John Mccloskey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mccloskey |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccloskey |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLOSKEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4558-7717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Normative future visioning
Normative future visioning (NFV) offers a critical approach that can respond to the challenges of transformative adaptation. In the context of climate crisis, an understanding of the diversity of desired end-states and pathways for good urban futures is fundamental to fostering cooperation and inspiring purposeful action that can challenge and transform unsustainable processes and behaviours, and researching these processes. This paper contribute…
Interdisciplinarity in practice
The concept of disaster risk is cross-disciplinary by nature and reducing disaster risk has become of interest for various disciplines. Yet, moving from a collection of multiple disciplinary perspectives to integrated interdisciplinary disaster risk approaches remains a fundamental challenge. This paper reflects on the experience of a group of early-career researchers spanning physical scientists, engineers and social scientists from different or…
Future exposure modelling for risk-informed decision making in urban planning
Population increases and related urban expansion are projected to occur in various parts of the world over the coming decades. These future changes to the urban fabric could fundamentally alter the exposure to natural hazards and the associated vulnerability of people and the built environment with which they interact. Thus, modelling, quantifying, and reducing future urban disaster risk require forward-looking insights that capture the dynamic f…
A state-of-the-art decision-support environment for risk-sensitive and pro-poor urban planning and design in Tomorrow's cities
In this Special Issue introductory paper, we present the Tomorrow's Cities Decision Support Environment (TCDSE). As the negative impacts of natural hazards continue to escalate around the world due to increasing populations, climate change, and rapid urbanisation (among other factors and processes), there is an urgent requirement to develop structured and operational approaches towards multi-hazard risk-informed decision making on urban planning …
Physics-based simulations of multiple natural hazards for risk-sensitive planning and decision making in expanding urban regions
Rapid urban expansion in many parts of the world is leading to increased exposure to natural hazards, exacerbated by climate change. The use of physics-based models of natural hazards in risk-informed planning and decision-making frameworks may provide an improved understanding of site-specific hazard scenarios, allowing various decision makers to more accurately consider the consequences of their decisions on risks in future development. We pres…
Scoring, selecting, and developing physical impact models for multi-hazard risk assessment
This study focuses on scoring, selecting, and developing physical fragility (i.e., the probability of reaching or exceeding a certain damage state given a specific hazard intensity) and/or vulnerability (i.e., the probability of impact - or consequence - given a specific hazard intensity) models for assets of interest, with particular emphasis on buildings. Given a set of multiple relevant hazards for a selected case-study region, the proposed pr…
Do social adaptations increase earthquake resilience
Triggering multi-actor change cascades
Deep-rooted socio-ecological and technical systems, values and lifestyles, 'locked in' by vested interests and flows of power, underpin the interconnected problems of climate change, hazard vulnerability and poverty. A 'shallow' approach to co-production, with its focus on knowledge exchange and shared learning between individuals, struggles to gain the 'purchase' needed to transform these material structures. In this paper we demonstrate that no…
Social dimensions of science-humanitarian collaboration
This paper contains a critical exploration of the social dimensions of the science-humanitarian relationship. Drawing on literature on the social role of science and on the social dimensions of humanitarian practice, it analyses a science-humanitarian partnership for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia, an area threatened by tsunamigenic earthquakes. The paper draws on findings from case study research that was conducted b…
The Bengkulu premonition
Knowledge, coping strategies, and expertise that have accumulated within indigenous communities in response to repeated hazard events, are an important part of disaster risk reduction. There is a tendency, however, for indigenous societies to be treated as if they are separate from and contrast sharply with modern industrial societies. Increasingly, globalisation means local cultures are produced through the inter-relationship of local traditions…
The Bengkulu premonition
Knowledge, coping strategies, and expertise that have accumulated within indigenous communities in response to repeated hazard events, are an important part of disaster risk reduction. There is a tendency, however, for indigenous societies to be treated as if they are separate from and contrast sharply with modern industrial societies. Increasingly, globalisation means local cultures are produced through the inter-relationship of local traditions…
Normative future visioning
