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Dr Dr Michael Ellis
Head of Catchment Science and Observatories
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Research focus
Multi- and cascading hazards, disasters, and resilience in hyper-expanding cities and their catchments. This work examines the role of culture, social and economic policies and natural hazards (mediated by changes to both the climate and human processes) to disasters and to the resilience to those disasters. In general terms, my research focuses on the role of the human process as a geological process, writ large.
SDG targets
11.5
Reduce the adverse effects of natural disasters
11.6
Reduce the environmental impact of cities
11.B
Implement policies for inclusion, resource efficiency and disaster risk reduction
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters
13.3