Latest additions to the knowledge base

This report represents the third installment in a series focused on identifying and analyzing trends significant for civil protection in Switzerland.

25 years after Hurricane Mitch, Nicaragua has a robust DRR system, thanks to Switzerland's long-term contribution. Christoph Graf returns 25 years later to share his insights.

This seismic risk profile of Switzerland, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

This paper describes how increasing natural hazards and complex emergencies require optimizations in the Swiss civil protection system – joining the EU’s Copernicus program could ensure satellite imagery access for disaster risk reduction, saving lives.

This paper looks into how the increasing frequency and magnitude of climate-exacerbated hazards, coupled with the growing vulnerability of societies worldwide, are raising the financial costs of disasters.

SLF researchers have been mapping snow depths in detail over a large area. The new technique yields important basic data.

This study analyzes the feasibility of using satellite data to derive the Cooling Establishment Time (CET) for different Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI)s across the city of Zurich, Switzerland.

This CSS Risk and Resilience Report has the aim to complement a 2021 analysis by the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection, which outlined action points and predicted incident management needs until 2040 in response to climate change.