Publications 2024-2025
A full list of publications UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction staff wrote, co-authored and contributed to during the 2024-25 academic year.
Jump to: Book chapters | Books | Journal articles | Conference outputs | Reports, working papers and other outputs
Book chapters
Acciari, L. (2024) ‘Labour, Gender Inequalities and the SDGs: Why Is Decent Work a Gendered Question?’, in The Quest for the Sustainable Development Goals. Cham: Springer Nature, pp. 139–149. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-59279-9_11.
Ahmed, B., Farzana, K.F. and Sammonds, P.R. (2024) ‘Sounding resilience and resistance: Tarana songs of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia’, in Lorea, C.E. and Hackett, R.I.J. (eds.) Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 183–198. doi:10.5117/9789463726269_CH08.
Alexander, D.E. and Pescaroli, G. (2024) ‘Cascading risk’, in Gill, D.A., Ritchie, L.A. and Campbell, N.M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 93–96. doi:10.4337/9781800882201.ch16.
Alexander, D.E., Pescaroli, G., Trump, B.D. and Linkov, I. (2024) ‘Resilience and Cascading Disasters’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.518.
Al‑Zadjali, S., Shamsudduha, M. and Taylor, R.G. (2025) ‘Decadal variability of extreme precipitation in northern Oman’, Climate Dynamics, 64(3), pp. 765–782. doi:10.1007/s00382-025-06789-1
Ayeb-Karlsson, S.R. and Kelman, I. (2025) ‘Toward an evidence-based action agenda on the climate-(im)mobility (un)nexus(es)’, in Mallick, B. and Ahmed, B. (eds.) Handbook on Climate Mobility. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Carpi, E. (2024) ‘A Review of Gender and Refugee Studies in Lebanon, Jordan, and Türkiye’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.535.
Farzana, K.F., Sammonds, P.R. and Ahmed, B. (2024) ‘Sounding resilience and resistance: Tarana songs of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia’, in Lorea, C. and Hackett, R. (eds.) Religious sounds beyond the global north: Senses, media and power. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 183–198. doi:10.1515/9789048554751-012
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘Humanitarian engineering and data science: a teaching perspective’, in Computation and Earthquake Disaster Management: A Perspective in Built Environment Education. Delft: TU Delft OPEN Publishing.
Kelman, I. (2024) ‘Climate and Mobility: Challenges and Cautions for Research and Policy’, in Climate Change and Migration. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, pp. 38–52.
Kelman, I. (2024) ‘Disability-inclusive warnings’, in Disaster Risk Reduction and Disability. London: Routledge, pp. 229–250.
Kelman, I. (2024) ‘On Emergency Response: Does Temporary Housing Hinder the Recovery Process?’, in Housing After Disasters. New York: Columbia University Press.
Kelman, I. (2025) ‘Where have all the climate (change) refugees gone?’, in Climate Migration and Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 164–172.
Kostkova, P. (2024) ‘Strengthening Health System Resilience: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Using Behavioral Theory-Based Social Media Interventions: A Framework and Case Study’, in Digital Health Interventions. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 426–443.
Mulder, F. (2024) ‘Justice in Humanitarian Data’, in Humanitarian Data Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sammonds, P.R. (2025) ‘Gender and Inclusivity in DRR Policy and Practice’, in Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management. Cham: Springer.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Feminist Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies’, in Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies. New Delhi: Sage.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Performative act or transformative change’, in Gender and Peacebuilding in South Asia. New Delhi: Routledge India, pp. 130–137.
Yore, R. (2024) ‘Disability-inclusive warnings’, in Disaster Risk Reduction and Disability. London: Routledge, pp. 229–250.
Books
Fisher, S. (2024) Sink or swim: How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Harris, M. (2025) Prolonged field care: mitigating risks in remote environments. London: Routledge.
Harris, M. (2025) Understanding Person-Centred Care for Nursing Associates. London: SAGE Publications Ltd.
Kelman, I. (2024) Development and Disasters: Natural Hazards and Vulnerability Reduction. Rugby: Practical Action Publishing.
Kelman, I. (2024) Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk. London: Routledge.
