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 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 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 MoreThe conference (www.unil.ch/vgc14) will focus on remote sensing of ground surface and digital processing to support 3D geological modeling and interpretation in various fields of the geosciences (non-exhaustive list): Digital …
Vertical geology conference 2014 Read MoreThe risk analysis group has a new website to provide more information on its activities. This new platform provides details on our projects, PhD, events, softwares, … The risk analysis …
New website Read MoreThe “Fête de la Science” is a science popularization event, organized yearly by the french Ministry of High Education and Research, resulting in many “scientific villages” popping up in city …
Fête de la Science 2012 – Digne-les-bains Read More