Tabletop Drought? Assessing the Capacity of the Swiss Civil Protection Service To Cope With Future Droughts
Date:
Location:
WSL Birmensdorf, Hörsaal
Organised by:
WSL-Forschungsprogramm Extremes, Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz, Centre for Security Studies ETH Zürich
Languages:
Deutsch
Type of event:
Congresses and conferences
To review the capacity of the Swiss civil protection service to cope with a future multi-year drought event, a tabletop exercise was conducted in November 2024 with members of the civil protection partner organizations. They were exposed to hypothetical but realistic extreme drought scenarios provided by the WSL Extremes Research Program and the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich. This joint exercise allowed an analysis of current structures, processes, and resources in anticipation of future extreme events.
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Astrid Björnsen, Vincenz Bischof, André Baur, and Jurgena Kamberaj (2025). In A. Björnsen (Ed.), WSL Berichte: Vol. 164. Extremes (pp. 73-86). https://doi.org/10.55419/wsl:39744