| 03 April 2023 |
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| 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? Watch the recording |
| 02 March 2023 |
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| 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 |
| 12 April 2023 |
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| 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 Watch the recording |
| 15 February 2023 |
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| 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 Register here |
| 11 December 2022 |
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| Risk KAN Steering Committee members Sirkku Juhola and Kai Kornhuber participated in panel discussion (Dec 5) during SRA conference 2022 Find more information here |
| 10 December 2022 |
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| 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 |
| 15 November 2022 |
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| 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 |
| 25 October 2022 |
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| 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 October 2022 |
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| 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 October 2022 |
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| 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 |
| 28 October 2022 |
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| 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 |
| 30 September 2022 |
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| 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 Watch the recording on youtube |
| 10 October 2022 |
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| 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 You can find the recording here |
| 07 September 2022 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group September 29th 16:00 CEST Dr. Trevor Girard (Risklayer): Effective communication of disaster response information Watch the webinar on youtube |
| 26 July 2022 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) Session Description |
| 7 July 2022 |
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| 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 |
| 10 August 2022 |
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| 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 |
| 07 July 2022 |
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| 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 |
| 22 June 2022 |
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| Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning
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| 20 May 2022 |
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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 |
| 20 May 2022 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Extremes Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Monday 06th June at 14:00 UTC (10:00 EDT/16:00 CET) Speaker Beth Tellman (U Arizona); Understanding flood risk from space: Opportunities to adapt to changing risk and catalyze climate justice Recording on youtube |
| 06 May 2022 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warning Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 19th May at 16:00 CET Speaker Dr Avi Baruch (Previsico); New approaches to surface water flood forecasting Recording on youtube |
| 22 April 2022 |
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| Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk Tuesday 19th April Speaker Markus Reichstein holds a talk on “Existential Risk emerging from systemic and compound risk?” at the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk |
| 11 April 2022 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warning Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 28th April at 16:00 CEST Speaker Dr Brian Golding and Dr Joanne Robbins (UK Met Office) and Dr Anna Scolobig (University of Geneva); Towards the “perfect” weather warning: bridging disciplinary gaps through partnership and communication Recording on youtube |
| 22 March 2022 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Tuesday 5th April at 14:00 UTC (10:00 EDT/16:00 CET) Speaker Maurizio Mazzoleni (VU Amsterdam); Exploring the human influence on the impacts of consecutive drought and flood events: a modelling approach Antonia Sebastian (U North Carolina); Attributing flood hazards to (anthropogenic) environmental change Recording on youtube |
| 21 March 2022 |
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| Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems
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| 10 March 2022 |
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| Briefing note on systemic risk
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| 7 March 2022 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warnings Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Tuesday 29th March at 4:00 PM (CET) Speaker Dr. Will Lang (UK Met Office, lead of WMO Expert Team); Guidance on impact-based forecasting and warning services Recording is here |
| 3 March 2022 |
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| Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 10th March at 3:00 PM (CET) Speaker Prof. Victor Brovkin (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology); Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system Recording available here |
| 10 February 2022 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warnings Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 24th February at 9:00 AM (CET) Speakers are Dr. Sally Potter and Sara Harrison (GNS, New Zealand) How effective are impact-based warnings and what data do we need to implement them? recording here |
| 11 January 2022 | |
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| Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 20th January at 4:00 PM CET Speaker Dr Carina Fearnley & Claudia Fernandez De Cordoba Farini (UCL Warning Research Centre); Enhancing Warnings: Doing Better at Warning and Generating Action Find the recording here.
