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Risk identification and assessment

A qualitative or quantitative approach to determine the nature and extent of disaster risk by analysing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of exposure and vulnerability that together could harm people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.

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Research briefs

Modeling broader effects of wildfires in Siberia

The results, published in the journal Earth’s Future, suggest significant and widespread effects on air quality, climate, health, and economics under the most extreme wildfire scenarios.
Hokkaido University
Nepal earthquake 2015 damaged buildings
Update

Quakes do not kill people, bad buildings do

Across the Asia Pacific, region infrastructure and homes are rising up in seismically sensitive areas with governments seemingly reluctant to enforce safety codes for fear of slowing down development activity.
Science and Development Network
Danger - coastal ersion
Research briefs

How saving island life can sink the island

Researchers in North Carolina have created a coastal evolution model to analyze how coastal management activities on barrier islands, meant to adapt to sea-level rise, interact with natural processes that would otherwise keep barrier islands above water.
Duke University
Publication cover
Documents and publications

Assessment of flood risk in Söğütlü stream watershed of Trabzon province in Turkey using geographic information systems and analytic hierarchy process approach

In this study, the focus was on analyzing and predicting flood-prone areas in the Söğütlü stream watershed using a GIS-based MSCA decision analysis.
Research briefs

Wildfire danger to increase due to climate change

SLF researchers expect an elevated wildfire danger in the Alpine Foreland from 2040 onwards due to changing meteorological conditions. The danger currently remains very low in that region, but there is likely to be a shift as a result of climate change.
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
Research briefs

Record-breaking heat and humidity predicted for tropics this summer

A new statistical analysis of the interaction between El Niño and rising global temperatures due to climate change concludes that the approaching summer in the tropics has nearly a 7 in 10 chance of breaking records for temperature and humidity.
University of California, Berkeley
Update

New tools from NOAA and CDC show people their risk from heat as another hot summer looms

The tools are part of a broader government initiative to better prepare the country for heat waves, which are increasing in frequency, intensity and duration as a result of climate change.
NBC News
Repairs to an active landslide on U.S. Route 101 in 2021
Research briefs

A million years without a megaslide

A new study goes deep into the Gulf of Alaska to examine the sixth-largest underwater landslide and investigate why a similar event hasn’t happened since.
Eos - AGU

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