Algeria

Many disasters in Africa take place in urban areas, affecting millions of people each year. There is therefore an increasing need to understand how the risks from potential disasters develop in urban contexts, and to identify how locally owned processes

Fluvial floods are a common natural hazard in Europe. Only in the 90ies, large floods have affected the Meuse and Rhine, the Oder and the Po rivers. Following the devastating floods in the Elbe and Danube river basins in 2002, the European Commission

The increasingly variable climate in Europe has seen rising numbers of extreme flood events in the last decades, in the Danube, Odra and Elbe river basins just to name a few. The floods most perceived by the public are the large-scale riverine floods

Forest fires are one of the most devastating forces of nature. It has claimed lives,damaged property and infrastructure and destroyed hectares and hectares of forest land,which provide economical and recreational resources to society. Forests are also the

An important step for member states of EU was to develop comparable methods for evaluating the status of the water-bodies. Since fishes are more likely to be regarded as food than as environmental indicators, it has been difficult to establish methods

Series: Water Science and Technology Library, vol. 62

Implementation of effective drought management policies requires both advanced technologies and appropriate methods. Monitoring and forecasting systems, practical tools for risk assessment, as well

NATO science series IV: Earth and environmental sciences, vol. 11
Proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop, held in Budapest, Hungary, 22-25 April 2001 
 
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now

A first meeting on "Analysis of catastrophic avalanches occurred in the EU and proposal for concrete measures" was held at the EC Joint Research Centre Ispra on 4 and 5 October 1999. The meeting was organised in the context of the NEDIES project conducted