Natural hazard

Ethics and Geosciences: discovering the International Association for Promoting Geoethics

Jonathan Rizzi January 22, 2018

Geoscientists do not have to deal only with technical matters, but have to think also about the ethical implications related to their discipline. To increase the awareness of researchers on the ethical aspects of their activities, it has been created the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG). To better understand what geoethics and the IAPG are, we interviewed Silvia Peppoloni, ...[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]

The risk of a Natural Hazard blog is now real, be prepared!

Luigi Lombardo December 12, 2017

Hello and welcome to the blog of the Natural Hazards division! Starting from today we will try to enrich your readings every two weeks on Monday morning with a new blog post! Our division encompasses and intersects various topics in geoscience. For this reason, we will aim to diversify the content from post to post, each time focusing on a different aspect of the complex natural hazard world. We h ...[Read More]