The United Nations University (UNU) is an international community of scholars, engaged in research, postgraduate teaching and capacity development and dissemination of knowledge in furthering the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The university is now looking for a porject manager for the CRAIC project.

Under the authority of the Director of the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and the guidance of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) Head of Unit/Executive Director, the successful candidate will be entrusted with the following tasks (amongst others):

• manage the CRAIC project and ensure that project deliverables and indicators are achieved
• liaise with the donor and project partners in order to ensure the successful implementation of the project

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The United Nations University (UNU) is an international community of scholars, engaged in research, postgraduate teaching and capacity development and dissemination of knowledge in furthering the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The university is now looking for a Project Associate — Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Emergency Preparedness. The successful applicant will - amongst other things-:

• support the project lead in the implementation of the NOWATER project on “Emergency preparedness planning for water supply and sanitation in health care facilities — organisational and technical solution strategies to increase resilience” — with a focus on organisational aspects related to emergency preparedness planning
• co-develop the development of a methodology to analyse emergency preparedness planning for health care facilities

Application closing date: 16.05.2021

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The 'water' journal is planning a special issue of the MDPI WATER on Recent Advances in Flood Hazard and Risk Science. Therefore, its opening a call for papers to adapt and develop new methods and techniques to properly face the challenges of a new era, where capabilities for monitoring and modelling Earth processes have dramatically increased.

Scientific contributions should include (but not restricted to): theoretical and applied developments of hydrologic and hydrodynamic modelling including morphodynamics; post-event surveys; floods and related processes monitoring; flood frequency analysis; data mining and machine learning tools for hazard, exposure and vulnerability analysis; social networks and big data analysis for risk analysis and model calibration; palaeohydrology and geochronological dating techniques; geographical information systems; risk perception, risk communication, and dissemination.

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline (30.09.2021), submissions will be published immediately after acceptance in an ongoing basis. Water is fully open access (unlimited and free access by readers).

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