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Working Groups at the 4th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 17 September 2009

 

Photo gallery

Photographs by Espen Dahl (ed), Sabine Lütkemeier (sl), Sandra Öberg (so), Kristina Raab (kr), Caspar Verwer (cv) and Allan Watt (aw)

 

Tutors

Eric Arets
eric.arets -at- wur.nl
ALTERRA, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands

Uta Fritsch (Chair of the tutors)
Uta.Fritsch -at- eurac.edu
Coordinator of EURAC-Junior, Science Communication, EURAC research, Viale Druso 1, I-39100 Bolzano, Italy

Diana Reckien
reckien -at- pik-potsdam.de
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Martin Wildenberg
Martin.Wildenberg -at- uni-klu.ac.at
Institute of Social Ecology (IFF) Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna, Austria

Brooke Wilkerson
brooke.wilkerson -at- gmail.com
University of Bergen, Department of Biology, Ecology and Environmental Change Research Group, Allegaten 41, N-5007 Bergen, Norway

 

Case study for the working groups:

The case study area this year was the Verdon catchment and the project formulated as if it were a EU project: MASSIF "Mapping Regional Vulnerability in the Southern Alps – Evaluating Trends and Developing Sustainable Adaptation Strategies for the Verdon Catchment" of which a copy was in the folders of the participants as well as a list of literature provided in folders and on CDs in the plenary. Working groups were then formed taking the preferences of the participants into account. There were working groups on agriculture (Martin), nature conservation (Eric) and tourism (Diana). One delegate from each group and four permanent members formed a synthesis group (Brooke) who summarised the results of the three case studies for policy-makers. Uta, the chair of the tutors, presented a short overview of the case study area and the project on the second day of the summer school (7 September).

After the excursion to the Gorges du Verdon (which is of course part of the catchment) there was an interim meeting on 12 September in the plenary were all the groups showed an interim presentation on their theme:

 

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The results of the working groups were presented on the last day on 17 September:

The reports were mostly finalised after the summer school and submitted till mid-November and then compiled in a final combined report (pdf: 5MB) and here are the separate reports for downloading.

 

Uta gave an introduction to science communication on 10 September and so all the groups were prepared to formulate a press release on their results on the last day. As in real life the time was extremely short as the groups were working on their reports but at dinner after each course a press release were communicated to all of us.

 

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Recommended background literature for the working groups:

    Essential reading on vulnerability — an introductory review
    Essential reading on vulnerability — methodology
    • Metzger MJ, Schröter D (2006) Towards a spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of environmental change in Europe. Regional Environmental Change 6(4):201-216.doi:10.1007/s10113-006-0020-2.
    • Schröter D, Polsky C, Patt AG (2005) Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change: an eight step approach. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 10(4):573-595. doi:10.1007/s11027-005-6135-9
    • Metzger M, Leemans R, Schröter D (2005) A multidisciplinary multi-scale framework for assessing vulnerability to global change. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 7:253-267. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2005.06.011

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