This document discusses the role of scientists in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It addresses how scientists can experience fragmentation of knowledge due to increased specialization and interdisciplinarity. While interdisciplinary research is a powerful tool, it can be complex to implement. The document also discusses gaps, barriers and bridges related to different phases of the disaster cycle and different types of hazards. Barriers include issues with data availability and quality, a lack of shared risk culture, and failure to consider local knowledge. Bridges include new technologies improving early warning systems and increased collaboration between scientists and other stakeholders.
Salzburg workshop 2014 introduction by Scira Menoniknow4drr
1) The document outlines the work packages (WPs) of the Know4drr project, which aims to enable knowledge for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
2) WP1 and WP2 focus on mapping existing knowledge and knowledge flows. WP3 develops a knowledge management framework. WP4 monitors policy integration of knowledge. WP5 focuses on dissemination.
3) The project includes three "living labs" case studies to test tools and methods with stakeholders in Vietnam, Italy, and Spain.
This document provides an overview of the Know4drr project, which aims to enable knowledge sharing for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It summarizes the project's working packages, which include mapping existing knowledge, understanding knowledge flows, developing a knowledge management framework, and monitoring policy activities. The document also describes planned workshops, seminars, and "living labs" case studies where the project will interact directly with stakeholders in Vietnam, Italy, and Spain. The overall goal is to help societies better acquire, share, and apply knowledge to improve disaster preparedness and resilience.
The document discusses knowledge fragmentation in the public sector related to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It analyzes stakeholders involved, how knowledge is produced and shared between stakeholders, and how decisions are made. Case studies from a 2013 flood in Salzburg and a 2006 typhoon in Vietnam found that while information is shared, uncertainties exist in its applicability and understanding. Stakeholders at different levels have varying recognition of information and objectives, hindering effective decision-making.
The document announces a workshop on the role of networks in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The workshop aims to bring together representatives from various networks in these fields to identify synergies, develop a common understanding of challenges, and find ways to collaborate. It will take place on May 27-28, 2014 at the University of Salzburg and include keynote speeches, discussion groups, and presentations to recommend how networks can better work together.
06 internal use-only-disaster management during the elbe flood-jüpnerknow4drr
The document summarizes the 2013 Elbe River flood disaster in Germany, specifically the dike break near Fischbeck. It describes the flood levels exceeding historical heights and the challenges for emergency management from the dike breach. The dike failed due to slope issues and overtopping, releasing over 225 million cubic meters of water into 150 square kilometers and forcing over 9,000 evacuations. Maps show the projected inundation area and questions around predicting flood impacts and informing emergency response. The decision-making process during disasters involves authorities at different government levels and balancing response measures with situational complexity.
This document discusses the role of scientists in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It addresses how scientists can experience fragmentation of knowledge due to increased specialization and interdisciplinarity. While interdisciplinary research is a powerful tool, it can be complex to implement. The document also discusses gaps, barriers and bridges related to different phases of the disaster cycle and different types of hazards. Barriers include issues with data availability and quality, a lack of shared risk culture, and failure to consider local knowledge. Bridges include new technologies improving early warning systems and increased collaboration between scientists and other stakeholders.
Salzburg workshop 2014 introduction by Scira Menoniknow4drr
1) The document outlines the work packages (WPs) of the Know4drr project, which aims to enable knowledge for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
2) WP1 and WP2 focus on mapping existing knowledge and knowledge flows. WP3 develops a knowledge management framework. WP4 monitors policy integration of knowledge. WP5 focuses on dissemination.
3) The project includes three "living labs" case studies to test tools and methods with stakeholders in Vietnam, Italy, and Spain.
This document provides an overview of the Know4drr project, which aims to enable knowledge sharing for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It summarizes the project's working packages, which include mapping existing knowledge, understanding knowledge flows, developing a knowledge management framework, and monitoring policy activities. The document also describes planned workshops, seminars, and "living labs" case studies where the project will interact directly with stakeholders in Vietnam, Italy, and Spain. The overall goal is to help societies better acquire, share, and apply knowledge to improve disaster preparedness and resilience.
