Risk-KAN Working GroupsDateTalksFurther Links
Risk KAN Critical Infrastructure2024-09-26Hannes Taubenböck (DLR) & Alexander Fekete & Peter Priesmeier (TH Köln)
Integrating critical infrastructure and social vulnerability into spatial risk assessments
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Meeting-ID: 670 3077 6513
Kenncode: CI
Risk KAN Critical Infrastructure2024-05-14Daniel Lichte & Frank Sill Torres (DLR) & Alexander Fekete (TH Köln)
Critical infrastructure spatial modelling in data poor environments
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Risk KAN Compound Events Group2024-04-26Ethan Coffel (Syracuse University)
Increasingly distinct hot and humid heat in a warming world

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Risk KAN Compound Events Group2024-02-29Avantika Gori (Rice University)
Investigating the role of climate change and development on hurricane compound hazard across spatial scales

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Risk KAN Climate Risk Modeling and Management Working Group2024-02-19Colin Price (Tel Aviv University)
Climate change and the risks of lightning and thunderstorms
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Risk KAN Climate Risk Modeling and Management Working Group2023-12-5Bart van den Hurk (Deltares)
A grip on complex cascading impact chains: where do we go from here?
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Risk KAN Compound Events Group2023-11-2Charuni Pathmeswaran (UNSW)
Double trouble: Exploring potential links between co-occurring terrestrial and marine heatwaves in Australia
Nina Ridder
Innovating insurance: Towards the implementation of compound events in natural peril pricing
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Risk KAN Past4future
Group
2023-10-09Prof. Anindya Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
How monsoon and megadrought shaped the rise and fall of a Harappan city Dholavira?
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Risk KAN Compound Events Group2023-09-12Dirk Eilander (VU Amsterdam)
Combining statistical, hydrodynamic and impact modelling for compound flood risk analysis
Cathryn Birch (U Leeds)
Tropical humid heat: Meteorology and risks
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Risk KAN Compound Events Group2023-07-20Andrew Kruczkiewcz (Columbia University, USA)
Compound extremes in humanitarian contexts: Understanding, managing and preparing for current and future events
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Risk KAN Metabolic Risks on Islands Working Group2023-06-19Emily 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)
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Risk KAN Critical Infrastructure Working Group2023-05-25Elco Koks (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Unsolved problems in critical infrastructure: future directions
Alexander Fekete (TH Cologne, Germany)
Critical Infrastructure: Gaps in interdependency analyses and impact chains in society
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Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2023-04-18Virginia Murray (UK Health Security Agency)
UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profiles and their use in documenting hazards
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Risk KAN Climate Risk Modelling and Management2023-04-18Michael Barnett, Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business
How Should Climate Change Uncertainty Impact Social Valuation and Policy?
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Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2023-03-29Dr John Handmer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Australian National University (ANU)
Improving warning systems through community action
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Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2022-03-01Efi Rousi (Nature Communications/PIK)
European summer extremes and links to atmospheric circulation in a changing climate
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Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2023-02-23Rainer Kaltenberger (Independent Cosultant)
Designing Common Alerting Protocols (CAP) enabled Multi Hazard EWS
Cancelled due to sickness, new date will follow
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2022-11-24Andrew Tupper (Natural Hazard Consulting, Melbourne)
It’s not all about the weather – strategies for connecting the natural hazards in multi-hazard early warning systems
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Risk KAN Compound Extremes Working Group2022-11-03Katharine Mach (University of Miami)
Advancing complex systems approaches toward equity, actionable knowledge, and principles for governance
Kelly Hereid (Liberity Mutual)
Climate risk and adaptation in the built environment
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Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2022-10-27Dr. Thirze Hermans (University of Leeds)
Exploring the integration of local and scientific knowledge in early warning systems for disaster risk reduction: a review
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Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2022-09-29Dr. Trevor Girard (Risklayer)
Effective communication of disaster response information
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Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2022-10-19Ilona Otto (University of Graz) & Cornelia Auer (PIK) 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
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Risk KAN Compound Extremes Working Group2022-09-13P. Ward (VU Amsterdam)
MYRIAD-EU: a pilot project for multi-hazard, multi-sector, and systemic risk management
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Risk KAN Compound Extremes Working Group2022-06-30Anaïs 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
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Risk KAN Compound Extremes Working Group2022-06-06Dr Beth Tellman (University of Arizona)
Understanding flood risk from space: Opportunities to adapt to changing risk and catalyze climate justice
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Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2022-05-19Dr Avi Baruch (Previsico)
New approaches to surface water flood forecasting
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Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2022-04-28Dr Brian Golding and Dr Joanne Robbins Mazzoleni (UK Met Office) and Dr Anna Scolobig (University of Geneva)
Towards the “perfect” weather warning: bridging disciplinary gaps through partnership and communication
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Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2022-04-05Maurizio 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
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Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Group2022-03-29Dr. Will Lang (UK Met Office, lead of WMO Expert Team)
Guidance on impact-based forecasting and warning services
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Risk KAN Modelling and Insurance Working Group2022-03-10Prof. Victor Brovkin (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system
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Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Group2022-02-24Dr. Sally Potter and Sara Harisson (GNS)