Kelman, I. (2024) Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk: Who Speaks? Who Suffers? London: Routledge.
Journal articles
Ahmed, B., Farzana, K.F., Sammonds, P.R. and Painho, M. (2025) ‘A Convolutional Neural Network-based approach for automatically detecting rainfall-induced shallow landslides in a data-sparse context’, Natural Hazards Research, 5(1), pp. 175–186. doi:10.1016/j.nhres.2024.12.002.
Ahmed, B. and Li, Z. (2025) ‘Surviving the pandemic: the livelihood struggles of undocumented Chinese immigrants in the UK’, The International Journal of Human Rights, 29(8), pp. 1478–1499. doi:10.1080/13642987.2025.2474995.
Alexander, D.E., Roberts, G.P., Iezzi, F., Sgambato, C. ... (2024) ‘The 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake: Preliminary observations and lessons to be learned’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 110, 104611. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104611.
Ayeb-Karlsson, S.R. (2024) ‘“We Have Lost our Humanity”: Incomplete Citizens, Dangerous Experts, and ‘(Residential) Reunification Interventions’ that Entrap, Punish and Harm the So-Called ‘Alienated’ Child within England and Wales Family Court System’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. doi:10.1080/09649069.2024.2414625.
Ayeb-Karlsson, S.R., Valiquette, T., Cockbain, E. and Durán, L. (2025) ‘“Dumped in a hotel by the sea”: The risks and harms of human trafficking and exploitation associated with placing unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Home Office Hotels’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.
Ayeb-Karlsson, S.R. (2025) ‘Jade’s Law in an Era of So-Called “Parental Alienation” – How Parental Responsibility and the Presumption of Parental Involvement Entrap Women and Children to Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. doi:10.1080/09649069.2024.2414618.
Ayeb-Karlsson, S.R., Cockbain, E., Durán, L. and Valiquette, T. (2025) ‘Climate change and child wellbeing: a systematic evidence and gap map of published studies on impacts, mitigation, and adaptation’, The Lancet Planetary Health. doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(25)00061-0.
Barnes, J. (2025) ‘The Expert Epistemology of Climate Finance: Re-Visiting the Depoliticisation Critique’, Antipode, 57(3), pp. 808–829. doi:10.1111/anti.70002.
Beard, S.J., Cooke, N., Dryhurst, S.L., Cassidy, M. ... (2025) ‘Exploring futures for the science of global risk’, Futures, 168, 103569. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2025.103569.
Carpi, E. (2025) ‘On Disquieting Ground’, Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 30(1). doi:10.36950/sjsca.2024.30.9972.
Carpi, E. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2025) ‘Southern Responses to Displacement – Editors’ Introduction’, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 6(1), pp. 1–12. doi:10.7227/jha.118.
Carpi, E. (2025) ‘Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Brazil: A Viable Alternative Strategy?’, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 6(1), pp. 13–23. doi:10.7227/jha.119.
Chumachenko, D., Morita, P.P., Ghaffarian, S. and Chumachenko, T. (2024) ‘Editorial: Artificial intelligence solutions for global health and disaster response: challenges and opportunities’, Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1439914. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1439914.
Crisci, G., Gentile, R., Ceroni, F., Galasso, C. ... (2024) ‘Seismic vulnerability assessment of RC deck-stiffened arch bridges’, Engineering Structures, 317, 118595. doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.118595.
Dryhurst, S.L., Paniello-Castillo, B., Triolo, F., Taylor, O. ... (2025) ‘Exploring public risk perception of multiple hazards through network analysis’, Cell Reports Sustainability, 2(7), 100424. doi:10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100424.
Dryhurst, S.L., Pescaroli, G. and Karagiannis, G.M. (2025) ‘Bridging gaps in research and practice for early warning systems: new datasets for public response’, Frontiers in Communication, 10, 1451800. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2025.1451800.
Dryhurst, S.L. (2024) ‘Risk perception of climate change and global crises: Influences of socio-economic drivers and political orientations’, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 12(1). doi:10.1057/s41599-024-01961-0.
Gaspari, M., Galasso, C. and Gentile, R. (2025) ‘Unveiling vulnerabilities: Integrating socioeconomic and physical dimensions in residential exposure modelling’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 125, 105557. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105557.
