Ilan KelmanMay 5
New Book: "Understanding and Addressing #DisasterRisk"
Free PDF from https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003292814 with thanks to UCL Open Access.
 
And a reminder of the free PDF book published in February:
"Development and Disasters: Natural hazards and vulnerability reduction" (2nd ed.).
https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3006/development-and-disasters with thanks to UCL Open Access.
 
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement
Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk | Who Speaks? Who Suffers?

In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature

Taylor & Francis
Ilan KelmanApr 18
Just-published #PhotoEssay:
"Working #equids supporting women's #DisasterRiskManagement"
https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2025-431
 
A collaboration between Brooke - Action for Working #Horses and #Donkeys and University College London.
 
Previous #DisasterResearch photo essays:
1. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2024.2395798
2. https://doi.org/10.24564/0002019687 (scroll down for the PDF).
3. https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2023.v4si106
 
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #GenderDisaster #DisasterGender #Mules #WorkingAnimals #AnimalsDisasters #DisastersAnimals
Ilan KelmanFeb 28

New book:
"Development and Disasters: Natural hazards and vulnerability reduction" (2nd ed.) by J. Lewis and I. Kelman.

Free PDF download https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3006/development-and-disasters thanks to UCL Open Access.

Practical Action Publishing.

#OpenAccess #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #development #hazards #NaturalHazards #vulnerability #resilience

Development and Disasters

Ilan KelmanFeb 13
Gender, Disaster, and the Sendai Framework: A Decade of Progress?
18 March 2025, 1830-2100.
At University College London, UK, in-person only, recorded for YouTube.
Programme and registration https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/events/2025/mar/gender-disaster-and-sendai-framework-decade-progress
 
#GenderDisaster #DisasterGender #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #DisasterPrevention
Gender, Disaster, and the Sendai Framework: A Decade of Progress?

Join us to mark the Sendai Framework's 10th anniversary and the 6th anniversary of the UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster, exploring disaster risk reduction through a gender lens.

UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction
Ilan KelmanFeb 13
Study for a disaster Master's degree at University College London, UK.
See https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/study/masters-programmes for applications and funding for:
-MSc Risk, Disaster and Resilience.
-MSc Risk and Disaster Science.
-MRes Risk and Disaster Reduction.
Deadlines: Non-UK 4 April and UK 29 August.
 
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters
Master's Programmes

Risk and disaster reduction, particularly within the contexts of dealing with uncertainty and increasing resilience, are high on local, national and international agendas.

UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction
Headlines AfricaFeb 10
Africa: WFP, FAO Warn of the Severity of the Climate Crisis and Food Insecurity: [IPS] United Nations -- Over the past few years, climate shocks have become more frequent and have devastated economies and agriculture systems, exacerbating widespread malnutrition and hunger. It has become increasingly apparent that the utilization of sustainable agriculture practices and disaster… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THtTHH #ClimateCrisis #FoodInsecurity #SustainableAgriculture #DisasterRiskManagement #Malnutrition
Ilan KelmanFeb 8
Job opportunity:
Lecturer (Teaching) in Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=31863
Full-time, permanent contract
Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, UK
Closing date 28 February 2025
 
#DRR #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #ScienceJobs #Humanitarianism #CrisisManagement #HumanitarianOperations #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement
UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Work at UCL
Ilan KelmanJan 31
"Katastrophen aus Menschenhand" https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68680-5
The #German translation of "Disaster by Choice" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/disaster-by-choice-9780198841357
 
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #Katastrophen
Ilan KelmanJan 27
#MoreThanHuman #risk #anthropology: #cetaceans beach https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550416000252 while:
1. #Ostriches do not bury their heads https://doi.org/10.1080/00359199509520346
2. #Lemmings do not complete mass suicide https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtu015
3. #Elephants likely forget https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00655-y
4. #Frogs will not boil alive in slowly-heated water https://doi.org/10.1086/physzool.41.4.30155478 (or https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/07/3085614.htm )
 
Any others?
 
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #Animals #AnimalsInDisasters
Cetacean beachings correlate with geomagnetic disturbances in Earth's magnetosphere: an example of how astronomical changes impact the future of life | International Journal of Astrobiology | Cambridge Core

Cetacean beachings correlate with geomagnetic disturbances in Earth's magnetosphere: an example of how astronomical changes impact the future of life - Volume 16 Issue 2

Cambridge Core
Ilan KelmanJan 17
"Researching equids and disaster risk management"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/researching-equids-disaster-risk-management-the-brooke-u4ahe
With @Brooke and @gemma
 
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #Equids #Horses #Donkeys #Mules #Animals #AnimalsInDisasters
Researching equids and disaster risk management

Guest Contribution by Ilan Kelman, University College London, UK and University of Agder, Norway. Working horses, donkeys and mules are essential for the communities, environments, and livelihoods of many people around the world.