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What Happened to the Second World? Earthquakes and Postsocialism in Kazakhstan (2019)
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Bankoff, G., & Oven, K. (2019). What Happened to the Second World? Earthquakes and Postsocialism in Kazakhstan. Disasters, https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12362

There is an assumption that with the disintegration of the USSR the Second World ceased to exist. Yet the demise of the Communist bloc as a geopolitical reality did not mean that it ceased to exert a defining influence over how people think and behav... Read More about What Happened to the Second World? Earthquakes and Postsocialism in Kazakhstan.

Global Mapping of Citizen Science Projects for Disaster Risk Reduction (2019)
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Hicks, A., Barclay, J., Chilvers, J., Armijos, M. T., Oven, K., Simmons, P., & Haklay, M. (2019). Global Mapping of Citizen Science Projects for Disaster Risk Reduction. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00226

Citizen science for disaster risk reduction (DRR) holds huge promise and has demonstrated success in advancing scientific knowledge, providing early warning of hazards, and contributed to the assessment and management of impacts. While many existing... Read More about Global Mapping of Citizen Science Projects for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Simple rules to minimise exposure to coseismic landslide hazard (2019)
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Milledge, D., Densmore, A., Bellugi, D., Rosser, N., Watt, J., Li, G., & Oven, K. (2019). Simple rules to minimise exposure to coseismic landslide hazard. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 19(4), 837-856. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-837-2019

Landslides constitute a hazard to life and infrastructure and their risk is mitigated primarily by reducing exposure. This requires information on landslide hazard on a scale that can enable informed decisions. Such information is often unavailable t... Read More about Simple rules to minimise exposure to coseismic landslide hazard.

Use of scenario ensembles for deriving seismic risk (2018)
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Robinson, T., Rosser, N., Densmore, A., Oven, K., Shrestha, S., & Guragain, R. (2018). Use of scenario ensembles for deriving seismic risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(41), E9532-E9541. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807433115

High death tolls from recent earthquakes show that seismic risk remains high globally. While there has been much focus on seismic hazard, large uncertainties associated with exposure and vulnerability have led to more limited analyses of the potentia... Read More about Use of scenario ensembles for deriving seismic risk.

Satellite-based emergency mapping using optical imagery: experience and reflections from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes (2018)
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Williams, J., Rosser, N., Kincey, M., Benjamin, J., Oven, K., Densmore, A., …Dijkstra, T. (2018). Satellite-based emergency mapping using optical imagery: experience and reflections from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18, 185-205. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-185-2018

Landslides triggered by large earthquakes in mountainous regions contribute significantly to overall earthquake losses and pose a major secondary hazard that can persist for months or years. While scientific investigations of coseismic landsliding ar... Read More about Satellite-based emergency mapping using optical imagery: experience and reflections from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes.

Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems (2017)
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Curtis, S., Fair, A., Wistow, J., Val, D. V., & Oven, K. (2017). Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems. Environmental Health, 16(S1), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0324-3

This review, commissioned by the Research Councils UK Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) programme, concerns research on the impacts on health and social care systems in the United Kingdom of extreme weather events, under conditions of climate c... Read More about Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems.

Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England (2017)
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Curtis, S., Oven, K., Wistow, J., Dunn, C., & Dominelli, L. (2018). Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(1), 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417695101

Our findings contribute to a growing international literature on how conceptual models from complexity theory may be relevant to inform planning in health and social care systems, helping to adapt and improve preparedness and resilience to extreme we... Read More about Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems: The example of older people’s services in England.

Between a rock and a hard place: Vulnerability and precarity in rural Nepal (2016)
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Rigg, J., Oven, K. J., Basyal, G. K., & Lamichhane, R. (2016). Between a rock and a hard place: Vulnerability and precarity in rural Nepal. Geoforum, 76, 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.08.014

Drawing on a local study on Nepal’s Terai, this paper explores the nature of livelihood exposure to shocks and stresses among rural households in two Village Development Committees in Sunsari District. The primary data are derived from a 117 househol... Read More about Between a rock and a hard place: Vulnerability and precarity in rural Nepal.

