Science and technology

This theme adresses how science and technology can contribute to DRR, including approaches and initiatives to bring scientific and technical knowledge into practice and policy, approaches for multidisciplinary engagement, good practice in scientific and technical aspects of DRR, and citizen science.

Latest Science & technology additions in the Knowledge Base

Minh Tran and Dayoon Kim of SEI Asia reflect on their work in climate and disaster research to critique knowledge co-production and find ways for research, policy and action to be more equitable.
Stockholm Environment Institute
Pink water tube on the shore in Frederikssund in Denmark to prevent flooding from Storm Malik.
The weather of the future will be significantly wetter. Artificial intelligence can be used to develop early warning systems that can buy time to mitigate flood damage and to plan good systems to divert water away.
Technical University of Denmark
 Portrait of Flora Vano ActionAid Vanuatu
An inspiring initiative to bolster resilience against climate change in Vanuatu has seen the island nation take proactive steps to harness traditional knowledge within its communities.
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
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The aim in this loss calculations is to estimate the total sum of fatalities that are likely as a measure of the extent of earthquake disasters.
Hurricane Florence as photographed from space
The Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Platform, a ground-breaking step toward a virtual replica of the terrestrial water cycle, combines new high-resolution satellite observations and cutting-edge modeling to build a test environment for our planet.
Frontiers in Earth Science
Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier.
Associated Press
Group of school children in Sri Lanka
This new initiative from UNICEF empowers children living in Sri Lanka’s tea estates with disaster preparedness.
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
Hallways with supercomputers.
Fujitsu announced the delivery of a new supercomputer system to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) to improve prediction accuracy for typhoons and torrential rains and help authorities develop data-driven plans to provide early warning and evacuation.
Fujitsu

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