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ITS4.10/NH13.1 Climate extremes, ecosystems and society: impacts, cascades, systemic risk and resilience
ITS4.16/NH13.9 Global Catastrophic Food Failure: Exploring Interdisciplinary Solutions for Global Threats to Food Security
ITS4.8/CL0.1.16 Global Catastrophic Advances in physical climate risk assessment for the financial and insurance sectors.
NH10.1 Multi-hazard risk assessments: Innovative approaches for disaster risk reduction, management, and climate change adaptation
November 24th 2023
Risk KAN Webinar: Climate Risk Modeling and Management Group
December 5th, 3pm CET
Bart van den Hurk (Deltares)
A grip on complex cascading impact chains: where do we go from here?
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Nov. 11, 2023
3rd International Conference Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World Addressing Compound and Multi-Hazard Risk
June 12st – June 13rd 2024
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Call for abstract closed
Nov. 1, 2023
Risk KAN Webinar: Compound Events Group
Nov 2nd, 21:00 UTC/17:00 EDT/22:00 CET/08:00 Nov 3rd AEDT
Charuni Pathmeswaran (UNSW)
Double trouble: Exploring potential links between co-occurring terrestrial and marine heatwaves in Australia
Nina Ridder (Suncorp Australia)
Innovating insurance: Towards the implementation of compound events in natural peril pricing
Oct. 20, 2023
Risk KAN Webinar: Past4future Group
October 9th, 14:00 UK/15:00 CEST/ 18:30 IST
Prof. Anindya Sarkar (Department of Geology and Geophysics and Head, National Stable Isotope Facility, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
How monsoon and megadrought shaped the rise and fall of a Harappan city Dholavira?
Sept. 27, 2023
Risk KAN Webinar: Compound Events Group
Sep 12th, 14:00 UTC/16:00 CEST/10:00 EDT
Dirk Eilander (VU Amsterdam)
Combining statistical, hydrodynamic and impact modelling for compound flood risk analysis
Cathryn Birch (U Leeds)
(topic) Tropical humid heat: Meteorology and risks
Sept. 4, 2023
Risk KAN Webinar: Compound Events Group
July 20th, 14:00 UTC/16:00 CEST/10:00 EDT
Andrew Kruczkiewicz (research associate at Columbia University and climate-risk adviser at the Red Cross Climate Centre)
Compound extremes in humanitarian contexts: Understanding, managing and preparing for current and future events
July 6, 2023
Risk KAN Webinar: Metabolic Risks on Islands Working Group
June 19th, 11AM EST/4PM GMT
Emily Wilkinson (ODI, UK)
What’s history got to do with it? Colonialism, structural vulnerabilities and risk accumulation in Small Island Developing States
Moderation: Simron Singh (Uni Waterloo, Canada)
June 2, 2023
Risk KAN Webinar: Working Group Critical Infrastructure
May 25th, 2PM CEST
Elco Koks (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Unsolved problems in critical infrastructure: future directions
Alexander Fekete (TH Cologne)
Critical Infrastructure: Gaps in interdependency analyses and impact chains in society
24 May, 2023
3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World: Addressing Compound and Multi-Hazard Risk
Save the date!!! June 12 – 14, 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
21 April, 2023
Risk KAN Webinar: Climate Risk Modelling and Management
April 18th 4PM CEST
Michael Barnett Assistant Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business
How Should Climate Change Uncertainty Impact Social Valuation and Policy?
3 April, 2023
Risk KAN SC members help to review Report for the Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr. Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann and Prof. Dr. América Bendito were invited as part of the UN Scientific and Technological Community Major Group convened by ISC to be the reviewers for the Mid-Term Report.
