Dr Shaun French1 1University Of Nottingham   Meteorological and aquatic metaphors are frequent narrative devices in accounts of global finance and crisis.  Little critical attention has, however, been paid to the ways in which images of weather and water saturate...

Dr Kate Booth1 1University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia   Informed by assumptions of individuality and rationality, insurance is often conceived as a benign risk management tool. The knowledge that underpins insurance is also frequently assumed to be purely archival-statistical –...

Dr Nick Osbaldiston1 1James Cook University, Cairns, Australia   Understanding how people interpret their vulnerability to risks is imperative to unpacking how they negotiate insurance. In Far North Queensland, residents have experienced dramatic rises in insurance costs in recent time...

Bruce Tranter   Analyses of nationally representative Australian survey data collected in 2017 show that the perceived risks of natural disasters from bushfires, cyclones or floods is quite low among the Australian public.  Disaster risk is experienced more acutely in...

Dr Brian Cook1, Dr Maria de Lourdes MeloZurita, Ms Isabel Cornes, Dr Paula Satizabal 1The University Of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia   Much is made of speaking truth to power, but little attention has been given to when power does not,...

Mrs Inka Santala1 1University Of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia   In recent years, the ‘Sharing City’ has emerged as a new urban imaginary for socially just and environmentally sustainable future cities. Although the vision entails considerable promise around solidarity, equity and...

Ms Stephanie Houghton1 1La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia   The development sector has long engaged voluntary workers in NGOs across the globe. However, organisations can struggle to incorporate short-term, international volunteers into their organisations in inclusive, appropriate and effective ways....

Prof. Petra Tschakert1 1University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia   A situated and socially engaged science of loss arising from climate change takes people’s lived experiences with risk and harm as its fundamental starting point. It foregrounds what losses occur,...

Mr Jerome Jeffison Ofori1 1University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia   “Sustainable development means different things to ecologists, environmental planners, economists and environmental activists…Like ‘motherhood” and “God” sustainable development is invoked by different groups of people in support of various projects...

Mr Anthony Ferri1 1Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany   How does colour and lighting affect navigational experience in underground spaces? The act of navigating is ingrained in daily life, and the more one performs that act, the more automatic...