Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Amenan Agnès Kouame (PhD student at UNIL) is working on the vulnerability to pollution of the aquifer of Abidjan. Abidjan is a 7 million inhabitants megacity, with several huge rubbish …
Abidjan’s aquifer vulnerability Read MoreA 100 tons, 40 m3, rock block struck a former sheepfold transformed into a chalet in the village of Isola in the night on February 23th 2014, in the French …
Rock crushes a chalet in French Alps Read MoreA 10 to 20 tons rock block, of the size of a car, struck a train in the French Alps on February 8th 2014 (Nice-Matin, Haute-Provence info). Two persons were …
Rock strucks a train in french Alps Read MoreAn exceptional rainfall period affected the sourthern part of France during mid-January. Rainfall caused flooding but also triggered numerous landslides, most of them occurring on January 17th. Ivanna Penna and …
Nice – Field visit Read MoreBeginning of December, Dario Carrea, Marc-Henri Derron and Michel Jaboyedoff visited the deep geological repository for nuclear fuel of Onkalo, on the island of Olkiluoto (Western Finland). Onkalo is the first …
Visit to the nuclear fuel repository of Onkalo (Finland) Read Moreby Pierrick Nicolet, Loris Foresti, Olivier Caspar and Michel Jaboyedoff: “Shallow landslide’s stochastic risk modelling based on the precipitation event of August 2005 in Switzerland: results and implications” Due to …
New publication in NHESS about landslide risk modeling Read MoreTo 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 More