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
5th SBEE Conference in Bern postponed (to June 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 Virus, the 5th International Conference on Soil, Bio- and Eco-Engineering at the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH-HAFL in Zollikofen (Switzerland) will be postponed and held in...
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2020!
Firstly, we wish you all the best for the year 2020. As every year, you will need to install a new licence file to make sure your ecorisQ tools are operational in 2020. The licence files for 2020 are now online in the “tools” menu (only accessible after login). In 2019, we developed 64-bit windows versions for Rockyfor3D and SOSlope, so that larger dat...
Read moreChangelog SOSlope
New in SOSlope version 1.5.0 (November 2019) Changed TWI input to Contributing Area (CA) TWI calculated internally using sin(slope) Added new GIS outputs a…
SOSlope training course at the USGS December 2019
EcorisQ organizes a SOSlope training course in the USA at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, on the 7th of December 2019. In this c…
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 E…
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…
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…
