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ETH
and the Swiss network
The
Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and the Swiss universities
and institutes of applied science form a well established network.
These research centers have outstanding expertise and extensive
international experience.
Swiss
Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH)
The six institutions of the ETH domain include two research centers
operating in the fields of natural and man-made risk management:
CENAT and KOVERS. Both centers rely in addition on Swiss universities
and institutes of applied science. CENAT will coordinate contacts
between the Swiss research community and DRM.
Natural
risks: CENAT
The Natural Hazards Competence Center CENAT was founded by the ETH
Board in 1996 to bring together existing potentials in natural science,
engineering science and socio-economic science within the ETH domain
and the Swiss universities and institutes of applied science. It
is also associated with the Pôle Grenobloise d'Etudes et de
Recherche pour la Prévention des Risques Naturels. The pooled
resources of these institutes cover a wide field of hazard and risk
management:
Hazard
assessment, physical process studies, event triggering, hazard mapping,
numerical simulation, event probability studies, GIS (Geographic
Infor-mation Systems) techniques
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Institute of Cartography, ETH Zurich
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Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF,
Davos
- Institute
of Geography, University of Berne
Seismic
behavior, earthquake-resistant construction, retrofitting, building
codes (buildings, bridges, dams)
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Institute of Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering and
Structural Dynamics, ETH Zurich
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Institute for Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete, ETH Lausanne
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Institute of Geophysics, Swiss Earthquake Center, ETH Zurich
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Centre d'Etude des Risques Géologiques (CERG- UNIGE), University
of Geneva
Process
studies for rockfall, glaciers and permafrost, snow, avalanches,
slope movements, hydrology of unstable terrain, debris flow, floods,
wind, hail, geological hazard, drought
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Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, ETH Zurich
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Laboratory of Hydraulics and Glaciology, ETH Zurich
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Institute of Rocks, Foundation and Soil Mechanics, ETH Lausanne
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Laboratory of Geology, ETH Lausanne
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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research,
WSL Birmensdorf
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Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF,
Davos
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Land and Water Use Laboratory, ETH Lausanne
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Institute of Geography, ETH Zurich
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Institute of Hydraulics and Energy, Hydraulic Constructions, ETH
Lausanne
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Institute of Geology, University of Fribourg
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Centre d'Etude des Risques Géologiques (CERG-UNIGE), University
of Geneva
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University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil
Bush
and forest fires, ecological impact studies, sustainability, soil
erosion, risk analysis and management, forest hydrology, climate
and vegetation, forest as rockfall and avalanche protection
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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research,
WSL Birmensdorf
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Department of Forest and Wood Science, ETH Zurich
Socio-economic
studies, public perception, political strategies, risk management
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Institute of Economic Research, University of Lugano
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Institute for Economic Research, ETH Zurich
Climate
change, modeling of variability and predictability of climate, satellite
monitoring:
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Laboratory for Atmospheric Physics, ETH Zurich
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Institute of Geography, University of Berne
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Institute of Geography, University of Fribourg
Technical
risks
Modeling and software development for assessment, evaluation, management
and representation of technical risks for process industries and
storage, power generation technologies (including nuclear safety),
transportation of hazardous materials, waste management, complex
infrastructure systems; integration of the GIS (Geographical Infor-mation
Systems) and GPS (Geographical Positioning Systems) technologies
into Integrated Decision Support Systems (IDSS); life cycle analysis
(LCA), sustainability, cost optimization, legal/regulations-related
issues; research, training, university education, consulting engineering
and design, security, financial and socio-economic risk management-related
issues.
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KOVERS (Competence Center for Technical Risks ETH) including Paul
Scherrer Institute, ETH Zurich and EAWAG Dübendorf
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Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
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Institute for Economic Research, ETH Zurich
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Risk Lab, ETH Zurich
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Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF,
Davos
- University
of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil
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