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Ilan Kelman is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within social sciences and environmental science, with a significant focus on the intersection of climate change, health, and disaster resilience. Kelman has contributed extensively to the understanding of how environmental risks and global changes impact human health and societal structures.

The main fields of study for Kelman include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, notable subfields of their work are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • General Health Professions
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Emergency Medical Services

Kelman's primary research topics address areas such as:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies

The scientist has coauthored several papers with frequent collaborators including Carina J. Fearnley, Kris A. Murray, Deborah Dixon, Deanne K. Bird, and Gina E. C. Charnley. These collaborations indicate a networked approach to the study of health and environmental science relating to climate and disaster topics.

Kelman's recent prominent publications include:

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises (2020, The Lancet)
  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels (2022, The Lancet)
  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future (2021, The Lancet)
  • The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms (2023, The Lancet)
  • The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action (2024, The Lancet)

Kelman has published in several academic venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet
  • Scientific Reports
  • Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

Regarding book publications, Kelman has authored works with various publishers:

  • World Scientific, with multiple editions of Risk Analyses and Actions scheduled for 2025
  • Springer International Publishing, including Small Island Developing States in 2021
  • UCL Press, with Antarcticness: Inspirations and imaginaries published in 2022
  • Practical Action Publishing eBooks, featuring Development and Disasters released in 2024

Best Publications

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels

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  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future.

    Marina Romanello;Alice McGushin;Claudia Di Napoli;Paul Drummond

  • The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Kristine Belesova

  • The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move

    Ibrahim Abubakar;Robert W Aldridge;Delan Devakumar;Miriam Orcutt

  • An analysis of the causes and circumstances of flood disaster deaths.

    Sebastiaan N. Jonkman;Ilan Kelman

  • Geographies of resilience Challenges and opportunities of a descriptive concept

    Juergen Weichselgartner;Ilan Kelman

  • Framework for integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge for disaster risk reduction.

    Jessica Mercer;Ilan Kelman;Lorin Taranis;Sandie Suchet-Pearson

  • Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Benjamin Goodwin Wisner;J. C. Gaillard;Ilan Kelman

  • The Meaning of ‘Build Back Better’: Evidence From Post‐Tsunami Aceh and Sri Lanka

    Jim Kennedy;Joseph Ashmore;Elizabeth Babister;Ilan Kelman

  • The Lancet Countdown : tracking progress on health and climate change

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Yuqi Bai

  • An overview of flood actions on buildings

    Ilan Kelman;Robin Spence

  • The potential for combining indigenous and western knowledge in reducing vulnerability to environmental hazards in small island developing states

    Jessica Mercer;Dale Dominey-Howes;Ilan Kelman;Kate Lloyd

  • Climate Change’s Role in Disaster Risk Reduction’s Future: Beyond Vulnerability and Resilience

    Ilan Kelman;Ilan Kelman;J. C. Gaillard;Jessica L. Mercer

  • Does mitigation save? Reviewing cost-benefit analyses of disaster risk reduction

    Cheney M. Shreve;Ilan Kelman;Ilan Kelman

  • Learning from the history of disaster vulnerability and resilience research and practice for climate change

    I. Kelman;I. Kelman;J. C. Gaillard;James Lewis;Jessica Mercer

  • Climate change and small island developing states: a critical review.

    Ilan Kelman;Jennifer J. West

  • Residential building and occupant vulnerability to tephra fall

    R. J. S. Spence;I. Kelman;P. J. Baxter;G. Zuccaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Hilary Graham
Hilary Graham University of York
Mark A. Maslin
Mark A. Maslin University College London
Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Delia Grace
Delia Grace International Livestock Research Institute
Michael H. Glantz
Michael H. Glantz University of Colorado Boulder
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum World Health Organization
Markus Amann
Markus Amann International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Dominic Kniveton
Dominic Kniveton University of Sussex
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London

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