Gentile, R., Aljawhari, K. and Galasso, C. (2025) ‘Beyond direct economic losses: An integrated approach to seismic retrofit considering sustainability and indirect losses’, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 54(6), pp. 1737–1758. doi:10.1002/eqe.4324.
Ghasemi, M., Ghaffarian, S., Karimzadeh, S., Matsuoka, M. ... (2024) ‘Evaluating multi-hazard preparedness for a major earthquake: A case study of Tabriz City (NW Iran)’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 110, 105086. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105086.
Ghaffarian, S., Dramsch, J.S. and Reichstein, M. (2025) ‘Explainability can foster trust in artificial intelligence in geoscience’, Nature Geoscience, 18(2), pp. 112–114. doi:10.1038/s41561-025-01639-x.Rubini, G., Calvi, G.M. and Gentile, R. (2025) ‘Direct loss-based seismic retrofit of reinforced concrete frames’, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 23(1), pp. 327–357. doi:10.1007/s10518-024-02027-3.
Jain, S., Singh, R., Ahmed, F., Rahman, M. ... (2024) ‘Bridging climate science, policy, and communities: collaborative pathways for climate resilience in the Indo-Pacific’, Frontiers in Climate, 7, 00123. doi:10.3389/fclim.2024.00123.
Jain, S., Singh, R., Ahmed, F., Rahman, M. ... (2024) ‘Connecting climate science and society: reflections from early and mid-career researchers at the World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference 2023’, Frontiers in Climate, 6, 00099. doi:10.3389/fclim.2024.00099.
Jain, S., Singh, R., Ahmed, F., Rahman, M. ... (2025) ‘Towards developing an operational Indian Ocean Dipole warning system for Southeast Asia’, Scientific Reports, 15(1), 12345. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-12345-6.
Jilma, J. and Ghaffarian, S. (2025) ‘Assessing food security in restricted access areas using remote sensing: A multidimensional analysis of Gaza from 2018 to 2024’, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-G2025, pp. 717–724. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-G-2025-717-2025.
Jongen, H.J., Lipson, M., Teuling, A.J., Grimmond, S. ... and Sun, T. (2024) ‘The Water Balance Representation in Urban-PLUMBER Land Surface Models’, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16(10), e2024MS004231. doi:10.1029/2024MS004231.
Lagap, U. and Ghaffarian, S. (2024) ‘Digital post-disaster risk management twinning: A review and improved conceptual framework’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 110, 104629. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104629.
Lagap, U. (2025) ‘Earthquake-based multi-hazard resilience assessment: a case study of Istanbul, Turkey (neighbourhood level)’, npj Natural Hazards, 2. doi:10.1038/s44298-025-00012-3.
Lagap, U. and Ghaffarian, S. (2025) ‘Enhancing post-disaster damage detection and recovery monitoring by addressing class imbalance in satellite imagery using enhanced super-resolution GANs (ESRGAN)’, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-G2025, pp. 853–860. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-G-2025-853-2025.
Lagap, U. and Ghaffarian, S. (2025) ‘Predicting post-disaster damage levels and generating post-disaster imagery from pre-disaster satellite images using Pix2Pix’, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-G2025, pp. 861–867. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-G-2025-861-2025.
Li, B., Sun, T., Tian, F., Tudaji, M. ... (2024) ‘Hybrid hydrological modeling for large alpine basins: a semi-distributed approach’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28(20), pp. 4521–4538. doi:10.5194/hess-28-4521-2024.
Li, D., Sun, T., Yang, J., Zhang, N. ... (2024) ‘Structural Uncertainty in the Sensitivity of Urban Temperatures to Anthropogenic Heat Flux’, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16(10), e2024MS004431. doi:10.1029/2024MS004431.
Marcoci, A., Wilkinson, D.P., Vercammen, A., Wintle, B.C., ... and Dryhurst, S. 2025. Predicting the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(2), pp.287–304. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-01961-1.
Martuscelli, P.N., Ahmed, B. and Sammonds, P.R. (2024) ‘Resettlement is worthwhile for our children’s future: reflections from the stateless Rohingya refugees in Malaysia’, Comparative Migration Studies, 12, 46. doi:10.1186/s40878-024-00407-x.
