About the lecture:
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What are the entry points for science in disrupting embedded social relationships that lead to uneven geographies of disaster risk and loss? Indeed, what might the costs be to science of even asking such a question? Reflecting on recent work in the global megacities of London and New York, the slums of Nairobi and townships of Cape Town this lecture traces a concern for applied research to move from describing the status of vulnerability and the challenges facing risk management to a focus on the drivers and barriers to transition.
Transition in city risk management regimes that can shift action from protecting to critiquing development. Demand for transition to more transformative regimes is identified and set against observation and experience of active science interventions that have supported and disrupted the status quo.