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Natural and Anthropogenic Georisks

EH22_008/0004605 [Registered results] [WWW] 2024 - 2028

The main research objective of the project entitled Natural and Anthropogenic Georisks is to understand natural and man-made threats, hazards, and risks in the Earth's upper spheres, to explore their causes and to quantify their potential impacts on human society and infrastructures. This objective will be achieved by the planned end date of the project. Both natural and anthropogenic geohazards are inherently very complex processes and require a high degree of interdisciplinarity within the natural sciences. Thus, the project should result not only in a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of these processes, but also in a proposal of tools for their better monitoring, possible minimization of their effects and prediction, including mitigation of their negative effects on human society. The project's specific aims therefore include the characterisation of geohazards through field observations and monitoring at model sites in the Czech Republic, elsewhere in Europe and on other continents (e.g., in sub-Saharan Africa), which represent suitable natural laboratories for the analysis of potentially hazardous disturbances. One of the key goals of the project is to understand and describe abiotic (physical, chemical) or biotic processes through suitably designed laboratory or in situ experiments using the state-of-the-art instrumental techniques in combination with modelling tools. Finally, an important aim of the project is the integration of data obtained in the field and in the laboratory into complex models and optimization of tools for prediction and implementation of warning systems and other application outputs useful for the society. The basic theme where the Institute of computer science cooperates is projection of the climate change and research on its impact on risk phenomena using the results of available climate models and measurement data, with analysis of their causes and assessment of their consequences in selected areas of human activity. This will be achieved primarily through the analysis of available model simulation data, supplemented by our own model results, especially through the analysis of extreme characteristics and indices, which are then easier to interpret in the research of the impacts in follow-up studies of selected areas. Grant registration number: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004605

This project is co-funded by the EU.