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We invite qualified PhD students to apply for the Summer Academy 2012: "From Social Vulnerability to Resilience - Measuring Progress toward Disaster Risk Reduction" taking place from 01 to 07 July 2012.
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Adapting to new conditions caused by climate change is a particular challenge in fragile states. The 30 international participants in the Summer Academy 2011 researched how it can be done successfully.
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We met with Robin Bronen during her stopover in Munich. For years now, the US Human Rights attorney has been campaigning for the Inuit of Alaska, who are being forced to migrate because of climate change.
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We invite qualified PhD students to apply for the 2011 Summer Academy on “Climate change and fragile states: Rethinking adaptation”. It will take place from 18 to 22 July 2011 at the historic Hohenkammer Castle near Munich, Germany.
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From 25 to 31 July 2010, 20 young scientists and 10 senior experts from 17 different countries discussed the issue: "Protecting environmental migrants: creating new policy and institutional frameworks".
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International experts explained the role of climate change in global migratory movements at “The world upside down – For a new world risk community”, the Sunday matinee discussion on 21 March 2010.
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Together with UNU-EHS we organise the fifth Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability from 25 to 31 July 2010. The theme is "Protecting environmental migrants: creating new policy and institutional frameworks".
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From 26 July to 01 August 2009, 20 young scientists from 13 countries discussed the interaction of climate change and possible humanitarian crises.
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Gradual and sudden environmental changes can result in substantial human displacement and migration. Together with international partners (IOM, UNU, UNEP) we were discussing with experts from around the world from 23 to 24 July 2009 in Munich.
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In the latter part of the year 2008, the Munich Re Foundation and the UN University (UNU-EHS)appointed three further experts to the Chair in Social Vulnerability, extending the commitment to social vulnerability research to 2012.
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The Munich Re Foundation and the UN University (UNU) will hold their fourth Summer Academy on social vulnerabilty, focusing on Tipping Points in Humanitarian Crises from 26 July to 1 August 2009.
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The third Summer Academy was held in late July 2008. 25 young scientists from 16 nations analysed the extent to which environmental and climate change is forcing people to migrate.
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Welcome to the first Social Vulnerability Bulletin, an annual update of research and activities in the field of social vulnerability.
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Two dozen young scientists from 15 countries met with internationally recognised experts at Schloss Hohenkammer near Munich at the end of July to discuss issues relating to the topic “Megacities: social vulnerability and measures to build social resilience”.
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The results of the first Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability are available now. Please download the PDF version.
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The United Nations University (UNU) and the Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany (BMBF) signed an agreement on the establishment of a UNU Vice Rectorate in Europe (UNU-ViE) on 4 June 2007 at the UN Campus in Bonn.
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The leaflet describes the partnership between the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and the Munich Re Foundation as well as the jointly sponsored Chair on Social Vulnerability. It shows the most important results in the complex field of social vulnerability, as defined by the participants during the first Summer Academy in 2006.
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Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Bohle, geographer and expert on poverty in India, will hold the Chair on Social Vulnerability for the academic year 2006/2007.
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The Munich Re Foundation and the UN University, Bonn (UNU-EHS), will hold their second summer academy on social vulnerabilty from 22 to 27 July 2007. The topic will be: Megacities as hotspots of risk.
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Floods during the monsoon period, water scarcity during the dry months, contaminated drinking water, lack of waste water facilities – embedded in this multifaceted water crisis the populations of the South Indian megacity Chennai are struggling just to maintain their health.
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In the summer of 2006, the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security and the Munich Re Foundation called a group of experts together to discuss the state-of-the art in social vulnerability science, and define a research and action agenda in this field.
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