The Natural and Unnatural Disasters of Planet Earth

The future holds many uncertainties and phenomena . Growth in the developing world economies, urbanisation, environmental change and population growth.  Where will the food and water come from to meet growing populations and growth in resource demand by individuals. Studies in migration and the reason why people are leaving the rural areas have been oversimplified in the media and  picture is complicated by technology, sustainability, aspirations and the temptation to make a lot of money fast. Our work has modelled the  prospects of the poorest or the poor in the rural areas of large delta sys

Plate boundaries, where tectonic plates slide past each other, are the principal regions on Earth where the greatest and most rapid geological changes occur. As the upper portions of our Earth are brittle, differential movement at these boundaries often results in catastrophic earthquakes. In this talk I will show you what a tectonic plate boundary looks like and describe the controls on how and when earthquakes occur and the role that (rain)water plays in the earthquake cycle.