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Overview

Pascal Peduzzi is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research mainly focuses on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The primary topics covered in their work include Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Disaster Management and Resilience.

Pascal Peduzzi has contributed to diverse publication venues, including Scientific Data, Science of Remote Sensing, Nature Sustainability, Environments, and Frontiers in Remote Sensing.

  • Scientific evidence for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (2021, Nature Sustainability)
  • The Swiss data cube, analysis ready data archive using earth observations of Switzerland (2021, Scientific Data)
  • Improved Landsat-based snow cover mapping accuracy using a spatiotemporal NDSI and generalized linear mixed model (2023, Science of Remote Sensing)
  • Snow observation from space: An approach to improving snow cover detection using four decades of Landsat and Sentinel-2 imageries across Switzerland (2024, Science of Remote Sensing)
  • Assessment of the Role of Nearshore Marine Ecosystems to Mitigate Beach Erosion: The Case of Negril (Jamaica) (2022, Environments)

Their work often involves collaborations with frequent co-authors, including Charlotte Poussin, Grégory Giuliani, Bruno Chatenoux, Jean-Philippe Richard, and David Small.

Best Publications

  • Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

    Zbigniew W Kundzewicz;Shinjiro Kanae;Sonia I Seneviratne;John W Handmer

  • Global trends in tropical cyclone risk

    P. Peduzzi;P. Peduzzi;B. Chatenoux;B. Chatenoux;H. Dao;H. Dao;A. De Bono;A. De Bono

  • Global landslide and avalanche hotspots

    Farrokh Nadim;Oddvar Kjekstad;Pascal Peduzzi;Christian Herold

  • Assessing global exposure and vulnerability towards natural hazards: the Disaster Risk Index

    P. Peduzzi;P. Peduzzi;H. Dao;C. Herold;F. Mouton

  • Reducing Disaster Risk: a challenge for development

    Mark Pelling;Andrew Maskrey;Pablo Ruiz;Lisa Hall

  • Sand, rarer than one thinks

    Pascal Peduzzi

  • Changes in impacts of climate extremes: Human systems and ecosystems

    John Handmer;Yasushi Honda;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Nigel Arnell

  • Vegetation burning in the year 2000: Global burned area estimates from SPOT VEGETATION data

    Kevin Tansey;Jean‐Marie Grégoire;Daniela Stroppiana;Adélia Sousa

  • Revealing Risk, Redefining Development, Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction

    Andrew Maskrey;Pascal Peduzzi;Bruno Chatenoux;Christian Herold

  • Making Development Sustainable: The Future of Disaster Risk Management, Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction

    B. Desai;A. Maskrey;Pascal Peduzzi;Andréa De Bono

  • Impacts of Summer 2003 Heat Wave in Europe

    Andréa De Bono;Pascal Peduzzi;Stéphane Kluser;Gregory Giuliani

  • Building an Earth Observations Data Cube: lessons learned from the Swiss Data Cube (SDC) on generating Analysis Ready Data (ARD)

    Gregory Giuliani;Bruno Chatenoux;Andrea De Bono;Denisa Rodila

  • E-waste, the hidden side of IT equipment's manufacturing and use

    Stefan Schwarzer;Andréa De Bono;Gregory Giuliani;Stéphane Kluser

  • Global Pollinator Decline: A Literature Review

    Stéphane Kluser;Pascal Peduzzi

  • Impacts from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: analysing the potential protecting role of environmental features

    Bruno Chatenoux;Pascal Peduzzi

  • Sand and Sustainability: Finding new solutions for environmental governance of global sand resources

    Louise Gallagher;Pascal Peduzzi

  • Scientific evidence for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction

    K. Sudmeier-Rieux;T. Arce-Mojica;H. J. Boehmer;H. J. Boehmer;N. Doswald

  • Global honey bee colony disorders and other threats to insect pollinators

    Stéphane Kluser;Peter Neumann;Marie-Pierre Chauzat;Jeffery S. Pettis

  • National environmental limits and footprints based on the Planetary Boundaries framework: The case of Switzerland

    Hy Dao;Pascal Peduzzi;Pascal Peduzzi;Damien Friot

  • After the tsunami: Rapid Environmental Assessment

    Pascal Peduzzi;Karin Allenbach;Bruno Chatenoux;Gregory Giuliani

  • 21 issues for the 21st Century: results of the UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Environmental issues

    Joseph Alcamo;Norberto Fernandez;Sunday A. Leonard;Pascal Peduzzi

  • Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

    J. Handmer;Y. Honda;Kundzewicz;N. Arnell

Frequent Co-Authors

Farrokh Nadim
Farrokh Nadim Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
Gerardo Benito
Gerardo Benito Spanish National Research Council
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Reinhard Mechler
Reinhard Mechler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Yasushi Honda
Yasushi Honda University of Tsukuba
Robert H. Fraser
Robert H. Fraser Natural Resources Canada
Kevin Tansey
Kevin Tansey University of Leicester
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Luigi Boschetti
Luigi Boschetti University of Idaho
Laurens M. Bouwer
Laurens M. Bouwer Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research

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