Taster Session: What does history teach us about risk and resilience?

What does history teach us about risk and resilience?

By Dan Haines

Disasters affect people partly because history has made them vulnerable. In this taster lecture, Dan will explain how historical research help us understand the root causes of vulnerability, and prompts us to think about values in the way we respond to disasters and humanitarian crises.

Dr Dan Haines is an environmental historian, focusing on hazards and environmental politics in twentieth century India, Pakistan and the South Asia region. He writes and speaks about environmental and South Asian affairs via policy forums, television, radio and blogs. His research is interdisciplinary and often collaborative.

As RDR’s Academic Director of Education, Dan has oversight of undergraduate and taught postgraduate learning in the department. He was previously programme leader for the MSc Risk, Disaster and Resilience.

He recently completed a two-year secondment to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Building on his experience there he co-founded the India and South Asia Analysts’ Network, a unique group of policy-facing scholars based in UK universities.

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