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Displaying 120 of about 1647 resultsSubsurface technologies, such as geothermal energy and carbon capture and storage, are options to help limit global warming. Subsurface technologies involve the risk of induced seismicity. The successful implementation of these technologies depends on the public perception of these risks. Risk governance frameworks propose assessing the level of public…
Climate change has increased the likelihood of the occurrence of disasters like wildfires, floods, storms, and landslides worldwide in the last years. Weather conditions change continuously and rapidly, and wildfires are occurring repeatedly and diffusing with higher intensity. The burnt catchments are known, in many parts of the world, as one of the ma…
This special report is the result of a collaboration between academics and practitioners. It aims to assess and identify organisational mitigation strategies to respond to space weather events and any associated technological disruptions. The format aims to provide an overview in order to facilitate reading in conditions of limited availability of time.…
Floods occur frequently, impacting large areas, displacing thousands of people and causing great losses. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing is easy to obtain high‐resolution image that is immensely helpful to timely assess the flood situation and provide scientific decision‐making for emergency rescue. The important roles of UAV remote sens…
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), established in 1986, is an Inter-Governmental Organization with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand supporting the advancement of safer communities and sustainable development, through implementing programs that reduce the impact of disasters upon countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific. The primary…
The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich is a center of competence for Swiss and international security policy. It offers security policy expertise in research, teaching, and consultancy.
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The Risk and Resilience Team of the Think Tank at CSS is engaged in research and policy consulting on a range of fi…
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This senior researcher position is opened in the framework of the FED-tWIN programme of sustainable research cooperation between the Belgian federal scientific institutes (FSI) and the universities, supported by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO). The position will be jointly hosted at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, a Federal Scientific…
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), established in 1986, is a regional non-profit foundation with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, supporting the advancement of safer communities and sustainable development, through implementing programs that reduce the impact of disasters upon countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific. The pri…
This Practitioner’s Guide offers a framework to help economic advisers in central and sectoral government ministries to integrate climate economic modelling results in economic development processes, with the ultimate objective to support climate-resilient economic development. The guide describes various opportunities to integrate climate modellin…
This trend analysis examines artificial intelligence, digitalization, climate change. Many overarching trends and developments have the potential to alter the lives of billions of people in the coming years. For society, most of these trends represent both a challenge and an opportunity. In any case, they will also affect the civil protection system in…
This technical note examines how innovative products and services can be developed in public and private weather services. The lean startup methodology described in detail by Reis (2011) is an essential tool that supports an entrepreneurial business, applicable to any sector—government, private, academic, non-profit. The weather enterprise must con…
This paper aims to acquire vulnerability indicators to geo-hydrological hazards and examines an example of mobile phone-based data collection. Geo-hydrological risk reduction is a key issue for local governments in Italy. In this context, a collaboration was undertaken between multiple actors in the La Spezia municipality aimed at: (i) monitoring buildi…
This paper investigates past and possible future magnetic storm intensifications. As part of this work, a dataset is developed of the most intense and second most intense storms for each of the past eleven solar cycles (1902-2016) – augmenting a traditional dataset that only covers the past six solar cycles (1957-2016) with recently published intensitie…
This White Paper on the Future of Weather and Climate Forecasting is a collective endeavour of more than 30 lead scientists and experts to analyse trends, challenges and opportunities in a very dynamic environment. The main purpose of the paper is to set directions and recommendations for scheduled progress, avoiding potential disruptions and leveraging…
This paper presents a multi-method approach to understand how local knowledge of the spatial and temporal patterns of floods, droughts, and rainfall can be integrated with scientific information along a flood-prone section of the lower Mekong River in Kratie Province, Cambodia. Participatory hazard mapping of community members’ knowledge of the movement…