On 14 of October, to mark the International DRR Day, the Department's Environmental Systems Laboratory (Syslab) will organize a Missing Maps Mapathon, a crowdsourcing event that will help map the most vulnerable places in the developing world.
On 14 of October, the Department's Environmental Systems Laboratory (Syslab) will organize the Disaster Risk Reduction Day to increase risk-awareness and present how Geographic Information Systems and International Policies can help manage disasters.
Dr. Yolanda Ariadne Collins defended her Dissertation titled “REDD+ Unravelled: A Discursive Analysis of Neoliberal Forest Conservation in Guyana and Suriname” at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy in May, 2017 under the supervision of Dr. Guntra Aistara.
Environmental Sciences and Policy PhD Candidate Steffen Bettin co-authored a report for the Austrian Parliament at the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) on the future of electricity storage. In the study, various storage technologies, e.g.
The first joint UN-CEU workshop in annual ISEPEI series has started today. The workshop is devoted to Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction and organized in cooperation with UNDP and features other global key stakeholders in disaster and crisis management.
