Anti-Waffle Podcast

Anti-Waffle Podcast with Dr Ilan Kelman

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How can individual efforts in our everyday lives mitigate disaster risk for the collective? And what major structural barriers obstruct the facilitation of disaster prevention at a grander scale?

In this episode Dr Ilan Kelman talks through some examples and introduces us to his unique research; where diplomacy bridges disaster-risk reduction, global health and climate change.  We learn, amongst other things, why llan and colleagues believe the phrase ‘natural disaster’ should be phased out and replaced with ‘human disaster’. And we get to understand the roots - or ‘baselines’ of disaster and health; vulnerability, human values, societal structures - which may force individuals into constrained options. We also hear of unintended success stories in disaster prevention, where First Aid training for teenagers led not only to lives saved in the streets, but also to increased litter picking and overall safer, cleaner streets – mitigating the increased risk of major flooding as a consequence of changing climate.