through a life change or disaster. Stay tuned.

In 2020, natural hazards like storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires caused more than $200 billion in damage worldwide and the death of 8,000 people. Since 1980, there have been 285 weather and climate-related disasters in the United States alone that have produced at least $1 billion in damage. In this two-part episode, we’re talking with Dr. Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Lead for Engineering With Nature®, and Dr. Brenden Jongman, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist with the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). Todd and Brenden discuss the World Bank’s approach to using natural infrastructure solutions to address some of the most pressing climate change challenges and the synergies with Engineering With Nature’s approach of using innovative natural and nature-based solutions. The World Bank’s increasing support in this area has recently been recognized by the World Resources Institute as one of their top outcomes of 2020 in their work with key partners.   The World Economic Forum estimates that by midcentury, $100 trillion dollars will be invested in infrastructure worldwide. In its role as an international financier, the World Bank’s overall objective is to end extreme poverty and build shared prosperity around the world. Climate change and natural hazards are strongly linked to poverty as the poor are often the most vulnerable. As Brenden notes, often a single natural disaster can push a family below the poverty line. The World Bank estimates that climate change will push an additional 100 million people globally into poverty in the coming years. As Todd and Brenden discuss, natural infrastructure is an important part of the solution to addressing multiple hazards, including those intensified by climate change, and creating community resilience. Natural infrastructure often has significant benefits over traditional concrete and rock infrastructure. Building a coastal park to provide flood risk management benefits can also create jobs and recreation opportunities, reduce heat island effects, provide trees that absorb carbon and contribute to achieving climate change targets, and provide much needed opportunities for nature experiences in urban settings.   The World Bank is making an estimated $1 billion in annual investments in projects applying nature-based solutions—a 20% increase since 2018. Their guidance, Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure and Implementing Nature-Based Flood Protection: Principles and Implementation Guidance, emphasizes the need to consider both conventional engineering and nature-based solutions in a more systematic way. They have been applying that approach in projects around the world for over a decade. The World Bank’s Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Community of Practice, and internal knowledge hub, was established in 2017 with support from the GFDRR. This year, the World Bank and GFDRR will launch a dedicated Global Program on NBS for Climate Resilience, to further scale up the knowledge, investments, and partnerships on NBS across the World Bank’s global activities.   As examples, Brenden talks about his experience in Madagascar and Mozambique. Madagascar is experiencing rapid, unplanned urbanization in a floodplain that is prone to more frequent and more extreme flooding due to climate change. In Mozambique in 2019, the rapidly growing coastal city of Beira faced one of the worst cyclones to hit the African continent. The World Bank’s work with the government of Mozambique on various initiatives, including development of one of the largest urban parks on the African continent, is strengthening the city’s resilience.   Todd reinforced the need for integrating conventional and nature-based engineering, noting the challenges that we're experiencing are very complex and really call for a diversified set of solutions that we can draw together and combine. We’ve just got to develop new, innovative solutions.     In Part 2 of this episode, we continue our discussion. Coping with environmental and climate crises in a normal year is one thing, but the past year as the world has been responding to COVID-19 has been unprecedented. Todd and Brenden discuss the opportunity for nature-based solutions to support post-pandemic recovery efforts. And they discuss the importance of the natural infrastructure guidelines their organizations have been working on to help policy- and decision-makers, project managers, and communities think differently about the role and value of nature-based solutions.     Related Links:  EWN Website ERDC Website Todd Bridges at LinkedIn Todd Bridges at EWN Brenden Jongman at LinkedIn     GFDRR website Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty – Background Papers Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure Implementing nature-based flood protection: principles and implementation guidance Leveraging nature-based solution for resilience (YouTube) What if we could use nature to prevent disasters? Factsheet on NBS portfolio Flagship report on NBS Nature-based solutions: a cost-effective approach for disaster risk and water resource management   Upscaling nature-based flood protection in Mozambique's cities: lessons learnt from Beira NY Times: Mozambique looks beyond Cyclone Idai to better protection in the future Blue barriers: a nature-based solution to build resilience Urban planning and nature-based solutions, keys for reducing flood risk in Panama Restoring a long-lost relationship with Rio Bogotá    

