Earthquakes without Frontiers

Earthquakes without Frontiers

Project Title: Earthquakes without Frontiers (EwF)

Start Date: 01/07/2012

End Date: 30/06/2017

Project summary:

Led by the University of Cambridge and COMET, EwF takes a transdisciplinary approach to helping communities build resilience. It brings together earth scientists, who specialise in earthquake hazard, and social scientists, who specialise in community vulnerability and resilience to earthquakes. Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), EwF is part of the wider programme Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards.

Objectives:

This project aims to build resilience in earthquake-prone regions through three overarching objectives:

  • To increase transformational knowledge of primary and secondary earthquake hazards.
  • To identify pathways to resilience in populations exposed to these hazards.
  • To build networks and partnerships to secure these gains over the long term.

COMET investigators:

  • Professor Tim Wright (Co-Director of COMET)

Funder(s): Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Partners:

  • University of Oxford
  • University of Cambridge
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Durham University
  • University of Hull
  • ODI’s Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) programme
  • Tongli International College
  • World Vision
  • Gender Development Solutions
  • National Society for Earthquake Technology
  • Nepalese Risk Reduction Consortium

For more information: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see-research-innovation/dir-record/research-projects/920/earthquakes-without-frontiers-a-partnership-for-increasing-resilience-to-seismic-hazard-in-the-continents