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This document presents a collection of case studies about quantifying and communicating uncertainty and risk from natural hazards.
Roads can be designed to help control and harvest water and help communities cope with erratic and seasonal rainfall. A new initiative in Ethiopia focuses on flexible ways of turning roads into water management devices. This involves channelling water to irrigate crops, storing it for later use, or allowing it to soak into the soil to boost crucial groundwater reserve.
This synthesis report explores the opportunities, challenges and required steps for leveraging the new ecosystem of Big Data to monitor and detect hazards, mitigate their effects, and assist in relief efforts.
The school will provide advanced training in risk and uncertainty in natural hazards from the Cabot Institute's leading academics plus some special guest lecturers.
Programme
'We're finding a real tradeoff between adaptation and development,' notes the author of the study Dr Evan Fraser. 'That's not to say we should discourage development, but you can't assume that by promoting it you're also helping people adapt to climate change'...
UK and Russian scientists say they are a step closer to predicting how dangerous a volcano is after developing a method that lets them figure out how individual volcanoes are 'plumbed'...
When a powerful earthquake struck Italy's Abruzzo region last year, UK Earth scientists were on the scene quickly to help authorities understand what had happened. Richard Phillips describes what they found...
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