AOGS Schools Talk - Prof Bruce Malamud, 1 Aug 2019, 3-4 pm, Learning Oasis 2, SST

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. 

 


 

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