How effective are impact-based warnings and what data do we need to implement them?
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Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2022-01-20Dr. Carina Fearnley (UCL Warning Research Centre)
Claudia Fernandez De Cordoba Farini, Research Affiliate (UCL Warning Research Centre)
Enhancing Warnings: Doing Better at Warning and Generating Action
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Risk KAN Modelling and Insurance Working Group2022-01-20Prof. Ted Shepherd (University of Reading)
Bringing physical reasoning into statistical practice in climate-change science
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Risk KAN Metabolic Risk on Islands Working Group2021-12-23Prof. 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?
Risk KAN Compound Events Group2021-12-09D. Faranda (IPSL Paris)
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
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2021-11-25Marianna 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
IIASA Public Webinar2021-11-24Reinhard Mechler
How to deal with climate-related existential risks? Reflections after COP26?
Recording available here
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2021-10-28Steve Penson and Nic Parham (ACAPS)
Climate Hazards and Complex Humanitarian Crises
Recording YouTube
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2021-10-20Tom Matthews (Loughborough Univ.)
Double trouble from the tropical
cyclone ? extreme heat compound hazard?


Suzana Camargo (Columbia Univ.)
Subseasonal tropical cyclone forecasts:
Recent results and compound events
Recording available on YouTube
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2021-09-23Alessia Matanó, IVM-VU Amsterdam
Dr. Gemma Cremen, EPICentre - University College London (UCL)
Matias Menalled, Argentina National Meteorological Service
Erika Meléndez, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) (CRAHI)
Recording will be available soon on YouTube
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2021-08-19Manuela Brunner, U 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
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2021-06-24Systemic 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
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2021-06-10Alexander 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
Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group2021-06-03Wim Thiery Vrije University Brussel
The kids aren't alright
Recording available on YouTube
Risk KAN Early Warning Systems Working Group2021-05-27Amy Polen, USF and Nadia Bloemendaal, VU Amsterdam Complexity of severity scales for systemic risk
 
Marc van den Homberg, Red Cross 510 Bridging the last mile in community early warning systems
Recording available on YouTube
Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group2021-05-06David N. Bresch ETH Zürich/MeteoSwiss
The interoperability imperative in socio-economics impact assessments
Recording available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-bbGO1HSPQ
Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group2021-04-15Juergen Scheffran, Hamburg University
Tipping points, cascading risks and conflicts in hot spots of climate-society interaction
Recording available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBEeC8XNVQg
Risk KAN Learning from the Past (past4future) Working Group2021-04-15Felix Riede, Aarhus University, Denmark and Phil Riris, Bournemouth University, UK
5th PAGES webinar: Risk-KAN
more information and recording available here: http://pastglobalchanges.org/calendar/all-events/127-pages/2133-pages-risk-kan-webinar
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2021-04-06Bruno Merz and Massimiliano Pittore, GFZ Potsdam
Multi-hazard impact forecasting, status and perspectives
 
Brian Golding, UK Met Office
Complex warnings: Making warnings work for multi-hazards and diverse impacts
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/HylryKzHMU8
Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group2021-03-18Stéphane Hallegatte, World Bank Climate Change Group, Washington, USA
Assessing and financing the full costs of disasters – the role of infrastructure systems and supply chains
Recording available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLMO-Ag1UcM
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2021-02-25Deepti Singh, Washington State Univ.Influence of climate variability and change on spatially concurrent droughts
 