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| 20 December 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 20th January at 3:00 PM (CET) Speaker Prof. Ted Shepherd (University of Reading); Bringing physical reasoning into statistical practice in climate-change science Find the recording of the webinar on youtube. |
| 13 December 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Metabolic Risk on Islands Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 23rd December at 4:00 PM (UTC+8) Speakers are Prof. Jian-Hong Wu (Future Earth, Taipei); Risk analysis on the impact area of a large landslide Dr. Jihn-Sung Lai (National Taiwan University); Flood Inundation Simulation, Monitoring, and Mapping for Disaster Early Warning and Decision Support in Taiwan Professor & Chairman Hwa-Lung Yu (National Taiwan University) Agricultural Development and Water Supply-Demand Dilemma: Stakeholder-Supported Decision Making for Sustainable Groundwater Management Professor & Associate Dean Simron Singh (University of Waterloo) What islands can teach us about metabolic risks? |
| 30 November 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 09th December at 3:00 PM (UTC) Speakers are D. Faranda (IPSL) Cold & snowy spells over Europe in the context of anthropogenic climate change J. Doss-Gollin (Rice U) Extreme impacts don’t require extreme weather: lessons from the Feb 2021 Texas blackouts Recording available on YouTube |
| 19 November 2021 |
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| IIASA Public Webinar #3: In conversation with Reinhard Mechler
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| 29 October 2021 |
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| EGU 2022 (Vienna | Austria | May 23rd to 27th 2022)
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| 29 October 2021 |
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| Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems
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| 29 October 2021 |
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| AGU 2021 (New Orleans | USA | December 13th to 18th 2021 | in person & Online)
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| 17 November 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warnings Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 25th Nov. at 2:00 PM (UTC) Speakers are Marianna Budimir and Alison Sneddon (Practical Actions) How do social inequalities affect people’s EWS needs, challenges and barriers ? Recording will be available soon on YouTube |
| 04 October 2021 |
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| Open Call to join Risk KAN Steering Committee
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| 18 October 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warnings Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 28th Oct. at 3:00 PM (CEST) Speakers are Steve Penson and Nic Parham , (ACAPS) Climate Hazards and Complex Humanitarian Crises Recording available on YouTube |
| 18 October 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Wednesday 20th Oct. at 2:00 PM (UTC) Speakers are Suzana Camargo, (Columbia Univ.) Subseasonal tropical cyclone forecasts:Recent results and compound events Tom Matthews, (Loughborough Univ.) Double trouble from the tropical cyclone ? extreme heat compound hazard? Recording available on YouTube |
| 13 September 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warning Working Group Welcome to the Webinar Thursday 23rd Sept. at 14:30 AM (CEST) An Early Career Perspective on Early Warnings for Multihazard and Systemic Risk Speakers include Alessia Matanó, IVM-VU Amsterdam; Gemma Cremen, EPICentre-Univ. College London; Matias Menalled, Argentina Nat. Meteor. Service & Erika Melendez, Polytechnic Univ. of Catalonia,Center of Applied Res. in Hydrometeor. Recording will be available soon YouTube |
| 29 July 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the webinar Thursday, August 19, at 14:00 UTC Manuela Brunner, University Freiburg Spatially compounding floods in the US: where, why, and how often are they happening Ankit Agarwal, IIT Roorkee Multi-scale approaches in forecasting extreme floods and their global connections Recording available on YouTube |
| 20 June 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Early Warning Working Group Welcome to the Webinar 24th June at 10:00 AM (CEST) 2021 Systemic Risk & Covid-19 Speakers include Mark Quigley, University of Melbourne, Evan Easton-Calabria, University of Oxford and Sheikh Khairul, German Red Cross Recording available on YouTube |
| 26 May 2021 |
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| More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals Nature Commentary: Reichstein, M., Riede, F., Frank, D. (2021). More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals. Nature, 592, 347-349. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-00927-x |
| 25 May 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group Welcome to the webinar Thursday, June 10, at 14:30 UTC Alexander Fekete, TH Köln General introduction to the critical-infrastructure concept Lee Chapman, Univ Birmingham Forget climate resilience, what about weather resilience? Mari Tye, NCAR Understanding infrastructure fragility to future weather and climate extremes Recording available on YouTube |
| 20 May 2021 |
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| German Sustainability Science Summit 2021 more information you will find here July 08-09, 2021, Live virtual event Session SSII9 – Climate Change and Systemic Risk (July 9 2021, 13:20 CEST) organized by Risk KAN Deadline for the registration: 28 June 2021 |
| 20 May 2021 |
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| Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group Welcome to the webinar Thursday, June 3, at 15:00 PM CEST Wim Thiery Vrije University Brussel The kids aren’t alright % |