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Residents of the tiny Swiss village of Brienz have been told to pack their bags and leave immediately.
British Broadcasting Corporation
Residents of the tiny Swiss village of Brienz have been told to pack their bags and leave immediately.
British Broadcasting Corporation
Sand storm hitting the city of Basra in Iraq, 2022
Most sandstorms are natural events, but they are being exacerbated by climate change, drought, land degradation and unsustainable management of land and water resources.
World Economic Forum
People in a destroyed house following Hurricane Matthew in Roche a Bateux, Haiti in October 2016.
When natural disasters strike, the difference between economic and insured losses can vary greatly. Our interactive tool highlights this protection gap in 12 countries and all global regions.
Swiss Reinsurance Company
The Swiss Seismological Service at ETH Zurich has just introduced the first seismic risk model for Switzerland. It shows the potential impact of earthquakes on people and buildings in the country.
ETH Zurich
Cover
2021
This report provides an independent evaluation of the benefits, costs, opportunities, and risks for Switzerland in becoming a participating state of the UCPM.
Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Cover CSS ETH Zuerich
2023
This CSS Risk and Resilience Report provides a comparative analysis of national risk assessments. Specifically, it compares the assessments made by nine European countries and Swiss Re respectively of five types of cross-​border risks.
Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) today announced the launch of its Climate Change Resilience Services to help businesses better prepare for current and future risks associated with climate change.
Zurich Insurance Group Limited
Cover - Switzerland VNR MTR
2022
Switzerland's Voluntary National Report for the Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (MTR SF).
Switzerland - government
With a view to capitalising on this potential for monitoring purposes, researchers at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF have developed a method to automatically, quickly and reliably map avalanches in optical satellite images.
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF