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The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.
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allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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Researchers have carried out the first systematic global review of water reallocation from rural to urban regions. Their findings reveal that 69 cities with a population of 383 million receive about 16 billion cubic meters of reallocated water per year. With 2.5 billion more urban dwellers expected by 2050, pressure on rural water supplies is expected to worsen.
This report examines the potential role of remote sensing (and related technological developments such as machine learning) to secure better asset-level data and at higher refresh rates.
In the 20 years since they were launched, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement have been of assistance to many states responding to internal displacement, and have been incorporated into many national and regional policies and laws.
New research has revealed that changes to the severity of extreme heat events for low-income nations after 1.5°C of global warming would not be seen for regions of the world with high-income populations until after a global temperature rise twice as high.
The global effect and impact of atmospheric rivers on rainfall, flooding and droughts has been estimated for the first time, revealing that in some regions the risks can be increased by up to 80 percent. An average of about 300 million people are exposed annually to flooding and droughts induced by atmospheric rivers.
Registration for the new cohort will open until 30 November 2017. Upon registration, students are allowed to study the course until 31 December 2017 at their own pace.
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Climate change is an important topic for public health practice.
Researchers at the University of Oxford are using satellite imagery to create information for decision-makers and support a rapid response to environmental disasters. The difficulty in working with satellite data is in its processing and organisation, for which the researchers are applying machine learning tools that can handle large amounts of data.
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