A comparison of the governance landscape of earthquake risk reduction in Nepal and the Indian State of Bihar (2015)
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Jones, S., Oven, K., & Wisner, B. (2016). A comparison of the governance landscape of earthquake risk reduction in Nepal and the Indian State of Bihar. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 15, 29-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.10.011

On 25 April 2015, a Mw 7.8 earthquake struck central Nepal, killing more than 8700 people. An earthquake of this magnitude has long been anticipated in Nepal and the neighbouring northern Indian state of Bihar, which straddle the active Himalayan fro... Read More about A comparison of the governance landscape of earthquake risk reduction in Nepal and the Indian State of Bihar.

Towards disaster resilience: A scenario-based approach to co-producing and integrating hazard and risk knowledge (2015)
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Davies, T., Beaven, S., Conradson, D., Densmore, A., Gaillard, J., Johnston, D., …Wilson, T. (2015). Towards disaster resilience: A scenario-based approach to co-producing and integrating hazard and risk knowledge. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 13, 242-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.05.009

Quantitative risk assessment and risk management processes are critically examined in the context of their applicability to the statistically infrequent and sometimes unforeseen events that trigger major disasters. While of value when applied at regi... Read More about Towards disaster resilience: A scenario-based approach to co-producing and integrating hazard and risk knowledge.

Building liberal resilience? A critical review from developing rural Asia (2015)
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Rigg, J., & Oven, K. (2015). Building liberal resilience? A critical review from developing rural Asia. Global Environmental Change, 32, 175-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.007

‘Resilience’ is the catchword of the moment. For many of the mainstream institutions of international development, building resilience is embedded in a wider commitment to market liberalism. Taking three entry points, the sectoral, spatial and socio-... Read More about Building liberal resilience? A critical review from developing rural Asia.

The best of intentions? Managing disasters and constructions of risk and vulnerability in Asia (2015)
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Oven, K., & Rigg, J. (2015). The best of intentions? Managing disasters and constructions of risk and vulnerability in Asia. Asian Journal of Social Science, 43(6), 685-712. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04306003

Drawing on research on landslide risk reduction in Nepal and the impacts of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 in southern Thailand, this paper considers how risk, in the context of natural hazards, is produced by processes of social and economic trans... Read More about The best of intentions? Managing disasters and constructions of risk and vulnerability in Asia.

The role of formal and informal networks in supporting older people's care during extreme weather events (2015)
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Wistow, J., Dominelli, L., Oven, K., Dunn, C., & Curtis, S. (2015). The role of formal and informal networks in supporting older people's care during extreme weather events. Policy and Politics, 43(1), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557312x655855

We use theories of formal and informal networks of care, within a local governance system, to interpret networks supporting older people during extreme weather events. Drawing on international literatures about network governance and emergency manage... Read More about The role of formal and informal networks in supporting older people's care during extreme weather events.

Governance struggles and policy processes in disaster risk reduction: A case study from Nepal (2014)
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Jones, S., Oven, K., Manyena, B., & Aryal, K. (2014). Governance struggles and policy processes in disaster risk reduction: A case study from Nepal. Geoforum, 57, 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.07.011

In the neo-liberal climate of reduced responsibility for the state, alongside global platforms established to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action, a new arena opens for a multitude of stakeholders to engage in disaster risk reduction (DRR). The... Read More about Governance struggles and policy processes in disaster risk reduction: A case study from Nepal.

Climate change and health and social care: Defining future hazard, vulnerability and risk for infrastructure systems supporting older people’s health care in England (2012)
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Oven, K., Curtis, S., Reaney, S., Riva, M., Stewart, M., Ohlemuller, R., …Holden, R. (2012). Climate change and health and social care: Defining future hazard, vulnerability and risk for infrastructure systems supporting older people’s health care in England. Applied Geography, 33, 16-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.05.012

Health and social care systems (including the care needs of the population and infrastructures providing health and social care) are likely to be influenced by climate change, in particular by the increasing frequency and severity of weather-related... Read More about Climate change and health and social care: Defining future hazard, vulnerability and risk for infrastructure systems supporting older people’s health care in England.