Professor Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett is a social scientist specialising in disaster risk reduction and international development at the interface with public health.
She is the founding president of the Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN), a founding governing board member and interim associate director of the Institute for Environmental Futures at the University of Leicester. Nibedita is a global expert at the International Science Council.
She launched the flexible learning MSc Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management in 2020. In 2023, she launched the ADN’s global campaign, ‘International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths’ (IAD4AD), with her research partner, Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita.
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Avoiding Disaster Deaths
Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett
This book introduces a pathbreaking approach called ‘Avoidable Disaster Deaths’ (ADD) to reduce disaster deaths.Disaster deaths are the direct and indirect impact of hazards. The ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction’ has urged the United Nations Member States to reduce disaster deaths or mortality by 2030. Reducing the number of disaster deaths has become a useful marker for improving disaster risk management. Equally important is knowing how people die, who dies,...