The document discusses knowledge fragmentation in the public sector related to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It analyzes stakeholders involved, how knowledge is produced and shared between stakeholders, and how decisions are made. Case studies from a 2013 flood in Salzburg and a 2006 typhoon in Vietnam found that while information is shared, uncertainties exist in its applicability and understanding. Stakeholders at different levels have varying recognition of information and objectives, hindering effective decision-making.
The document announces a workshop on the role of networks in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The workshop aims to bring together representatives from various networks in these fields to identify synergies, develop a common understanding of challenges, and find ways to collaborate. It will take place on May 27-28, 2014 at the University of Salzburg and include keynote speeches, discussion groups, and presentations to recommend how networks can better work together.
06 internal use-only-disaster management during the elbe flood-jüpnerknow4drr
The document summarizes the 2013 Elbe River flood disaster in Germany, specifically the dike break near Fischbeck. It describes the flood levels exceeding historical heights and the challenges for emergency management from the dike breach. The dike failed due to slope issues and overtopping, releasing over 225 million cubic meters of water into 150 square kilometers and forcing over 9,000 evacuations. Maps show the projected inundation area and questions around predicting flood impacts and informing emergency response. The decision-making process during disasters involves authorities at different government levels and balancing response measures with situational complexity.
Clipper project presentation at the Jisc Research Data Network meeting, Cambridge, 6th September 2016.
Clipper: A web annotation toolkit for research & practice with online audio visual media
Clipper is a web annotation toolkit created by a consortium including City of Glasgow College and The Open University to enable annotation and analysis of audiovisual media without copying large files. It allows users to create "virtual clips" from media sources and annotate them using text and share the clips via URIs. Clipper aims to make audiovisual media as easy to work with as text. It demonstrates potential benefits for research including open data, reproducibility, collaboration, and impact. The toolkit is built using MEAN stack technologies and aligns with emerging W3C annotation standards.
ICRM conference - Workshop on Visual Analysis with Christina Silver.pdfChristina Silver
This workshop discusses currently available CAQDAS tools that facilitate creative data analysis to inform choices between tools and facilitate the planning and doing of analysis using them, and contributes to the further refinement of these tools by gathering needs from participants regarding visual tools. The focus in on analysing visual data and visual analysis techniques and the workshop is organised accordingly. First we discuss tools for analysing any form of still and/or moving images, such as participant- or researcher-generated photographs, drawings, artwork, video, film, screencasts etc. We look at tools for analysing these materials both directly (e.g. marking, annotating and coding the source materials) and indirectly (e.g. generating synchronised and dynamic transcripts or summaries which are then analysed. Second we discuss visual techniques for analysing any form of qualitative material (so any form of text as well as visual materials), focusing on visual annotation, emoji-coding and hyperlinking. Illustrations from several CAQDAS-packages are discussed, including ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA, QDA Miner, NVivo, Quirkos and Transana. The aim of the workshop is twofold: to provide an overview of currently available tools to facilitate informed decision-making between them and creative use of them, and to collate creative researchers’ needs for visual analysis tools that will be shared with CAQDAS developers. The author is in the unique position of having long-standing working relationships with CAQDAS developers whilst maintaining professional independence, and therefore has a direct means of feeding back the insights that are generated in this workshop. Therefore the workshop will also gather participants’ experiences of using other tools and techniques to analyse visual materials and visually analyse qualitative data. Relatively little has changed in the CAQDAS-field regarding visual data analysis for many years (with a few notable exceptions) (see Silver 2019) so this workshop is an opportunity for creative researchers to contribute to changing this.
Nuts & Bolts of Research Methods: Doctoral Training ConferenceThe Open University, March 22nd 2011
Simon Buckingham Shum
Knowledge Media Institute
Open University UK
http://simon.buckinghamshum.net
Network Enabled Research - The role of open source and open thinkingCameron Neylon
Keynote talk given at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference at the ISMB in Berlin on 19 July 2013. Discussed from the perspective of Open Source and open definitions how to think about networks and the potential for discontinuities and phase transitions as places where the expansion of networks can lead to significant changes in scientific capacity.