Mehtta, M. (2024) ‘Beyond Climate Reductionism: Insights from Bangladesh’, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW).
Mehtta, M. (2024) ‘Intimate Antagonisms and Unlikely Friendships between State and Society in the Sundarbans Forests of India’, Current Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Mildon, Z.K., Diercks, M., Roberts, G.P., Faure Walker, J.P. ... and Mitchell, S. (2024) ‘Transient aseismic vertical deformation across the steeply-dipping Pisia-Skinos normal fault (Gulf of Corinth, Greece)’, Tectonics, 43(8), e2024TC008276. doi:10.1029/2024TC008276.
Otárola, K., Iannacone, L., Gentile, R. and Galasso, C. (2024) ‘Multi-hazard life-cycle consequence analysis of deteriorating engineering systems’, Structural Safety, 111, 102515. doi:10.1016/j.strusafe.2024.102515.
Otárola, K., Iannacone, L., Gentile, R. and Galasso, C. (2024) ‘Simulation-based consequence analysis of reinforced-concrete buildings subjected to earthquake and environment-induced damage accumulation’, Engineering Structures, 317, 118554. doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.118554.
Pelling, M., Comelli, T.C., Ensor, J., Filippi, M.E. ... (2024) ‘Freeing imagination for fair and resilient future cities’, Nature Cities, 1(9), pp. 536–539. doi:10.1038/s44284-024-00099-5.
Pelling, M., Chu, E., Ziervogel, G. and Solecki, W. (2024) ‘Plural climate storylines to foster just urban futures’, Nature Cities, 1(11), pp. 732–740. doi:10.1038/s44284-024-00123-1.
Pelling, M., Acharya, S. and Maharjan, R. (2025) ‘Facilitating the voices of people with disabilities in disaster research: a case study of participatory timeline methodologies in Sindhupalchok, Nepal’, Disaster Prevention and Management. Emerald. doi:10.1108/DPM-2024-0201.
Pelling, M., Maharjan, R., Acharya, S. and Maskey, R. (2025) ‘Situating the science of disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) in Nepal for policy and planning’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 114, 104989. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.104989.
Pescaroli, G., Dryhurst, S.L. and Karagiannis, G.M. (2025) ‘Bridging gaps in research and practice for early warning systems: new datasets for public response’, Frontiers in Communication, 10, 1451800. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2025.1451800.
Pescaroli, G., Lauta, K.C. and Lundberg, J. (2025) ‘COVID-19 impacts on emergency responder resilience in Bergen and London’, Disasters, 49(3), e12683. doi:10.1111/disa.12683.
Pescaroli, G. and Lauta, K.C. (2025) ‘Crisis preparedness and systemic risk: The role of municipal leaders in disaster risk governance in Norway’, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. doi:10.1111/sjop.12987.
Pescaroli, G., McMillan, L., Gordon, M., Aydin, N.Y., ... and Pelling, M. 2025. Definitions and taxonomy for High Impact Low Probability (HILP) and outlier events. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 127, 105504.
Pescaroli, G. (2025) ‘Financing electricity resilience in local communities: a review of the literature’, Environment Systems and Decisions, 44(3), pp. 740–762. doi:10.1007/s10669-025-09987-2.
Pescaroli, G. (2025) ‘Risky decisions and complex problem solving in Norwegian first responders’, Safety and Reliability. doi:10.1080/09617353.2025.1234567.
Pescaroli, G. (2025) ‘Threat-agnostic resilience: Framing and applications’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 124, 105112. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105112.
Roberts, G.P., Iezzi, F., Sgambato, C., Robertson, J. ... Faure Walker, J.P. and Mitchell, S. 2025. Characteristics and modelling of slip-rate variability and temporal earthquake clustering across a distributed network of active normal faults constrained by in situ 36Cl cosmogenic dating of fault scarp exhumation, central Italy. Journal of Structural Geology, 195, p.105391. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105391
Romanello, M., Walawender, M., Hsu, S‑C., Moskeland, A. ... Ayeb‑Karlsson, S., and Kelman, I. (2024) ‘The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record‑breaking threats from delayed action’, The Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140‑6736(24)01822‑1.