Today is a discussion of COUNTING THE DEAD, AND ACCOUNTING FOR CARE IN THE PANDEMIC with Jacqueline Wernimont and Robert Soden. Robert Soden is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto working on crisis informatics, human-centered computing (HCC), and science and technology studies (STS). His research uses a range of ethnographic, participatory, and design research methods to evaluate and improve the technologies we use to understand and respond to environmental challenges like disasters and climate change. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, and orior to starting his PhD, he was a researcher at the The Center for Neighborhood Technology and the World Resources Institute, a software developer at Development Seed, and a consultant to the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). Jacqueline Wernimont is Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement & Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College She is an anti-racist, feminist scholar working toward greater justice in digital cultures and a network weaver across humanities, arts, and sciences. Her first book, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media came out with MIT Press in 2019—it uses a two-part structure to historicize the counting of life and death in Britain and the United States.  She is also the co-editor of the recent Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities (with Elizabeth Losh).

Episode Newsletter:https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CentralAmericanNews/issues/political-violence-in-el-salvador-ahead-of-elections-318879Audio Clips SourcesEconomist Roger Arteaga speaks to Confidencial about customer protection lawhttps://confidencial.com.ni/economia/ley-que-protege-a-sancionados-causaria-una-catastrofe-en-la-banca/?utm_campaign=Central%20American%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletterTranslation: If Nicaragua forces banks to do this, the FATFA, which is the Financial Action Task Force who is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, will move them from the grey to black list. This would block all international operations that Nicaragua partakes in. It wouldn’t just be banks.Speaker for the National Coordination for Disaster Reduction of Guatemala speaks to Canal Antigua about the Pacaya Volcanohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oo4TQ3_XDsTranslation: He said that the volcano has had moderate and strong eruptions that reach 3200 meters above sea level. There are also fine ash particles in surrounding communities and ballistic like volcanic material shooting up to 5oo meters. There are rumbles and sounds similar to a locomotive train.

Myles Harris is a Ph.D. student at University College London, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. Myles is researching prolonged field care (healthcare) in remote environments and space. Myles is collaborating with the not-for-profit organization Remote Area Risk International and the Ministry of Defence, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. Connect with Myles on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MylesHarrisMH --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spaceexplr/support

UN INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR NATIONAL DISASTER REDUCTION Name of the Teacher: Ms. Aparna Gubba

Today is English Language Day, International Day for Disaster Reduction, International Day for Failure, Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, National Chess Day, National Face Your Fears Day, The Navy’s Birthday, Silly Sayings Dayand World Child Development Day Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Itstoday)

How Paradise Went Up in FlamesGuest: Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano, authors, "Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy"Destroying thousands of homes and claiming the lives of 85 people, the Camp Fire was among the deadliest in history. Reporters returned to Paradise, California to unearth stories of heroism and bravery amid the tragedy.  Blame the Scientists for Not Predicting an Earthquake?Guest: David Alexander, Professor, Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, and Vice-President, Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency ManagementOn April 6, 2009, an earthquake shook the city of L'Aquila, Italy, and took the lives of 309 people. After the rubble was cleared, five scientists and one government official were charged with comitting manslaughter for not warning the residents of L'Aquila before the earthquake happened. The judge found them guilty and they were all sentenced to six years in prison. Did the judge make the right call, or did he not understand the science at play?

