The expansion of the Disaster Governance theme has been facilitated by an MOE Tier-2 grant on Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanizing Asia, awarded in 2014. This 3-year multidisciplinary programme involves cooperation with ARI's Asian Urbanisms, and Science, Technology and Society clusters. It aims to improve understandings of the changing risks, vulnerabilities, responses and resilience to compounded environmental disasters in an increasingly interconnected urbanizing Asia. Research on Disaster Governance in an age of urban transitions and global climate change has produced extensive international research collaborations and publications, with a longer term objective of establishing Singapore as a centre of leadership in Asia in the growing field of Disaster Studies. The programme is the only university-based disaster research effort in Asia that brings together the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and related technical disciplines.

Our mission:

• Explore Asia’s diverse urban experiences: historically, contemporaneously, and towards the future
• Contribute to theory and applied research through comparative studies with other world region
• Publish research that speaks in transformative ways to urban-related theories, debates and public policy issue
• Fill missing gaps in humanities and social sciences perspective