First CARISMAND Citizen Summit held in Bucharest

First CARISMAND Citizen Summit held in Bucharest

The first Citizen Summit organised by the CARISMAND project was held on 9 July 2016 in Bucharest, Romania. The aim of CARISMAND Citizen Summits is to disseminate project results as well as to establish citizens’ reactions and opinions to various disaster risk and culture related topics. | See more

Insights on Citizens’ Empowerment within the Context of CARISMAND Project

Insights on Citizens’ Empowerment within the Context of CARISMAND Project

The Laboratory of Citizenship Sciences, Italy presented the preliminary results from their work with respect to the upcoming Citizen Summits. | See more

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A Comparative Analysis of Disaster Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience Composite Indicators

A research article expands the analysis of disaster vulnerability, risk and resilience composite indicator methodologies. | See more

Leveraging Social Computing for Personalized Crisis Communication Using Social Media

Leveraging Social Computing for Personalized Crisis Communication Using Social Media

A research article presenting a conceptual framework for studying psychological aspects of crisis and risk communication using the social media through social computing. | See more

CARISMAND Preliminary Findings on Citizens’ Rights

CARISMAND Preliminary Findings on Citizens’ Rights

Find some insights delivered by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover on the legal situation of citizens in disaster situations | See more

Advance in Assessing the Concepts of Risk Perception in the Context of Disasters

Advance in Assessing the Concepts of Risk Perception in the Context of Disasters

The team of the University of Novi Sad has elaborates a comprehensive review of the factors that influence people’s risk perception in the context of natural, man-made, and technological disasters. | See more

FireChat Alerts for Natural Disasters

FireChat Alerts for Natural Disasters

New mobile application enabling people to send offline alerts in the event of natural disasters is now available. | See more

May 2016 Sets New Records in Global Temperatures

May 2016 Sets New Records in Global Temperatures

The World Meteorological Organization announced that global temperature records were broken yet again in May 2016, according to data released by NASA, which also reported that it was the hottest (northern hemisphere) spring on record. | See more

Resilience: the Big Picture - Top Themes and Trends

Resilience: the Big Picture - Top Themes and Trends

A recent report released by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) identifies the key themes and emerging trends in resilience thinking and practice. | See more

CARISMAND Presented at the "Major Cities of Europe - Annual Conference" in Florence

CARISMAND Presented at the "Major Cities of Europe - Annual Conference" in Florence

CARISMAND was presented by the University of Florence, the Civil Protection of Municipality of Florence, and the Institute of Biometeorology to the National Research Council – partners in the project. | See more

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