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Modelling marine heatwaves impact on shallow and upper mesophotic tropical coral reefs
(2023)Coral reefs ecosystems, often compared to rain forests for the high biodiversity they sustain, are predominantly threatened by coral bleaching. Coral bleaching occurs when the symbiotic relationship between dinoflagellates and corals breaks under environmental stresses, notably increasing ocean temperatures. Thermal stress on coral reefs results from marine heatwaves, which can take place synchronously at the surface and at bottom of the ...Master Thesis -
Tropical Cyclones-related Impact on Human Displacement: Evaluating the Forecast Skills and Uncertainty of a Globally Consistent Impact Forecast System
(2023)Tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a significant threat to global populations, causing substan- tial damage and displacement each year. However, most disaster risk assessments only consider economic losses, ignoring displacement risk. Thus, it is crucial to develop a fore- casting system for TC-related displacement to help governments allocate resources for risk reduction and response. This thesis aimed to verify a displacement impact forecasting ...Master Thesis -
Spatial Factors of Natural Hazard Risk Awareness and Preparedness in the Swiss Population
(2023)Natural hazards like floods, storms, rockfalls, hail, avalanches, and landslides pose significant risks in Switzerland. Due to climate change and land use increase, these risks are expected to grow further in the coming years. To cope with this situation, Switzerland is moving towards integrated risk management, requiring all societal levels to take responsibility, including the general population. For effective risk management, the general ...Master Thesis -
Granite Genesis by Magma Hybridisation: New Insights from the Sesia Magmatic System (Ivrea Zone, Italy)
(2023)The Ivrea-Verbano Zone, located in a Permian post-collisional tectonic setting, provides an opportunity to study the complexities of a trans-lithospheric magmatic system, which are the major producers of new felsic crust. These systems typically exhibit gabbroic rocks in the lower, intermediate rocks in the middle and granitic rocks in the upper crust. The chemical formation of granites in trans-lithospheric magmatic systems can occur ...Master Thesis -
Lithological influence on soil iron and aluminium mineralogy and the long-term stabilization of mineral-associated organic carbon in the upper Rhône basin (Switzerland)
(2023)Soils represent one of the largest terrestrial carbon pools on Earth. The long-term stabilization of soil organic carbon (SOC) against remineralisation is thought to be crucially influenced by the presence of metal oxides/oxyhyroxides, particularly those of Fe and Al, as well as silicate clay minerals within the soils. Soils on mountain hillslopes are promising sites for studying these interactions, since the high erosion and weathering ...Master Thesis -
Assessing the Impact of Compound Tropical Cyclones on the Global Supply Chain
(2023)This thesis aims to analyse the impact of tropical cyclones on the global supply chain. Due to climate change and increased exposure, natural hazards are causing an increasing amount of direct damage. The impact of a natural hazard is produced with CLIMADA, which calculates an impact as the combination between exposure, vulnerability and hazard, where as hazard data of historical tropical cyclones is used. In a globally connected ...Master Thesis -
A Global Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment On Healthcare and Education Facilities
(2023)This study aims to assess the risk of river floods and tropical cyclones on healthcare and education facilities worldwide. Using CLIMADA, the current and future expected annual damage of these hazards on critical infrastructure were modeled. Case Studies of Madagascar and Haiti were conducted to estimate the number of people impacted based on 1/100-year events. The results indicate that these critical infrastructures are at significant ...Master Thesis -
Heatwave and Drought Adaptation to Enhance Health and Livelihood Resilience in Kenya - A Policy Review
(2024)Climate change poses substantial threats to the resilience and wellbeing of people in Kenya, especially concerning their health and livelihoods. Recognizing its vulnerability to climate change, Kenya underscores the critical importance of adaptation and resilience as primary responses to climate change. Recent developments such as the new medium term climate adaptation plans published in 2023 have reshaped climate adaptation planning in ...Master Thesis -
Increasing CCRIF's Risk Diversification under Climate Change: Strengthening Disaster Risk Financing Efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2024)Risk disaster financing efforts are an important pillar for building resilience in the aftermath of an event to reduce macro-economic effects on a country’s economy through pre-agreed financial arrange- ments (Bollmann Andreas & Wang Shaun S., 2019). Moving from ex-post to ex-ante financial instru- ments the certainty on the amount of money and time delivered is increased which can positively in- fluence the recovery of a country (World ...Master Thesis