Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

Paolo is a Senior Lecturer at IHE Delft in the River Basin Development research group. He has more than 15 years of combined professional experience in the Humanitarian, Professional and Academic world in the areas of mapping, geology and geomorphology and remote sensing. In the last years he has been developing methods and tools for the use of UAV in hydraulic research including flood mapping as well as in ecology and soil erosion. He has worked and lived extensively in Eastern and Southern Africa with shorter assignments in Asia and East Asia, and at present he is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

SECTION I: FLOODS AND STORMS 1. Flood processes 2. Measuring and mapping flood processes 3. Palaeoflood hydrology: Reconstructing rare events and extreme flood discharges 4. Global and low-cost topographic data to support flood studies 5. Water related vulnerability, exposure, economic losses 6. Integrated risk assessment of water related processes 7. The benefits of risk prevention: Application of the KULTURisk methodology (Barcelonnette, Ubaye Valley, France) 8. Training material on flood modelling and risk assessment

SECTION II: WIND, HEAT WAVES, AND DROUGHTS 9. Wind vulnerability & exposure assessment 10. Wind risk analysis of wind related processes 11. Drought processes: Data and analysis 12. Hydrological modelling for drought assessment