CNDS Research seminar: Methodological challenges and advances in disaster science

CNDS organized on 9 September 2024 a seminar on methodological challenges and advances in disaster science, moderated by professor of political science at the Department of Government Charles Parker, Uppsala University (UU).

Future development of the disaster science field will require scholars from different disciplines to overcome a variety of methodological challenges. Interdisciplinary collaboration—the backbone of CNDS—is pivotal in this work. The panel during the seminar spotlighted methodological issues in disaster science and recent advances in addressing them, exemplified by interdisciplinary projects and studies from CNDS scholars.

The panelists:

Sara Lindersson, an environmental geographer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, UU presented on challenges of international impact databases and ways forward,

Frederike Albrecht, a senior lecture at the Department of Political Science, Swedish Defence University shared her own challenges related to the methodology within the interdisciplinary research,

Riccardo Biella, PhD student at the Department of Earth Sciences, UU shared with the audience insights from running a European survey in his presentation “The 2022 Drought needs to be a turning point for European Drought Risk Management”,

Daniel Nohrstedt, a professor of political science at the Department of Government, UU presented ongoing collaboration with the Department of Computational Linguistics, UU in deriving disaster framing and climate policy actions from country statements at the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.