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3 December 2010
My new position from January: Executive Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience
From 17th January I will take on a new role as Director of the Durham University Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience. This post explains briefly the activities of the Institute.
10 November 2010
Predicting and cutting landslide risk in developing countries
Recently, Professor Malcolm Anderson of Bristol University presented a talk on predicting and cutting landslide risk in developing countries at a Set Squared conference on the impact of university research. This presentation is available online on Youtube and should be visible below. Unfortunately the video does not have the slides, but nonetheless it is a very useful presentation: The Set Squared initiative has a website of it’s own here. The work underlying this presentation has a page …
16 October 2010
Round up of landslide stories and events for the last week
In weeks in which I have been too busy to post a great deal of material, I often provide a summary of interesting landslide events around the world. This is the summary for the last week:1. A very strange landslide in Germany Thanks once again to Peter Diehl, the prize for bizarre landslide event of the week goes to a very strange event at a former lignite mine near Hoyerswerda, …
3 November 2009
The Willis Research Network – the world’s most important hazard and risk collaboration?
Willis is a large insurance and reinsurance broker based in London. A key part of their primary business lies in arranging insurance for catastrophe risk – i.e. losses from mega-events such as an earthquake in Tokyo or San Francisco, a storm surge flood in London or a volcanic eruption near to Mexico City. Calculating the risks associated with these events is a challenging task, but of course the stakes are …
The Willis Research Network – the world's most important hazard and risk collaboration?
Willis is a large insurance and reinsurance broker based in London. A key part of their primary business lies in arranging insurance for catastrophe risk – i.e. losses from mega-events such as an earthquake in Tokyo or San Francisco, a storm surge flood in London or a volcanic eruption near to Mexico City. Calculating the risks associated with these events is a challenging task, but of course the stakes are …
17 May 2009
Landslides and the UN's Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
The UN ISDR is today launching with a great fanfare the first Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. This report “provides hard-hitting evidence to demonstrate how, where and why disaster risk is increasing globally and presents key findings from a global analysis of disaster risk patterns and trends, including where high mortality and economic loss is concentrated. .” The report is online now and can be downloaded here. I …
Landslides and the UN’s Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
The UN ISDR is today launching with a great fanfare the first Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. This report “provides hard-hitting evidence to demonstrate how, where and why disaster risk is increasing globally and presents key findings from a global analysis of disaster risk patterns and trends, including where high mortality and economic loss is concentrated. .” The report is online now and can be downloaded here. I …
9 January 2009
Landslide hazard and the Guatemala rockslide
As commenters on my earlier threads have pointed out (thanks to them), the location of the landslide in Guatemala can now be pinpointed using a map produced by CONRED. This map comes from a very useful report, with some good images of the rescue and recovery operation, available here. I have reproduced the map below (click on the map for a better view): Helpfully, this allows the location to be …
9 October 2008
Young River Landslide, New Zealand
Interesting news from New Zealand, where for the last few months there has been some concern about a landslide dam on South Island. The landslide itself occurred in a fairly remote area of the Southern Alps at 4:40 am on 29th August 2007. The landslide, which is well-described in a GNS Science poster here (there are some great images and some good data on that poster), blocked the river valley …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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