You can download the report here
2 March, 2023
Risk KAN sessions @ WRCP Open Science Conference
Side event: Exploring the role of Artificial Intelligence for climate risk mitigation
Poster Cluster 31: Climate extremes & risk: Impacts, cascades, feedbacks with biosphere and society
Session: Hazards and Extreme events
31 Jan. 2023
Risk KAN Webinar: Working Group Compound Events
April 18th 4PM CEST/10 AM EDT
Virginia Murray (UK Health Security Agency)
UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profiles and their use in documenting hazards
12 April, 2023
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group
March 29th 09:00 CET
Dr John Handmer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Australian National University (ANU)
Improving warning systems through community action
Registration Closed
15 Feb. 2023
Risk KAN Steering Committee members Sirkku Juhola and Kai Kornhuber participated in panel discussion (Dec 5) during SRA conference 2022
11 Dec. 2022
Risk KAN on KATRIMA webpage of the German government
www.KATRIMA.de (Katastrophenrisikomanagement)
You can find our network now on the official German webpage on disaster risk management
10 Dec. 2022
Publication: Extreme Events in Human Evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene
EDITED BY : Huw Groucutt, Amy Prendergast and Felix Riede
PUBLISHED IN: Frontiers in Earth Science and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Extreme Events in Human Evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene
15 Nov. 2022
EGU 2023 (Vienna | Austria | April 23st – April 28rd 2023)
Session NH1: Extreme heat events: processes, impacts and adaptation
3 Nov. 2022
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group
November 03rd 14:00 UTC
Andrew Tupper (Natural Hazard Consulting, Melbourne)
It’s not all about the weather – strategies for connecting the natural hazards in multi-hazard early warning systems
Watch the recording here
25 Oct. 2022
Risk KAN Compound Events Group
November 03rd 14:00 UTC
Katharine Mach (University of Miami)
Advancing complex systems approaches toward equity, actionable knowledge, and principles for governance
Kelly Hereid (Liberty Mutual)
Climate risk and adaptation in the built environment
Watch the recording here
25 Oct. 2022
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Group
November 27th 9:00 AM CET
Dr. Andrew Tupper (Natural Hazard Consulting, Melbourne)
It’s not all about the weather: strategies for connecting the natural hazards in multi-hazard early warning systems
Watch the recording here
28 Oct. 2022
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group
October 27th 16:00 CEST
Dr. Thirze Hermans (University of Leeds): Exploring the integration of local and scientific knowledge in early warning systems for disaster risk reduction: a review
30 Sept. 2022
Risk KAN Compound Events Group
October 19th 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST)
Ilana Otto (University of Graz) & Cornelia Auer (PIK) on cascading climate change impacts and nonlinear system responses; conceptual and methodological approaches that can be used for them; and empirical examples from the CASCADES project
Watch the recording here
10 Oct. 2022
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group
September 29th 16:00 CEST
Dr. Trevor Girard (Risklayer): Effective communication of disaster response information
7 Sept. 2022
AGU 2022, Session NH025 – Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems
December 12st – December 16rd 2022
Chicago, Il, USA
26 July 2022
AGU 2022, Session NH007 – Compound, Consecutive, and Cascading Events: Challenges for Risk Assessment and Management of Multi-hazards
December 12st – December 16rd 2022
Chicago, Il, USA
Plus Meet up: Dec 15, 6.30 – 8.00PM at the Hilton (Marquette Room)
26 July 2022
Herrenhausen Conference 2023: Climate Related Systemic Risks: Lessons Learned from Covid-19
June 21st – June 23rd 2023
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany
Volkswagen Stiftung conference webpage
7 July 2022
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group
September 13th 14:00 UTC
P. Ward (VU Amsterdam)
MYRIAD-EU: a pilot project for multi-hazard, multi-sector, and systemic risk management
You can watch the recording here
Herrenhausen Conference 2023: Climate crisis and systemic risks: Lessons Learned from COVID-19
June 21st – June 23rd 2023
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany
Registration open
Early Career Researchers: Application closed
Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning
Golding, B. (edit.) Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning. Bridging Disciplinary Gaps through Partnership and Communication. Met Office 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98989-7
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Risk KAN Compound Extremes Working Group
Welcome to the Webinar
Thursday 30th June at 14:00 UTC (10:00 EDT/16:00 CET)
Speaker
Anaïs Couasnon (VU Amsterdam)
Addressing challenges in multi-hazard decision-making with modeling and risk-simulation games and
Greg Yetman (Columbia U)
Hazard event interactions: Data for planning and select examples
Recording onn youtube