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Dave Chester - Natural Hazards: The Changing Global Picture

5:30pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 24th October 2017 / Venue: Lecture Theatre 6 Rendall Building
Type: Lecture / Category: Department
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This lecture focuses on the ways in which changes in population, wealth, and poverty have in the past and are currently changing the character of global hazard exposure, and how in the future human-induced environmental change may exacerbate exposure particularly in economically less developed regions of the world.