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Preparing for Extreme And Rare events in coastaL regions (PEARL)
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
"Coastal floods are one of the most dangerous and harmful natural hazards affecting urban areas adjacent to shorelines. Rapid urbanisation combined with climate change and poor governance means a significant increase in the risk of local surface flooding coinciding with high water levels in rivers and high tide or storm surges from the sea, posing a greater risk of devastation to coastal communiti ...
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On the Impact of Extreme Weather on Critical Infrastructures (INTACT)
Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,
The resilience of critical infrastructures (CI) to Extreme Weather Events (EWE) is one of the most salient and demanding challenges facing society. Growing scientific evidence suggests that more frequent and severe weather extremes such as heat waves, hurricanes, flooding and droughts are having an ever increasing impact, with the range and effects on society exacerbated when CI is disrupted / des ...
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Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation (KNOW-4-DRR)
Start date: Jun 3, 2013, End date: Jun 2, 2015,
“Mobilizing knowledge” suggests that there is need to dynamize the context in which knowledge about risks is developed, shared, and maintained. It conveys the implicit assumption that knowledge is perhaps currently fragmented and stuck in different compartments and bodies, be they institutions, agencies, universities, research centres, communities, individuals.While with this proposal we fully agr ...
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Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks (ZeroWIN)
Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,
The first work package will define a common vision on zero-waste entrepreneurship within the first 6 months. The mythos Individual Producer Responsibility will be investigated if it can become the all-healing-solution in electronics industry as well as how this concept can be applied to other industrial sectors. WP2 concentrates on new technological developments, WP3 on waste prevention methodolog ...
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