Bath Spa University (UK) 'hazard risk and disaster' webinar series 2020-2021

The Bath Spa University (UK) 'Hazard, Risk and Disaster' Research Webinar Series 2020-2021, brings international speakers together with an audience to discuss the latest research, policy and practice, addressing DRR and climate change adaptation themes. This will be of interest to academic, government and NGO organisations.

When:  Selected wednesday afternoons (UK time) between Ocotber 2020 and January 2021; 10 scheduled events

How to Join: Free, via the BSU HRD webpage (see links), and click on the 'book now' icons for each event you are interested in. 

2020/21 Hazard, Risk and Disaster (HRD) Research Seminar Series will be held online. Please visit the event pages for more information and a booking form to register your place.

• 7 October 2020: Reconstructing climate from Late Glacial subfossil trees – Dr Maren Pauly (Bath Spa University)
• 21 October 2020: The political ecology of drip irrigation infrastructure: efficiency and gendered labour dynamics in India – Prof. Trevor Birkenholtz (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• 28 October 2020: Reconstructing and re-evaluating historical droughts and impacts in the British and Irish Isles – Prof. Conor Murphy (Maynooth University, Ireland)
• 4 November 2020: Engineering a season of floods – colonial and postcolonial politics of embankments in North Bihar, India – Amitangshu Acharya (University of Edinburgh)
• 11 November 2020: Environment mobility in the digital age: the case of Bangladesh – Dr. Ingrid Boas (Wageningen University)
• 18 November 2020: Water related adaptation responses: do they reduce climate-related impacts and risks? – Dr. Aditi Mukherji (IWMI New Delhi)
• 18 November 2020: Evolving disaster risk in the Kullu-Manali region, Himachal Pradesh, India – Prof. James Gardner (University of Manitoba & University of Victoria, Canada)
• 2 December 2020: Deciphering past flood disaster in high mountain regions based on tree-ring records – Dr Juan Antonio Ballesteros- Canovas (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
• 9 December 2020: In search of incredible India - Spiti Valley – Pushpam Singh (Kraft Films) and Dr Kesar Chand (GBP NIHE, India)
• 20 January 2021: Radon, health and natural hazards – Prof. Gavin Gillmore (Bath Spa University)