Seminar: Conceptions and Epistemologies of “Crisis” in regard to Disasters, Migration and Refugees
Our professor Mo Hamza have organised a seminar on Conceptions and Epistemologies of “Crisis” in regard to Disasters, Migration and Refugees. The seminar will consist of three half-hour presentations and an open discussion. More information in the abstract and program below. When and where: Wednesday 25 April 2018 09:15 – 12:00 Pufendorf IAS [...]
Anmäl till kurs i Venedig: Critical Infrastructure Resilience
Forskare vid avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet medverkar i en uppföljare till en lyckad sommarkurs i Venedig med fokus på kritiska infrastrukturers resiliens. Anmälan till kursen är öppen till den 29 mars.
Per Becker publishes a journal article focusing on how development may aggravate disaster risk in South Pacific communities
The world is changing rapidly, as are the remotest rural communities. Modernity is spreading across the world under the guise of development and it is transforming disaster risk. This raises issues concerning how disaster risk is changing in such milieus. Using a sustainable livelihood approach, this article investigates access to different types [...]
Welcome to a Seminar on Climate Resilience
Three stories from Syria set the scene for a conversation between Tom Downing and Mo Hamza, chaired by Emily Boyd and including active engagement with the audience. The conversation begins with Tom noting the uncomfortable location of climate resilience as the interspace between the many big data of climate-impacts science and the complexity and [...]
VR international postdoc to Åse Johannessen
Åse Johannessen got awarded a VR international postdoc grant entitled "Living with floods: Social learning for sustainable flood risk management”. The grant will fund her interesting research for three years, investigating transition processes to more resilient and sustainable approaches and practices in flood risk management through a comparative [...]
SSV-seminarium Stockholm 22 November
CenCIP anordnar ett seminarium i Stockholm den 22 november med fokus på aktuella frågor och utmaningar inom området skydd av samhällsviktig verksamhet.
Application for 2018-2020 Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Master's Programme is now open
Our two-year interdisciplinary Master of Science programme is now open for application. You are welcome to apply if you are looking for a balanced theoretical and practical learning journey that aims to address the changing global risk landscape and to develop safe and sustainable societies. The Master’s programme has been endorsed by a number of [...]
A warm welcome to our new visiting PhD student Mark Aguinaldo
Our Division is pleased to welcome Mark Aguinaldo who has just joined us as a visiting PhD student for the next eight months. Hailing from the Philippines, Mark researches on the risk management - climate change adaptation nexus from a business continuity perspective. His exchange visit in Sweden complements his postgraduate studies in [...]
Mo Hamza has published a new article on Forced Migration Review with two DRMCCA master students
Professor Mo Hamza together with two students, Ida Koch and Malte Plewa from our Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation MSc programme has published a new article "Disaster-induced displacement in the Caribbean and the Pacific" in Forced Migration Review (FMR) issue 56. The article presents their research findings arguing that people [...]
LUCRAM open lecture by Terry Cannon
"Who decides how a problem is to be understood?"