A5022034032- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Risk Perception and Management
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Thermal Regulation in Medicine
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Seismology and Earthquake Studies
- Landslides and related hazards
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
University of Cambridge
2020-2024
Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2017-2018
University College London
2017-2018
King's College London
2016-2018
Coventry University
2012
Despite reaching heights of >6 m and destroying a sizeable coastal settlement at the head Baie Martelli (Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, South Pacific), 26 November 1999 tsunamis caused only five fatalities from threatened population about 300 persons, most whom fled inland upslope before waves struck. This remarkable survival rate is attributed to both indigenous knowledge, largely in form kastom information obtained video that was shown area three weeks earlier. Interviews with 55 persons who...
ABSTRACTThe intensely active 2017 Atlantic basin hurricane season provided an opportunity to examine how climate drivers, including warming oceans and rising seas, exacerbated tropical cyclone hazards. The also highlighted the unique vulnerabilities of populations residing on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) catastrophic potential these storms. During 2017, 22 29 Caribbean SIDS were affected by at least one named storm, multiple experienced extreme damage. This paper aims review...
Islandness is a contested concept, not just between disciplines but also cultures, entangled with what islands, island studies, and identity are understood to be. The purpose of this article explore some these different meanings, without necessarily unifying or reconciling them, the aim keeping multiple understandings islandness in creative tension. We begin by considering as smallness, recognizing that though many entry points into studies relate size way, constitutes small dependent on...
Purpose While the South Pacific is often cited as highly vulnerable to impacts of climate change, there comparatively little known about how different groups perceive change. Understanding gaps and differences between risk perceived a prerequisite designing effective sustainable adaptation strategies. Design/methodology/approach This research examined three key in Samoa, Fiji Vanuatu: secondary school teachers, media personnel, rural subsistence livelihood-based communities that live near or...
Lonquimay is ranked as the 12th most dangerous volcano in Chile. Several settlements are located within 20 km with a diverse mix of residents and livelihoods. Conservation areas growing tourist economy sit alongside Indigenous groups farming. These have varied ways knowing volcanoes volcanic landscapes; this knowledge generated through lived experience, memories, collectively held imaginaries. This paper presents data collected from semi-structured interviews community members living near...
This Progress Report reviews the geographical literature concerning environmental hazards and risk focussing particularly on areas that require enhance interdisciplinary working between human physical geographers. Although there are still substantial gaps disciplinary siloes, is a growing recognition critical work vital. Key include early warning, urban planning, hazard mapping, scientific advisory processes, communication institutional geographies. We review some of this work, examine...
Heatwaves are predicted to become more intense worldwide, posing a serious threat health and development, necessitating adaptation, such as the development of early warning systems (EWS). India is particularly exposed, with recent heatwaves demonstrating significant vulnerabilities. This research examines case Ahmedabad, India, which created South Asia's first Heat Action Plan (HAP) in 2013. Ahmedabad's HAP provides framework for implementation, coordination, evaluation heat response...
There is a critical need for effective and sustained adaptation to the effects of climate change indigenous peoples. Despite this, policies often neglect cultural values that we show be crucial their ability respond, instead prioritise instrumental scientific framings change.Rural communities in Peruvian Andes are already feeling negative impacts change, further expected arrive comparatively early particularly damaging mountains. Therefore there pressing ensure undertaken. Rural studied...
This paper combines assemblage theory, feminist ethics of care and decolonial theory to build on recent work in disaster studies that seeks address the systematic intersectional inequalities underlie emergence disaster. We argue Western logics “risk” do not always have traction with communities, so researchers must “stay trouble” engaging tensions between lifeworlds. suggest geographical imaginaries provide a means analyze diverse ways being knowing are involved this process.
The role that culture plays in the way different groups experience, respond to, and recover from disasters has been widely discussed. Yet, while there is a considerable (and growing) literature of case study evidence for need to account disasters, comparatively few studies take long-term perspective on cultural interactions with resulting lack exploration into diachronic nature these responses, both past present. does exist tends also focus either western cultures or pursue highly...
Vent opening hazard models are routinely used as inputs for assessing distal volcanic hazards (lava flows, tephra fallout) in distributed fields. These vent have traditionally relied on the location of mapped vents; seldom they taken into account how vents linked space and time. We show that needed to appropriately model fundamentally different than thoses required near-vent (ground deformation). provide a computational obtain more appropriate eruptive source parameters (ESPs) sources...
How to recognise potential disasters is a question at the centre of risk analysis. Over-reliance on an incomplete, often epistemologically-biased, historical record, and focus quantified quantifiable risks, have contributed unanticipated dominating both casualties financial losses in first part 21st century. Here we present findings online workshop implementing new scenario-planning method, called downward counterfactual analysis, which designed expand range risks considered....
Heatwaves are predicted to become more intense worldwide, posing a serious threat health and development, necessitating adaptation, such as the development of early warning systems (EWS). India is particularly exposed, with heatwaves demonstrating significant vulnerabilities.This research examines case Ahmedabad, India, which created South Asia’s first Heat Action Plan (HAP) in 2013. Ahmedabad’s HAP serves framework for implementation, coordination, evaluation an EWS among other heat...
Este ensayo visual pan.able, titulado «Panorama de la Patagonia», describe costa y cronología Patagonia noroccidental, que forma parte una región ecológicamente muy dinámica. Los pueblos indígenas recorrieron estas costas durante milenios fueron testigos del retroceso los glaciares, drástica subida nivel mar las repetidas erupciones volcánicas, entre otros cambios climáticos. La ocupación permanente zona cercana al volcán Chaitén, en chilena, comenzó hace tan solo un siglo, cuando pobladores...
This pan.able visual essay traces both a coastline and timeline of northwestern Patagonia, which is part highly dynamic environmental region. Indigenous peoples who traversed its coast for millennia were witnesses to glacial retreat, dramatic sea level rise, repeated volcanic eruptions amongst other landscape climate changes. Permanent settlement the area near Chaitén volcano in Chilean Patagonia began only century ago, when settlers from areas (including Osorno, Chiloe islands, Argentina)...