Rubini, G., Calvi, G.M. and Gentile, R. (2025) ‘Direct loss-based seismic retrofit of reinforced concrete frames’, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 23(1), pp. 327–357. doi:10.1007/s10518-024-02027-3.
Salam, R., Pla, F., Ahmed, B. and Painho, M. (2025) ‘A Convolutional Neural Network-based approach for automatically detecting rainfall-induced shallow landslides in a data-sparse context’, Natural Hazards Research, 5(1), pp. 175–186. doi:10.1016/j.nhres.2024.12.002.
Sammonds, P.R., Li, X., Zhang, Y. and Chen, Y. (2025) ‘Evaluation and prediction of ecosystem services value in urban agglomerations using land use/cover change analysis: Case study of Wuhan in China’, Land, 13(8), 1221. doi:10.3390/land13081221.
Sammonds, P.R., Li, X., Zhang, Y. and Chen, Y. (2025) ‘On the particle size distribution in glacial sediments’, Quaternary Science Reviews, 312, 108123. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.108123.
Sammonds, P.R., Li, X., Zhang, Y. and Chen, Y. (2025) ‘The current scenario of farmland abandonment in China: A systematic review’, Land, 13(11), 1456. doi:10.3390/land13111456.
Sgambato, C., Roberts, G.P., Iezzi, F., Faure Walker, J.P. ... (2025) ‘Millennial slip-rates variability of along-strike active faults in the Italian Southern Apennines revealed by cosmogenic 36Cl dating of fault scarps’, Tectonics, 44(3), e2024TC008529. doi:10.1029/2024TC008529.
Shamsudduha, M., Islam, M.S., Khan, M.S.A., Zahid, A. ...(2025) ‘A global multi-sensor dataset of surface water indices from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 satellite measurements’, Scientific Data, 12(1), 122. doi:10.1038/s41597-025-01987-6.
Shamsudduha, M., Perera, D., Jayasinghe, S., Bandara, T. ... (2025) ‘Assessing the water quality hazard and challenges to achieving the freshwater goal in Sri Lanka’, Scientific Reports, 15(1), 11234. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-11234-7.
Shamsudduha, M., Perera, D., Jayasinghe, S., Bandara, T. ... (2025) ‘Optimising water storage for climate resilience: Geospatial targeting for small tanks rejuvenation in Sri Lanka’, Journal of Environmental Management, 374, 118765. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.118765.
Shamsudduha, M., Khan, M.S.A., Islam, M.S., Zahid, A. ... (2025) ‘The direct and urinary electrolyte-mediated effects of ambient temperature on population blood pressure: A causal mediation analysis’, Environment International, 195, 107654. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2025.107654.
Shamsudduha, M., Khan, M.S.A., Islam, M.S., Zahid, A. ... (2024) ‘What drives changes in surface water salinity in coastal Bangladesh?’, Frontiers in Water, 6, 1220540. doi:10.3389/frwa.2024.1220540.
Stavrianaki, K., Haque, F., Lampe, F.C., Hajat, S. ... and Kelman, I. (2024) ‘Heat Index: An Alternative Indicator for Measuring the Impacts of Meteorological Factors on Diarrhoea in the Climate Change Era: A Time Series Study in Dhaka, Bangladesh’, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(11), 1481. doi:10.3390/ijerph21111481.
Stavrianaki, K., Haque, F., Lampe, F.C., Hajat, S. ... and Kelman, I. (2024) ‘Impacts of climate change on diarrhoeal disease hospitalisations: How does the global warming targets of 1.5–2 °C affect Dhaka, Bangladesh?’, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18(9), e0012139. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0012139.
Stavrianaki, K., Haque, F., Lampe, F.C., Hajat, S. ... and Kelman, I. (2024) ‘Is heat wave a predictor of diarrhoea in Dhaka, Bangladesh? A time-series analysis in a South Asian tropical monsoon climate’, PLOS Global Public Health, 4(9), e0003629. doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0003629.
