Global risks: Pool knowledge to stem losses from disasters

Affiliations

• ¹ Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.
• ² Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, and at the Institute of Earthquake Prediction, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
• ³ Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ⁴ Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ⁵ Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA.
• ⁶ United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Divonne-les-Bains, France.
• ⁷ National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, and a former member of the National Disaster Management Authority, Government of India, Delhi, India.
• ⁸ Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• ⁹ Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University and Senior Scientist at GNS Science, Wellington, New Zealand.
• ¹⁰ Centre for Environment and Sustainability, and director of policy studies at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
• ¹¹ Institute of Geosciences at the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
• ¹² School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Australia.
• ¹³ Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, the Philippines.
• ¹⁴ Center for Applied Developmental Science, University of Jena, Jena, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan, and founding director of the International Centre for Water Hazard Risk Management, Tsukuba, Japan.
• ¹⁶ National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome, Italy, and at the National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
• ¹⁷ University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ¹⁸ Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.