Bruce MALAMUD
Professor of Natural & Environmental Hazards Department of Geography,
King's College London
Bruce D. Malamud (Ph.D.) is Professor of Natural & Environmental Hazards in the
Department of Geography, King's College London, UK. Bruce is a geophysicist with
research that includes landslides, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and multi-hazard
interactions. He uses a variety of methods in his research, including time-series analyses,
visualization, confronting models with data, archival data, and communications of science to
user groups. Bruce currently has research projects in developing countries, has >5800
citations to his research and is currently the executive editor of the journal Natural Hazards and
Earth System Sciences, and as a past high-school teacher, has a keen interest in outreach to
secondary school teachers and students.
"Single and Multi-Hazards in Urban Areas"
Bruce MALAMUD
Professor of Natural & Environmental Hazards
Department of Geography, King's College London
What hazards do cities face and how might those hazards interact? In these two hours of talk
and activities, we will consider the challenge of urban environmental hazards and hazard
interactions (multi-hazards) in urban areas. In small groups and one large group, we will
consider (i) Single hazards that might influence the city. (ii) The interactions of those
hazards with themselves (multi-hazard cascades and coincident hazards). (iii) Impacts both
the single and multi-hazards might have on physical exposure and vulnerability of the urban
area. (iv) How a city evolves over time with influences such as anthropogenic processes on natural hazards. Before coming (20’ homework): Please choose one urban area
(this could be ONE city or town anywhere in the world, any size) and do appropriate
research to find all single natural hazards that might influence that urban area and
then consider what impacts (think broadly) those single hazards might have on that
area.
Bruce MALAMUD
"Single and Multi-Hazards in Urban Areas"
Professor of Natural & Environmental Hazards Department of Geography,
King's College London
Bruce D. Malamud (Ph.D.) is Professor of Natural & Environmental Hazards in the
Department of Geography, King's College London, UK. Bruce is a geophysicist with
research that includes landslides, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and multi-hazard
interactions. He uses a variety of methods in his research, including time-series analyses,
visualization, confronting models with data, archival data, and communications of science to
user groups. Bruce currently has research projects in developing countries, has >5800
citations to his research and is currently the executive editor of the journal Natural Hazards and
Earth System Sciences, and as a past high-school teacher, has a keen interest in outreach to
secondary school teachers and students.
"Single and Multi-Hazards in Urban Areas"
Bruce MALAMUD
Professor of Natural & Environmental Hazards Department of Geography, King's College London
Professor of Natural & Environmental Hazards Department of Geography, King's College London
What hazards do cities face and how might those hazards interact? In these two hours of talk
and activities, we will consider the challenge of urban environmental hazards and hazard
interactions (multi-hazards) in urban areas. In small groups and one large group, we will
consider (i) Single hazards that might influence the city. (ii) The interactions of those
hazards with themselves (multi-hazard cascades and coincident hazards). (iii) Impacts both
the single and multi-hazards might have on physical exposure and vulnerability of the urban
area. (iv) How a city evolves over time with influences such as anthropogenic processes on natural hazards. Before coming (20’ homework): Please choose one urban area
(this could be ONE city or town anywhere in the world, any size) and do appropriate
research to find all single natural hazards that might influence that urban area and
then consider what impacts (think broadly) those single hazards might have on that
area.
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