Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Michel Jaboyedoff reciveing the DRPI Award from thge director of DPRI Prof. Kaoru Takara (Picture from https://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_en/9141/) On February 21st, Michel Jaboyedoff received the DPRI Award (Disaster Prevention Research Institute …
Michel Jaboyedoff received the DPRI Award 2017 in Kyoto University Read MoreThe Risk Group participated to 6th Interdisciplinary Workwhop on Rockfall Protection in Barcelona, Spain, on 22-24 May 2017. The first two days, we followed the different presentations while the third day, …
Risk group @ RocExs 2017 – Barcelona Read MoreAntoine Guérin, François Noël and Emmanuel Wyser of the Risk Analysis Group (UNIL) went to Yosemite Valley from the October 6th to October 20th, 2016. They were there to pursue …
Fieldwork in the Yosemite Valley during October 2016 Read MoreWe have recently published two papers written with our former Master’s student Jacques Bechet who died tragically in a snow avalanches on 28 March, 2015. We dedicate these papers to …
In memoriam Jacques Bechet Read MoreFour persons of the Risk Group participated to the 12th International Symposium on Landslides (ISL) in Napoli, Italy, on 12 to 19 June 2016. We presented one lecture and three orals. All contributions at …
Risk group at the 12th International Symposium on Landslides (ISL) Read MoreOn last 8th July Friday, two PhD students (Raja Mastouri and Zar Chi Aye) from the Risk Analysis group have successfully finished their public defenses and obtained their doctoral degrees …
Two more PhD students completed their theses at the Risk Analysis group Read MoreA prototype using open-source WebGIS technologies has been implemented to make data on hazard impacts, such as damaged infrastructure, landslides or flooding events available to authorities and the general public. …
Rapid Offline-Online Landslide Mapping tool (ROOl Map) Read MoreLe groupe Risk de l’UNIL au 20 heures de France2 On Tuesday 3rd November 2015, three minutes of the TV news of the French national channel France2 were dedicated to research …
The Risk group in the national French TV news Read MoreM. Jaboyedoff participated to the “Second Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction: Development of a Research Road Map for the Next Decade” which was held at Uji …
GSRIDRR, Kyoto University, 19-20 March 2015 Read MoreThe swiss Intercantonal Reinsurance (VKF/UIR) published a report on a hail event which occurred in Northern Switzerland in 2011. This report has been written in collaboration with our group. The study …
Publication of a report on a hail event Read MoreA joint IUCN – UNEP – University of Lausanne workshop in Kathmandu and Pokhara, Nepal on the topic of Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction was held April 21-25, 2015. The main …
UNIL-IUCN-UNEP workshop in Nepal concludes minutes before earthquake struck Read MoreThe Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC), “Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate”, co-developed by the United Nations Environment Programme and UNIL-ISTE researcher Dr. Karen Sudmeier has reached over …
MOOC reaches 11,000 + enrollments Read More