Join us for the third episode of UCL's new podcast, ‘Coronavirus: The Whole Story' with Vivienne Parry. This week we're discussing how, and when, the lockdown in the UK might end. With special guests Paul Ormerod, Visiting Professor at the UCL Centre for Decision Making Uncertainty and Professor David Alexander, Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.More information and transcript here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts…avirus-whole-story See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Volcano PredictionGuest: Janine Kavanagh, Senior Lecturer in Geology and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of LiverpoolVolcanic eruptions are the stuff of ancient legend, cataclysmic historical events, and Hollywood apocalypse movies. Sounds perfect for 2020, right? We chat with a volcanologist and geoscientist to understand the science behind predicting volcanic eruptions. Predicting the UnpredictableGuest: David Alexander, Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London and Vice President of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management.In 2011 a group of Italian scientists were put on trial for bungling a warning to the public about a pending deadly earthquake. Much of the world was appalled at the notion that scientists were being prosecuted for failing to predict an earthquake. Except they weren't. The case was much more complicated, and the role of scientists much more problematic. The lessons for experts managing public risk and public health challenges are here for the taking.

Janine Kavanagh shares the science behind predicting volcanic eruptions. David Alexander, a professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London and Vice President of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, on the Italian earthquake prediction trials.

Join us for the third episode of UCL’s new podcast, ‘Coronavirus: The Whole Story’ with Vivienne Parry. This week we’re discussing how, and when, the lockdown in the UK might end. With special guests Paul Ormerod, Visiting Professor at the UCL Centre for Decision Making Uncertainty and Professor David Alexander, Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. More information and transcript here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus-whole-story

International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction 2019 | Rathinavani 90.8 CR | Special Interview Chapter's The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction was started in 1989, after a call by the United Nations General Assembly for a day to promote a global culture of risk-awareness and disaster reduction. Held every 13 October, the day celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters and raising awareness about the importance of reining in the risks that they face. 2019 Theme: Reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services

In this episode, we share six logical and also some radical ideas for how we can improve the support provided to communities who are living with the risk of disasters while also contending with conflict. Interviewees: • Chitra Nagarajan, Senior Advisor, Centre for Civilians in Conflict • Oenone Chadburn, Head of Humanitarian Support, Tearfund • Kassem Chalaan, Disaster Risk Reduction Programme Manager, Lebanese Red Cross • Raghida Abdel El Hamid Chasim, Director, Takmiliyat Al Kobba Secondary School • Animesh Kumar, Deputy Chief, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UNDRR • Rina Meutia, Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery • Dr Ayesha Siddiqi, Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London • Loretta Hieber Girardet, Regional Director, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction for Asia and the Pacific

In this episode, we are excited to have two guests, who both work for a trust fund housed within the World Bank, discussing their vision for a world where resilient societies manage and adapt to ever-changing disasters. We get an in-depth look at how they are piloting different and innovative ways to manage disaster risks using technology. Guests: Emma Phillips Solomon, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery  Vivien Deparday, Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery 

  This week Ilan Kelman joins us to talk about climate change and the link to disaster risk. Ilan is a Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and UCL Institute for Global Health, UK, and a researcher at the University of Agder, Norway. We discuss whether climate change is to blame for disasters, and how we should talk about the issue. As is the case in many of our conversations so far, we discuss how disasters are not natural and why language and communication is so important.    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Visit Ilan's incredibly interesting website and find out more about his work.  A sample of his academic work - Climate Change’s Role in Disaster Risk Reduction’s Future: Beyond Vulnerability and Resilience A popular science article about climate change and disasters for the Conversation.    Our guests: Ilan Kelman (@IlanKelman)   Music this week from "Hiemal" by Charlie Ryan.

