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15.7 - Analysis of transition pathways for food supply and demand

Jürgen Kropp — 2011-07-18T11:46:34Z

Prajal Pradhan

Seminar on Cities with London School of Economics

Jürgen Kropp — 2011-07-18T11:46:19Z

Philipp Rode from LSE will provide a talk on City Modelling and Analysis currently performed at LSE. Follow-up discussions will be devoted to further cooperations.

Climate Impacts: Global & Regional Adaptation Support Platform online

Jürgen Kropp — 2011-06-06T09:30:00Z

PIK has made available full access to the ci:grasp platform, a webframe which shall help stakholders working on environmental issues in developing countries could inform themselves about ongoing climate change.

NSP Retreat at Villa Fohrde

Jürgen Kropp — 2011-05-30T19:31:26Z

From 24.5. -26.5. the research group organised a retreat at Villa Fohrde to adjust NSP's research agenda for the next years

18.3. - PhD seminar: From graph databases and ontologies to semantic web applications

Nadine Lux — 2011-01-12T11:00:00Z

The coming PhD seminar will focus on the topic:

"From graph databases and ontologies to semantic web applications"

by Christian Pape

All of our PhD seminars take place at our facilities at Pappelallee. You are invited to attend the seminar and join in the discussion.

Find more information on our PhD seminar website

EGU-Session on Storm Surges and Coastal Areas

Nadine Lux — 2010-11-17T08:55:00Z

Abstract - As a consequence of global sea level rise, more frequent and more extreme high sea levels need to be anticipated. With increasing awareness, politicians and other stakeholders are becoming interested in the implications of this development and in adequate response actions. In particular urban areas need to be protected since they host enormous assets in several regions worldwide. Thus, it is the quest to identify exposed domains, characterize their proneness, and estimate the associated risks. This requires the application of established methods as well as the development of more sophisticated ones, i.e. for the assessment of extreme events, damages, and risks. Furthermore, optimal solutions of adaptation not only need to be efficient but in particular sustainable with respect to environment, society, and economy.

Despite global sea level trends, strong deviations occur on the local spatial scale. Accordingly, it is indispensable to consider regional scales and to investigate case studies, such as the North/Baltic Sea coasts, or from developing countries in order to investigate generalized methods and theories.

Deadline for abstract submission: 10 January 2011

Further information:

EGU homepage: www.egu.eu
Copernicus Meeting Organizer: NH 5.5: Natural Hazards / Sea and Ocean Hazards / Session 5:
Storm Surges and coastal areas: extreme events, damages, and risk

The Guardian blog on the Climate Change and Development conference in Pakistan

Nadine Lux — 2010-11-10T15:15:00Z

The Guardian UK published an article on Wednesday, 11 November 2010, in its blog Poverty Matters which quotes Dr. J. Kropp during his concluding statement at the International Conference on Climate Change and Development in Islamabad, Pakistan. Together with Pakistan's Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Reza Gillani and Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of IPCC, Dr. Kropp was invited to give insights on possible sustainable development and adaptation pathways.

Click here to visit The Guardian's Poverty Matters Blog and read the full article.

Dr. J. Kropp honorable Member of the Concluding Panel of the International Conference on Climate Change & Development

Nadine Lux — 2010-10-27T11:15:00Z

The Government of Pakistan has invited Jürgen Kropp, head of the North-South Research Group at PIK, for a two-day International Conference on Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Islamabad. Kropp was one of the keynote speakers at the conference which started on 21 October. As external scientist he provided summary of the conference on Oct. 22, 2010. Image: Honorable Concluding Panel: President Asif Ali Zardari addressing the concluding session at President's Residence Aiwan-e-Sadr Islamabad, Panel Members: J. Kropp PIK, Environmental Minister Afridi, President Zardari, State Secretary Environment Malik, United Nations Country Director Tanaka

27.10. - NSP Colloquium: MILIEU - The Berlin centre for urban earth system studies

Nadine Lux — 2010-10-14T10:00:00Z

The MILIEU project constitutes an initiative of institutions in the Berlin-Brandenburg region to form a Centre of Urban Earth System Studies. The unique cooperation of the universities, Free University, Technical University, Humboldt University and University of Potsdam with some of the largest non-university research facilities in the German Capital Region of Berlin and Brandenburg brings together expertise in geosciences, medicine, veterinary medicine, regional and urban planning, biology, ecology and economy to form a centre of expertise.

The talk will introduce the different research chains of the cluster together with results of the first year of work spanning form vector borne diseases, human health and heat stress over to air pollution modelling and the GHG budget of the city of Berlin.

You are warmly invited to attend this seminar and join in the discussion. Our colloquium takes place at Pappelallee.

Please have a look to our website for more information: NSP colloquium

Magazinbeitrag: Flüchtlingsströme der Zukunft

Nadine Lux — 2010-10-19T22:00:00Z

Auszug aus dem Einleitungstext:

"Klimakatastrophen, so hat man den Eindruck, scheinen sich in letzter Zeit zu häufen. Ob Waldbrände in Russland, Erdrutsche in China oder die Flut in Pakistan – die Bilder sind noch allzu präsent. Ob zwischen den Ereignissen ein Zusammenhang besteht, ist den Klimaexperten noch nicht ganz klar. Fest steht jedoch, dass Umweltveränderungen auch Auswirkungen auf die Migration haben. Jürgen Kropp, Leiter der Nord-Süd-Forschungsgruppe am Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, erklärt exklusiv in aktuell welche."

Das Bundeswehrmagazin "aktuell“ ist ein Printmedium für alle Angehörigen der Bundeswehr und interessierte Teile der Öffentlichkeit. Verteilt wird das Magazin an allen Standorten der Bundeswehr im Inland und in allen Auslandseinsatzgebieten. Das Magazin bietet Informationen aus den Bereichen der Außen-, Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik, den Einsatzgebieten der Bundeswehr, den Streitkräften und der Wehrverwaltung.

Zum Magazin "Bundeswehr aktuell" Nr. 38 (PDF, 3 MB)