Call for panels - Needs 2022: Global disasters

Disasters research is ever more salient today. Weather related incidents fueled by climate change have filled the news for years while the Covid-19 pandemic has overshadowed everything else during the past year and a half. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report highlights the need for immediate global attention and that radical societal transformation is required in the coming years to limit dangerous climate change. Global disasters, both present and future, have become part of common understanding and the public debate. What is the best response to the contagion of a novel virus? How can the next pandemic be avoided? Is it feasible to halt global warming? And how can we become resilient to more extreme weather events? These are all questions that are fundament to academic disaster studies, but can now be read in the newspapers or heard on the news almost on a daily basis. These questions can only be answered with an inter-disciplinary lens.

Organizers:

• Organisers- The Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research
• Co-Organisers- Asian Dynamics Initiative and Global Development Network, University of Copenhagen.

When and where?

The Northern European emergency and disaster studies conference 2022 (NEEDS 2022) will take place 1-3 November 2022 at the Faculty of Law, located at University of Copenhagen’s Southern Campus.

Call for panels:

We are looking forward to your call for panels, please bare in mind that the overall theme is "Global Disaster" and be related to either Health, Climate Change and disaster risk reduction and development.

• Please send your panel suggestions to amalie.hautop@jur.ku.dk
• Deadline is no later than April 15 2022