Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/S009000/1
GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor H Sinclair, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr P Osano, African Centre for Technology Studies, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor E Jimenez Alvaro, National Polytechnic School (Ecuador), UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor C Galasso, University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Eng
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor JC Phillips, University of Bristol, Earth Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr EC Wilkinson, ODI, Climate Change, Enviroment and Forests
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Barbat, Int Ctr for Numerical Methods in Eng, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor JE Ensor, University of York, Stockholm Environment Institute
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr F Medda, University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Eng
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor E Cakti, Bogazici University, Kandilli Obs & Earthquake Res Inst
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor BW Golding, Met Office, Science and Technology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor E Safak, Bogazici University, Kandilli Obs & Earthquake Res Inst
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr C Jordan, British Geological Survey, Earth Hazards & Observatories
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Attal, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Armijos Burneo, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr S Andrade, National Polytechnic School (Ecuador), UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr R Christie, University of Bristol, Politics
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor IS Stewart, University of Plymouth, Sch of Geog Earth & Environ Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor AGL Borthwick, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor SM Mudd, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor S Bayne, University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr D Rush, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor CSB Grimmond, University of Reading, Meteorology
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Naylor, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr A Maskrey, Latin American Faculty of Social Science, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr PJ Vardanega, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor K Celik, TED University, Sociology
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Segou, British Geological Survey, Earth Hazards & Observatories
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Lavell, Latin American Faculty of Social Science, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr D Dodman, International Institute for Env and Dev, Human Settlements Group
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr K K Sesetyan, Bogazici University, Kandilli Obs & Earthquake Res Inst
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor IG Main, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr R Baxter, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
- Co-Investigator:
- Ms G Jain, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Research
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr SK Ebmeier, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr N Timsina, Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies, Research and Development
- Co-Investigator:
- Miss M A Escovar, Int Ctr for Numerical Methods in Eng, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr G McGranahan, Institute of Development Studies, Research Department
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor J Barclay, University of Bristol, Earth Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor B Ghimire, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor DF D'Ayala, University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Eng
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr E Sevilla, San Francisco de Quito University (USFQ), UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr A Revi, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Research
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr O Cardona, Int Ctr for Numerical Methods in Eng, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr J SINGAUCHO-ARMAS, National Polytechnic School (Ecuador), Geophysics
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor T Bajracharya, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor AE Collins, Northumbria University, Fac of Engineering and Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr L Naess, Institute of Development Studies, Research Department
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Nurlu, Disaster & Emergency Manage Auth - AFAD, Earthquake Department
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr E A Holcombe, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr J Atela, African Centre for Technology Studies, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr JC Gill, British Geological Survey, BGS Global
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor U HANCILAR, Bogazici University, Kandilli Obs & Earthquake Res Inst
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr S Blackburn, University of Reading, Geography and Environmental Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor M Pelling, University College London, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reductio
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Hope, Leeds Beckett University, Built Environment and Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr D Chamlagain, Tribhuvan University, Geology
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr J Twigg, ODI, Climate Change, Enviroment and Forests
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr G K Jimee, NSET (Nat Soc for Earthquake Tech Nepal), DPER (Disaster Preparedness Division)
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr AF Bell, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr R Guragain, NSET (Nat Soc for Earthquake Tech Nepal), UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A M Santillan, FLACSO-Ecuador, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor H Kalaycioglu, Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr B B Adhikari, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Ms R PRAJAPATI, NSET (Nat Soc for Earthquake Tech Nepal), UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor P Ngau, University of Nairobi, Architecture and Building Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor TJ Wright, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr n n Sitoula, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Miss S Yilmaz, Disaster & Emergency Manage Auth - AFAD, Earthquake Department
