A5067895038- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Risk Perception and Management
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Landslides and related hazards
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Water resources management and optimization
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
2012-2025
University of Geneva
2019-2025
Institute for Environmental Sciences
2025
Practical Action
2022
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
2021-2022
Met Office
2022
ETH Zurich
2014-2019
Austrian Academy of Sciences
2018
Geological Survey of Austria
2018
Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
2016
Abstract. One common approach to cope with floods is the implementation of structural flood protection measures, such as levees or flood-control reservoirs, which substantially reduce probability flooding at time implementation. Numerous scholars have problematized this approach. They shown that increasing levels can attract more settlements and high-value assets in areas protected by new measures. Other studies explored how measures generate a sense complacency, act preparedness. These...
There is growing recognition that using the properties of nature through nature-based solutions (NBS) can help to provide viable and cost-effective a wide range societal challenges, including disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, NBS realization depends critically on governance framework enables policy process. Drawing from three case studies in Nocera Inferiore (Italy), Munich (Germany), Wolong (China), we identify key enablers—the contextual preconditions, processes, institutions—that...
Multi-risk environments are characterized by domino effects that often amplify the overall risk. Those include chains of hazardous events and increasing vulnerability, among other types correlations within risk process. The recently developed methods for multi-hazard assessment integrate interactions between different risks using harmonized procedures based on common metrics. While products these assessments, such as -risk indexes, maps, cascade scenarios, or warning systems provide...
Abstract Bad weather continues not only to inflict damage on property but also kill and injure people, despite significant advances in the predictive power of meteorological warnings. There is evidence that people tend underreact warning information, a large extent because insufficient understanding impacts severe events can have, as well demonstrate appropriate response behavior. A growing number experts are suggesting standard information should be augmented with additional about these...
Hydrogeological hazards are increasingly causing damage worldwide due to climatic and socio-economic changes. Building resilient communities is crucial reduce potential losses. To this end, one of the first steps understand how people perceive threats around them. This study aims at exploring risk awareness of, preparedness to, face hydrological changes over time. A cohort was carried out in two villages northeastern Italian Alps, Romagnano Vermiglio, affected by debris flows 2000 2002....
Understanding what makes people vulnerable to flooding is key in informing the risk management process. Non-structural measures, such as communication, can reduce vulnerability by improving flood awareness, but they require a deep understanding of which factors influence and how. We analysed untangled role experience with, knowledge of, floods conducting survey municipality North-eastern Italy that was hit flash 2018. The results show previous with influences awareness not only directly,...
Natural hazards and climate-related disasters disregard political borders, where additional barriers can complicate mitigation, response recovery efforts within between the sectors of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The ESPREssO Project (Enhancing Synergies for Prevention in European Union) aims to improve management transboundary by encouraging closer synergies CCA DRR communities. Using targeted stakeholder interviews, questionnaires, Think Tank discussions...
Abstract The objective of this paper is to examine how current techniques for flash‐flood monitoring and forecasting can meet the needs population at risk evaluate flood severity anticipate its danger. To end, social response time different actions in course two well studied flash events which occurred France Italy identified. event management activities are broadly characterized into three types according their main (information, organisation protection). also classified other scale nature...
The importance of grid extension in Europe has risen the last decade as a result an aging and energy transition toward decarbonized electricity sector. While is claimed necessary, stakeholder opposition slowed down this process. To alleviate tension, increased participation considered solution to increase acceptance. question empowerment central it assumed that higher levels improve planning processes. In paper, we describe, evaluate compare processes for very high-voltage transmission lines...