Summer Academy 2006

Documents

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Keynotes

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Thomas LosterPeople at the last mile: The context of social vulnerabilityPresentation (826 KB)
Hans Günter BrauchThe Conceptual Security Context: Human, Environmental and Water Security Do Water-related Social Vulnerabilities Create Human Security Threats, Challenges Vulnerabilities and Risks?Presentation (1 MB)
Anthony Oliver-SmithRethinking the Concepts of Nature and Environment in Vulnerability ResearchPresentation (16 KB)
Ben WisnerWater as Resource and Resistance: Can We Solve the Universal Solvent?Presentation (2.9 MB)
Tom DowningDynamic vulnerability and multiple stresses

Presentation 1 (142 KB) / Presentation 2 (431 KB)

Hans-Georg BohleThe Vulnerability - Violence NexusPresentation (2.3 MB) 
Úrsula Oswald-SpringVulnerability and Resilience Building of Gender confronted with Extreme Hydro-meteorological EventsPresentation (1 MB) 

PhD Sessions

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Danny de VriesTemporal Vulnerability: A Historical Ecology of FloodingPresentation (1.1 MB) 
Melanie GallSocial Vulnerability Indices: Theoretical exercises or invaluable assessment tools?Presentation (224 KB)
Lele ZouSynthesising Lessons on the causes of  Vulnerability to coastal hazards in South-East AsiaPresentation (73 KB)
Fernando BrionesSocial distribution of risk and cultural adaptation to floodsPresentation (947 KB)
Sebastian JülichDevelopment of instruments for drought risk analysisPresentation (716 KB)
Firoz VerjeeMapping Water Potential: The Use of WATEX to Support UNHCR Refugee Camp Operations in Eastern Chad (2006)Presentation (3.5 MB)
Laura OlsonVoices from Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami: Water-related Disasters and Social VulnerabilityPresentation (1.3 MB) 
Byron Real-LopezThe Importance of the Sense of Community and Cultural Behavior in the Pre-Landfall Evacuation of Hispanic People in the Katrina HurricanePresentation (439 KB)
Casey BrownAchieving Water Security: Innovative Tools for System ResiliencePresentation (1.2 MB)
Christian Kuhlicke(Non-)Knowledge and Vulnerability - The 2002 flood in the city of Eilenburg (Saxony, Germany)Presentation (293 KB)
Vikrom MathurRegional Drivers and Livelihood Vulnerabilities in the Mekong Region: Exploring Institutional Mediation of Vulnerability and Environmental risksPresentation (363 KB)
Ricardo J.R. GuimarãesDevelopment and poverty: the double role of water for vulnerable urban groupsPresentation (102 KB) 
Frederick Thiery PalafoxSearching for the Vulnerable: a review of concepts and assessments of vulnerability related to povertyPresentation (2.4 MB)
Amber WutichUnderstanding Vulnerability and Resilience to Urban Water Scarcity: A Case from Cochabamba, BoliviaPresentation (737 KB)
Lorenz DolezalekMainstreaming disaster risk reduction; constraints and opportuntiesPresentation (1.3 MB)
Fabiola Sagrario Sosa RodriquezThe gap between “objective and perceived” risk and the role of the science and planningPresentation (939 KB)
Patrick SakdapolrakCoping with water-related stressors: Towards an integrated health vulnerability framework for ChennaiPresentation (1.1 MB)
Serena Eréndira SerranoThe phenomenon of migration in the community of San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca. A qualitative and gender sensitive reading of vulnerabilityPresentation (868 KB)
Fabien NathanVulnerability and resilience to land- and mudslides in the hill-slopes of La Paz, Bolivia: theoretical and practical considerationsPresentation (3.8 MB)

Roundtable Discussions

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Joern BirkmannTowards a theory of social vulnerabilityPresentation (601 KB)
Katharina ThywissenMeasuring social vulnerabilityPresentation (28 KB)
Koko WarnerSocial Vulnerability Policies and Politics of ChangePresentation (36 KB)
Janos BogardiResilience building: from knowledge to actionPresentation (177 KB)

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