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Artificial intelligence and avalanche warning

Human experts will continue to produce the avalanche bulletin in future, but computer assessments based on weather data and other measurements have a valuable role to play as a “second opinion”.
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
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Un étang en ville de Genève contre le réchauffement climatique

Un plan d’eau a été installé dans la cour de l’Hepia, à la rue de la Prairie, pour montrer les services que peut rendre un tel bassin, entre rétention d’eau et havre pour la biodiversité.
Tribune de Genève, Edipresse Publications SA
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How wastewater informs COVID-19 policy in Switzerland

Wastewater is a cost-effective tool and better indicator of SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology during periods of insufficient testing or high positivity rates.
Water Science Policy
Flooded weir at lake Lucerne
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The underestimated risk of flooding in Switzerland

Large floods in mountain basins are becoming more frequent, a trend that is likely to continue with climate change, leading to changes in timing and amount of run-off in river basins.
Ambiental Technical Solutions Ltd
Research briefs

New simulations can improve avalanche forecasting

Computer simulations of snow cover can accurately forecast avalanche hazard, according to a new international study involving researchers from Simon Fraser University.
Simon Fraser University
Local hazard consultants in Switzerland – an innovative social learning element in a community of practice
Documents and publications
2021

Local hazard consultants in Switzerland – an innovative social learning element in a community of practice

This report discusses how hazard risk managers in Switzerland face multiple challenges due to increasing damage potential resulting from climate change.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Documents and publications
2021

Reactions of older Swiss adults to the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey on the acceptance of and adherence to public health measures

The goal of this study is to improve the required understanding of the mechanisms that determine adherence to and acceptance of protective measures to provide a solid basis for interventions in a pandemic. To improve public health communication, it is

Social Science & Medicine (Elsevier)
Documents and publications
2021

The impact of trust and risk perception on the acceptance of measures to reduce COVID-19 cases

This study assesses how trust and risk perception impacted the acceptance of government imposed COVID-19 measures in German-speaking Switzerland. The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has had a large impact on the lives of many people worldwide. The

Society for Risk Analysis
Documents and publications
2019

Climate report: climate change in the Mont-Blanc Massif and its impacts on human activity

Since the end of the 1980s, average annual temperatures in the Espace Mont-Blanc (EMB) have risen between 0.2 and 0.5°C per decade. The rise in temperatures has primarily taken place in spring and summer. No significant trend has been observed in total

Espace Mont-Blanc
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As climate change thaws mountain tops, risks of rockfalls surge

As climate change warms mountain regions, boulders and rocks which were long frozen into place are now being loosed and falling
Thomson Reuters