Bio
Stephen G. Evans is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He is an expert in natural hazard processes, natural disasters and urban damage systems.
His research has focused on the quantitative analysis of global security issues including war hazard, war disaster events and urban damage systems utilizing high-resolution remote sensing analysis. Since October 2011, he has been developing an urban damage system framework for conflict events including the aerial bombardment of Japan in 1944–1945, and the Allied urban area bombing of Germany in 1943–1945. He has also investigated life-loss and urban damage in the 2010 Haiti earthquake and 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami along the eastern Honshu coast.
Stephen’s present research involves remote sensing of urban conflict in North Africa and the Middle East; this includes the analysis of urban topography in Mali, Algeria, Syria and Israel.