NEEDS 2022 Conference on Global Disasters
COPE and other international partners is going to organise the next edition of the NEEDS Conference on Global Disasters, on 1-3 November 2022.
Key information
- Date(s)
- -
- Location
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Attendance type
- Face-to-face
Description
The NEEDS conference aims to explore the status quo of disaster research and management. The overall theme for the conference will be Global Disasters with a focus on Health and Climate Change and disaster risk reduction and its intersections with development, both at global and local perspective. Registration to the event will be open from August 15 and October 1.
Disasters research is ever more salient today. Weather related incidents fueled by climate change have filled the news for years while the Covid-19 pandemic has overshadowed everything else during the past year and a half. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report highlights the need for immediate global attention and that radical societal transformation is required in the coming years to limit dangerous climate change. Global disasters, both present and future, have become part of common understanding and the public debate.
The conference wishes to harness its broad, interdisciplinary expertise by gathering disaster researchers from academic institutions and practitioners from the disaster management community (European and beyond) to build networks and to discuss the most pressing issues in disaster research across the academic and practical disciplines.
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Past editions
The first NEEDS conference in 2015 and the second one in 2017 were organized by members of the Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research (COPE) at the University of Copenhagen. These conferences brought some of the top scholars in the field of disaster studies to Copenhagen. These landmark events helped us to put the Danish and Nordic disaster research scenes on the global map. Since then, the conference has been to Amsterdam (2018) and Sweden (2019 and 2021).
SOURCE(S)
Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research
