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Predicting and managing flood risks from extreme rain events in Japan

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Shakti P.C. uses flood inundation mapping, hydrological modelling, and other advanced techniques based on a near real-time approach to improve flood resilience and adaptation to extreme rain events.

Japan has seen an increase in extreme rain events in recent years, resulting in catastrophic flooding with substantial loss of human life and destruction of property. As climate change is likely to increase the severity and frequency of flooding, governments and other organisations are rightly becoming more concerned. Research conducted by Shakti P.C. and colleagues at Japan’s National Research Institute […]

Science education, new materialism, natural disaster, and the Anthropocene

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Catherine Milne researches science education in the Anthropocene, an era of environmental unravelling and natural disasters

Science education must adapt to new ways of thinking about how humans interact with the material world. That is the view of Catherine Milne, professor of science education at New York University in the US. In a new book, Dr Milne and co-authors argue that identification of the current human-centric ‘Anthropocene’ geological epoch, together with the many natural disasters the […]