Jordan Christian, Univ. OklahomaFlash drought climatology: A local to global analysis
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/luR-SOwDS-Q
Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group2021-02-18 Robert Muir-Wood, Risk Management Solutions (RMS) Newark, CA, USA
Risk Auditing: how can we measure progress in disaster reduction?
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/qQffPRBdOb4
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2020-11-24Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford Univ.
Multidimensional risk in a nonstationary climate
 
Lauren Rickards, RMIT Univ.
Unpacking 'the social dimensions' of compound and cascading climate change impacts
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/LUfbQR5AOMM
Risk KAN Modeling and Insurance Working Group2020-11-20Ilan Noy, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand
A dismal perspective on a boring topic: an economist looks at insurance
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/WRxqlZXJsXY
Risk KAN Critical infrastructures Working Group2020-11-09Patricia Romero Lankao,NREL and Univ. of Chicago
Soft and hard infrastructure
 
Alexander Fekete, TH Koeln – Univ. of Applied Sciences, Germany
Critical infrastructure cascading effects
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/ir6XJH6CKG4
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2020-10-15Emanuele Bevacqua, U. Reading
More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change at most locations worldwide
 
Danielle Touma, UC Santa Barbara
Competing anthropogenic effects cause distinct regional impacts on extreme fire weather conditions
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/ICRmoSaWC6M
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2020-08-25Vimal Mishra, IIT Gandhinagar
Hot and dry extremes during the South Asian Summer Monsoon
 
Daniela Domeisen, ETH Zurich
Remote forcing of extreme events
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/n9EXNjGWfnk
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2020-07-29Miguel Mahecha, Leipzig University
Understanding the imprint of compound events on the terrestrial ecosystems
 
Julio Herrera Estrada, Descarte Labs
Spatially compounded droughts at continental scales
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/kZjpHnZRVn0
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2020-06-30Michael Puma (Columbia Univ, NASA GISS)
Assessing COVID-19 impacts on global food systems
 
Michela De Dominicis (UK National Oceanography Centre)
Future interactions between sea-level rise, tides and storm surges in the world's largest urban area
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/rrFu8ylsvsU
Risk KAN Learning from the Past (past4future) Working Group2020-06-24Luke Kemp (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Univ.Cambridge)
Climate Endgame: Understanding Worst-Case Warming
Risk KAN Learning from the Past (past4future) Working Group2020-06-18Blas L. Valero Garcés (Inst. Pirenaico de Ecología-CSIC, Spain)
Can we risk to forget the past?: Past Global Changes (PAGES) initiatives for understanding risks

Sam White (Dept. of History, Ohio State Univ.)
Learning from Histories: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2020-06-04Aloïs Tilloy (King’s College London)
Spatiotemporal features of compound wind and precipitation extremes in the UK

Freya Garry (UK Met Office)
Multiple hazards under UK Climate Projections: the future of UK agriculture

Mohammad Reza Najafi (Western Univ.)
Nonstationary Compound Weather Extremes in Canada based on Large Ensemble Climate Simulations
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/PTAVooeiLto
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2020-06-03Robiul Islam (Univ. of Tokyo)
The Quantitative Analysis of Synchronized River Flood on the Global Scale Considering Multiple Flood Peaks

Poulomi Ganguli (Ind. Inst. of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and GFZ Potsdam)
Compounding Effects of Riverine and Coastal Floods and Its Implications for Coastal Urban Flood Resilience

Samuel Sutanto (Wageningen Univ.)
Droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires: Exploring compound and cascading events of dry hazards at the pan-European scale
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2020-05-20Lisa Thalheimer (Univ. of Oxford)
Cascading risks from climate change and forced migration during COVID-19

Gabriele Messori (Uppsala Univ.)
Dynamical coupling indicators for the study of compound extreme events
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/ys_sx0_mJ2g
Risk KAN Compound Events Working Group2020-04-16Dan Cooley (Colorado State Univ.)
Compound events from a statistics perspective: Multivariate extremes

Marleen de Ruiter (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam)
Consecutive disasters and the asynergies of disaster risk reduction measures
Recording available on YouTube https://youtu.be/_fSnE9RM97c