A5114082793- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Disaster Response and Management
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Landslides and related hazards
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Global Health and Surgery
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Climate variability and models
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation
- Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Energy Efficiency in Computing
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
Institute for Environment and Human Security
2015-2024
University of the Free State
2020-2024
Eurac Research
2020-2024
Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine
2022-2024
United Nations University
2015-2024
Tohoku University
2022-2024
United Nations
2016-2023
NationsUniversity
2016-2023
United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies
2023
United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
2023
Flood is one of the most destructive natural disasters climate change effects in West Africa. risk occurrence a combination and anthropogenic factors, which calls for better understanding its spatial extent. The aim this paper to identify, map areas flood Abidjan district. This work based on integration multi-criteria data including slope, drainage density, type soil, Isohyet, population land use sewer system density within ArcGIS interface. resulting AHP shows that under high very covers 34...
With the mission to build knowledge for a sustainable world, United Nations University in Bonn (UNU Bonn) (including Institute Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) Vice-Rectorate Europe (UNU-VIE)) is heavily involved capacity development, especially Africa, where effects of climate change associated extremes are felt disproportionately. UNU integrates its cutting-edge research on risk, adaptation transformation into development activities collaboration with universities different...
The paper presents an international multi-disciplinary initiative, a Namibia SensorWeb Pilot Project, that was created as testbed for evaluating and prototyping key technologies rapid acquisition distribution of data products decision support systems to monitor floods. Those include SensorWebs, Grids Computation Clouds. This pilot project aims at developing operational trans-boundary flood management system the Southern African region provide useful water-borne disease forecasting tools...
COVID-19 challenged all national emergency management systems worldwide overlapping with other natural hazards. We framed a 'parallel phases' Disaster Risk Management (DRM) model to overcome the limitations of existing models when dealing complex multi-hazard risk conditions. supported analysing Italian Red Cross data on past and ongoing emergencies including we outlined three guidelines for advancing DRM: (i) exploiting low intensity slow-onset hazards preparedness actions; (ii) increasing...
The explosive volcanic eruptions of La Soufrière volcano, St Vincent and the Grenadines, in April 2021 caused displacement thousands people, resulting heavy disruption livelihoods economic activities, destruction critical infrastructure, ash deposits that affected entire mountainous island neighboring Barbados. triple crisis region included volcanological risks, prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, hydrometeorological risks due to approaching hurricane season. This article analyzes scientific...
In our increasingly interconnected world, the compound, cascading, and systemic nature of risks takes on a new dimension meaning. Africa is one continents predicted to be most adversely affected by climate change due high levels exposure intense frequent hazards their interactions with intrinsic drivers vulnerability, resulting in compounding complex risk profiles. For instance, subject droughts, floods, heatwaves, cyclones other climate-related hazards. State-of-the-art people-centered,...