Posted by Indraneel Kasmalkar With global climate change and sea level rise, we see more and more news of coastal storms and floods around the world. To understand the potential impacts of such events, cities and states are turning to flood risk analysis. The procedure is straightforward: overlay flood maps onto maps of the built…
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The SouthEast Asian Sea-level (SEA2) programme of the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) began in 2020. It aims to push scientific frontiers to observe, reconstruct and project sea-level rise in South East Asia. As part of the multidisciplinary research team, DASL works on improving the quantification and strategies to address the impacts of sea-level rise…
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Written by Jasna Budhathoki, Kathmandu Living Labs. Informatics for Equitable Recovery (IER) is a research collaboration to improve post-disaster information systems and decision support tools. In this project, we aim to address certain limitations in the information provided in post-disaster impact assessments, which are typically centered on physical damage. To do this, we measured the…
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On the 26-27th of August 2019, David, Susanna Jenkins, and I (Yolanda) hosted the Counterfactual Black Swans Workshop, dedicated to applying downward counterfactual thought in risk analysis. This builds directly on my work as a post-doc this past year (read more about my project here). Twenty-eight participants from a total of six countries joined us…
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