Explore Challenges
- 13 OCTOBER 2010: Plastic pollution in the oceans
- 1 DECEMBER 2010: Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- 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
Industrial Revolution, UK, virtual water, plastiki, global warming, low carbon, India, Haiti, access, public services, government, geography, environment, G20, IT, South East England, Prince Charles, rescources, Sir Gordon Conway, Rainforest
Natural disasters: how can we improve? : Focus
Meet our panel of speakers
25 May 2010, 7pm
Royal Geogrpahical Society (with IBG)
Read the biographies of confirmed speakers for the upcoming 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, UNICEF Ambassador for Humanitarian Emergencies
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Interview with Robert Hodgson
Robert Hodgson, Chair of RedR, discusses how RedR helps communities to recover following natural disasters, sharing lessons and teaching local communities and discusses the work being carried out in countries such as Haiti and Bangladesh.
Interview with Brendan Gormley
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is a charity that launches and coordinates national appeals in response to disasters overseas. Brendan Gormley, chief executive of DEC talks to us about natural disasters, improvements to humanitarian response, long-term recovery and the lessons currently being learnt and shared in Haiti.
The story of Architecture for Humanity - Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of organisation Architecture for Humanity. Helping rebuild housing and schools following natural disasters, across the world from Haiti to Sri Lanka, India to New Orleans, USA.
Fault Line Living
An expedition sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and Land Rover. The team will be driving from Iceland to Iran along the world’s most dangerous fault lines.
What lessons are being learnt from natural disasters?
What are the lessons that are being learnt and put into practice following a natural disaster?
22nd April, 2010- more »
The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland
The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano is causing travel chaos across the world.
- 19th April, 2010
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