Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience
We stimulate and support thought and practice around hazard, risk and resilience.
We are transdisciplinary and responsive, drawing on expertise across the physical and social sciences.
We train people to work with complexity and the interrelationships between hazard, risk and resilience.
We directly support and collaborate with governments, communities and NGOs.
We stimulate and support, thought and practice around hazard, risk and resilience.
We draw on our global range of activities and stakeholder engagement to make a real difference to people living with hazard and risk now and in the future.
Internationally-recognised leaders in developing resilient, research-informed approaches to hazard and risk
We are a world-leading research institute in hazard, risk and resilience based at Durham University. We support innovative research and training for use in policy and practice, collaborating directly with communities, Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and governments.
Our commitment is to work with and learn from the widest possible range of stakeholders living with hazard and risk – empowering people, fostering resilience, and improving lives, both now and in the future. Our success stems from our capacity to approach complex problems holistically, drawing together a transdisciplinary team of experts from across the physical sciences, the social sciences and the humanities.
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Human activities and natural hazards
Professor Louise Bracken and Professor Julian Williams review the context of (un)natural disasters in the Enviromental Scientist. The full article can be found at the following link: https://www.the-ies.org/
(26 Feb 2020)
Air pollution and the ethics of recommending facemasks
Professor Claire Horwell has been working as part of an international team who have been researching levels of air pollution. Record levels of air pollution have been measured in some parts of the world posing a danger to human health.
Claire and the team have now produced a new framework to support ethical decision-making on whether to recommend or provide facemasks to the public to help reduce exposure to harmful pollutants.
(27 Nov 2019) » More about Air pollution and the ethics of recommending facemasks
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