Disaster resilience

There is an urgent need to integrate hazard assessment and disaster risk management into strategic planning and sustainable development. Our exposure and vulnerability to extreme events - including both natural and human-induced hazards - continue to increase. Worldwide the impact of disasters is rapidly growing. However, many countries and development agencies so far do not consider hazard and disaster risk in development planning, and lack sufficient strategies to plan, assess, prevent or mitigate the effects of extreme events.

Major projects

Major projects

CHARIM

The Caribbean region is often hit by natural disasters, causing  massive damage and economic loss. In order to better prepare local government agencies a program was developed to build capacity in Ministries for spatial planning and infrastructure

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CHANGES

17 young scientists from all over the world were brought together under the CHANGES project to do research on a wide range of aspects of multi-hazard risk assessment, and at the same time building a healthy and open research attitude with an eye for societal relevance.

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Integrated Flood Management in Kampala

Flash floods are a serious and recurring problem in Kampala. Though these floods do not generally have a very long duration they do cause major disruptions and they entail high economic and social costs, especially for people living in the relatively low-lying valleys and wetlands.

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INACHUS

When a disaster has struck and buildings have collapsed, such as after the Hurricane Irma in Sint Maarten, search and rescue teams only have little time to look for survivors. Where UAV or robot technology is available the time needed to find survivors can be reduced significantly.

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PARATUS

Promoting disaster preparedness and resilience by co-developing takeholder support tools for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters.

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Research

At ITC, we focus on fundamental and problem-solving research where spatial information can make a real difference. Our scientific staff en PhD candidates in the field of disaster risk management research topics such as disaster risk reduction, damage mapping using UAV’s and post-disaster recovery assessment.

Education

ITC is known to be one of the top institutes worldwide in the field of Geo-information science and earth observation. At ITC, we train students to engineer approaches for designing future-oriented solutions to the world's biggest challenges. We encourage our students to participate in public-private partnership projects initiated by ITC and other organizations.