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Workshop on Climate Change, Disasters and Development |
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OSLO, NORWAY, Apr. 13 -/E-Wire/--
Announcing a research and policy workshop on "Climate Change, Humanitarian Disasters and International Development: Linking vulnerability, risk reduction and response capacity" to be held on 27 April 2007 in Oslo, Norway.
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In recent years natural hazards such as hurricanes, floods and droughts have triggered humanitarian disasters that have reversed years of development progress. Climate change is expected to affect the frequency and magnitude of such hazards, thus increasing the exposure of human populations and the risk of humanitarian disasters. Climate change presents new challenges to how natural hazards are managed, and particularly to how human vulnerability is reduced in the long term.
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This one-day workshop will initiate a dialogue between researchers, policy makers and practitioners by highlighting some of the latest international findings on humanitarian disasters and international development in the context of climate change, with the objective of moving toward a more integrated policy framework. Speakers include:
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Mark Pelling, Kings College London, UK
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Sumaya Ahmed Zaki Eldeen, University of Khartoum, Sudan
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Ian Christoplos, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
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Lisa Schipper, START, the global change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training, Thailand
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Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, Ahmedabad
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Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
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Madeleen Helmer, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Netherlands
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Siri Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway
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Download the programme.
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The workshop is hosted by GECHS and the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) with funding provided by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be held Friday, 27 April 2007 from 9:00 to 16:00 at the CIENS Resource Centre, Gaustadallandeacute en 21, in Oslo.
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Please contact Jennifer West for registration or more information. The workshop is free and open to the public, although registration is limited to a total of 75 participants. Contact Info:
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Jennifer West
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Research Fellow
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Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo
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Tel : +47 22 85 87 73
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E-mail : j.j.west@cicero.uio.no Website : CICERO
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