Here is my B.Sc. thesis back in 2010. I should not consider this reading as up-to-date, but it's worth as basic start-up on the topic of Web Application Security. Please, note the two tables are meant as attachments to this paper. Your critics are welcome. Enjoy!
The thesis is presented to the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences
of the Ruhr-University of Bochum
Chair of Network and Data Security
of the Ruhr-University of Bochum,
Horst-Görtz Institute,
Prof. Jörg Schwenk
Here's the abstract:
The presented thesis in this paper is another discussion on the problem or problem-
complex: What is Web 2.0? How it works? Is it vulnerable to its security scope? How can
one utilize and share Web 2.0, knowing in this interactive collaboration, how to protect
himself?
In this bachelor work the reader will find history information, discussion on the evolu-
tion of the Web standards and most common Web 2.0 attacking classes. Two examples of
important Web 2.0 attacking vectors shall be discussed in depth, in such manner as an ana-
lysis and examples on the attacking techniques, deliberation on the trends in attack preven-
tion methods, discussion on the tools according to these.
This paper should give a good classification on the proposed examples of Web 2.0 at-
tacks, make a conclusion on behalf of the Life Cycle and security standards for the modern
Web 2.0 implementations, and perhaps offer some interesting proposals.
This document is the MSc dissertation of Nikolaos Draganoudis submitted to the University of Surrey in 2008. It examines internet traffic measurement and analysis. The dissertation includes a literature review on topics like the IP and TCP protocols and mathematical distributions. It describes the methodology used, which involved measuring traffic to the BBC website using an emulator and Wireshark. The analysis includes examining if page sizes fit known distributions and analyzing the inter-arrival time of packets. The study aims to characterize web traffic and quality of service. The dissertation contains measurements and analysis of BBC page sizes and packet inter-arrival times over a week. It evaluates if the data fits power law and normal distributions.
Stephan Makowski
Seal Digitization - Opportunities, Prospects and Potentials
ICARUS-Meeting #19 | 5th co:op partner meeting
29–31 May 2017, The National Archives of Estonia, Nooruse 3, Tartu, Estonia
Open Data and Culture Change at CERN - Achintya Rao - OpenCon 2016Right to Research
This document discusses CERN's open data portal and efforts to promote a culture of open data sharing. It provides screenshots of the portal and describes how initial fears about outsiders misusing data were not realized. Examples are given showing the successful use of open data in high school education, university training, and novel research by theorists collaborating with experimentalists. Lessons learned include demonstrating the benefits of open data and providing support to encourage data sharing.
This document is a dissertation on integrating Cradle to Cradle design strategies focusing on healthy material use and indoor air quality in a school project.
The dissertation is divided into three parts. The first part defines the Cradle to Cradle concept, its principles of eliminating waste and designing for disassembly. It also examines the Cradle to Cradle certification program and levels. The second part analyzes how building materials impact indoor climate and provides examples of Cradle to Cradle products and certified buildings. The third part proposes implementing Cradle to Cradle strategies in the design of the external walls of a school project through comparing three wall solutions based on their lifecycle assessments.
OER XinXai (NOW)! Dalian OCWC Conference 2008Jon Phillips
A mash-up of my various presentations including ccLearn, CC+, CC Zero, and Sharing Creative Works comics all tailored for OER conference as part of Open Course Ware Conference in Dalian China.
Loanable equipment supporting creation and dissemination for the campus commu...Shawna Sadler
The document discusses tech lending services at NCSU Libraries. It describes two service models - commodity and specialized. The commodity model aims to meet general demand through a first-come, first-served approach, while the specialized model involves determining specific needs through questions and potentially wait lists or orientations. Examples are given of interactions determining borrowers' intended uses of devices. The document also discusses a beta service model involving conversations about innovative uses and potential workshops/training.
Wednesday presentation at MoM Matters of matter Summr School
Micro optics, chromadepht, portable microscopes from ROE (Refractive optics) to DOE(diffractive optics) invisibility cloak
Web archives play an important role in documenting history and enabling research using internet sources. There has been a short history of web archiving over the last 12-14 years, starting with individual efforts and evolving to established national archives. While web archives aim to preserve online content, what is archived may differ from the original live web pages due to technical limitations. Cooperation across archives is needed to address these challenges and better support scholarly research, such as through a proposed European research infrastructure called RESAW to integrate existing national archives.
