Hazard, Risk and Disaster Research Group (HRD)

Description

The Hazard, Risk and Disaster Research Group (HRD) has members that span a wide range of complementary earth and social science sub-disciplines. HRD is engaged in research that both raises visibility, as well as articulates and challenges the complex problems afflicting society and environment.

HRD's key research foci include:

• Flood event histories, dynamics, impacts and responses in urban and mountain settings
• Upland sediment system hazard dynamics
• Climate change, variability and adaptation
• The diverse field of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), particularly in regard to the Hindu-Kush-Himalayas
• Geoarchaeology, and allied sedimentary and microfossil palaeoenvironmental analysis

HRD's approaches seek the dissemination of knowledge and delivery of impact by:

• Embracing a spectrum of disciplinary to interdisciplinary methods, spanning human-environment interactions
• Encouraging public engagement
• Promoting collaboration with industrial partners (in research and consultancy) to achieve knowledge of value to society.

HRD applies new-cutting edge technologies in the capture and analysis of data (e.g. terrestrial laser scanning and UAVs), across a range of process environments, societal settings, and heritage assets.

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Bath Spa University
Newton St Loe
Bath
BA2 9BN