Balangay Legazpi: A Cloud-based Information System for Disaster

The City of Legazpi recognizes the need to sustain its disaster-risk reduction and management (DRRM) initiatives to ensure zero casualties in any type of disaster. Despite efforts to strengthen communication and coordination, there is still an information gap between vulnerable communities and disaster-preparedness information providers. Balangay is a disaster-preparedness mobile and web application that provides […]

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Promoting Water-Stewardship for Water and Food Security in Semi-Arid Regions

In the rain-dependent drylands of India, erratic rainfall and drought result in a drastic fall in agricultural production and acute water scarcity for drinking and livelihood purposes. Traditional knowledge and local water governance practices of rural communities are unable to cope with these risks and losses. Hence, it is necessary to equip them with the […]

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The Future We Don’t Want – How Climate Change Could Impact the World’s Greatest Cities

The Future We Don’t Want highlights the critical climate risks that cities, and their residents, are currently experiencing and will experience in the future as a result of climate change under a Business-as-usual scenario (the so-called RCP 8.5 climate scenario). The project traces global climate projections and looks at how many people in how many […]

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ADAPTATION – Nature’s challenge to man in the era of climate change

“Adaptation” is a multimedia journalistic project (web doc), focused on the coexistence between man and its ecosystem in the era of climate change. It will be also published as photo-journalistic reportage by several mainstream European media outlets (i.e. GEO, Illustreret Videnskab, Internazionale etc.) The aim is to describe how humanity (in some target-countries: The Netherland, […]

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