Flooding

Impacts of Climate Change

In this course, Professor Ilan Kelman (UCL) introduces to us the impacts of climate change. We begin by: (i) understanding climate change and its effect on floods; (ii) vegetation fire disasters; (iii) tectonic hazards including earthquakes and volcanic eruptions; (iv) conflict; (v) migration; (vi) coral reefs; (vii) island nations and communities living on atolls; and finally (viii) the role of humanitarian aid in mitigating the effects of human caused climate change.

Flooding

In this lecture, we begin our discussion of the impacts of climate change by seeing how it affects flood disasters. We learn how climate change can alter flood patterns, and how societal choice and vulnerabilities limit people’s ability to respond to floods. We learn how to address these vulnerabilities so as to avoid disaster in the future, before mentioning how floods could become much more common as rising sea levels encroach onto land.