Natural Hazards

Hazard management

Multi-Natural-Hazards: how can we deal with such complex chain of events?

Luigi Lombardo April 2, 2018

Today we have the honor to have Prof. Victor Jetten as our guest. Throughout his career Victor, has been working in modelling of natural hazard and land degradation processes. Starting with biomass and grazing capacity, the effects of logging on the natural rain forest water balance, he then moved to soil erosion and land degradation processes as a result of land use change and overgrazing. He bel ...[Read More]

Our first Interview is ready!

Luigi Lombardo January 9, 2018

Paola is an Assistant Professor at University of Notre Dame (US). Her research focuses on improving understanding of aerosol impacts on human health and climate by using regional atmospheric chemistry models at high spatio-temporal resolution.

Today we are happy to post our first interview and to thank our first interviewee, Paola Crippa for her contribution. The topic focuses on mortality from high concentration of particulate matter generated from widespread wildfires. This topic wants to be just the starting point to address another and broader theme: dealing with lack-of-data for research purposes in developing countries. This will ...[Read More]