A Century of Disasters: Disaster Mobility Futures

 

The fact that we live in a century of disasters is giving rise to calls for exceptional mobilities for disaster risk management. This ranges from physically mobilising resources (pumps, emergency responders travelling to global emergencies) to the mobilisation of digital humanitarians for crisis mapping to  calls for unprecedented interoperability between public, government and commercial information systems, to a ‘data deluge’ from drones, wearable cameras, sensors for public protection and disaster response. What are these disaster mobility futures? What are ethical and social challenges and opportunities?