Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- 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
Britain, health, economy, creativity, Medicine, pop ups, ageing, society, Geo-engineering, steganography, public services, cities, Migration, future, medical correspondent, finance, colombia university, tech, digital inclusion, hollywood
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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The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland
The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano is causing travel chaos across the world.
19th April, 2010- more »
British volunteers offering comfort to youngsters in Haiti through the medium of film
While aid agencies are working to ensure people have access to shelter, food and water, Haiti Kids Kino, a project set up by Cube cinema in Bristol, are offering comfort through the medium of film
- 24th March, 2010
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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.
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.
- 16th February, 2010
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