Disaster Research Group

Disaster can arrive in many forms. It can be caused by a natural disaster (i.e. landslides or hurricanes), industrial failures (i.e. chemical spills or building collapse), political rationalities (i.e. terrorism or war) and other incidents both accidental or purposeful. Disaster has phases and aftermaths for response and recovery and differing implications across a variety of scales. Given this, research on disaster is prevalent in funding calls for community resilience and adaptation and crosses a range of disciplinary boundaries, yet how disaster is understood and how responses are operationalised varies across time and space.