Session I: Climate security: Disaster risk reduction and adaptation
February 23, 2022
Climate-related natural disasters have severe adverse consequences in some parts of Central Asia threatening people's livelihoods, dampening economic achievements of the entire region and posing risks for stability and security. The retreat of glaciers, the melting of permafrost, and a change in precipitation caused a permanent change in the flow of mountain rivers. Moreover, the presence of a marked upstream-downstream topography renders the region prone to gravitational hazards such as landslides, debris flows, mudflows, ice, snow or rock avalanches, as well as glacial lake outburst floods. The impacts of climate change on natural hazards and water availability must be well understood, communicated and integrated into decision making and planning. In this workshop we will discuss necessary response strategies including adaptive measures as well as strategies for disaster risk management.
Bringing together scientists, policy-experts, and practitioners from the field, we will use this collaborative space to formulate concrete policy solutions and recommendations to be developed into a co-created policy-brief.
WEDNESDAY, February 23
16:30-18:00 (GMT+6, Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Zoom Links: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82100709316?pwd=dzdzalNHRm43VG9IUDFpZGJncGZLQT09
Meeting ID: 821 0070 9316
Password: 739834
Chair:
Stefanie Wesch,
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Chair:
Larissa Kogutenko,
Kazakh-German University, Kazakhstan
Chair:
Janna Rheinbay,
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Session partners:
Main speakers
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran
The Research Group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC) , University of Hamburg, Germany
Discussant: Olga Kalashnikova
Central-Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG), Kyrgyzstan
Discussant: Isomiddin Akramov
Climate Change and Resilience in Central Asia, United Nations Development Programme, Uzbekistan
Discussant: Bakhtiyar Ospanov
Center for Emergency Situations and Disaster Risk Reduction
Discussant: Sandugash Ranova
Institute of Geography and Water Security, Kazakhstan
Discussant: Bakhtibeki Otambekzoda
National Coordinator for GLOFCA project in Tajikistan
Jürgen Scheffran is a Professor of Geography and Chair of the Research Group Climate Change and Security in the CLICCS Cluster of Excellence and the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability at University of Hamburg. After his physics PhD he held positions at University of Marburg, Technical University of Darmstadt, University of Illinois and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He was involved in projects for the United Nations, the German Office of Technology Assessment and the Expert Commission on the Causes of Forced Migration of the German government. Research fields include: security risks and conflicts of climate change and climate policy; land use and human migration; water-energy-food nexus and rural-urban-coastal interaction; sustainability science and complex systems modelling in the Anthropocene; technology assessment and international security