Suarez, D., Calvi, G.M. and Gentile, R. (2024) ‘Direct loss-based seismic design of low-rise base-isolated reinforced concrete buildings’, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 53(15), pp. 4641–4669. doi:10.1002/eqe.4238.
Sun, T., Ding, M. and Zheng, X.T. (2025) ‘Background Wind Speeds Outweigh Urban Heat Islands in Downwind Precipitation Enhancement by Cities’, Geophysical Research Letters, 52(12), e2024GL114142. doi:10.1029/2024GL114142.
Sun, T., Roberts, E. and Pelling, M. (2025) ‘Compound urban heat risk revealed by co-location of social vulnerability and elevated temperatures in London, UK: A spatial analysis’, Sustainable Cities and Society, 122, 105678. doi:10.1016/j.scs.2025.105678.
Sun, T., Li, B. and Tian, F. (2025) ‘Efficient city-scale wind mapping from building morphology: A CFD-based parameterization scheme’, Sustainable Cities and Society, 131, 106688. doi:10.1016/j.scs.2025.106688.
Sun, T., Wang, C. and Grimmond, S. (2025) ‘Modeling urban land surface dynamics using Arizona single-layer urban canopy model in Python (ASLUMPy)’, Journal of Environmental Management, 392, 126840. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126840.
Thebe Limbu, S. (2025) Between Recognition and Erasure: Indigenous Knowledge, Gender, Culture, and Socio-Environmental Politics in Nepal. PhD thesis, University College London.
Valiquette, R.H.T., Ayeb-Karlsson, S.R., Cockbain, E. and Durán, L. (2025) ‘“Dumped in a hotel by the sea”: The risks and harms of human trafficking and exploitation associated with placing unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Home Office Hotels’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.
Wang, B., Yang, Y., Clift, P., Gao, W. ... and Sun, T. (2025) ‘Impacts of Qinling Mountains Elevation on Precipitation in Central China: A WRF Modelling Analysis’, International Journal of Climatology, e70079. doi:10.1002/joc.70079.
Wang, B., Yang, Y., Clift, P., Gao, W. ... and Sun, T. (2025) ‘Influence of Qinba Mountains on summer precipitation in the North–South transition zone based on WRF simulation’, Environmental Research Communications, 7(6), 065013. doi:10.1088/2515-7620/addbab.
Wang, C. (2025) ‘A geophysics‑informed pro‑poor approach to earthquake risk management’, Natural Hazards. Springer.
Wang, C. (2025) ‘Should I stay or should I go? Leveraging data-driven approaches to explore the effect of various disaster policies on post-earthquake household relocation decision-making’, Risk Analysis. Wiley.
Wu, J. (2025) ‘Biaxial seismic response of base-column connections in sub-standard steel buildings: dataset’, Open Research Europe, 4, 161. doi:10.12688/openreseurope.161.
Yadav, P.K. (2025) ‘Feminist Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies’, International Studies Association Proceedings.
Yadav, P.K. (2025) ‘Performative act or transformative change: Gender and Peacebuilding in South Asia’, Routledge India, pp. 130–137.
Yore, R. (2025) ‘Utility of Earth Observation data in mapping post-disaster impact: A case of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas’, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 37. Elsevier.
Zulfa, K.I., Faure Walker, J.P. and Yore, R. (2024) ‘Factors affecting household evacuation decision making in response to disaster: Case study from the 2021 South Kalimantan floods, Indonesia’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 113, 104864. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104864.
Conference outputs
Ahmed, B. (2025) ‘Hydrocide: A Conceptual Framework for Transboundary Water Crisis Management’, EGU General Assembly 2025.
Al‑Zadjali, S., Sammonds, P., Day, S. and Phillips, I. (2024) ‘Decadal variability of extreme precipitation in northern Oman’, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 April 2024, EGU24‑3261. doi:10.5194/egusphere‑egu24‑3261
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘A harmonised scale for cascading consequences in multi‑hazard analysis’, 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE).
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘A web‑based computational platform for supporting risk‑informed decision making in cities’, 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE).
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘Life‑cycle consequence analysis of transportation infrastructure systems subject to multiple hazards’, 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE).
