Welcome

HazNETH brings together natural hazard related scientific expertise within ETH Zurich. The Network for Natural Hazards is a consortium of research groups studying natural hazards and risk in different departments (D-BAUG, D-UWIS, D-ERDW, D-GESS, D-MTEC) with combined expertise in Atmospheric physics, Climatology, Hydrology, Hydraulics engineering, Water management, Risk engineering, Construction engineering, Forest engineering, Engineering geology, Geotechnics, Seismology, Geodynamics, Geodesy, Cartography, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Environmental social sciences and Economics.

HazNETH members contribute to larger research frameworks, sometimes formal and at other times more ad-hoc, including the competence ETH centre for Environmental Sustainability, the Singapore Research Funding Council, Singapore-Swiss Initiative, EU Framework Programmes as well as the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Council for Technical Innovation, various federal offices as well as with industry partners. Organisations such as the Platform for Natural Hazards (PLANAT) provide a Swiss-wide umbrella body linking public-academic and private contributors to the field.