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World Centre of Excellence in Landslide Risk Reduction renewed for the period 2020-2023.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Nov 7, 2020 | Water-related News

On November 2, 2020, during the 16th Session of the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (GPC/IPL) 19 new World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Disaster Reduction (WCoE) for the next period 2020-2023 were approved – among...

Vabilo na webinar “Mangartski plaz 20 let pozneje – kaj ve slovenska stroka danes o tovrstnih dogodkih, vzrokih zanje in o preventivnem delovanju”.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Nov 1, 2020 | Water-related News

Ob dvajsetletnici katastrofičnega dogodka, ko se je 17. novembra 2000 pri Mangartski Planini najprej sprožil zemeljski plaz in je kasneje drobirski tok tragično zaznamoval Log pod Mangartom in dobršen del Zgornjega Posočja, organizirajo Geološki zavod Slovenije,...

New COST Action “Cascading Geohazard Models & Risk Awareness Raising in joint XR-environments” in preparation.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Oct 29, 2020 | Water-related News

We are second proposer from Slovenia in a network proposing a new COST action on cascading geohazard models & risk awareness raising in joint Extended Reality (XR) technology (Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality) environments.

UNESCO WRDRR Chair renewed for the period 2020-2024.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Oct 17, 2020 | Water-related News

A kind letter to Professor Papič, the Rector of University of Ljubljana, received from the Section of Higher Education of the Education Sector of UNESCO confirmed that the UNESCO Chair on Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction at University of Ljubljana was renewed for...
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 13 October, 2020.

International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 13 October, 2020.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Oct 7, 2020 | Sustainable Development News, Water-related News

Held every 13 October, the day celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters and raising awareness about the importance of reining in the risks that they face. The 2020 edition continues as part of the “Sendai...

Paper published in Acta hydrotechnica on “Flood hazard in Slovenia and assessment of extreme design floods”.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 29, 2020 | Publications

Link to a published open-access paper in journal Acta hydrotechnica, 2020, vol. 33, No. 58, 43-59, https://doi.org/10.3390/w12072064 . Open access publication, pdf is available here.

UNITWIN Report of the UNESCO Chair’s activities from November 2018 to October 2020 drafted.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 19, 2020 | Water-related News

We have received request from the UNITWIN-UNESCO/KU/ICL Cooperation Programme to draft a report on UNESCO WRDRR Chair activities for the period November 2018 to October 2020. The draft report was submitted today on September 19, 2020, and as soon as the joint UNITWIN...

Invitation to COST LAND4FLOOD on-line Training course & Workshop, 23 September 2020.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 14, 2020 | Water-related News

You are kindly invited to participate at this COST LAND4FLOOD on-line Training course & Workshop on “Technical aspects of Nature-Based Solutions allocation” to be held on September 23, 2020 using Zoom Meeting that is supported by our UNESCO WRDRR...

Paper published in Journal of Hydrology on “Reconstruction of past rainfall erosivity and trend detection based on the REDES database and reanalysis rainfall”.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 9, 2020 | Publications

Link to a published paper in Journal of Hydrology, 2020, vol. 590, No. 125372, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125372.

Chapter published in The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry on “Modelling and Evaluation of the Effect of Afforestation on the Runoff Generation Within the Glinščica River Catchment (Central Slovenia)”.

by mmikos@fgg.uni-lj.si | Sep 6, 2020 | Publications

Link to a published chapter in The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Springer Verlag, 2020, 17 p, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124621.
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