UCL Minds Lunch Hour Lectures 
Dr Ilan Kelman, Reader, Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction; Institute for Global Health, UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences; UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences.
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and (some) Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.10 – 1.55pm
@IlanKelman is also a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. That covers three main areas: (i) disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy http://www.disasterdiplomacy.org ; (ii) island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations http://www.islandvulnerability.org ; and (iii) risk education for health and disasters http://www.riskred.org
About the lecture: An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, fighting to destroy us through these ‘natural disasters’. Science recounts a different story, that ‘natural disasters’ do not exist. Instead, we put ourselves in harm’s way and we fail to take measures which we know will avoid disasters, no matter what the environment does–including for climate change. This lecture describes the science behind why disasters are not natural because we create them and we can choose to prevent them.
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