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How can you contribute to Science-Based policy-making? Ask the new Policy Officer in the Natural Hazards Division!

February 26, 2024
How can you contribute to Science-Based policy-making? Ask the new Policy Officer in the Natural Hazards Division!
Image credit: Grace Shephard (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The EGU Natural Hazards Division now has a new Policy Officer to help promote evidence-based policy-making and support members of the Division in participating in policy-making processes. The Policy Officer aims to bridge between the Division and the EGU Science for Policy Working Group, helping to ensure that evidence-based decisions are made in the policy-making processes related to our areas of ...[Read More]

New Era of AI: How can foundation models help disaster risk reduction?

February 5, 2024
New Era of AI: How can foundation models help disaster risk reduction?
Photo credit: Image by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels (Pexels licence)

In recent decades, AI-based methods have increasingly been adopted to tackle various problems in the field of natural hazards. The escalation of climate change has fuelled the complexity of tasks within the field of disaster risk reduction, such as capturing the formation of an extreme event timely to evacuate an area at risk. In this context, with the greater availability of data and computerised ...[Read More]