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.
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FAN course on protection forests for natural hazard specialists
The FAN Autumn Course 2022, which takes place in 1 and 2 September 2022 in Brig (Switzerland) addresses the forest as a living organism but also as a biological protection...
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Using timber to counter natural hazards
In collaboration with Lignum, ecorisQ published a summary description of the use of timber in hazard mitigation structures against erosion and landslides, as well as in torrent control and avalanche protection. This easy-to-read and hands-on publication presents tried and tested constructions and their applications. Therefore, this publ...
Read moreRepeat performance – climate change, extremes, records, atmospheric rivers – what’s next?
Europe battles high temperatures, fires, and record low river levels that have exposed historical artefacts not seen for centuries while New Zealand experienc…
Flooding, record rainfalls, repeat damage – changing of the seasons in New Zealand
Seems like it no longer matters that the equinox brings about unsettled weather, but this year down under in New Zealand the equinox (20-23 March 2022) coinci…
Flooding disaster in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany July 2021
Due to exceptional rainfall intensities and quantities (150 - 270 mm in 48 hrs) between 13 and 15 July 2021, the area between Liège (eastern part of Belgium), M…
In memoriam Karl Kleemayr
There's no love song finer, but how strange the change from major to minor, Everytime we say goodbye (Ella Fitzgerald). We, the ecorisQ board, …
The C-year
There is no need to re-iterate that 2020 has been an unusual year. Our seventh general assembly parallel to the 5th International Conference on Soil, Bio- and E…
Windows, Mac and Linux
Today, we uploaded Windows (both 64 and 32 bit), Mac, as well as Linux versions of all the ecorisQ tools that need to be installed locally (ELine, FINT, Ro…