Continuous Integration and Delivery of Research ApplicationsBruce Becker
This document discusses continuous integration and delivery of research applications. It notes that computational infrastructure is complex with many different systems and applications. Researchers struggle to get their applications running across different environments. The document proposes automating as much of the application integration process as possible through continuous integration practices. This would include defining application dependencies, environments, and automating common integration tasks. The goal is to lower the barriers for researchers to use various computing resources by handling more of the integration work automatically.
Dissertation BE 1180 Gagandeep Singh 10038702 April 15, 2012 Project ManagementGagandeep Singh
This document is a dissertation submitted by Gagandeep Singh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Science degree in Project Management. The dissertation examines the use of knowledge management techniques for risk management application at the initial project stages. It includes an acknowledgements section, table of contents, list of acronyms, list of illustrations, and abstract. The dissertation contains literature reviews on knowledge management and risk management. It also discusses various knowledge management techniques that can be applied to risk management, such as communities of practice, knowledge databases, lessons learned, brainstorming, knowledge maps, knowledge audits, and benchmarking.
Introduction - Web Technologies (1019888BNR)Beat Signer
This document outlines the course organization, prerequisites, schedule, and content for the Web Technologies course taught by Prof. Beat Signer at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. It provides contact information for the instructor and teaching assistant. The course covers topics such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web frameworks, semantic web, security and involves weekly lectures, exercises, and a group project for students taking the 6 ECTS version.
This document discusses the limitations of knowledge and information for disaster risk reduction (DRR) policymaking and implementation. It notes that while DRR policies are necessary, losses from disasters have continued even as knowledge has increased. National risk assessment provides some data but is limited in scope and does not address local opposition to policies. True reductions in losses require not just more information but addressing how knowledge is shared and disasters are prevented at the local level with stakeholders. Simply providing more data is not sufficient for operationalizing DRR policies successfully.
This document discusses ecosystem-based solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It raises questions about quantifying ecosystem services for erosion reduction and the economic costs and benefits of "green" versus conventional infrastructure. The document also discusses strategies for managing uncertainties, noting the links between ecosystems and hazards like landslides, flooding, coastal hazards, and how vegetation can help mitigate these. Hybrid green/gray infrastructure and the multiple benefits of ecosystem-based approaches are presented. The document advocates increasing scientific knowledge, capacity building, and policy around ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
Clipper project presentation at the Jisc Research Data Network meeting, Cambridge, 6th September 2016.
Clipper: A web annotation toolkit for research & practice with online audio visual media
Clipper is a web annotation toolkit created by a consortium including City of Glasgow College and The Open University to enable annotation and analysis of audiovisual media without copying large files. It allows users to create "virtual clips" from media sources and annotate them using text and share the clips via URIs. Clipper aims to make audiovisual media as easy to work with as text. It demonstrates potential benefits for research including open data, reproducibility, collaboration, and impact. The toolkit is built using MEAN stack technologies and aligns with emerging W3C annotation standards.
ICRM conference - Workshop on Visual Analysis with Christina Silver.pdfChristina Silver
This workshop discusses currently available CAQDAS tools that facilitate creative data analysis to inform choices between tools and facilitate the planning and doing of analysis using them, and contributes to the further refinement of these tools by gathering needs from participants regarding visual tools. The focus in on analysing visual data and visual analysis techniques and the workshop is organised accordingly. First we discuss tools for analysing any form of still and/or moving images, such as participant- or researcher-generated photographs, drawings, artwork, video, film, screencasts etc. We look at tools for analysing these materials both directly (e.g. marking, annotating and coding the source materials) and indirectly (e.g. generating synchronised and dynamic transcripts or summaries which are then analysed. Second we discuss visual techniques for analysing any form of qualitative material (so any form of text as well as visual materials), focusing on visual annotation, emoji-coding and hyperlinking. Illustrations from several CAQDAS-packages are discussed, including ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA, QDA Miner, NVivo, Quirkos and Transana. The aim of the workshop is twofold: to provide an overview of currently available tools to facilitate informed decision-making between them and creative use of them, and to collate creative researchers’ needs for visual analysis tools that will be shared with CAQDAS developers. The author is in the unique position of having long-standing working relationships with CAQDAS developers whilst maintaining professional independence, and therefore has a direct means of feeding back the insights that are generated in this workshop. Therefore the workshop will also gather participants’ experiences of using other tools and techniques to analyse visual materials and visually analyse qualitative data. Relatively little has changed in the CAQDAS-field regarding visual data analysis for many years (with a few notable exceptions) (see Silver 2019) so this workshop is an opportunity for creative researchers to contribute to changing this.
