As of July 1 Risk Frontiers is now a privately owned R&D company, having spun out of Macquarie University, its former home for some 23 years. The centre is excited about the journey ahead and believes its newly acquired independent…
There has been a recent increase in the body of knowledge related to children and disasters. These studies converge into three main fields of research: the impact of disasters on children and their psychological recovery, the integration of disaster risk…
In this issue: A Natural Hazard Building Loss Profile for Australia: 1900-2015 Risk Frontiers’ Annual Seminar: A Provisional Programme Weather-related Natural Disasters: Should we be concerned about a reversion to the mean? A Natural Hazard Building Loss Profile for Australia:…
Ryan Crompton and Paul Somerville, Risk Frontiers. Newton’s laws of motion describe the motion of an object in an inertial (non-accelerating) frame of reference. When Newton’s laws are transformed to a rotating frame of reference (such as the earth’s surface),…
Professor Roger Pielke Jr (University of Colorado Boulder) Roger is a long-term Research Fellow of Risk Frontiers and recently it was our pleasure to be able to host him, once again, in Sydney. During this visit, we were rewarded with…
New South Wales in 2017 experienced one of its hottest summers on records including several Heatwave events. With the support of the Bureau of Meteorology and the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, Risk Frontiers completed a study of…
