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Find out more about the key issues, organisations and themes in our list of useful resources. Let us know if you discover any new ones you think we'd like!

Articles and Books

o Ahmed, B., Rahman, M. S., Sammonds, P., Islam, R., & Uddin, K. (2020).


o Alam, A., Sammonds, P., Ahmed, B. (2020). Science of The Total Environment, 704, 135360.


o Alexander, D. (2020) Building emergency planning scenarios for pandemics. London: UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.


o Alexander, D. (2019) Disaster and emergency planning for preparedness, response, and recovery, In: Gerber, B., Esnard, A., Glavovic, B., Wamsler, C., Aginam, O., Birkland, T. and Sim, T. (eds.) Oxford Encyclopaedia of Natural Hazards Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-20.


o Alexander, D. (2016) How to Write an Emergency Plan. Edinburgh: Dunedin.


o Cremen, G., Galasso, C. (2020) Earthquake early warning: Recent advances and perspectives. Earth-Science Reviews, 205 103184.


o Duda, P., Kelman, I., Glick, N. (2020) Informal disaster governance. Politics and Governance, 8 (4), 375-385.


o Field, J., Johar, A. (2020) Perspectives on “Giving Back”: A Conversation Between Researcher and Refugee. In The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork. Palgrave Macmillan.


o Field, J., Burra, S. (Eds.), (2020) The Global Compact on Refugees: Indian Perspectives and Experiences. UNHCR India and Academicians Working Group.


o Gentile, R., Galasso, C. (2020) Simplified seismic loss assessment for optimal structural retrofit of RC buildings. Earthquake Spectra, 875529302095244.


o Kelman, I. (2020) Disaster by Choice: How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophise. Oxford University press, Oxford.


o Kelman, I. (2020). Disaster vulnerability by demographics? Journal of Population and Sustainability.


o Kelman, I. (2020). Introduction to "Five Years of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction". International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.


o Kelman, I., Gaillard, J., Lewis, J. and Mercer, J. (2016) “”. Natural Hazards, 82 (1), pp. 129-143.


o Mueller, S., Soriano, D., Boscor, A., Saville, N., Arjyal, A., Baral, S., ...Kayastha, R. (2020) MANTRA: development and localization of a mobile educational health game targeting low literacy players in low and middle income countries. BMC public health, 20 (1), 1171.


o Panda, D.K., Ambast, S.K., Shamsudduha, M. (2020) Groundwater depletion in northern India: Impacts of the sub-regional anthropogenic land-use, socio-politics and changing climate. Hydrological Processes.


o Rodríguez, H., Donner, W. and Trainer, J. (2018) Handbook of disaster research. 2nd ed. Cham: Springer.


o Velazquez, O., Pescaroli, G., Cremen, G., Galasso, C. (2020) A Review of the Technical and Socio-Organizational Components of Earthquake Early Warning Systems. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8.


o Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Beagley, J., Belesova, K., ...Campbell-Lendrum, D. (2020) The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises. Lancet.


o Yadav, P. (2020). Can women benefit from war? Women’s agency in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Journal of Peace Research


o Yadav, P. and Horn, D.M. (2021). “Continuum of violence: feminist peace research and gender-based violence”, in Tarja Väyrynen, Swati Parashar, Élise Féron, and Catia Cecilia Confortini (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge


o Yadav, P., Saville, N., Arjyal, A., Baral, S., Kostkova, P. and Fordham, M. (2021). A feminist vision for transformative change to disaster risk reduction policies and practices, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol 54,


o Zaman, S., Sammonds, P., Ahmed, B., & Rahman, T. (2020). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50, 101694.


o Geographic Information System (GIS) Esri Books (open access):


o Uddin, N. (2020). Oxford University Press.

UCL Specific

oUCL Humanitarian Institute
oIRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster
-The GRRIPP project
oUCL Warning Research Centre
oUCL Institute for Global Health
oIRDR Space Health Risks Research Group
oUCL EPICentre
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Important Websites

o The United Nations (UN)
o The New Humanitarian:
o ReliefWeb:
o Overseas Development Institute (ODI):
o UN News:
o The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR):
o The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
o PreventionWeb
o Humanitarian Practice Network
o ALNAP
o Devex
o Save the Children Disaster Risk Reduction resource centre
o Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
o Sphere
o RedR UK
o The UK Alliance for Disaster Research:
o Understanding Risk:
o The International Humanitarian Studies Association:
o The Humanitarian Leadership Academy:
o The Humanitarian Data Exchange:
o UN OCHA Humanitarian Response:
o The Platform on Disaster Displacement:
o The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre:
o The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC):
o The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
o BRAC NGO:
o South American Network for Environmental Migrations (RESAMA):
o The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
o The International Organization for Migration (IOM):
o The Conversation (Independent News and Views, Sourced from the Academic Community):
o Thomson Reuters Foundation News:
o The International Court of Justice (ICJ):
o The International Criminal Court (ICC):
o The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF):
o Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/ Doctors Without Borders:
o The World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal:
o IOM Environmental Migration Portal:
o United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UNDPPA):
o World Meteorological Organization (WMO):
o United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC):
o UN Women:
o Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR):
o PreventionWeb - Knowledge platform for disaster risk reduction:
o International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD):
o National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):
o National Geographic:
o NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming:
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Online courses/training/MOOCs

o Sphere’s first ever Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) (free online course) “Sphere in Practice”
o RedR courses
o LinkedIn learning (general personal + professional development for wider skills and awareness)
o Geographic Information System (GIS) MOOC (Esri)
o Disaster Displacement (e-learning course)
o Kaya – A free humanitarian learning platform
o NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program
o Introduction to Imagery and Remote Sensing (Esri)
o UN CC: Learn (The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership)

Videos/Documentaries

o Interview with Dr Jessica Field on Global Humanitarian Studies at ʼһ – The Curious Geographer:
o Digital photo exhibition on the Rohingya crisis:
o A Safer Place (the Rohingya crisis):
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Podcasts/Audio news

o The New Humanitarian
o The Response
o Disasters: Deconstructed
o In Their Own Words – Amnesty International
o Stories and Humanitarian Action
o UN News – audio hub
o Humanitarianism by the University of Oxford
o Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
o Everyday Emergency: The MSF podcast
o Disaster Area – History Podcast
o ODI podcast series :
- Constructive Deconstruction
- When disasters and conflict collide
o ODI Live Events Podcasts:
- A feminist approach to international assistance
- The Paris Climate Commitments:
- Merging International NGOs:

Conferences/Events

o Understanding Risk Forum (2020 online for re-watch)
o The UK Alliance for Disaster Research (UKADR) Conference
o International Humanitarian Studies Conference
o Gobeshona Conference
o American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
o American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
o The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW)

Jobs/Careers

• United Nations (UN) Jobs
• Human Rights Careers
• Human Rights Watch
• UN Jobs for Humanitarian Assistance
• Peace Direct
• Relief International
• MSF Jobs
• LinkedIn Jobs (search Humanitarian Jobs)
• Plan International
• UNICEF
• International Rescue Committee
• The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
• The British Red Cross
• Islamic Relief
• Catholic Relief Services
• The European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
• Action Against Hunger
• Care International
• World Relief
• World Vision International
• Save the Children
• UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
• The World Food Programme (WFP)
• Human Rights Watch
• Devex
• ALNAP
• USAID
• The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
• Christian Aid
• The Aga Khan Foundation
• The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• Mercy Corps
• ODI
• Academic Jobs
• IMC Worldwide
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)