About the Author
Dr Ilan Kelman works at the University College of London (UCL): Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and Institute for Global Health. He is a Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health: Research, teaching, and impact through connecting disaster and health research, including integrating climate change.
Review by: Dr Jessica Mercer – Secure Futures.
Ilan Kelman takes a hard look via theory and case studies at the diplomatic impact of disasters… Kelman offers a sophisticated analysis of the successes and failures of disaster diplomacy since 2000.’
A Political View of CO2: Glantz1979Nature
This paper was written in the late 1970’s to expose the political nature of attempts to reduce fossil fuel emissions at the national level and come to international agreements controlling the amount of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere. It is now thirty-five years later and many of the political and equity continue unresolved, and the climate continues to heat up.