Ilan Kelman
University College London, UK and University of Agder, Norway
Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, UK and Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. This works covers three principal areas:
- Peace and conflict: How and why disaster-related interventions (disaster diplomacy, including for climate-related hazards) and health-related interventions (health diplomacy, including pandemics) do and do not influence conflict and cooperation. See http://www.disasterdiplomacy.org
- Island sustainability: Creating and maintaining safer and healthier communities on islands and in isolated areas, such as border, Arctic, and mountain communities. See http://www.islandvulnerability.org and Many Strong Voices http://www.manystrongvoices.org
- Risk education: Increasing the effectiveness and impact of risk education, focusing on health and disaster risks, including climate change. See http://www.riskred.org
Post-disaster and cure-related investigations are an essential part of this research, but the preference is to prioritise continual disaster and health risk management in order to implement solutions before it is too late.
Research projects / interests:
- Disaster diplomacy http://www.disasterdiplomacy.org
- Islands http://www.islandvulnerability.org
- Many Strong Voices http://www.manystrongvoices.org
- Risk education http://www.riskred.org
- Climate change and health https://www.lancetcountdown.org/
- Polar Research and Policy Initiative https://polarconnection.org
Twitter/Instagram @IlanKelman
Areas of interest: Disaster risk reduction including climate change adaptation, global health, humanitarianism, island studies, mobilities and migration, Polar research, sustainability and development
Keywords: Antarctica, Arctic, climate change, disaster, disaster risk, disaster risk reduction, disasters, displacement, global health hazard, hazards, health, humanitarian, humanitarianism, island, islands, migration, mobilities, planetary health, polar, resilience, risk, vulnerability
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