Disasters like floods, droughts and
landslides are a growing risk for millions
of people in the global South. Yet in our
globalising world, they are increasingly
connected to processes originating in
the global North. Focusing on imports
from Cambodia, Sri Lanka and the South
Asian ‘brick belt’, this project examines
how British ...
Disasters like floods, droughts and
landslides are a growing risk for millions
of people in the global South. Yet in our
globalising world, they are increasingly
connected to processes originating in
the global North. Focusing on imports
from Cambodia, Sri Lanka and the South
Asian ‘brick belt’, this project examines
how British trade shapes the disasters
that afflict the UK’s trading partners. As it
exemplifies, the UK’s trade in garments,
bricks and tea serves to displace
emissions and environmental degradation,
whilst intensifying the impacts of natural
hazards linked to climate change.
These complex impacts constitute
the UK’s hidden disaster footprint.