Jonatan Lassa

My research focus includes understanding macro and micro level disaster risk governance, institutional dimension of risk and resilience, resilience policy making process, disaster recovery, food system under changing climate and complex network theory application in disaster studies (including the use of big data in disaster studies and climate adaptation) See my past research projects!

At the moment, I have been working on network of disaster resilince code/laws (Indonesia and Australia), global mapping on political will for disaster reduction, governing climate and disaster loss, social network analysis and network theory application in climate adaptation and disaster management, multi-hazard + conflict early warning system, humanitarian reform, humanitarian technology, institutional vulnerability assessment, local disaster management policy reform, global and regional humanitarian ecosystems, NGOs/CSOs network structure, urban climate governance, disaster education, food system under climate change and critical realist approach to disaster policy making.

I Welcome PhD students for the following topics

• Transboundary Water Risk Governance (e.g.governance and institutional dimension of transboundary haze in ASEAN) or Indonesia-Timor Leste riverbasin management.
• Understanding long-term recovery trends in Southeast Asia [at >30 years timescale]
• Long term observation of community-based and/or community-led disaster risk management practices in ASEAN.
• Disaster risk governance and decentralisation in Southeast Asia including Myanmar and Indonesia
• Using network theory to understand disaster governance in Asia - Pacific
• Social network analysis and crisis leadership
• Governing climate change adaptation in urban / rural settings as well as agriculture and livestock sectors
• Seismic culture in Indonesia
• Global thinkers and theoriests on disaster studies
• Object-oriented ontology and critical disaster / risk studies
• Disaster resilience policy making and reform in developing countries
• Governance of early warning systems