Geohazards: mitigating the risks
Geohazards include earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, tsunamis, floods, meteorite impacts and the health hazards of geologic materials, and can range from local events such as a rock slide or coastal erosion to events that threaten humankind such as a supervolcano or meteorite impact. Earth scientists undertake research to better understand these hazards and contribute to risk management policies related to social and technical issues associated with geohazards as well as disaster mitigation.
- IGCP 659-Seismic risk assessment in Africa
- IGCP 669-Identification of seismogenic faults in populated areas of Latin America and its incorporation into seismic hazard assessment (2020)
- IGCP 672-Himalayan glaciers: assessing risks to local communities from debris cover and lake changes using new satellite data
- IGCP 692-Geoheritage for Geohazard Resilience
- IGCP 693-Seismic risk assessment in Haiti (2020)
- IGCP 701-Seismic vulnerability of buildings located on hillsides (2020)
- IGCP 705-Building Global Capacity for the Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric Change (2020)
- IGCP 713-Changing the paradigm in observational volcano science: Community plan for the Global Volcano Observatory (GloVO) Initiative (2020)
- IGCP 719 Building Research Capacity for Coastal Resilience in West Africa
- IGCP 740 West Makran Paleo-tsunami Investigation (2020-2021)
- IGCP 718 Bringing geology and geoheritage to life
- IGCP 716 Asian Coastal Resilience Network (ACoRN)
- IGCP 725 Forecasting coastal change
- IGCP 734 REFRA-SOS (Realtime Flood Risk Assessment in developing countries using Social media, Optical and SAR satellite data)