Nuts & Bolts of Research Methods: Doctoral Training ConferenceThe Open University, March 22nd 2011
Simon Buckingham Shum
Knowledge Media Institute
Open University UK
http://simon.buckinghamshum.net
Network Enabled Research - The role of open source and open thinkingCameron Neylon
Keynote talk given at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference at the ISMB in Berlin on 19 July 2013. Discussed from the perspective of Open Source and open definitions how to think about networks and the potential for discontinuities and phase transitions as places where the expansion of networks can lead to significant changes in scientific capacity.
Here is my B.Sc. thesis back in 2010. I should not consider this reading as up-to-date, but it's worth as basic start-up on the topic of Web Application Security. Please, note the two tables are meant as attachments to this paper. Your critics are welcome. Enjoy!
The thesis is presented to the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences
of the Ruhr-University of Bochum
Chair of Network and Data Security
of the Ruhr-University of Bochum,
Horst-Görtz Institute,
Prof. Jörg Schwenk
Here's the abstract:
The presented thesis in this paper is another discussion on the problem or problem-
complex: What is Web 2.0? How it works? Is it vulnerable to its security scope? How can
one utilize and share Web 2.0, knowing in this interactive collaboration, how to protect
himself?
In this bachelor work the reader will find history information, discussion on the evolu-
tion of the Web standards and most common Web 2.0 attacking classes. Two examples of
important Web 2.0 attacking vectors shall be discussed in depth, in such manner as an ana-
lysis and examples on the attacking techniques, deliberation on the trends in attack preven-
tion methods, discussion on the tools according to these.
This paper should give a good classification on the proposed examples of Web 2.0 at-
tacks, make a conclusion on behalf of the Life Cycle and security standards for the modern
Web 2.0 implementations, and perhaps offer some interesting proposals.
This document is the MSc dissertation of Nikolaos Draganoudis submitted to the University of Surrey in 2008. It examines internet traffic measurement and analysis. The dissertation includes a literature review on topics like the IP and TCP protocols and mathematical distributions. It describes the methodology used, which involved measuring traffic to the BBC website using an emulator and Wireshark. The analysis includes examining if page sizes fit known distributions and analyzing the inter-arrival time of packets. The study aims to characterize web traffic and quality of service. The dissertation contains measurements and analysis of BBC page sizes and packet inter-arrival times over a week. It evaluates if the data fits power law and normal distributions.
Stephan Makowski
Seal Digitization - Opportunities, Prospects and Potentials
ICARUS-Meeting #19 | 5th co:op partner meeting
29–31 May 2017, The National Archives of Estonia, Nooruse 3, Tartu, Estonia
Open Data and Culture Change at CERN - Achintya Rao - OpenCon 2016Right to Research
This document discusses CERN's open data portal and efforts to promote a culture of open data sharing. It provides screenshots of the portal and describes how initial fears about outsiders misusing data were not realized. Examples are given showing the successful use of open data in high school education, university training, and novel research by theorists collaborating with experimentalists. Lessons learned include demonstrating the benefits of open data and providing support to encourage data sharing.
This document is a dissertation on integrating Cradle to Cradle design strategies focusing on healthy material use and indoor air quality in a school project.
The dissertation is divided into three parts. The first part defines the Cradle to Cradle concept, its principles of eliminating waste and designing for disassembly. It also examines the Cradle to Cradle certification program and levels. The second part analyzes how building materials impact indoor climate and provides examples of Cradle to Cradle products and certified buildings. The third part proposes implementing Cradle to Cradle strategies in the design of the external walls of a school project through comparing three wall solutions based on their lifecycle assessments.
