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Daily Archive for October 13th, 2019

Tools for Disaster Risk Reduction by HeiGIT - Celebrating the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction

Posted in Press release, Services, Software, Teaching on Oct 13th, 2019

Today we celebrate the International Day for #DisasterRiskReduction. HeiGIT offers a growing set of tools and services that support humanitarian aid during and before disasters. Examples include work in the context of the Missing Maps initiative, like conceptualising and extending microtasking apps like MapSwipe, as well as services for analysing MapSwipe data and making it [...]

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Studying the impact of built environments on human mental health in everyday life - a review of methods

Posted in Publications on Oct 13th, 2019

Rapid worldwide urbanization benefits humans in many aspects, but the prevalence of common psychiatric disorders is increased in urban populations. While the impact of city living and urban upbringing on mental health is well established, it remains elusive which of the multiple factors of urban living convey risk and resilience for mental disorders. For example, [...]

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