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The Royal Geographical Society’s Disaster Risk Management Professional Practice Group is launching a four-part webinar series to accompany the publication of Geographical Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management (Wiley).

Running over the next three months, the series draws on contributions from members of the Professional Practice Group and is framed around the risk management lifecycle: preparation, response, recovery and mitigation. The webinars will explore the different geographical perspectives that inform effective disaster risk management across sectors.

The book brings together a range of case studies and practitioner-led examples, illustrating shared challenges, common approaches and best practice across disaster risk management. It highlights methods and insights that can be applied across different organisational and geographical contexts.

Geospatial information underpins nearly every aspect of modern life, from people’s daily activities and location-based services to e-commerce and e-governance. In the interconnected fields of global development, emergency response and disaster risk management, spatial data is critical in linking diverse sources of information to support decision-making.Chris Ewing, co-author of Geographical Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management

The webinar series will be delivered across four sessions:

  • Asset, infrastructure and exposure data
  • Disaster preparedness and risk reduction
  • Event monitoring, post-damage assessment and recovery
  • Communicating and understanding risk

Bringing together professionals working in government, GIS, climate modelling and related fields, the series demonstrates the breadth of geographical expertise within disaster risk management and highlights the real-world impact of geography across emergency response, resilience planning and search and rescue.

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