Charles Kelly
Kelly has more than 27 years of field experience in humanitarian assistance programs that deal with compound disasters, droughts, food insecurity, insect infestation, hurricanes, epidemics, floods, war, and other emergencies in developing countries. Over this career, Kelly has performed field and senior management tasks in more than 18 disaster response operations. Recent professional work has included risk assessment and disaster management capacity building in Tajikistan, disaster risk reduction in the Sahel, and assessing environmental impacts during disasters (The Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment Project and Shelter and Environment issues for the Global Shelter Cluster).
Kelly has worked in more than 60 countries and published more than 45 articles on disaster management, including those on damage, needs and rights assessment, disasters and mega cities, disaster management systems and disaster-environment linkages. An affiliate of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, University College London, Kelly is a member of the International Research Committee on Disasters, the Society of Risk Analysis, The International Emergency Management Society and ProAct Network.
Related Resources by Charles Kelly from the Natural Hazards Library Staff
Damage, Needs or Rights? Defining What is Required After Disaster
Disaster Studies and Management Working Paper, Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre,
2008