Fanhui Dong

Profile

I am a final-year PhD candidate in the School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability at the University of Leeds. My research interests lie in the field of disaster risk management and are linked to climate change adaptation, with a strong focus on wildfire risks. My current research programme examines how responsibilities for wildfire risk reduction are negotiated between levels of government and diverse communities and wildfire interactions with policy, politics, environment, and social-culture dynamics in wildfire risk management. Using Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, as a case study, my current work represents remote northern communities in Canada, characterised by diverse populatipon, extensive boreal forests, and limited insitiutional capcities for wildfire risk reduction.

I am also looking for future research opportunities related to wildfire risks and general disaster risk management.

Research interests

Wildifre risk reduction

Community-based approach and decentralised disaster risk management

Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

The consideration of power, politics and social-cultural inclusion in disaster risk management

Qualifications

• MSc in Risk, Disaster and Resilience, UCL
• BSc in Mathematics with Finance, University of Liverpool, UK
• BSc in Financial Mathematics, Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University, China