The International EcorisQ Association (ecorisQ) is a global community of professionals working on sustainable solutions for natural hazard risk management. Our key activities are: facilitating international cooperation and networking, stimulating exhange of knowledge, dissiminating innovative transparent tools, initiating and participating in projects with members and standardising methodologies relevant for the sustainable management of natural hazard risks.
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The core of ecorisQ is made of its members. By joining ecorisQ you will expand your professional network and profit from transparent tools in the field of natural hazard risks. Being an ecorisQ member demonstrates that you are willing to increase the transparancy and reproducibility of natural hazard analyses and that you promote sustainable protection against natural hazards.
Events
Sixth ecorisQ General Assembly 2019 in Milano (IT)
From 18 to 20 June 2019, ecorisQ organises the sixth general assembly in Milano, Italy. Members are invited to participate at a technical symposium on shallow landslides, soil erosion and...
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ecorisQ related News
Changes
As the seasons change so too it appears does the incidence of storms, landslides and floods that all too often accompany fall and spring weather. September saw many events across the globe of landslides taking the lives of people from Wales, Uganda, Philippines and more. Similarly floods accompanying hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones and tropical storms ...
Read moreThe use of models such as SOSlope
This year, abundant rainfall triggered numerous shallow landslides in a protection forest area burnt in 2011, causing damages to infrastructures and the interru…
175 years recognition of protection forests
Today, the Swiss forestry association (SFV) celebrated its 175th anniversary. Founded in 1843, three decades before the enactment of the first forest law in Swi…
Future winters glimpsed in the Alps (Switzerland)
January 2018 was an unusually warm and wet month across the Western Alps, with widespread landslides at low elevations and massive snowfall higher up. Accordi…
Forest and water on a changing planet
Water security is key to achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet, increasingly the world is facing water shortages, and an estim…
Changelog SOSlope
New in SOSlope version 1.4.0 (April 2019): Added input for user-defined output directory name Added inputs for soil depth parameters (Depth_min, Depth_max, …
Landslide and rockfall road from Bergen to Voss (Norway)
The audience of the Norwegian Broadcasting chose the stretch between Bergen and Voss of the E16 highway, which currently serves as the main highway connecting…