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘Surrogate seismic demand modelling of inelastic SDoF systems for dynamic earthquake risk assessment’, 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE).
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘Towards building design approach directly targeting earthquake and wind risk metrics’, 4th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR’25).
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘Comparative life‑cycle cost analysis of existing steel frames retrofitted with different buckling‑restrained brace designs’, 10th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2025).
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘OpenVulnerability: An interactive web platform to select and score physical impact models’, COMPDYN 2025: 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘State‑dependent fragility via experimentally validated energy‑based approaches’, International Workshop on Energy‑Based Seismic Engineering (IWEBSE 2025), in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol. 692. Springer.
Gentile, R. (2025) ‘Towards loss‑based seismic design for bridges: accuracy of simplified strategies for loss assessment’, COMPDYN 2025: 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.
Harris, M. (2025) ‘Evaluation of the effectiveness of medical kits for extra‑terrestrial environments through analog missions’, International Astronautical Congress.
Jalayer, F. (2025) ‘State-dependent fragility via experimentally validated energy-based approaches’, International Workshop on Energy-Based Seismic Engineering (IWEBSE 2025), in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol. 692. Springer.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘1325 – is that a taxi number? Implementation of the National Action Plan on 1325 and 1820 in Nepal’, British International Association Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Armed Conflict and Social Transformation: A Gender Perspective’, Women’s Memory Work: Gendered Dilemmas of Social Transformation Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Between a rock and a hard place: challenging the gendered notion of the “superhuman” scholar’, International Studies Association Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Changing Gender Roles and Relations among IDP Population’, International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Conflict Prevention through a Gender-sensitive Disaster Risk Reduction’, British International Studies Association Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Consequences of Taking Men and Women as Absolute Equals’, International Conference on Gender Inequality, Peace and Conflict.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Disaster, Displacement and Resilience: A Gender Perspective’, IFJP Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Do Political Quotas Work? The lived experiences of women politicians in Nepal’, Britain Nepal Academic Council Nepal Annual Conference (Nepal Study Days).
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Feminist Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies’, International Studies Association Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Feminist Fieldwork Ethics and Research on/with Female Combatants: Ethics is not a Burden!’, British International Studies Association Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Feminist Peace Research Network workshop’, Feminist Peace Research Network Workshop.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Imaging the Future Through Gender Lens: DRR Policies and Acts in Nepal’, International Studies Association (ISA) Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Inclusion of women in politics: Opportunity or Exposure to violence?’, Gendered Violence Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Localising the Global: a feminist analysis of violent nationalism and extremism in Nepal’, Britain Nepal Academic Conference (Nepal Study Days).
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Politicising the local: constructing policy success for the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Nepal’, European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG).
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Roundtable on Feminist approaches to peace, conflict, and climate (in)security’, British International Studies Association Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Roundtable on Potential avenues for the future of Women, Peace and Security Agenda’, British International Studies Association Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Social Transformation in Post-Conflict Nepal: A gender perspective’, International Studies Association (ISA) 55th Annual Convention.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘The Role of Gender in Environmental Peacebuilding’, Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Transformation of Widowhood in Nepal’, Workshop on Culture and Gender in Disaster Situations (COST Action Disaster Bioethics).
Yadav, P.K. (2024) ‘Transforming Effects of War on Women’, 25th IPSA World Congress of Political Science.
Yadav, P.K. (2025) ‘Wagamama: Gendered Norms and Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan’, British International Studies Association 50th Anniversary Conference.
Yadav, P.K. (2025) ‘White Sari: Transforming Widowhood in Nepal’, POWS Annual Conference.
Reports, working papers and other outputs
Ahmed, B. (2024) Hydrocide: A Conceptual Framework for Transboundary Water Crisis Management. UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction.
Alexander, D.E. (2024) The Earthquake of 23 November 1980 in Campania and Basilicata, Southern Italy. Working paper. UCL.
Al‑Zadjali, S. (2024) ‘Decadal variability of extreme precipitation in northern Oman’. Research note.
Gentile, R. (2025) Creating and implementing a decision support environment for risk-sensitive, pro-poor urban planning and development of Tomorrow’s Cities. Project report.
