The Disaster Resilience coalition addresses cascading disaster risks through integrated technological, infrastructural, and social innovation. It combines UT’s strengths in geospatial analysis, engineering systems, and socio-institutional governance to develop holistic resilience frameworks.
The Key Challenges
Of the many challenges in the realm of disaster resilience, the coalition’s efforts are focused on bringing together university-wide expertise on:
- Addressing cascading disasters (e.g., drought-to-flood transitions)
- Assessing the vulnerability of food, energy and financial systems.
- Assessing the response of marine and fluvial systems to extreme conditions as well as their natural recovery and adaptation potential.
- Bridging the gaps between real-time data (e.g., satellite/UAV feeds) and decision-making processes particularly in times of crisis.
- Balancing short-term recovery needs with long-term resilience in settings where resources are constrained.
- Overcoming institutional silos in disaster governance and funding allocation.
Our activities
The coalition brings together UT expertise on climate-related disaster resilience to improve research potential together with societal partners. Specifically the coalition brings together university expertise in:
- Early Warning Systems for droughts, heat and floods
- Hazard & Exposure Monitoring: Satellite remote sensing, UAVs, and AI-driven assessment for floods, wildfires, and landslides
- Impact Forecasting: Multi-hazard risk modeling, climate-scenario analysis, and socio-economic vulnerability assessment
- Post-Disaster Recovery: Damage mapping using remote sensing technologies and and "Build-Back-Better" planning
- Climate adaptation: evaluating the effect of (nature-based) interventions to reduce the probability or impact of hazards
The cross disciplinary coalition coordinates its activities with ITC’s Centre for Disaster Resilience, Humanitarian Engineering and the University’s Digital Society Institute as well as the other Climate Centre coalitions with complementary themes and activities.
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