Karen Dall

• Master of Science
• Learning and training at German Red Cross

As climate change accelerates, human societies face growing exposure to disasters and stress, highlighting the urgent need for effective early warning systems (EWS). These systems monitor, assess, and communicate risks to support resilience and sustainable development, but challenges remain in hazard forecasting, risk communication, and decision-ma...

In today's rapidly advancing technological landscape, understanding the opportunities and challenges of achieving equity in multi-hazard impact-based forecast and warning service through artificial intelligence (AI) is critical to ensuring that services benefit all. Drawing on insights from a session on AI and EWS during the AI & Climate Expert M...

As our climate undergoes significant shifts, both the Earth and human societies are increasingly exposed to disasters and stress. This situation underscores the critical need for robust Early Warning Systems (EWS), which are intricately designed to monitor, assess, and relay information about impending risks and hazards. EWS are vital in promoting...

For many decades, humanitarian assistance relied on emergency response, triggering both funding and operational activities only after disaster impacts had been recorded. In recent years, many humanitarian actors have joined forces to complement traditional, reactive mechanisms with a forward-looking approach that can be activated before a disaster...

Abstract—Drought is one of the most severe natural disasters with a high risk for human livelihoods. Remote sensing based drought indices can identify dry periods using, e.g., precipitation or vegetation information. Besides frequency, duration, and intensity, the timing of a drought onset and duration are important variables to measure the drought...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) was adopted by 187 countries and offers a tangible agenda for evidence-based policy for disaster risk reduction as an integral part of the overall post-2015 global development agenda. The progress of implementation of the seven Global Sendai Targets at the national level is tracked by a set o...

Eastern Cape Province in South Africa has experienced extreme drought events during the last decade. In South Africa, different land management systems exist belonging to two different land tenure classes: commercial large scale farming and communal small-scale subsistence farming. Communal lands are often reported to be affected by land degradatio...