Research Area: Climate Change & Development: *PhD seminar*
Upcoming events in 2012
| 13 Jan |
Tabea Lissner | The climate risk index: an update |
| 20 Jan | Nana Karlstetter | Modeling socio-economic pathways: Sustainable food security under climate change. A regional perspective. |
| 27 Jan | Luís Costa | Costs of adaptation options to climate change: A comparative analysis of "different" assessments |
| 9 Mar | Jana Werg | Assessing social vulnerability to climate change - stable and changeable factors of vulnerability in cities in the Philippines and India (case studies) |
| 15 Mar | Cecilia Matasci | Swiss tourism in the age of climate change - vulnerability, adaptive capacity and barriers to adaptation |
| 15 June | Climate Media Factory - an update | |
| 22 June | Bin Zhou | Urban Heat Island: a study based on a vast number of urban agglomerations |
| 29 June | Till Sterzel | What's all the noise about? Linking spatial database of violent conflict to global environmental change |
| 13 July | Dr. Dominik Reusser | Country pathways - what is important? For whom? |
| 20 July | Katharina Scherber | Impacts of thermal stress and air pollution on cardiovascular and respiratory system diseases during summer months in Berlin-Brandenburg 1993-2008 |
| 14 Sept | Oleksandr Kit | Climate Assessment Tool for Hyderabad (CATHY) as a lightweight web-based GIS and decision support tool |
| 28 Sept | Markus Böttle | Flood damage functions and the influence of SLR on coastal flood damages |
| 12 Oct | Dr. Markus Wrobel | (The) Mediation common platform |
For more events you should also have a look at our NSP colloquium website.
If you are interested in contributing to the PhD seminar and give your own talk, please contact Nadja Rudolf.
Previous seminars in 2011
| 7 Jan |
Dominik Reusser |
Learning with models: A hydrological example |
| 21 Jan |
Till Sterzel |
"Techniques for automating spatial data processing in ArcGIS - some insights and tips" |
| 18 Feb |
Olivia Roithmeier |
Flooding of coastal urban areas - Which damages are to expect for Kalundburg, Danmark |
| 4 Mar |
Tabea Lissner |
Exploring the multidimensionality of human well-being: towards an application in climate change research |
| Mar |
Christian Pape |
From graph databases and ontologies to semantic web applications |
| 1 Apr |
Luís Costa |
Benefits of adaptation to sea-level rise in multiple decision-making scenarios - Framework and application |
| 13 May |
Dr. Diana Reckien |
Subjective realities of climate change - How impact networks contribute to deriving socially sensible adaptation options |
| 10 Jun |
Anne Holsten |
Benefits and challenges of multi-sectoral impact assessments |
| 15 Jul |
Prajal Pradhan |
Analysis of global food supply and demand |
| 22 Jul |
Mady Olonschek |
Joining a summer school - A once-in-a-lifetime experience! |
| 29 Jul |
Anto Dominic Raphael |
Forest Fire Risk for German Federal States |
| 2 Sep |
Dr. Diego Rybski |
Analyzing the phase statistics of phenological records: fluctuations and correlations with temperature |
| 21 Oct | Boris Prahl |
Applying stochastic small-scale damage functions to German winter storms |
| 18 Nov | Katharina Beyerl |
Perception of climate related environmental changes and adaptation strategies: The role of socio-demographic and selected psychological factors. A survey in 12 Pacific Small Island States |
Previous seminars in 2010
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15 Jan |
Experiences from regional vulnerability studies: general insights, shortcomings, further prospects? |
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5 Feb |
The Data Envelope Anaysis: A method to assess climate risks and efficiency of adaptation? |
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26 Feb |
What can we learn from case studies like Hyderabad with regard to general mechanisms of city functioning? |
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9 Apr |
The role of agriculture in assessing the economic welfare impacts of climate change. A regional analysis by taking into account the global effects of climate change |
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30 Apr |
Ecosystem service indicators as measures for human-nature interference on a regional scale |
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21 May |
Global patterns of vulnerability and their transferability to a web-based adaptation information platform. The case of rapid coastal urbanization |
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3 Jul |
Climate change, environmental limits and human responses: The challenge of an integrated climate risk index |
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23 Jul |
Impact knowledge and visualize data and results from climate science with an interactive map application: Challenges, Chances and Constraints |
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6 Aug |
Kaitlyn Rathwell |
Building Resilience in Stressed Watersheds |
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3 Sep |
On noon shadows of dancing sparrows: The onset of 2D-flocking between order and chaos |
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29 Oct |
Projecting insurance damages under climate change - an introduction to project 'GDV1' |
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26 Nov |
Exergy maps and sustainability of urban form |
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3 Dec |
A cost-benefit framework for adaptation to sea level rise |
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17 Dec |
New laws of city growth |
Previous seminars in 2009
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6 Nov |
The challenge of a vulnerability analysis for Europe: How to standardize analyses? |
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27 Nov |
Population density in cities - An indicator of sustainable urbanisation |
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17 Dec |
The hidden economics of sea-level rise: Towards comprehensible impact and adaptation cost analysis |
