We are a multidisciplinary group building resilience to environmental hazards through research, teaching, and partnerships aligned with the UN’s Sendai Framework.

Our research plays a fundamental role in building resilience to natural hazards. We work to reduce and prevent the risks associated with environmental disasters, supporting the implementation of the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and aligned agreements.

Through research, teaching, and engagement, we help to strengthen disaster risk management (including disaster risk reduction, forecasting, prevention and preparedness, emergency response, reconstruction and recovery, and climate change adaptation).

Our work aims at an integrated understanding of all aspects of risk (i.e., hazard, exposure, vulnerability). We deliver this work locally in Wales, nationally in the UK, and internationally. We work actively across disciplinary boundaries, through partnerships with other schools at Cardiff University and institutes around the world.

We are process-oriented, with expertise in diverse hazard types and an increasing focus on multiple cascading hazards. We work across human to geological timescales, and spatial scales from microscopic to continental. We study onshore and offshore systems and the interface between them. We draw lessons from geological, historical and instrumental records and use a range of advanced monitoring and analysis techniques.