OER XinXai (NOW)! Dalian OCWC Conference 2008Jon Phillips
A mash-up of my various presentations including ccLearn, CC+, CC Zero, and Sharing Creative Works comics all tailored for OER conference as part of Open Course Ware Conference in Dalian China.
Loanable equipment supporting creation and dissemination for the campus commu...Shawna Sadler
The document discusses tech lending services at NCSU Libraries. It describes two service models - commodity and specialized. The commodity model aims to meet general demand through a first-come, first-served approach, while the specialized model involves determining specific needs through questions and potentially wait lists or orientations. Examples are given of interactions determining borrowers' intended uses of devices. The document also discusses a beta service model involving conversations about innovative uses and potential workshops/training.
Wednesday presentation at MoM Matters of matter Summr School
Micro optics, chromadepht, portable microscopes from ROE (Refractive optics) to DOE(diffractive optics) invisibility cloak
Web archives play an important role in documenting history and enabling research using internet sources. There has been a short history of web archiving over the last 12-14 years, starting with individual efforts and evolving to established national archives. While web archives aim to preserve online content, what is archived may differ from the original live web pages due to technical limitations. Cooperation across archives is needed to address these challenges and better support scholarly research, such as through a proposed European research infrastructure called RESAW to integrate existing national archives.
Continuous Integration and Delivery of Research ApplicationsBruce Becker
This document discusses continuous integration and delivery of research applications. It notes that computational infrastructure is complex with many different systems and applications. Researchers struggle to get their applications running across different environments. The document proposes automating as much of the application integration process as possible through continuous integration practices. This would include defining application dependencies, environments, and automating common integration tasks. The goal is to lower the barriers for researchers to use various computing resources by handling more of the integration work automatically.
Dissertation BE 1180 Gagandeep Singh 10038702 April 15, 2012 Project ManagementGagandeep Singh
This document is a dissertation submitted by Gagandeep Singh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Science degree in Project Management. The dissertation examines the use of knowledge management techniques for risk management application at the initial project stages. It includes an acknowledgements section, table of contents, list of acronyms, list of illustrations, and abstract. The dissertation contains literature reviews on knowledge management and risk management. It also discusses various knowledge management techniques that can be applied to risk management, such as communities of practice, knowledge databases, lessons learned, brainstorming, knowledge maps, knowledge audits, and benchmarking.
Introduction - Web Technologies (1019888BNR)Beat Signer
This document outlines the course organization, prerequisites, schedule, and content for the Web Technologies course taught by Prof. Beat Signer at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. It provides contact information for the instructor and teaching assistant. The course covers topics such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web frameworks, semantic web, security and involves weekly lectures, exercises, and a group project for students taking the 6 ECTS version.
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This document discusses the limitations of knowledge and information for disaster risk reduction (DRR) policymaking and implementation. It notes that while DRR policies are necessary, losses from disasters have continued even as knowledge has increased. National risk assessment provides some data but is limited in scope and does not address local opposition to policies. True reductions in losses require not just more information but addressing how knowledge is shared and disasters are prevented at the local level with stakeholders. Simply providing more data is not sufficient for operationalizing DRR policies successfully.
This document discusses ecosystem-based solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It raises questions about quantifying ecosystem services for erosion reduction and the economic costs and benefits of "green" versus conventional infrastructure. The document also discusses strategies for managing uncertainties, noting the links between ecosystems and hazards like landslides, flooding, coastal hazards, and how vegetation can help mitigate these. Hybrid green/gray infrastructure and the multiple benefits of ecosystem-based approaches are presented. The document advocates increasing scientific knowledge, capacity building, and policy around ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
This document discusses scoping an emerging practice area of media and communication for disaster risk reduction. A review committee consisting of experts in journalism, strategic communication, public information, education and risk reduction provide an analysis. The document outlines objectives and impact, integrated media formats, governance and participation, audience interests. It is noted that while a useful first step, participation of national disaster management authorities and dedicated knowledge sharing platforms are lacking. Key elements of a community of practice for risk communication are proposed, including stakeholders from various sectors and linking to other risk communication communities of practice.
