By Chas Keys. In New Orleans: 11 Years after Katrina (Briefing Note 317: May 2016), John McAneney and Foster Langbein cite an observation from sociologist Shirley Laska, Professor Emerita at the University of New Orleans. Laska argues that decisions and…
Congratulations to Stuart Mead and Tetsuya Okada pictured here with their supervisors Christina Magill and Kat Haynes. Tetsuya Okada’s PhD investigated recent disaster recovery and risk reduction processes in Australia and Japan. Read more. Stuart Mead’s PhD developed and integrated computational…
This article by Freya Jones, published in Asia Pacific Fire Magazine, October 3, refers to research undertaken the CRC research team led by Katharine Haynes, Risk Frontiers. Fatalities from floods are a major cause of natural hazard deaths around the…
This article by Thomas Loridan, Risk Frontiers, was published in Asia Pacific Fire Magazine, October 3, 2017. Extreme winds from tropical cyclones (TCs) regularly threaten communities worldwide. In recent decades significant efforts have been put towards improving our understanding of…
This article by Andrew Gissing, Risk Frontiers, was published in Asia Pacific Fire Magazine, October 3, 2017. Australia is exposed to a variety of natural and technological disaster risks, which vary in their significance across the nation. Communities are faced…
Andrew Gissing and Dr Chas Keys. Devastating floods have occurred last month in Texas, USA, inundating large parts of America’s fourth largest city, Houston, as a consequence of Hurricane Harvey. Thousands of people have required rescue, and as of the…
