The Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre provides a conduit for the transfer of cutting-edge natural hazard and risk research, practice, and innovation from the academic environment to the business world and government and international agencies. Through the rapid application of new research and practice, the Centre facilitates the improvement of natural hazard and risk assessment and the reduction of exposure to natural catastrophes. The intellectual products of the Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre fall into two categories:

• Strategic, curiosity-driven research into natural hazards, the mechanisms that drive them, and the processes that underpin them
  
  
• Applied studies targeted at reducing the impact of natural hazards on society, including:

            Ø       Hazard & risk assessment

Ø       Hazard monitoring and forecasting

Ø       Hazard mitigation, management and avoidance

Ø       Development of effective early warning systems

Ø       Education and training

Ø       Preparedness