Preface

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Acknowledgements

We thank all conference participants for their involvement and support. Many people assisted with the organisation and delivery of the conference and with this special publication, and we thank them all. In particular we greatly appreciate the help and advice that Stephen Edwards provided throughout. The conference was kindly financed by EPSRC's Bridging the Gaps fund, CAFOD, the UCL DRR Hub, Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, NERC/ESRC funded Science and Policy Interfaces for Disaster Reduction (SPIDER) network, and UCL Grand Challenges, with support from the UCL EPICentre and the UCL Development Planning Unit. Fearnley and Lowe, who organised the conference, and Wilkinson were PhD students in the Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre at the time of the conference and during the initial stages of preparing this special volume.