


Reminder- June 13th – RISKKAN – Webinar: WG Cities and critical Infrastructure
Tomorrow at 1pm 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. Prof. Dr. Alexander Fekete, personal member of DKKV, and Mark Pelling...
MiMapper Training: Mapping Multi-hazard Landscapes – Google earth Engine
The free online training “MiMapper: Mapping Multi-hazard Landscapes Using Google Earth Engine” (29 May – 10 June 2025) organized by Aberystwyth University, offers practical guidance on using a web-based tool to visualize flood, landslide, and earthquake hazards....
New Book: „Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk: Who Speaks? Who Suffers?“
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...
Video of the symposium on disaster risk reduction is now online
The hybrid symposium on disaster risk reduction, which was organized by the German Red Cross with the support of the Federal Foreign Office on 26 and 27 March 2025, is now available online as a short video. The conference was primarily dedicated to the topic “From...