DRR pioneers: interview with Ben Wisner Available to Purchase

Ben Wisner has worked on the interface between DRR and sustainable development since 1966, when he lived in a Tanzanian village for two years. His 1978 Ph.D. was on “The Human Ecology of Drought in Eastern Kenya”. He has been teaching at many universities worldwide, including as Visiting Fellow at Aon-Benfield University Hazard Research Center, University College London; at Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A.; as Visiting Professor, School of Built and Natural Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and at the Academy of Disaster Management, Beijing Normal University, PRC. He has published extensively on food security, disasters, risk and vulnerability and is one of the key authors of the 2004 “At Risk: Natural Hazards, people’s vulnerability and disasters”, (2nd edition) publication. He now is a retired professor who still conducts research and advises many institutions, when he is not playing with his grandchildren, baking bread or watching birds.