New Book: „Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk: Who Speaks? Who Suffers?“

16. May 2025 | Allgemein

The new book “Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk”, by Ben Wisner, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, JC Gaillard, Ilan Kelman, and Victor Marchezini explains that disasters are not natural events, but the result of long-term social processes that create vulnerabilities...

RISKKAN-Webinar: WG Cities and critical Infrastructure

15. May 2025 | General

Another RISKKAN webinar on the topic “WG Cities and Critical Infrastructure ‘Societal resilience and infrastructure – who is forgotten in post-disaster recovery?’ will take place on June 13, 2025 at 1 pm. Prof. Dr. Alexander Fekete, personal member of DKKV, and...

8th IDRIM Lecture Series on “Multi-Hazard Risk Dynamics”

15. May 2025 | General

At the 8th Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRIM) Online Lecture Series on 26.05.2025 at 1 pm, Prof. van Westen, Professor of Multi-Hazard Risk Dynamics at the University of Twente (Netherlands) will give an insight into his publication “Multi-Hazard Risk...

5th International Trade Fair for Firefighting Equipment and Supplies

14. May 2025 | General

The International Fire and Rescue Equipment Exhibition (IFRE-EXPO) 2025 will take place from June 12 to 14, 2025 in Kielce, Poland, and is the largest trade fair for firefighting equipment in Central and Eastern Europe. The trade fair is aimed at manufacturers,...

German Weather Service puts new weather forecast model into operation

14. May 2025 | Early Warning, General

At the end of April 2025, the German Weather Service (DWD), an institutional member of DKKV, put the new ICON-D2 Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) weather forecast model into operation, which was specially developed for short-term forecasts of up to 14 hours. The model enables...