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The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre is hosting the 7th Annual Seminar on “A Roadmap to Disaster Resilience on 21 November 2023. Disasters, whether natural or human-induced, can have a devastating impact on communities, economies, and the environment. In recent years, notwithstanding global efforts on disaster risk management, the frequency and severity of disasters have […]

The webinar will take place on Thursday 23 November at 11am via Zoom. The speakers from the Italian Red Cross and CIMA Research Foundation will talk about the exchange of best practices in the development of an Impact-Based Forecast (IBF) system and how such a system can be established in Early Warning to Early Action […]

From 12 to 13 June 2024, the “3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World: Addressing Compound and Multi-Hazard Risk” will take place in Amsterdam. The conference is organised by MYRIAD-EU, Risk KAN and NatRiskChange. You can look forward to many different exciting sessions and a inspiring exchange with experts! The […]

The 28th Climate Change Conference is just around the corner, this year from November 30 to December 12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At this year’s negotiations, the focus will be on climate finance. Financial support for the transformation to “Net Zero” will play a particularly important role, as will the provision of climate finance […]

On November 10, 2023, the third and final pre-event for the Disaster Risk Reduction Conference in April 2024 took place. The DKKV e.V. organized this event together with the ADH e.V. in the premises of the Malteser in Cologne. In the morning, an online and face-to-face event took place at which the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB), the […]

The Special Issue Multimodal Characterisation of Built and Natural Environments for Multi-Risk Assessment in the journal Natural Hazards is published. This issue consists of a combination of 12 scientific papers and 9 short communications. The entire issue is now made temporarily freely available until 30 November 2023. (Online available in English). We are happy to […]

Due to the events of recent years, the topic of disaster management has gained in importance in the public perception in Germany. Coping with these events has raised a variety of questions about the appropriateness of current structures. For example, with regard to the current measures and strategies for considering people with disabilities in German […]

Last Thursday, November 9, 2023, the Rhein Flood Emergency Association. met at the zoo in Neuwied. Around 25 stakeholders from various areas, such as local politics and the fire department, came together for a day to discuss developments in connection with flood events. DKKV Managing Director Benni Thiebes moderated the day and presented DKKV’s work […]