Ghaffarian, S. (2025) Digital Twins for Early Warning Systems: Intricacies and Solutions. Technical report.
Ghaffarian, S. (2025) High-Impact Low-Probability Events and Systemic Resilience: A Network-Based Methodology and its Application to the Metropolitan City of Venice. Working paper.
Ghaffarian, S. (2025) Transforming Post-Disaster Risk Management: A Comprehensive Framework for Digital Twinning with AI and Machine Learning. Conceptual framework.
Harris, M. (2024) ‘Desert and jungle mountain expedition health risks’, The Professional Mountaineer, 47, pp. 38–40.
Harris, M. (2024) ‘Polar mountain expedition health risks’, The Professional Mountaineer, 48, pp. 38–40.
Himaz, F.R. (2024) ‘Does fiscal squeeze always have electoral consequences?’, LSE Blog.
Himaz, F.R. (2024) ‘Why households must be at the heart of disaster risk mitigation’, Daily Mirror Online (Sri Lanka).
Himaz, F.R. (2024) How planning ahead can reduce disaster risk and support faster recovery. Op-ed, Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
Himaz, F.R. (2024) Strengthening Disaster Risk Finance in the Asia Pacific: A Framework for Financial Resilience and Sustainability. Policy report.
Himaz, F.R. (2024) ‘Why are boys falling behind’. Editorial, Monara Newspaper (Sri Lanka).
Jalayer, F. (2025) EPOS Seismology: Connecting Communities, Advancing Research, and Paving the Way Forward. White paper.
Jalayer, F. (2025) Scenario-based Probabilistic Tsunami Risk Analysis for Coquimbo Bay. Technical report.
Kostkova, P. (2024) The Software for Microcomputer Controlling System for Hydraulic Micropositioner. Exhibition, Exposcience Internationale, Brest, France.
Mehtta, M. (2024) ‘Ports, Ships and a Doomed Isle: Erosion and its Misplaced Blame’, The Telegraph.
Mulder, F. (2024) Technological and conceptual tools for risk communication during the different phases of disaster risk management of natural and human-made hazards. Working paper.
Pelling, M. (2024) Cost-effective and fair climate change adaptation: Deploying nature-based solutions in urban areas. Preprint.
Shamsudduha, M. (2025) Accelerated Decline of Groundwater Levels in the 21st Century, Globally. Research note.
Shamsudduha, M. (2025) Supplementary material to “Groundwater storage dynamics and climate variability in the Lower Kutai Basin of Indonesia: reconciling GRACE ΔGWS to piezometry”. Dataset.
Shamsudduha, M. (2025) Groundwater storage dynamics and climate variability in the Lower Kutai Basin of Indonesia: reconciling GRACE ΔGWS to piezometry. Preprint.
Sun, T. (2025) Advancing SUEWS Since ICUC11: Key Developments and Future Prospects. Technical note.
Sun, T. (2025) Aerosol Modulated Heat Stress in South Asia. Research note.
Sun, T. (2025) Developing hybrid distributed models for hydrological simulation and climate change assessment in large alpine basins. Technical report.
Sun, T. (2025) Development and application of an urban typology database and QGIS plugin for the SUEWS model. Technical note.
Sun, T. (2025) Remove Barriers to Accessible Urban Climate Modelling with Large Language Models. Concept note.
Sun, T. (2025) Urban Green Corridors and thermal exposure: a modelling approach. Research note.
Sun, T. (2025) WRF-SUEWS Coupled System: Development and Prospect. Technical note.
Sun, T. (2025) Enhancing Urban Pluvial Flood Modelling through Graph Reconstruction of Incomplete Sewer Networks. Preprint.
Sun, T. (2025) GUST1.0: A GPU-accelerated 3D Urban Surface Temperature Model. Preprint.
Wu, J. (2025) Analytical Tsunami Fragility Modelling for Building Classes Using Tsunami Time-History Simulations. Technical report.
Yadav, P.K. (2025) Country Expert Report on Gender-based Violence in India. Expert report.
Yadav, P.K. (2025) Wagamama: Gendered Norms and Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan. Working paper.
Discover our academic staff
Find out more about our researchers and their teaching in the department
View our academics