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Over the course of 2016-19, the Z Zurich Foundation invested USD 10 million through the Global Resilience Partnership’s Water Window to enhance community resilience to floods. This report highlights the achievements of the projects that together

En 2018, la Suisse a essuyé une nouvelle fois un été exceptionnellement chaud. Avec une température moyenne de 15,3 °C pour les mois de juin, de juillet et d’août, ce fut le troisième été le plus chaud depuis le début des mesures en 1864, après ceux de

Switzerland’s contemporary threat and risk landscape has changed in recent years. Indeed, the risks that now draw the attention of experts and policymakers now include cyber-attacks, pandemics, terrorist attacks and blackouts. But which risks do the Swiss

Permafrost is an invisible thermal phenomenon, which has a significant influence on the stability of construction substrates or steep rock walls. Knowledge about the distribution of permafrost is particularly useful for planning mountain infrastructure or

CSS Analyses in Security Policy CSS, no. 245

Earthquakes, floods, storms, heatwaves, tsunamis, pandemics – disasters come in various forms, all posing significant threats to human life, economic development, and ecological diversity around the world

Les objectifs de ce projet étaient d’examiner comment le problème global des migrations environnementales/climatiques est défini au sein des institutions internationales, comment la question des migrations est intégrée au niveau local, soit comme

A database of fatalities caused by natural hazard processes in Switzerland was compiled for the period between 1946 and 2015. Using information from the Swiss flood and landslide damage database and the Swiss destructive avalanche database, the data set

Cette publication fournit un aperçu des chutes de neige, des hauteurs de neige, des risques d'avalanche et des événements entre 2017 et 2018 dans les Alpes suisses. Il fournit une analyse de situation mensuelle tout en couvrant les mois d'été. Une section

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