ISET is proud to be part of the next phase of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, a five year commitment to promoting preventive action and flood resilience. The Zurich Insurance Group and the Z-Zurich Foundation launched their flood resilience initiative in 2012 as a way to apply the risk mitigation expertise of their specialists to the challenge of improving flood resilience worldwide. This private-sector organization teamed up with research institutes and NGOs and in 2014 won the well-recognized UNFCCC Lighthouse Activity award for their unique approach to flood resilience. Today, the program is helping more than 100 communities in nine program countries build resilience against floodin
From MIT to Antarctica, and now to the helm of ISET-International, we are proud to present our new C
Dr. MacClune has worked at ISET-International since 2008 when she and fellow scientist, co-worker, and husband Kenneth MacClune established ISET’s Hanoi office as a hub for the Rockefeller Foundation Asian CIties Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) and USAID Mekong - Building Resilience to Climate Change in Asian Cities (M-BRACE) programs in Vietnam. Since then, Dr. MacClune has worked with ISET on projects around the world, most recently in Vietnam, Peru, Nepal, and the United States. In this work, Dr. MacClune has conducted post-flood forensic analyses, served as scientific advisor for flood and water operations modeling, developed training materials for and facilitated resilience b
