Yaella Depietri is Research Associate at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and at the Natural Resources and Environmental Research Center, University of Haifa, both located in Haifa, Israel. She earned her PhD in Environmental Sciences at the Institute of Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (Spain) in 2015 in collaboration with the United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn (Germany). She then was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The New School in New York City (USA) and, later, at the Technion. Her research focuses on urban areas, ecosystem services, social media, disaster risk reduction, vulnerability to natural hazards, nature-based solutions, green infrastructure.