Social impact of natural hazards

In between Natural Hazards and Heritage, interview to Maria Bostenaru

Vale Cigala July 20, 2020

Mediterranean soils and cultural heritage. Photo credit: Antonio Jordán (distributed via Imaggeo).

In today’s interview, we talk with Dr Maria Bostenaru. Maria is an architecture engineer interested in the complex relationship between urban areas, natural hazards, and heritage. She tells us how she thinks that involving more humanities, which include, for example, the study of languages, literature, archaeology, together with information technology solutions, may result in new important a ...[Read More]

The bad, the good and the unpredictable: living with volcanoes / part 2

Jazmin Scarlett November 11, 2019

1812 eruption of La Soufrière, painted by J.M.W. Turner.

Before continuing, if you haven’t read it yet, catch up with the first part of this blog article by clicking on this link. The good Living with volcanoes is not all bad. Volcanoes provide a wealth of natural resources in the form of building materials, hot springs, freshwater and fertile soil. However, there are more hidden aspects, which was the focus of a recent collaboration with an archa ...[Read More]

The bad, the good and the unpredictable: living with volcanoes / part 1

Jazmin Scarlett October 28, 2019

Rabacca Dry River with La Soufrière volcano in the background. Photo taken by Jazmin Scarlett, 2016.

Introduction Humans have existed and lived alongside volcanoes for as long as we have been on the planet. For some, this has been beneficial and often, in fact, we can see how indigenous knowledge finds a sustainable approach living with them. However, in some cases, societies cannot cope and are overwhelmed with volcanic eruptions. There are many examples from archaeological studies dealing with ...[Read More]