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Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research

Interview with Olivier Rubin

INTERVIEW

Interview with Olivier Rubin

PhD Position in Climate Change Adaptation

VACANCY

PhD and Postdoc fellowships at the Global Health Section

Storytellers

Perspective

We are all Storytellers: Art and Narrative as a tool for climate and humanitarian communication at the Red Cross Climate Centre

Cash Assistance Impact

Perspective

The influence of cash assistance on disaster response and the humanitarian system

Urban Planning and Floods

Research

Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world

Research Project

Students

Student experience in the Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Methods course, Chennai 2024

Research Project

Research Project

Responding to Heatwaves in Displacement Contexts

7 people standing, showing a hand-drawn planning of a rural community in India

What do we work on?

Research Themes & Research Projects

News

Urban encroachment – untangling drivers and dynamics of land-use transitions in ecologically sensitive areas

Manja Hoppe Andreasen, Associate Professor at KU discusses her project on urban encroachment in…

PhD and Post-Doc vacancies at the Global Health Section

The Global Health Section at the Department of Public Health is offering two a PhD and a Postdoc…

Interview with Olivier Rubin

COPE interviews Olivier Rubin, Professor of Disaster Research and member of the Copenhagen Center…

New study on September 2024 floods in Central Europe

Researchers Emmanuel Raju and Nick Baumgart from the Global Health Section, University of Copenhage…

Learning from memories and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the future

Researchers Emmanuel Raju, Anne Bach Nielsen and Suchismita Goswami from the Global Health section…

Webinar on CliCNord - the Main Findings: Full Recording

On June 6 2024, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research, along with University College…

Suggested elective courses for Disaster Risk Management professionals and PhDs

We strongly believe in the importance of continuing education of professionals involved with Disaster Risk Management. You can find some recommended courses below.

Geo Information in Disaster Situations

Get hands-on experience in situation mapping focussing on disaster situations. This includes effective disaster management and response through rapid utilization of information and data from many sources.

Application deadline: 10 March 2025

Read more here.

Water Supply and Sanitation in Emergencies

Learn how to approach and prioritise water supply and sanitation in emergencies with foresight, and make appropriate decisions to prevent disease outbreak.

Application deadline: 3 March 2025

Read more here.

Events

SUN IS SHINING. Climate Research, Art and Human Adaptation

Research presentation by John Rand, Nick Baumgard and Maryam Nastar

CLIMA Lunch Seminar with Meng Zhang

Governance Innovation or Imagination? Navigating the EU’s Leading Role towards a Climate Club of Green Hydrogen in a Polarized World

CLIMA Lunch Seminar: Green access to justice and climate change litigation in italy

Literature has shown that climate change litigation is indeed a fertile ground for the development of European juridical systems and the overcoming of – we can say – secular legal dogmas.

Coastal protection and sea level rise concerns in Denmark and Europe

Event with Kristoffer Albris, Associate Professor at Anthropology and SODAS, University of Copenhagen, Head of Studies for M.Sc. in Social Data Science.

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