Global risks: Pool knowledge to stem losses from disasters

Susan L. Cutter (), Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Orhan Altan, Daniel N. Baker, Salvano Briceño, Harsh Gupta, Ailsa Holloway, David Johnston, Gordon A. McBean, Yujiro Ogawa, Douglas Paton, Emma Porio, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Giovanni B. Valsecchi, Coleen Vogel and Guoxiong Wu
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Susan L. Cutter: Susan L. Cutter is professor of geography and director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.
Alik Ismail-Zadeh: Alik Ismail-Zadeh is senior scientist in applied geosciences at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, and at the Institute of Earthquake Prediction, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Irasema Alcántara-Ayala: Irasema Alcántara-Ayala is professor at the Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Orhan Altan: Orhan Altan is professor emeritus at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Daniel N. Baker: Daniel N. Baker is director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Salvano Briceño: Salvano Briceño is a former director of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Divonne-les-Bains, France.
Harsh Gupta: Harsh Gupta is director emeritus of the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, and a former member of the National Disaster Management Authority, Government of India, Delhi, India.
Ailsa Holloway: Ailsa Holloway is director of the Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
David Johnston: David Johnston is director of the Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University and Senior Scientist at GNS Science, Wellington, New Zealand.
Gordon A. McBean: Gordon McBean is director of research and external relations of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, and director of policy studies at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
Yujiro Ogawa: Yujiro Ogawa is professor emeritus at the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Douglas Paton: Douglas Paton is professor of the School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Australia.
Emma Porio: Quezon City, the Philippines.
Rainer K. Silbereisen: Rainer Silbereisen is director of the Center for Applied Developmental Science, University of Jena, Jena, Germany.
Kuniyoshi Takeuchi: University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan, and founding director of the International Centre for Water Hazard Risk Management, Tsukuba, Japan.
Giovanni B. Valsecchi: Giovanni B. Valsecchi is senior scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome, Italy, and at the National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Coleen Vogel: Coleen Vogel is professor of sustainability at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Guoxiong Wu: Guoxiong Wu is professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Nature, 2015, vol. 522, issue 7556, 277-279

Abstract: Public awareness, rigorous risk research and aligned targets will help policy-makers to increase resilience against natural hazards, say Susan L. Cutter and colleagues.

Date: 2015
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