"Value Yes, Chain No: Warnings Beyond Linearity"
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/warning-research-centre/2026/01/21/value-yes-chain-no-warnings-beyond-linearity/
#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterWarning #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems
It was a privilege to write two #ScienceCommunication articles for the UK's Royal Museums Greenwich including the National Maritime Museum:
1. "Atolls and climate change" https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocean/atolls-climate-change
2. "Coastal storms and climate change" https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocean/coastal-storms-climate-change
#oceans #climate #climatechange #islands #DRR #StormSurge #atolls #IslandStudies #storms
Disasters Avoided Newsletter 11: Communications and Engagement
https://mailchi.mp/cd335e827549/the-disasters-avoided-newsletter
Urban 2.0 Newsletter 8: Ideas to Make Cities & Towns Better
https://mailchi.mp/344d00f2862f/the-urban-2-zero-newsletter-14197204
#DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters #UrbanResilience
New open access chapter:
Working #Equids in #Disasters
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00313-3_4
In "The Palgrave Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions in the Global Context of Climate Change, Disasters, and Other Crises" Edited by H. Wu, K. Breen, S.E. DeYoung, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00313-3
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #AnimalsDisasters #DisastersAnimals
Recent newsletters:
1. #Warning Research Centre newsletter https://mailchi.mp/d6df32c4e7c7/warning-research-centre-october-2025-newsletter-6741764 #EWS #WarningSystems
2. #DisastersAvoided newsletter https://mailchi.mp/9ac4eaca5c4c/the-disasters-avoided-newsletter
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters ).
Recently published:
1. "Planetary Dysregulation and Our #MentalHealth" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202510/planetary-dysregulation-and-our-mental-health
2. "The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on #Health and #ClimateChange" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01919-1/abstract #ClimateHealth #HealthClimate
3. "Operational #Ethics for Researching #Geohazards" https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03754-1_5 #Geoethics
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters).
New #PhotoEssay:
"Floodscapes for Inland Waterscapes: #Floods do not need to mean #disasters"
https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.266
More #PhotoEssays on avoiding #disasters:
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
4. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2025-431
#IslandStudies #resilience #vulnerability #DRR #ScienceArt #ArtScience #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #GenderDisaster #DisasterGender
"Antarctic Disasters - And Avoiding Them"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL3u5rsYO5c
Presentation at the 2025 Conference of SCAR SC-HASS (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Standing Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences)
#Antarctic #Antarctica #PolarResearch #DisastersAvoided #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement
"Crisis and Risk Psychology in Norway" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202510/crisis-and-risk-psychology-in-norway
#Norway #Norge #DRR #CrisisPreparedness #SystemicRisk #LocalGovernance #Governance #DisasterRisk #RiskGovernance #DisasterRiskGovernance #DisasterRiskReduction #Psychology #PsychologyToday #CrisisPsychology
Disasters Avoided Newsletter 10: disasters and the climate
https://mailchi.mp/9ac4eaca5c4c/the-disasters-avoided-newsletter
#DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
New free-to-download paper:
"Crisis Preparedness and Systemic Risk: The Role of Municipal Leaders in Disaster Risk Governance in Norway"
https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.70015
With Sofie Steinsund, Gianluca Pescaroli, Jarle Eid
#Norway #Norge #DRR #CrisisPreparedness #SystemicRisk #LocalGovernance #Governance #DisasterRisk #RiskGovernance #DisasterRiskGovernance #DisasterRiskReduction
Delighted and honoured to be working with the Royal College of Art on a three-year research project to investigate warning sounds:
"Scoring Warnings"
https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/rca-led-research-project-awarded-grant-to-investigate-emergency-signals
#ArtScience #ScienceArt #MusicArt #ArtMusic #EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterWarning #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #EW4All #WarningsForAll #WarningForAll #Warning4All #Warnings4All
"Measuring Eco-anxiety, or Not: Examining scales and indices for trauma from environmental change"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/disaster-by-choice/202509/measuring-eco-anxiety-or-not
#ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #Solastalgia #Symbiocene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDoom #EcoInspiration #EcoHope #ClimateChange #Climate #DRR #Doomerism #Doomism #Anthropocene #Futurism #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateStress #EcoAnxiety #DRR #MenthalHealth #GlobalHealth #Health #PlanetaryHealth
New book:
"Small States and International Law"
https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/57234
Edited by Petra Butler, Jean-Pierre Gauci, and Georgia Greville.
My chapter "Disasters and Small States".
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #SmallStates #InternationalLaw
"Tsunamis and atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful"
https://www.preventionweb.net/drr-community-voices/tsunamis-and-atolls-why-warnings-must-be-locally-meaningful
#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterWarning #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #IslandStudies #Atolls #Tsunami #Tsunamis #NoNaturalDisasters #DisastersAreNotNatural #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters
2Pac // #2Pac //
I Ain't Mad At Cha featuring Danny Boy (uncensored version)
[album All Eyez on Me, 1996]
//via // #DeathRowRecords #InterscopeRecords //
#buzzingroom #music #youtube #TupacShakur #2Pac #Makaveli #Tupac #TupacAllEyezOnMe #IAintMadAtCha #DannyBod #DeBarge #ADream #DazDillinger #DrewArnaud #DRR #Interscope
link youtube: https://youtu.be/d-ELnDPmI8w
"Psychosocial Impacts of Belgium’s 2021 Floods"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202508/psychosocial-impacts-of-belgiums-2021-floods
#DisasterPsychology #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #FloodRiskReduction #FloodRiskManagement #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters #Flood #Floods #Flooding #Belgium #Vesdre #VesdreValley #Meuse #RiverMeuse #Liège #Liege
Disasters Avoided Newsletter #9 - July 2025
Focus on disaster #finance and #insurance
https://mailchi.mp/9d23586aafdb/the-disasters-avoided-newsletter
#DisastersAvoided
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters
