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Find out more about how natural disasters can have an impact on development

Why are gardens disappearing and what is the impact on run-off and flood risk?

May 2008 has brought a cluster of major hazard events: a volcano in Chile, the cyclone in Burma and earthquakes in China

Vulnerability and Accountability – why is the UK helping Bangladesh adapt to climate change?

The economic impact of Iceland’s volcano on Kenya’s gourmet-veg and cut-flower industry

Intense periods of snow fall in two regions of the world caused a series of deadly avalanches in early 2015

Four years on from Hurricane Katrina, what is happening in New Orleans?

Peru is regularly affected by El Niño and La Niña currents

Boscastle - diary of a deluge

The Hampstead Heath Ponds Project is designed to make the Heath and the surrounding residential areas less prone to flooding

The frequency with which dangerous avalanches occur in the Carpathian mountains is comparable with the rest of Europe and North America, yet observations of their causes in this region are relatively understudied

On the 25 April 2015, Nepal experienced a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by an avalanche on Mount Everest, a second, 7.4 magnitude earthquake on the 12 May 2015 in eastern Nepal, and numerous landslides and aftershocks

By 2050 1.2 million more people are expected to be put at risk of pluvial flooding due to climate change and urban population growth

Are changing rainfall patterns putting the UK at greater risk of flooding?

Public awareness of risk and effective behavioural responses are fundamental to successful risk management strategies

Storm surges to threaten London and the South East?

When Superstorm Sandy hit coast of the USA it caused disruption that would dominate the headlines for days

Why did it get so cold in North America?

Not all hazards are natural: a red mudflow from an industrial reservoir devastated parts of Hungary recently, killing nine people

The linked issues of water supply and climate change have been in the news, following the UK’s extreme winter weather of 2013-14.

A collection of geographical news stories reporting on the Hurricane that hit Haiti in October 2016

In September 2017 Hurricane Irma hit the Caribbean Islands with devastating impacts before moving to Florida, in the USA

The purpose of this module is to explore some of the links between the disciplines of geography and science through three topical flashpoints: swine flu, earthquakes and climate change

A collection of geographical news stories covering the devastating hurricane that hit Texas, USA in August 2017

This is a cross-curricular module which introduces aspects of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) into the geographical study of places and processes in Europe

In December 2015 and January 2015 the UK experienced extreme flooding as a result of Storm Desmond, Storm Eva and Storm Frank

This unit of work teaches resilience in the context of water and flooding

The purpose of this module is to explore the world of risk from a personal scale to a global scale

This module, comprising of six lessons, or half a term’s work, will focus on mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes

Which natural hazards brought disaster – and to who, where and why?

In early January 2014, at the same time that North America was experiencing heavy snow storms and sub-zero temperatures, the UK was also facing its own package of extreme weather

How is the UK's coastal environment and its management changing?

At their most mysterious, sinkholes can make it seem like the earth is opening up and swallowing people and their possessions whole

Hard-to-tackle geographical challenges continue to hinder the development of some of the world’s very poorest countries

Dr Ewan Woodley is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Exeter

Professor Dave Petley, Pro-Vice-Chanchellor for Research and Enterprise at the University of East Anglia talks to us about landslides and risks

Dr Meg Game is an Ecologist for the City of London Corporation 

Daniel Morchain is a Global Advisor for climate change adaption at Oxfam.

Gemma Sou is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester

Alan Werrity, Professor in Geography, University of Dundee

Sarah Henton, graduate student, Alaska Volcano Observatory, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Dr Bruce Malamud

Professor Georgina Endfield

Professor Andrew Tatem

Dr Sian Davis Vollum

On Friday 21 July 2017, an earthquake hit just off the coast of the Greek Island of Kos, and Turkish city of Bodrum in the Aegean Sea

An overview of the geography of mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes

Living with typhoons: Disaster Management in rural Taiwan

The ‘Grand Alpine Tour’, undertaken in the summer of 2014, encompassed a six thousand mile journey through some of the Alps’ toughest terrain

Volcanic research at a subduction zone

Life on the Margins: Natural Hazards in the Gobi Desert

Returning “home”?: Emotional geographies of the disaster displacement in Christchurch, New Zealand

Dr Catherine Butler is a senior lecturer in the Geography Department at University of Exeter

Dr Kate Walker-Springett is an environmental social scientist currently based in the Geography department at the University of Exeter

A poster to show more about key ideas and processes within the geography curriculum

Flood, drought and heat wave: these are the three major natural threats that threaten London

Alex Nickson talks about flood preparation and resilience in cities across the world

Ideas for rivers fieldwork

How our response to natural disasters can be improved and lessons learnt which benefit vulnerable communities worldwide in the long-term