COPE: Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research

🎥 Our recent webinar's recording is out!

🌍 On June 24 2025, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) hosted a webinar on Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research. Inspired by a recently published special issue in Disaster Prevention and Management co-edited by the featured speakers- Dr. Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Dr. Maria Carinnes Alejandria (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), and Dr. Kirstin Kreyscher (Deakin University)—the webinar explored innovative and critical approaches to disaster research.

🔎 Together with COPE Director Emmanuel Raju, the panel examined how emerging methodologies can deepen our understanding of disasters and push the boundaries of conventional research to center justice, ethics, and reflexivity. Drawing from the experiences of the special issue's contributors, the conversation aimed to illuminate how scholars, communities, and institutions can collaboratively shape pathways toward disaster justice.

👉 Watch the recorded webinar:

Full Recording: Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research webinar On June 24 2025, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research hosted a webinar on Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research.

📢 New report out: "Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave" by the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment.

🔍 Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) Director Emmanuel Raju along with many of his peers, is a review author in a new report from the Imperial Grantham Institute. The report examines how climate change contributed to the recent European heatwave and the resulting loss of human life.

📊 The story is republished from the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment's website, where it originally appeared.

🔥 About 1,500 of the 2,300 estimated heat deaths, or 65%, are a result of climate change increasing the heat by 1-4°C, meaning the death toll was tripled due to the burning of fossil fuels.

📍 Climate change was behind 317 of the estimated excess heat deaths in Milan, 286 in Barcelona, 235 in Paris, 171 in London, 164 in Rome, 108 in Madrid, 96 in Athens, 47 in Budapest, 31 in Zagreb, 21 in Frankfurt, 21 in Lisbon and 6 in Sassari (a full breakdown of the results is given in the notes).

📖 Read the full report:

Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave COPE Director Emmanuel Raju, along with many of his peers, is a review author in a new report from the Imperial Grantham Institute. The report examines how climate change contributed to the recent European heatwave and the resulting loss of human life.