This document provides an agenda for a two-day national seminar workshop in Madrid, Spain focused on enabling scientific knowledge for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The workshop will include presentations from researchers and policymakers on topics such as the economic crisis's impact on disaster risk, climate change and national security strategies, flood risk management legislation, seismic risk regulations, insurance regulations, and challenges for using scientific knowledge in risk governance and emergency situations. Participants will discuss how to better integrate scientific knowledge into disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation policies and legislation.
The document discusses the work of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in promoting sustainable development and disaster risk reduction. It outlines UNECE's focus on housing, land management, and urban planning policies to build resilient communities. Specifically, UNECE works to integrate natural hazard and risk data into policymaking to support inclusive, safe, and sustainable cities through spatial planning and cooperation with scientific experts. The document emphasizes using new technologies to improve communication, evidence-based decision making, and monitoring of policy implementation.
The document discusses the work of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in promoting sustainable development and disaster risk reduction. It outlines UNECE's focus on housing, land management, and urban planning policies. Specifically, it emphasizes using spatial planning and data integration to build more resilient communities and support decision making. The document proposes a future policy study on urban planning to disseminate best practices across the UNECE region.
This document discusses various uncertainties that must be managed in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It notes that while certainty is rare, it is certain there will be surprises. It argues uncertainties are more manageable with trust, efficiency/resilience tradeoffs, shifts in approaches, and new rules for assessing blame. It also examines differences between resistance and resilience, static versus adaptive resilience, and resilience of structures versus systems.
The document discusses the development of a toolkit for post-flood damage assessment in the Umbria region of Italy. It describes the creation of a "community of practice" between researchers and local stakeholders to collaboratively develop tools and procedures for collecting and analyzing post-flood damage data. The toolkit aims to assess damage across multiple sectors at local and regional scales. It emphasizes the importance of connecting hazard data with damage data to enable forensic investigation of flood impacts.
Disaster mitigation & climate change
adaptation in times of economic crisis:
Summary of results of KNOW4DRR Workshop in Athens, Greece on April 7, 2014
P.No 603807 ENV.2013.6.5-2

The document discusses the need for cooperation between climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) fields. While both aim to reduce impacts of climate change and disasters, they operate through different actors, timescales, research methods, and policies. This leads to fragmentation, inefficient use of resources, and missed opportunities. The PLACARD project seeks to address this by creating a multi-stakeholder platform to facilitate dialogue and knowledge exchange between CCA and DRR communities. The goal is to improve policy and practice coherence, foster synergies across governance levels, and enable mainstreaming of CCA and DRR.
Know4drr final conferencechambery_placar_dpresentation_leitner_v04_270515know4drr
The document discusses the need for improved coordination between climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). While CCA and DRR aim to reduce impacts of climate change and disasters, they operate through different actors, timescales, methods, and policies. This fragmentation leads to inefficiencies. The PLACARD platform seeks to create a common space for CCA and DRR communities to improve communication, exchange knowledge, and enhance coordinated research, policies, and practices. Achieving better integration between CCA and DRR could lead to more effective approaches and better use of resources for addressing the challenges of climate change.
This document summarizes meetings between civil protection officers and judges in Italy regarding oversight of the civil protection system. It notes that over 50 trials have occurred against civil protection operators, resulting in over 100 people being indicted. The document examines two case studies and discusses how the system has shifted towards a more defensive approach due to overcriminalization, undermining performance. It concludes there is a need for new collaborative approaches to disaster planning and management.
The Institut des Risques Majeurs works in disseminating preventive information and municipal crisis management. It is funded by the national, regional, and departmental governments of France. The team of 5 staff helps municipalities develop crisis plans, provides training, and develops educational materials about natural and technological risks. In 2006, the institute began creating short videos and has since focused on developing a web TV platform to more widely share its risk education videos and documentaries. The goal of developing video content is to engage broader audiences and vary the tone of risk messages to increase understanding and prevention of natural hazards.
