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Rimini and climate change: the added value of the Sea Park “Parco del Mare”

Rimini’s Sea Park “Parco del Mare”, photo source: Comune di Rimini   The City of Rimini’s Mayor, Andrea Gnassi, and the Councilor for the Environment, Anna Montini, explain in an official news release how the urban intervention named “Parco del Mare” (Italian for Sea Park) not only increases…

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SaferPlaces Platform: watch the registration of the webinar hosted by Oasis Hub

Head over to Oasis Hub Blog for watching the registration of the first webinar of their Autumn series 2020, where SaferPlaces presented and demonstrated the recently released platform: a climate service mapping flood hazard and risk assessment in urban areas as a means to build safer and resilient…

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SaferPlaces at the Oasis Hub autumn 2020 webinar series: climate tools for cities, insurance and utilities

The unique Cloud Web Platform developed within SaferPlaces project will be the topic of the first webinar of the Oasis Hub autumn 2020 webinar series about climate adaptation and risk assessment tools for cities, insurance and utilities. The webinar will take place on Monday 21 September at 14:00…

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SaferPlaces at “Climate Thursdays”: urban flood risk and adaptation challenges

SaferPlaces is gladly participating for the second time to the “Climate Thursdays” webinar series, talking about Urban flood risk and adaptation challenges.  Climate change has particularly extreme effects in urban areas with flooding as an important threat to human health, activities, and assets.…

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New publications on flood damage assessment from Saferplaces EIT Climate-KIC project

The work done by the SaferPlaces team on DAMAGE modelling led to the successful publication of two articles. The first one, “Estimating exposure of residential assets to natural hazards in Europe using open data” was published in January 2020 by the Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Journal…

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2020-6-29 water / Issue cover

SaferPlaces article on the innovative pluvial flood hazard model Safer_RAIN was chosen as cover story for the June issue of the Journal Water

Double good news for the SaferPlaces team working on HAZARD modeling: the article “Safer_RAIN: A DEM-Based Hierarchical Filling-&-Spilling Algorithm for Pluvial Flood Hazard Assessment and Mapping across Large Urban Areas”, besides being published by the Journal Water, was also selected as the…

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