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Keep it simple: helping local governments reduce the risk from the next disaster
The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction aims to make communities safer in the face of new disasters but could complex guidance be confusing issues? Flooding in cities like Dar es Salaam...
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The 7th i-Rec conference is here!
For the past few weeks I have had the i-Rec conference on my mind, while ensuring CGI gets delivered to remotest regions in Nepal. Now I am in London UCL, to welcome 120 registered participants to the...
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i-Rec Conference 2015 – Day 1 Review
The 7th i-Rec conference got underway yesterday. As Cassidy Johnson explained in the introductory session, the network began in 2002 with just 20 people. This year an impressive 120 people are here in...
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i-Rec Conference 2015 – Day 2 Review
The 2015 i-Rec conference continued on Tuesday 7 July with another packed day. The morning keynote panel saw Frederick Kimgold focus on regulatory initiatives to build urban resilience – these include...
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i-Rec Conference 2015 – Day 3 Review
The i-Rec conference 2015 started its final day on Wednesday 8 July with a plenary session, as has been the format for the previous mornings. Maggie Stephenson asked what is the relationship between...
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India’s tea capital can recover from devastating floods – if the government...
Heavy flooding has affected more than a million people in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, with 45 dead and more than 200,000 in relief camps. However, there is still very little coverage of...
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Mapping Everyday and Episodic Risks
The cLIMA sin Riesgo research project in Lima, Peru, adopts participatory mapping as a means to gather quantitative and qualitative information to capture varying degrees of natural and man-made...
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Climate-induced resettlement risk
I attended the Hugo Conference in Liège/Luik, Belgium from the 3rd – 5th Nov. 2016. The conference marked the creation of The Hugo Observatory for Environmental Migration at the University of Liège,...
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The Amazonian city in Peru at crossroads
The contemporary urbanisation of Amazonas is a geopolitical creation, and a recent phenomenon. For long time native communities have been living in sparse, often isolated, settlements. Adapting to the...
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