Co-Creating Futures through Research
2015 has seen the biggest refugee crisis in Europe. In 2014 the number of people displaced by conflict and persecution increased by 8.3 million, reaching a total of 59.5 million, with 6.47 million internally displaced in Syria and Afghanistan (OCHA 2015). Yet, despite this well known calamity, Europe and the world were unprepared for the refugee […]
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 […]