Monthly Archives: October 2020

Online Conference on Tropical Glaciers and Water Resource Management under the current global challenges

  • October 13, 2020
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We are excited to announce that together with our long-standing partners CARE Perú and COSUDE (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) we are organizing an international learning event on tropical glaciers and water resource management — “Opportunities, risks and challenges of tropical glacial retreat and the integrated management of water resources for economic recovery in […]

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New publication on water risks in deglaciating mountain areas in Peru

  • October 9, 2020
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Our team member, Alina Motschmann, just published a paper from her PhD project in Geoenvironmental Disasters: “Towards integrated assessments of water risks in deglaciating mountain areas: water scarcity and GLOF risk in the Peruvian Andes“. Alina and her co-authors, Christian Huggel, Randy Muñoz and Angela Thür, assessed water scarcity and glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) […]

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