​An article presenting a new global dataset of geocoded disaster locations has just been published in the Nature journal Scientific Data.

The WFP has been a long-time favorite on Urdal’s shortlist

​​We congratulate Elisabeth Lio Rosvold on the successful defense of her PhD thesis today, 08 November 2019! Dr Rosvold’s thesis entitled ‘Coping with Calamity: Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict and Development Aid’ was defended at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Sociology and Political Science.

The Jacek Kugler Political Demography and Geography Student Paper Award is awarded to the best paper with a political demography and geography themes presented at the ISA Annual Convention.

​​The project will focus on the causal connection between adverse environmental change and discrete social upheavals, with examples including the ongoing civil war in Syria and the early Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.