The social impact of disasters

Human geographer Christine Eriksen and physicist David Bresch conduct research into weather and climate risks. Their methods may be different, but they agree that the scale of a disaster is often determined more by societal decisions than by the natural hazard itself.  

A mountain with a forest fire in the background and cars stuck in a traffic jam in front of it in the foreground
Christine Eriksen, human geographer at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich: "The disaster risk of forest fires has risen sharply due to growing urban-forest interfaces."
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