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Displaying 90 of about 249 resultsThe Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate or Senior Research Associate in the area of public policy for global risk.
This position has funding available until 30 November 2022 in the first instance. The (Senior) Research Associate will work on some of the most important topics…
This publication assesses skill and reliability in predicting agro-climate indicators, co-designed with and for European wheat farmers. Seasonal climate forecasts are a key component of sectoral climate services. The main findings show how seasonal climate forecast provides useful information for decision-making processes in the European winter wheat-pr…
Heavy rain and flooding are currently making headlines - as they did last winter. Floods like these, but also rising sea levels and storm surges, together with storms, represent the greatest natural hazard in terms of economic damage and can also threaten life and limb. SaferPlaces, a new web service for flood prevention, will help cities and municipali…
In a world flooded with information, managing, making sense of and communicating knowledge, or evidence, is highly challenging.
Evidence-informed policymaking needs advocates and skilled practitioners, both in scientific and policy bodies.
The evidence for policy school on disaster risk reduction aims to help researchers to have more impact on policy…
The Report “Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020: acting today, protecting tomorrow”, the second of it series, has been produced with the collaboration of more than 300 experts in disaster risk management. The participants come from different disciplines and sectors (from academia, civil protection groups, international organisations and the privat…
The Flood Expo is the world’s largest exhibition and conference designed to help the most progressive flood professionals and property owners discover the latest innovative products, services and strategies that transform the way flooding is predicted, prevented, and managed.
This study proposes a framework for a IoT-based local landslide early warning system (Lo-LEWS). Monitoring, modelling, forecasting and warning represent the main phases of the proposed framework. In this study, the first two phases have been applied to capture the hydrological behaviour of a natural unsaturated slope located adjacent to a railway track…
Across the European Union (EU), climate and disaster risks are on the rise. Over the last four decades, natural disasters in the region caused economic losses in excess of EUR 511 billion (71% of which were non-insured) and more than 91,000 casualties.
Climate change is worsening impacts like these as more destructive flood events, worsening…
By Dalitso Njolinjo
The University of Surrey and King's College London have developed a new machine learning algorithm (AI) that could transform the way we monitor major infrastructure – such as dams and bridges.
In a paper published by the journal Structural Health Monitoring, researchers from Surrey and Kings detail how they created an AI syste…
Visualization of a fire spread on VisualSEVEIF. Credit: Universidad de Córdoba
High temperatures and low humidity. Summer is approaching and, with it, the fire danger fire season. The lack of precipitation also make 2019 a year characterised by risk, so some Spanish regions, such as the Balearic Islands, have taken swift action and already presented th…
By Peter Rüegg
Without the climate change caused by human activity, simultaneous heatwaves would not have hit such a large area as they did last summer. This is the conclusion of researchers at ETH Zurich based on observational and model data.
Many people will remember last summer – not only in Switzerland, but also in large swathes across the…
Drilling hole monitoring in near real-time helps to keep induced seismicity to a minimum
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) are considered a promising source of energy that is clean, provides a sustainable baseload for heat and electricity and is an emerging key technology in the long-term transition to a fossil fuel-free future. However, developing a g…
By Jonathan Watson
Shetland has been hit by at least two more tsunamis in the past 10,000 years than previously thought, and scientists are working to identify where the giant waves originated.
Around 8,200 years ago, the Storegga submarine landslide off the coast of Norway caused a 20-metre high tsunami to sweep across Shetland. Sands found at variou…
By Eric Gedenk
Canadian-German partnership simulates the climate in Quebec and Bavaria across 150 years.
Many of the world’s largest cities are built near coasts, be it along rivers or oceans. Humanity relies on waterways for transportation, trade, and sustenance. However, waterways can also unleash devastating floodwaters that lead to billions in d…
This joint report examines the potential contribution of emerging technologies and innovations to improving understanding and management of disaster risk and impacts and broadening the adoption of financial protection mechanisms. It focuses specifically on (i) developments in access to data through earth observation technology, street-level imagery, con…