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr D W Ichang'i, University of Nairobi, School of Physical Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr RO Opiyo, University of Nairobi, Architecture and Building Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr N Gourmelen, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr JR Elliott, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor T Rossetto, University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Eng
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr G Bernal, Int Ctr for Numerical Methods in Eng, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr V Ozsarac, Disaster & Emergency Manage Auth - AFAD, Earthquake Department
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor BD Malamud, Durham University, Geography
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr AR Donovan, University of Cambridge, Geography
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Alvarado, National Polytechnic School (Ecuador), Geophysics
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M MARULANDA FRAUME, Int Ctr for Numerical Methods in Eng, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr MM Mbathi, Center for Urban Research & Innovations, Urban and Regional Planning
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr E Hussain, British Geological Survey, Earth Hazards & Observatories
- Co-Investigator:
- Ms S Singh, Institute of Engineering, UNLISTED
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr JM Apgar, Institute of Development Studies, Research Department
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Fraser, The Open University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sci (FASS)
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Carreno Tibaduiza, Int Ctr for Numerical Methods in Eng, UNLISTED
- Grant held at:
- University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Science Area:
- None
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- None
- Science Topics:
- Urban & Land Management
- Urban Design
- Earthquakes
- Flood risk
- Seismic reflection
- Volcano monitoring
- Geohazards
- Avalanches
- Development Geography
- Urban Geography
- Abstract:
- The Hub will reduce disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow's cities. The failure to integrate disaster risk resilience into urban planning and decision-making is a persistent intractable challenge that condemns hundreds of millions of the World's poor to continued cyclical destruction of their lives and livelihoods. It presents a major barrier to the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in expanding urban systems. Science and technology can help, but only against complex multi-hazard context of urban life and the social and cultural background to decision-making in developing countries. Science-informed urbanisation, co-produced and properly integrated with decision support for city authorities, offers the possibility of risk-sensitive development for millions of the global poor. This is a major opportunity - some 60% of the area expected to be urban by 2030 is yet to be built. Our aim is to catalyse a transition from crisis management to risk-informed planning in four partner cities and globally through collaborating International governance organisations. The Hub, co-designed with local and international stakeholders from the start, will deliver this agenda through integrated research across four urban systems - Istanbul, Kathmandu, Nairobi and Quito - chosen for their multi-hazard exposure, and variety of urban form, development status and governance. Trusted core partnerships from previous Global Challenge Research Fund, Newton Fund and UK Research Council projects provide solid foundations on which city based research projects have been built around identified, existing, policy interventions to provide research solutions to specific current development problems. We have developed innovative, strategic research and impact funds and capable management processes constantly to monitor progress and to reinforce successful research directions and impact pathways. In each urban system, the Hub will reduce risk for 1-4 million people by (1) Co-producing forensic examinations of risk root causes, drivers of vulnerability and trend analysis of decision-making culture for key, historic multi-hazard events. (2) Combining quantitative, multi-hazard intensity, exposure and vulnerability analysis using advances in earth observation, citizen science, low cost sensors and high-resolution surveys with institutional and power analysis to allow multi-hazard risk assessment to interface with urban planning culture and engineering. (3) Convene diverse stakeholder groups-communities, schools, municipalities private enterprise, national agencies- around new understanding of multi-hazard urban disaster risk stimulating engagement and innovation in making risk-sensitive development choices to help meet the SDGs and Sendai Framework. Impact will occur both within and beyond the life of the Hub and will raise the visibility of cities in global risk analysis and policy making. City Partnerships, integrating city authorities, researchers, community leaders and the private sector, will develop and own initiatives including high-resolution validated models of multi-hazard risk to reflect individual experience and inform urban development planning, tools and methods for monitoring, evaluation and audit of disaster risk, and recommendations for planning policy to mitigate risks in future development. City partnerships will collaborate with national and regional city networks, policy champions and UN agencies using research outputs to structure city and community plans responding to the Sendai Framework and targeted SDG indicators, and build methods and capacity for reporting and wider critique of the SDG and Sendai reporting process. Legacy will be enabled through the ownership of risk assessment and resilience building tools by city and international partners who will identify need, own, modify and deploy tools beyond the life of the Hub.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/S009000/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- RCUK
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- 18GCRFHubsFull
This grant award has a total value of £17,657,279
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Exception - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - Staff | DI - T&S | DA - Other Directly Allocated | Exception - T&S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,572,788 | £6,605,824 | £2,244,553 | £1,346,560 | £664,112 | £2,857,092 | £905,335 | £36,842 | £1,424,173 |
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