About the lecture

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.

About the lecturer

Ilan Kelman is a Professor in Disasters and Health at University College London. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. That covers three main areas: (i) disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy; (ii) island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations and (iii) risk education for health and disasters