Our Research

The Institute is developing three areas of activity through interdisciplinary research, allowing problems to be framed in different ways and new theoretical approaches and understandings to be developed in relation to existing problems:

Hazard

How hazards are produced, particularly environmental hazards and notably landslides, floods, droughts, volcanoes and earthquakes, but also those emerging in surprising ways, such as socio-technological and financial hazards.

Risk

Addressing the pervasive nature of risk in society including how risk is perceived and defined using different conceptual frameworks in research while developing new ways to mitigate risks as well as strategies to live with reoccurring risks.

Resilience

Create new ways to build resilience from the ground up by engaging with communities who are the focus of research while bridging scientific and local or indigenous knowledge to reduce vulnerability to hazard events.