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Baroness Valerie Amos, UN Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator for OCHA
Reports
Video
Tipping Points
Annual Report 2011-12
Breaking the Mould:
Resilience and Disaster Intervention
The second annual report from IHRR’s Tipping Points
programme has been published. Tipping Points is funded by
the Leverhulme Trust. The report presents the project’s recent
research on the role of trust in maintaining the resilience of
financial markets, development of the UK banking sector,
changes in past climate in the North Atlantic, trends in the use
of the term ‘tipping point’ in popular culture, plus much more.
This video features Baroness Valerie Amos, UN UnderSecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency
Relief Coordinator (pictured), asserting that ‘resilience is
about breaking the mould’ in order for humanitarian and
development organisations to mitigate and prepare for natural
disasters and other large-scale emergencies that require
humanitarian aid.
http://bit.ly/QMr2XI
http://youtu.be/GDKzgwexC58
Podcasts
Uncovering the Climate
of the Past in Greenland Part 2
Professor Lena Dominelli on Social
Work and Disaster Intervention
Professor Lena Dominelli introduces the role of social work
in disaster intervention using the example of recovery efforts
during the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in
Sri Lanka. Social work is crucial to disaster relief efforts and
essential to communities’ recovery and reconstruction.
http://bit.ly/SYkUd4
Dr Eleanor Maddison, a researcher on the Tipping Points
project, investigates the climate of the past in Greenland by
studying ancient remains of tiny insects (non-biting midges)
that provide clues to what the climate was like thousands of
years ago. This is Part 2 of an ongoing video series that gives
an insider’s perspective on studying past climate change as
researchers investigate potential ‘tipping points’ in the Earth’s
climate system in the North Atlantic region.
http://vimeo.com/50687881
Bovine TB Risk in the UK:
Past and Present
This podcast investigates the history of the spread of
tuberculosis in cattle and badgers in Britain. It includes a
highly informative interview with Durham researcher Professor
Peter Atkins who led two recent studies on the subject. The
research provides historical insights that could help better
inform policy in preventing the spread of TB in the UK.
http://bit.ly/ZaIuuX
Wenchuan Yingxiu Primary School
Photo Story Roving Exhibition
Dr Timothy Sim from Hong Kong Polytechnic University
presents a unique exhibition of photos by young people who
lived through the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in Wenchuan,
China. Dr Sim explains the resilience of the children
who survived the earthquake and the story behind their
international photo exhibition.
http://vimeo.com/52587812