Mangroves can thrive in harsh environment and are used to natural perturbations like tropical cyclones. But, with several confounding pressures exacerbating each other, mangroves fail to withstand and diminish.
Mangroves, the coastal cousins of the inland forests, do not only represent a unique set of rich biodiversity but also provide important livelihoods, coastal defence, and carbon sinks.
The last two weeks the CCS, Centre for Climate and Safety at Karlstad University has been visited by two experts on natural disaster modelling from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA.
Jesse Rozelle, the Acting Branch Chief for FEMA HQ’s Actuarial and Catastrophic Modeling Branch, and Casey Zuzak, a Senior Risk Analyst for Hazus and the Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Program (NHRAP) are in Karlstad in connection to a research project funded by the Swedish Ci
The 13 May licentiate Tonje Grahn sucessfully defended her thesis in Risk- and environmental studies titled "A Nordic perspective on data availability for quantification of losses due to natural hazards".
As opponent acted professor Kurt Petersen, Safety Analysis and Risk Management, at Lund University.
Link to Tonjes licentiate thesis in DiVA
On the 10 May Monika Rydstedt Nyman successfully defended her licentiate thesis titled "Learning and knowledge sharing from management of extreme weather induced impacts on the Swedish transport infrastructure - Case study of the Swedish Transport Administration".
As opponent acted professor Peter Söderholm, Quality Technology and Management, Luleå University of Technology (to the right in the image) and as examinator professor Ragnar Andersson, Risk Man
Researchers in different disciplines have for a long time used models to describe and analyze various ecological, human and societal systems and how those interact.
A CCS-presentation on Swedish climate politics and implementation by our director Mikael Granberg was recently highlighted in the Times of India.
The Centre for Climate and Safety Director Mikael Granberg has just returned from travelling in India.
Friday, September 11 Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid, the Bangladeshi minister of education visited the Center for Climate and Safety. The delegation visit was part of the programme in a collaboration between Karlstad University Professional Services and LIFE Academy.
Bangladesh is seen as one of the countries that is affected hardest by climate related risks.
The risk management discipline at Karlstad University welcomed this years new students of its master program Risk management in society to the first campus assembly by arranging a "Risk-walk" in Karlstad.
The Centre for Climate and Safety has arranged a number of "Flood-walks" over the years as part of our work with development of pedagogic tools.
26-28 August, PhD students and researchers in the Centre for Natural Disaster Science (CNDS) gathered for the CNDS annual assembly.
For the fift consecutive year CNDS met at Sunnersta Herrgård outside Uppsala to make progress reports of individual research projects and discuss common topics such as interdisciplinary research collaborations in the centre.
This year we reviewed five progress reports and listened to three research presentations.
This fall's board meeting for CCS took place at Karlstad University on the 12 November.
CCS board cosists of people that work with disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation; from academy and from private and public sectors.
The role of CCS board is to work in a wide manner with quality assurance and to safeguard that our work is relevant for society.
Welcome to a workshop at Karlstad university, November 25, where we address sustainability and resilience aspects of the interesting city of Baltimore, US. You will meet Kristin Baja, Climate and Resilience Planner at the Baltimore Office of Sustainability.
The workshop includes presentations and discussions around how to include and integrate climate adaptation, disaster risk-reduction, energy saving, and empowerment of marginal neighbourhoods in the city planning.