A very strongly worded, meta-review paper (looking at 73 historical reports from around the world published over the past 13 years) has just been published looking at the fate of insects around the world. The researchers have collated other people’s research, including the big 27 year study from Germany, that showed 75% loss of insects by weight (biomass). The basic headlines are quite scary: 40% of insect species are declining; 33% are endangered; we’re losing a total mass of 2.5% of insects every year. The reviewers blame habitat loss by conversion to intensive agriculture as the main driver for the declines, plus agro-chemicals, invasive species and climate change adding to the burden. Adam Rutherford speaks to insect expert Professor Adam Hart from the University of Gloucestershire to discuss numbers and consequences. It’s quickly being realised that the composition of microbes in our guts is vital to our health. Scientists working on the gut microbiome have discovered and isolated more than 100 completely new species of bacteria from healthy human intestines. It’s hoped that these new techniques to isolate and grow these novel bugs, will give us insight into how our microbiome keeps us healthy. After covering the story about the Earth’s early core accretion and the clues found in rocks about the early magnetic field, listener Neil Tugwell emailed BBC Inside Science to ask for more information about geomagnetic switching. Are we heading for another flip of the magnetic poles? And what might be the impact on GPS? Adam gets the answers from Dr. Robert Wicks, lecturer in space risk in the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. Producer: Fiona Roberts

We speak with Dr. Wei-sen Li of Taiwan's National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction about what this month's earthquake disaster in Tainan reveals about Taiwan's earthquake preparedness.

We speak with Dr. Wei-sen Li of Taiwan's National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction about what this month's earthquake disaster in Tainan reveals about Taiwan's earthquake preparedness.

This Lecture was recorded at The Academy 2014. You can find out about the Academy 2015 here: http://www.instituteofideas.com/event...About the speaker Frank Furedi is Emeritus professor of Sociology, University of Kent and Visiting Professor, Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London.During the past 15 years Furedi’s studies have been devoted to an exploration of the cultural developments that influence the construction of contemporary risk consciousness. During the past decade his research has been oriented towards the way that risk and uncertainty is managed by contemporary culture. He has published widely about controversies relating to issues such as health, parenting children, food and new technology. His Invitation to Terror; Expanding the Empire of the Unknown (2007) explores the way in which the threat of terrorism has become amplified through the ascendancy of possibilistic thinking. It develops the arguments contained in two previous books The Culture of Fear (2003) and Paranoid Parenting (2001). Both of these works investigate the interaction between risk consciousness and perceptions of fear, trust relations and social capital in contemporary society. His work on trust has been developed through a historical investigation of the meaning of authority, which was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2013 as Authority, A Sociological History. His latest book; First World War: Still No End in Sight was published earlier this year.Furedi’s books and articles provide an authoritative yet lively account of key developments in contemporary cultural life. Using his insight as a professional sociologist, Furedi has produced a series of agenda-setting books that have been widely discussed in the media. Furedi regularly comments on radio and television. In the past year he has appeared on Newsnight, Sky and BBC News, The Today Programme, Moral Maze and a variety of other radio television shows. His has been interviewed by the media in Australia, Canada, the United States, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Brazil, and Germany and other countries.

Dale Sands is a Senior Vice President and Global Practice Director at AECOM and most recently spent two years as AECOM's Environment Business Line Managing Director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Dale was appointed Vice Chair of the United Nations Private Sector Advisory Group for Disaster Reduction, and led AECOM's collaborative partnership with IBM in developing the Climate Change “Resilient Cities” Scorecard for the UN. In his EMEA Managing Director role, Dale successfully launched AECOM's Environment business in Africa and re-established the Environment business in the Middle East. As a Global Environmental Practices Director, Dale will continue to lead AECOM's global technical experts in Air and Environmental Health & Safety Compliance Services, Impact Assessment & Permitting, Remediation, and the Emerging Technologies of Climate Adaption, Nanotechnology, Acoustics, Process Engineering, and Geographic Information Systems.

The Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction talks about M.O.I. 's recent crackdown on unlicensed lodgings in disaster prone areas, and other projects to reduce the risk of natural disasters.

The Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction talks about M.O.I. 's recent crackdown on unlicensed lodgings in disaster prone areas, and other projects to reduce the risk of natural disasters.

To mark the United Nations International Day for Disaster Reduction, we look at why hospitals must be ready to provide health care in times of crisis.