Normative future visioning (NFV) offers a critical approach that can respond to the challenges of transformative adaptation. In the context of climate crisis, an understanding of the diversity of desired end-states and pathways for good urban futures is fundamental to fostering cooperation and inspiring purposeful action that can challenge and transform unsustainable processes and behaviours, and researching these processes. This paper contribute…
Triggering multi-actor change cascades
Deep-rooted socio-ecological and technical systems, values and lifestyles, 'locked in' by vested interests and flows of power, underpin the interconnected problems of climate change, hazard vulnerability and poverty. A 'shallow' approach to co-production, with its focus on knowledge exchange and shared learning between individuals, struggles to gain the 'purchase' needed to transform these material structures. In this paper we demonstrate that no…
The Bengkulu premonition
Knowledge, coping strategies, and expertise that have accumulated within indigenous communities in response to repeated hazard events, are an important part of disaster risk reduction. There is a tendency, however, for indigenous societies to be treated as if they are separate from and contrast sharply with modern industrial societies. Increasingly, globalisation means local cultures are produced through the inter-relationship of local traditions…
Social dimensions of science-humanitarian collaboration
This paper contains a critical exploration of the social dimensions of the science-humanitarian relationship. Drawing on literature on the social role of science and on the social dimensions of humanitarian practice, it analyses a science-humanitarian partnership for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia, an area threatened by tsunamigenic earthquakes. The paper draws on findings from case study research that was conducted b…
Triggering multi-actor change cascades
Deep-rooted socio-ecological and technical systems, values and lifestyles, 'locked in' by vested interests and flows of power, underpin the interconnected problems of climate change, hazard vulnerability and poverty. A 'shallow' approach to co-production, with its focus on knowledge exchange and shared learning between individuals, struggles to gain the 'purchase' needed to transform these material structures. In this paper we demonstrate that no…
Do social adaptations increase earthquake resilience
Scoring, selecting, and developing physical impact models for multi-hazard risk assessment
This study focuses on scoring, selecting, and developing physical fragility (i.e., the probability of reaching or exceeding a certain damage state given a specific hazard intensity) and/or vulnerability (i.e., the probability of impact - or consequence - given a specific hazard intensity) models for assets of interest, with particular emphasis on buildings. Given a set of multiple relevant hazards for a selected case-study region, the proposed pr…
Interdisciplinarity in practice
The concept of disaster risk is cross-disciplinary by nature and reducing disaster risk has become of interest for various disciplines. Yet, moving from a collection of multiple disciplinary perspectives to integrated interdisciplinary disaster risk approaches remains a fundamental challenge. This paper reflects on the experience of a group of early-career researchers spanning physical scientists, engineers and social scientists from different or…
Future exposure modelling for risk-informed decision making in urban planning
Population increases and related urban expansion are projected to occur in various parts of the world over the coming decades. These future changes to the urban fabric could fundamentally alter the exposure to natural hazards and the associated vulnerability of people and the built environment with which they interact. Thus, modelling, quantifying, and reducing future urban disaster risk require forward-looking insights that capture the dynamic f…
A state-of-the-art decision-support environment for risk-sensitive and pro-poor urban planning and design in Tomorrow's cities
In this Special Issue introductory paper, we present the Tomorrow's Cities Decision Support Environment (TCDSE). As the negative impacts of natural hazards continue to escalate around the world due to increasing populations, climate change, and rapid urbanisation (among other factors and processes), there is an urgent requirement to develop structured and operational approaches towards multi-hazard risk-informed decision making on urban planning …
Physics-based simulations of multiple natural hazards for risk-sensitive planning and decision making in expanding urban regions
Rapid urban expansion in many parts of the world is leading to increased exposure to natural hazards, exacerbated by climate change. The use of physics-based models of natural hazards in risk-informed planning and decision-making frameworks may provide an improved understanding of site-specific hazard scenarios, allowing various decision makers to more accurately consider the consequences of their decisions on risks in future development. We pres…
Normative future visioning
Normative future visioning (NFV) offers a critical approach that can respond to the challenges of transformative adaptation. In the context of climate crisis, an understanding of the diversity of desired end-states and pathways for good urban futures is fundamental to fostering cooperation and inspiring purposeful action that can challenge and transform unsustainable processes and behaviours, and researching these processes. This paper contribute…
Computer Science (7 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Computer security (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Hazard (4 works) · Disaster Response and Management (3 works)