Disaster risk reduction Archives - Climate Innovation Window

Modeling future population’s vulnerability to heat waves

Existing future vulnerability to natural disasters assessments is often limited accounting for pr...

Heatwaves

Really cooling water bodies in cities

Heat waves, increased precipitation and river flooding occur through climate change. These proble...

Heatwaves

Active Eco-Wildfire Management System

The solution is a method for wildfire hazard analyses and forest fuel management planning. Forest...

Nature-based Services

EFESTO

We provide a low-cost system for forest monitoring, fire prevention and detection of the cause of...

Technology

FireAd (Fire Risk Monitor Advisor)

The risk of wildfires can be reduced through the application of prescribed burning practices. How...

FIRECAST

Societal exposure to large fires has been increasing in recent years. Our fire forecasting system...

GREENFIX f³ Fire Free Fibres Blankets

Climate change has caused extreme weather events to be more frequent. In places like Albania, Sou...

Nature-based Services Technology

Unified Fire Protection Units and System-UFPUS

Knowing that forest fires represent a constant threat to ecological systems, infrastructure, econ...

Wildfire Defense Platform

In Portugal we had another tragedy, the second this year (2017), ending in a 106 death toll due t...

Flip-Flap cofferdam

The Flip-Flap dam is designed for urban areas prone to river flooding. In case of a flood threat ...

FLUTSCHUTZ Alignment Protection

For construction of a conventional sandbag alignment to protect of low-lying areas in case of flo...

FLUTSCHUTZ DeichKADE

For construction of a conventional sandbag alignment to protect low-lying areas in case of floodi...

HAZ-I

A flood is the most common and the most damage inflicting natural disaster. Climate change causes...

Maptionnaire in Albania

In Albania there is scarcity of information and mobilization during Civil Emergencies, mostly flo...

My Flood Risk

In the EU many citizens are at risk of floods from rivers, seas and heavy rainfall. Reliable, sci...

NOAQ Boxwall

NOAQ Tubewall

Tubebarrier

In case of a flood threat due to extreme precipitation and/or high river discharges, rising water...

InfoSequia

Timely and systematic generation of actionable warnings and risk indicators on the severity and e...

Water from Heaven – Hemel(s)water

Water from Heaven contributes to local rain water storage and helps to overcome droughts.

Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches

Nature-based Services Technology

Hydroeconomic DSS tools for drought management

Finding and implementation of optimal operating rules on surface reservoirs and aquifers to effic...

Bathymetry measurements with Fishfinders

Use of low-cost devices (fishfinders) to measure bed levels, process the data into bathymetric ma...

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

V.E.R.A. project

WATER: Improvement of water efficiency, management, and quality/quantity; CITY SUSTAINABILITY: Im...

FREEWAT

FREEWAT platform helps in increasing resilience to water related hazards, in particular drought, ...

The honey olive grove

A polyculture agrosystem for reducing drought risks, and preventing floods and soil erosion

Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches

Nature-based Services

EVAPO-CONTROL

Reduction of water losses in drought-prone regions

3C for Cities

Urban growth combined with increasing rainfall intensities due to climate change may lead to a ra...

A LAM model for regions with complex orography

The increase in planetary temperature has led to an increase in the thermal energy resources avai...

Bufferblock

Due to climate change, more and more heavy rainfalls will occur and many cities are now facing th...

NEFOCAST

In spite of the variety of existing methods to measure precipitation, the retrieval of rainfall f...

Permeable Polymer Concrete

Floods have always been a serious problem for Albania, but with the uncontrolled demographical ch...

Polder Roof (Polderdak)

The Polder Roof stores heavy rainfall on flat roofs to prevent urban flooding, to reduce heat str...

Self-erecting flood protection system

In case of sudden floods litlle time may be available to prevent damage. The presented flood prot...

Smart blue-green roof system

Heavy precipitation / pluvial floods: rainfall events that result in 1) (urban) floods due to exc...

Smart Rainfall System

The climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of extreme weather events and the hydr...

Urban flood hazard analysis

Climate change will lead to more extreme precipitation events for many cities in the world. In su...

Urban flood nowcasting system

Cities are becoming more vulnerable to flooding because of rapid urbanization and increasing rain...

Disaster risk reduction Transport Water management

WaterView – IR2

Today precipitation is monitored by combining terrestrial systems, weather radars and satellite i...

SCAN

A tool to evaluate and optimize water management and climate adaptation strategies at the scale o...

Expanded EM-DAT disaster database to the European level (eEM-DAT)

Development of an easy-to-use software tool for monitoring impact of climaterelated disasters

Education Models and tools

Toolkit Method

It is a GIS based expert system aimed at providing a synthetic general evaluation of the feasibil...

Dike Profile Generator

Under the Dutch Water Act water managers are required to assess the flood probability of the prim...

My Water Level

Due to climate change river flood plains and coastal areas will more frequently face extreme low ...

All4Elevation

Flooding kills more than 6000 people every year, leaves millions of people homeless and causes mo...

Spatial Processes in HYdrology (SPHY)

Many hydrological models exist nowadays provide us with answers to questions focusing on the impa...

Tiny House B.E.S.D.®

Tiny House B.E.S.D.® is a versatile building organism which can be used in extreme conditions, th...

Buildings Disaster risk reduction

GIS-WRAP

Assessment and forecast of weather extreme events

SLAMDAM®

SLAMDAM® is a temporary flood defender filled with water. A stable base to fight flooding with wa...

Technology

Green-skin permeable system for urban rainwater management

The increase of the human population, its concentration in the cities and the urban expansion is ...

MobiKat – Support for complex strategic and operative decision-making

Fraunhofer MobiKat has been designed to effectively support preparation and management of large-s...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Draining pavement to support transit traffic and displace storm peak

The new BREINCO's draining pavement, which is able to support transit traffic by regular cars, al...

Disaster risk reduction Transport Water management

NoFloods mobile barrier

Quick and reliable solution for protection of people, critical infrastructure and the environment...

Drone+LiDAR for emergency response

Updated, detailed information and data acquisition on the displacement and location of flood defe...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

AdapKIT

Climate Change Adaptation, even when recognized as a priority, is poorly developed and adaptation...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Albania Alert -EWS

The Albanian National Center for Forecast and Monitoring of Natural Risks (NCFMNR) is responsible...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Disaster Mitigation and Response Information System

This all-in-one solution is designed to cope with all the types of emergencies in focus of the BR...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

SIDS disaster Risk Reduction Portal

Many Small Island Developing States (SIDS) around the globe, face similar challenges concerning c...

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Governance and social innovations Models and tools

MyFloodRisk (for business)

In the EU many businesses are at risk of floods. Although information is available such as the EU...

Education Governance and social innovations Models and tools

Low cost meteorological stations

Meteorological data are very important for an accurate analysis of the exact cause of flood, that...

SAEx–L (Signal of Atmosphere Extreme Locally)

Alerting the population that lives or occasionally is situated in an urban area that is expected ...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

MyClimateServices.eu

Infrastructure projects imply considerable investment and have a lifetime of several decades. The...

Buildings Disaster risk reduction

Education Models and tools

Danube Living Labs Pilot application Potelu Living Lab Romania

While at the Danube basin scale strategies create a sustainable framework for action, acknowledgi...

Disaster risk reduction Financial Water management

Governance and social innovations Nature-based Services

I-REACT

Society as a whole is increasingly exposed and vulnerable to natural disasters because extreme we...