Visualising hazard and risk

To improve the visualisation of risk for decision makers during disaster scenarios

The UCLHC secured funding through the NERC (National Environment Research Council) PURE (Probability, Uncertainty and Risk in the Environment) programme, to improve the visualisation of risk for decision makers during disaster scenarios. This was a collaboration between researchers at UCL, CAFOD (Catholic Agency For Overseas Development) and Aon Benfield, which aimed to make this project relevant to both the NGO (non-governmental organisation) community and commercial sector. The project made use of ImpactOnDemand®, an online program developed by Aon Benfield, which examined the exposure of population and vulnerability datasets in response to hazard footprints. It thus provided a quick and simple mechanism for portraying risk, both in terms of anticipating an event or responding during a crisis. The project focused on flooding in Cambodia, where an assessment of available datasets has lead to a greater understanding of the data required to use this technique, and lead to the creation of recommendations for using this methodology.

Researchers:

Rick Wall	UCL	richard.wall.09@ucl.ac.uk
Steve Edwards	UCL	s.edwards@ucl.ac.uk
Kate Crowley	CAFOD	kcrowley@cafod.org.uk
Brad Weir	Aon Benfield	brad.weir@aonbenfield.com

UCL Hazard Centre:

Hazard and Risk: Our operational programmes aimed at enhancing disaster risk reduction, response and relief.

History: A brief history of the centre.

Publications: Examples of our research articles, posters, books, field guides, and more...

We are partnered with the UCL Department of Earth Sciences.

Contact us:
Director: Christopher Kilburn
Email: c.kilburn@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3108 6325 (56325)