Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
To celebrate the publication of a book on natural hazards in Switzerland, a conference entitled “Meteorites: from genesis to catastrophe” will be held at the University of Lausanne (Géopolis, room …
“Les météorites : de la genèse aux catastrophes” Conference by Prof. Ph. Gillet, EPFL (in French) Read MoreAbellán, A., Oppikofer, T., Jaboyedoff, M., Rosser, N. J., Lim, M. and Lato, M. J. (2014), Terrestrial laser scanning of rock slope instabilities. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.3493 This …
New publication: ESPL state of science (terrestrial LiDAR on rock slopes) Read MoreWe are happy to communicate the launch of our SNIS project website. It was developed by Stephanie Jaquet (PhD student at the University of Bern and member of the project), …
SNIS – Website launched!! Read MoreInternational Workshop – 02-04 December 2013 The goal of this workshop is to contribute to identify emerging issues and linkages between sustainable development, global migration, climate change and disaster risk …
International Workshop “Linking sustainable development, global migration, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction-Identifying emerging issues” Read MoreSNIS project “Sustainable Land Management in Mountain Regions of Bolivia and Nepal in the Context of Outmigration, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction” A meeting among the swiss partners from …
SNIS Project (Bolivia and Nepal) meeting Read Moreby Jérémie Voumard, Olivier Caspar, Marc-Henri Derron and Michel Jaboyedoff: “Dynamic risk simulation to assess natural hazards risk along roads”. Risk generated by natural hazards on roads is usually calculated with …
New publication in NHESS about dynamic risk computation along roads Read Moreby Clément Michoud, Sara Bazin, Lars Harald Blikra, Marc-Henri Derron and Michel Jaboyedoff: “Experiences from site-specific landslide early warning systems”. Landslide early warning systems (EWSs) have to be implemented in …
New publication in NHESS about landslide early-warning systems Read MoreLandslides in hard soils and weak rocks – an open problem for Mediterranean countries During this workshop the communications addressed the problems describing the special features of hard soils and …
Naples MWL – Mediterranean Workshop on Landslide (Napoli-21 and 22 October, 2013) Read Morepar Antoine Guerin et Marc-Henri Derron http://www.gigapan.com/groups/245 Gallerie du groupe: Yosemite, Les Drus, Scex Rouge,… http://www.gigapan.com/galleries/10989/gigapans Tous les gigapaneurs géologiques sont les bienvenus.
Nouveau: un groupe GEOLOGY chez GigaPan Read MoreThe PhD student Manuel Jesus Royan, from RISKNAT Group (University of Barcelona) is going to visit our institute for 10 days, from 4 to 13 November 2013. We will collaborate on …
Short visit: Collaboration Univ. Barcelona and Univ. Lausanne Read More