S1E13 - Climate Change

Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast

English - August 26, 2019 10:00 - 31 minutes - 35.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Previous Episode: S1E12 - Disaster Myths

Next Episode: S1E14 - Empire

This week Ilan Kelman joins us to talk about climate change and the link to disaster risk. Ilan is a Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and UCL Institute for Global Health, UK, and a researcher at the University of Agder, Norway.

We discuss whether climate change is to blame for disasters, and how we should talk about the issue. As is the case in many of our conversations so far, we discuss how disasters are not natural and why language and communication is so important.

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Further information:

Visit Ilan's incredibly interesting website and find out more about his work.

A sample of his academic work - Climate Change’s Role in Disaster Risk Reduction’s Future: Beyond Vulnerability and Resilience

A popular science article about climate change and disasters for the Conversation.

Our guests:

Ilan Kelman (@IlanKelman)

Music this week from "Hiemal" by Charlie Ryan.