Hazards & Risk

Bringing together scientific expertise on various environmental hazards, such as floods, volcanoes, and water contamination, with work elsewhere across the department and in the affiliated King's Centre for Risk Management on risk perception and communication and on the governance and social theory of risk, this multidisciplinary research group has made major contributions to the development of risk both as a field of academic study and body of policy-relevant know-how. Our research is focused around three interlinked themes:

- Natural and Environmental Health Hazards.
- Risk Regulation and Governance.
- Risk Perception and Communication.

We are distinctive for our ability to synthesize and span divisions between the natural and social sciences and for applying that know-how beyond Europe and North America to developing countries as well.