This forthcoming publication in the UCL Press Fringe Series, explores different strategies for education, preparation and societal rebuilding in a worldwide context and across different typologies of disaster. Looking at approaches to the global challenges of inequality and educational poverty, it investigates the disproportionate impact of disaster on the marginalised and economically underprivileged, from children and the elderly to the physically impaired, as well as on refugees and migrants.
This international and interdisciplinary conference, was held online in the 10th anniversary year of the Great East Japan Earthquake and on the anniversary of the 1923 Kanto earthquake. It focussed on approaches to preparedness and prevention, and on the invisible, intangible processes of societal mending required following man-made, natural and biological disaster.