Laura Olson is a consultant for the Arlington County Office of Emergency Management and a doctoral fellow at the George Washington University School of Business. We spoke to Laura last week, right after her return from a New Orleans field trip, about Hurricane Katrina’s implications. >mehr
The lawyer Byron Real-Lopez comes from Ecuador. He studied at universities in Ecuador and Florida. His research interest concerns the relationships between public interest rights and social vulnerability. We spoke with Byron about Hurricane Katrina and its impacts on society in New Orleans. >mehr
The academy provided an opportunity for experts from around the world to develop new approaches to complex issues such as giving people more security and developing the resilience and flexibility of social systems to cope with natural disasters. >mehr
The Munich Re Foundation and the UN University, Bonn (UNU-EHS), held their first summer academy on social vulnerabilty at the end of July 2006. The topic was: Global Water Hotspots. >more
Social vulnerability covers a complex field of research. In 2005, the Munich Re Foundation’s first project was to set up a Chair at the United Nations University in Bonn. >more