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Conferences and Presentations
IHRR's Breaking the Mold:Humanitarian Aid and Empowering Local Communities Conference
Baroness Valerie Amos discusses the issues surrounding delivering humanitarian aid in disaster situations and the research taking place at Durham University.
International Landslide Centre
Prof Dave Petley on how landslide hazards impact communities
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How landslides affect people's lives and why people live in landslide-prone areas.
Dr Nick Rosser on the cause of landslide hazards and how to mitigate them
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How the International Landslide Centre is working with communities to help mitigate against landslide hazards.
Tipping Points
Tipping Points - Uncovering the climate of the past in Greenland - Part 2
Scientists travel to Greenland to collect artefacts that will help them uncover the mystery of a rapid cooling event that took place in the North Atlantic around 5000 years ago. This will help to discover how the Earth's climate systems may change in the future.
Tipping Points - Uncovering the climate of the past in Greenland
Scientists travel to Greenland to collect artefacts that will help them uncover the mystery of a rapid cooling event that took place in the North Atlantic around 5000 years ago. This will help to discover how the Earth's climate systems may change in the future.
Principles based approach to financial regulation
A discussion addressing the need for principles-based approaches to regulating financial services to build market resilience.
Financial Crises: The Need to Learn from History
Prof Roman Tomasic and Dr Folarin Akinbami discuss how we must learn from past financial crises and address the problem of 'moral hazard', where financial companies and individuals make irresponsible decisions and externalise the consequences of their actions onto others.