Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Alexandre Loye Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Klaus Holliger, Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Frédéric Liébault, Dr. Francesco Brardinoni, Prof. Oldrich Hungr This thesis is a compilation of projects to …
Alexandre Loye: Budgeting rockfall and modeling sediment delivery in torrent systems Read MoreThis Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) covers a broad range of topics from disaster management, climate change, ecosystem management and community resilience. How these issues are linked and how well-managed ecosystems …
Announcing “Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate”, a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to be launched 12 January, 2015 Read MoreA team from UNIL Risk Analysis Group recently conducted a field study trip in the Pokhara area of Western Nepal, where UNIL (in collaboration with IUCN) is establishing three bio-engineering …
New weather stations and LIDAR scans in Nepal Read MoreA three-storey appartment building was destroyed by a landslide on November 16th 2014 in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. Two women were killed. At 2:30 pm, a wall -weakened by the heavy …
Mudslide crashed into a small building in the Swiss Alps Read MoreA two-storey house located in a large wooded area was destroyed by a landslide on November 5th 2014 in the canton of Ticino. The two occupants, a mother and her …
Landslide destroy a house in Swiss Alps Read MoreA train of the Rhaetian Railway derailed into a ravine after hitting a landslide felt on the track on August 13th 2014. Eleven persons were injured, five of them seriously. …
Train derailed due to a landslide in Swiss Alps Read MoreDuring the first fortnight of September, the 3rd Slope Tectonic Conference took place at the Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU). The conference, focused on the study of slope deformation processes and …
3rd Slope Tectonics Conference Read MoreMartin Franz (PhD student in our group) explains in the La Côte newspaper his researches about tsunami in lakes. Please find the article in the “Media” section.
Media: Geneva Lake victim of a tsunami? Read MoreThe 12th international congress of the International Association of Engineering Geology (IAEG) took place in Torino (Italy) from 15 to 19 September 2014. Several members of the risk group attended …
XII International IAEG Congress, Torino Read MoreIn the context of our project SNIS named “Sustainable Land Management in Mountain Regions of Bolivia and Nepal in the Context of Outmigration, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction” (in …
Second field work in Bolivia – SNIS Project Read MoreThe Napoleome project of the University of Lausanne is a participatory scientific project about genomics. Public conferences and workshops are organized to popularize the research and issues in genetics. Practically, the …
Napoleome project Read MoreGood news! The number of citations that we are receiving concerning Natural Hazards related journals is considerably increasing… For the past five years we have had the 2nd most cited …
On the impact of our research in Natural Hazards journals Read More