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What can we learn from existing research on the long-term aspects of disaster risk and recovery? The impacts of COVID-19 have reached across the globe, directly affecting millions of people and...

Summary Volcanic Ash is an excellent archetype of an ‘extensive hazard’. Ash fall occurs frequently and intermittently during volcanic eruptions, and populations in close proximity to...

By Martin Scott, Senior Lecturer in Media and International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK NORWICH, UK, Jan 22 2019 (IPS) - According to a recent poll of aid agencies by the Thomson...

By Martin Scott, Kate Wright and Mel Bunce. In this report we present some of the findings of our four year, global research project into the state of humanitarian journalism around the world. We...

ATTITUDES TOWARDS HUMANITARIAN NEWS WITHIN THE AID SECTOR: SURVEY RESULTS By Martin Scott (@martinscott2010). How do those involved with or interested in the aid sector view media coverage of...

This document reports on a field study conducted in Sri Lanka under the initiative ‘Measuring the Impact of Aid Agency Programmes in Rapid Onset Natural Disaster'. This project, funded by DFID and...

This practical handbook sets out rapid and non-technical methods for measuring and assessing land degradation in the field. Stocking and Murnaghan demonstrate these by using indicators that are...