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University of Twente

https://www.itc.nl/about-itc/centres-of-expertise/centre-for-disaster-resilience

 

 

 

The Centre for Disaster Resilience of the University of Twente works across disciplines and international boundaries to reduce disaster risk and promote global sustainable growth. It is hosted at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). To achieve our ambitions we do fundamental, interdisciplinary and applied research, disseminate knowledge through education, training, and international cooperation, and we provide advisory services globally.

The CDR brings together the expertise from different disciplines from within the university and from outside, with the common denominator that they all relate to disaster risk. This includes the utilization of geo-spatial information for hazard and risk analysis, planning and governance, (water) resource management and the development of new methodologies and software tools. We aim to find new solutions to global challenges like climate change, increasing disaster impacts and growing demands for sufficient and secure food, water, energy, health, land and housing.

The Faculty ITC was founded in 1950 as International Training Centre for Aerial Survey Cartography, but nowadays its mission is to apply, share and facilitate the effective use of geo-information and earth observation knowledge and tools for tackling wicked global problems. We aim to enable our many partners worldwide to track and trace the impact – and the shifting causes and frontiers – of today’s global challenges. We are here to identify and understand vulnerability and use geospatial solutions to convert it into resilience, thereby contributing to the establishment of sustainable living environments anchored in an inclusive society.

Our vision is of a world in which researchers, educators, and students collaborate across disciplinary and geographic divides with governmental and non-governmental organizations, institutes, businesses, and local populations to surmount today’s complex global challenges and contribute to sustainable, fair, and digital societies. 

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The WRHM2CA-PR206 as a part of measuring the impacts of climate change on natural resources and critical infrastructure, contributes to reducing the risks associated with uranium legacy sites in Central Asia and water pollution by providing regional capacity for water monitoring systems for transboundary rivers and their tributaries, as well as expanding laboratory capacity related to uranium legacy sites in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. By creating a monitoring system that consists of a set of reliable laboratory equipment and sensors that are country-specific, compatible with each other, inexpensive to operate and maintain, a data set will be defined that can be transferred to beneficiaries in the event of an environmental crisis. 

The installed system will be integrated into the existing country's Environmental Security Management System or policy, offering the possibility of compiling other data from different national bodies to better understand and monitor climate change's impact on critical resources and infrastructures. 

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