Greg Bankoff is a historical geographer who focuses on the way societies interrelate with their environments over time, especially the way people adapt to frequent hazards. For the last 30 years, he has focused his research primarily on Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Pacific and the North Sea seeking to understand how societies, both past and present, have learnt to normalize risk and the manner in which communities deal with crisis through applied interdisciplinary approach that combines archival analysis with fieldwork, community mapping, interviews and focus groups. He has published extensively including over a 100 referred journal articles and book chapters. Among recent publications are co-authoring The Red Cross’s World Disaster Report 2014: Focusing on Culture and Risk, and a companion edited volume entitled Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction (2015). His latest publication, co-edited with Dorothea Hilhorst, Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation is published by Routledge in April 2022.