Explore Challenges
- Natural disasters: how can we improve? [25 May 2010]
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
Russia, finance, society, geoengineering, europe, Boris Johnson, global warming, access, Cameron Sinclair, Renewables, Low Carbon Energy, Environment, digital inclusion, Germany, IT, Thames Estuary, Financial Crisis, water, Natural disaster, earthquake
Natural disasters: how can we improve? [25 May 2010] : Focus
Project Haiti
Following this Haiti earthquake crisis a remarkable story unfolded; of how people around the world could virtually collaborate and contribute to the on-the-ground operations.
Meet our panel of speakers
Read the biographies of confirmed speakers for the Natural disasters event, including Dame Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive of Oxfam GB and Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity. Chairing the discussion will be Martin Bell OBE.
Who are most vulnearable to natural hazards?
Read how some people are at a far greater risk when natural disasters occur.
Rebuilding livelihoods in tsunami-affected areas
Following the devastation of the Asian tsunami in December 2004, the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) at the United Nations Development Programme have been working to help the reconstruction process. Find out about the work they are doing to help rebuilding lives and communities in affected areas.
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