The Institut des Risques Majeurs is financed by the French government at three levels to work on disseminating information about natural and technological hazards and assisting municipalities with crisis management planning. The organization has a team of 5 staff who help local governments with crisis plans, provide training, maintain an information service, and develop educational materials including websites, films, and documentaries. They created a web TV in 2009 to make their existing videos more visible and use different video formats to engage various audiences on hazard topics. Videos allow them to easily share their content, reach many viewers at once, and represent hazards in new ways like having a torrent narrate its own documentary.
The document discusses progress made over 25 years in disaster risk reduction, but less progress in managing risks. It notes that while disasters affect millions annually, other issues like disease affect even more. Climate change will further increase risks like rising sea levels. Transitioning from managing disasters to managing risks can help align agendas around disaster risk reduction, climate change, and sustainable development. Understanding risks fully requires assessing how factors like urbanization, inequality, and overconsumption drive underlying risk.
Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...Joshua Orris
The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
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…a fragile globe
…the world out
there – art,
music, hedonism
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The role of networks in
Disaster Risk Reduction and
Climate Change Adaptation
Creating the linkbetween CCA and DRR: Discovering synergies,
commonalitiesand individualities
Current “success strategies” of networks: What are key factors for the
durability and sustainabilityof networks?
Function,added value, approaches, and tools & role in the creation of
knowledge, its sharing, transfer and exchange
The impact of networks on decision-makingby stakeholders in policy and
practise:Can networks bridge scales and help find tradeoffs between
issues?
Looking forward: Is an increased collaborationbetween networks
desired and/or reasonable?
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Method:
Moderated Discussion
Moderator:Dr. Elisabeth Zeil-Fahlbusch
The role of the facilitator is to catalyzediscussions and to structure
collectivethinking
The aim is to gain insights and discover potential for action
Visual Discussion
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Workshop Day 1:
Tuesday, 27th May 2014
9:00 Registration
9:15 Welcome - Context - Objectives
Stefan Kienberger,Scira Menoni
9:45 Introducing Participants and Networks
11:15 Tea/Coffee Break
11:45 Added Value, Achievements,Function & Impact of Networks
12:45 Lunch
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Workshop Day 1:
Tuesday, 27th May 2014
13:30 ChallengesFaced by Networks
15:00 Keynote 1: What Unites DRR and CCA?
Jörn Birkmann, UNU-EHS
15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 Discussion Groups
17:00 Conclusion
19:30 Joint Dinner
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Workshop Day 2:
Wednesday, 28th May 2014
9:00 Keynote 2: The Making of Meteoalarm - Michael Staudinger, ZAMG
9:30 Keynote 3: Collective Intelligence: Advancing and Challenging the Crisis Response
Paradigm - Ouejdane Mejri, Politecnico di Milano
10:00 Presentation of Results of Discussion Groups
11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
11:30 Final Discussion and Summary: Recommendations of the Workshop
12:45 Conclusion
13:00 Lunch
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What are the main reasons for
your participation at the
workshop?
0 1 2 3 4 5
Salzburg is always worth
a visit!
I always respond
positively to workshops!
I have valuable experience
that I feel should be shared
Opportunities to learn
from networks are rare
Networking between
networks is capacity building
Interested in how the value
of networks can be improved
Increase my understanding
concerning on the role of networks
Scientific discourse on the
integration of DRR and CCA
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What are your expectations for
the upcoming workshop?
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What are your apprehensions/
concerns for the upcoming
workshop?
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What is your (personal or
institutional) commitment
to networks?
1. I strongly support
networks
2. I sometimes support
networks
3. I passively follow
networks
4. I do not support
networks
1. 2. 3. 4.
49%
0%
20%
31%
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How do you rate current
exchange between DRR
and CCA communities?
1. Very Successful
2. Successful
3. Average
4. Needs
improvements
5. Not existing
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
0%
11%
8%
61%
21%
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Are concepts of CCA and
DRR clearly defined?
1. Very well
2. Well
3. Somehow
4. Not at all
1. 2. 3. 4.
5%
8%
65%
22%
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Please, no drinks/food
inside the library
If you want to read a book,
please ask us
Fragile, handle with care…
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