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Silvia De Angeli

Silvia De Angeli is a researcher at Université de Lorraine in France, where she investigates the habitability of places affected by climate change and multi-risk conditions. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Genoa in Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in Understanding and Managing Extremes from IUSS Pavia and completed a research exchange as a postgraduate researcher in the Geography Department at King’s College London, focusing on multi-hazard risk. Her research interests encompass Integrative/mixed approaches to multi-risk dynamics and climate change adaptation, natural hazards exposure and vulnerability characterisation, and disaster risk assessment and management.

Geoscience communication series: a blogging survival kit

and December 20, 2021
Geoscience communication series: a blogging survival kit

Science communication is the practice of informing and inspiring the public about scientific knowledge. It comes in different forms, from documentaries, books, academic publishing, mass media journalism, to public talks. These days, digital communication, including blogging, vlogging, podcasting, and social media, has become an increasingly popular form of science communication, reaching a wide au ...[Read More]

Natural Hazards 101: Multi-hazards and multi-hazard risk

October 4, 2021
Natural Hazards 101: Multi-hazards and multi-hazard risk
Photo credit, from top left to bottom right: Pamela Trisolino (via Imaggeo), Michiel Baatsen (via Imaggeo), Stefan Doerr (via Imaggeo), Dimitri Defrance (via Imaggeo), Katja Bigge (via Imaggeo), Babak Hejrani (via Imaggeo), Elias Sch (via Pixabay) and Dan Killam (via Imaggeo).

With the Natural Hazards 101 series, we mean to bring our readers closer to the terminology often used in the field of natural hazards, but that may not be so familiar. In the first episode of the series, we focused on the definition of hazard and natural hazard. We moved then to the concepts of risk, disaster risk management, and the forecasting and modelling of natural hazards. In this episode, ...[Read More]