# Event Details - **Event Name**: U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 02:30 pm – Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: How efforts to protect Americans from disaster have often had the paradoxical consequence of leaving them more vulnerable than ever.About this EventThe United States has always been subject to an unusually broad range of ‘natural’ disasters: floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, wildfires…and the list goes on. But the severity of these disasters has been determined not simply by nature but by human decisions about how and where to live.This talk examines how efforts to protect Americans from disaster during the past century (but especially in recent decades) have often had the paradoxical consequence of leaving them more vulnerable than ever to catastrophic loss. Although this paradox is widely recognised by disaster experts in government and academia, efforts to discourage development in hazardous locations have enjoyed little success.Professor Gareth Davies explores why that should be, and inquires whether the vastly increased cost of disaster in recent years might give those experts greater political authority - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/us-disaster-history-and-the-roots-of-environmental-crisis/100001787209705339 - **Event Categories**: - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Room 103, 51 Gordon Square - **lat**: 51.5242137 - **long**: -0.1297774 - **full address**: Room 103, 51 Gordon Square, 51 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c6749ee9f80adddfacd98fc5e8ab6608cb3b10bdd71697302d846713bf7b4a8d-rimg-w1200-h675-dc473133-gmir.jpg?v=1773042404 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis being held? - **A:** U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis takes place on Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 02:30 pm to Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Room 103, 51 Gordon Square, 51 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis? - **A:** U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis is organized by UCL Institute of the Americas. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c6749ee9f80adddfacd98fc5e8ab6608cb3b10bdd71697302d846713bf7b4a8d-rimg-w1200-h675-dc473133-gmir.jpg?v=1773042404", "startDate": "2026-03-25", "endDate": "2026-03-25", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/us-disaster-history-and-the-roots-of-environmental-crisis/100001787209705339", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Room 103, 51 Gordon Square", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "51 Gordon Square", "postalCode": "WC1H 0PN", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.5242137", "longitude": "-0.1297774" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "How efforts to protect Americans from disaster have often had the paradoxical consequence of leaving them more vulnerable than ever.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-25", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/us-disaster-history-and-the-roots-of-environmental-crisis/100001787209705339" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/us-disaster-history-and-the-roots-of-environmental-crisis/100001787209705339", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "UCL Institute of the Americas", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/ucl-institute-of-the-americas/22984290", "description": "UCL Institute of the Americas is a leading multidisciplinary specialist institution for the study of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. 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