The International EcorisQ Association (ecorisQ) is a global community of professionals who promote sustainable, where possible nature-based, solutions for natural hazard risk reduction. We do this by bringing together science and practice for the development and dissemination of transparent tools for natural hazard and risk analyses. Further we facilitate international cooperation and stimulate the exhange of knowledge, as well as the standardisation of methods.
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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
June 2020 - 7th ecorisQ GA and 5th SBEE Conference in Bern
In 2020, from June 13 to 19, ecorisQ organises its seventh general assembly parallel to the 5th International Conference on Soil, Bio- and Eco-Engineering at the Bern University of Applied Sciences...
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ecorisQ related News
Management of mountain watersheds and protection forests
Last thursday, the 26th of September 2019, the Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds (WPMMW), a technical body under the umbrella of the European Forestry Commission (EFC), established in 1950, met in Innsbruck to discuss "Protective Functions of Forests in a Changing Climate". The meeting was organised by the Austrian Federal Mini...
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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…
The 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, …
