Presentations and Papers from Summer Academy 2009 for Download

• Our Academy Assignment by Professor Thomas E. Downing

• Outcome: Preparing for surprise, the Hot System approach to Humanitarian Crisis Presentation to the IPCC-WB by the S(A)Coping Group

• Programme at a Glance

• Overview of Sessions

• Cover of Syllabus

• Preparing for Surprise: The Hot Systems Approach to Humanitarian Crises

• CHAOS - Mid-Academy Newsletter

• How can an agent-based modelling approach help to understand dynamic vulnerability leading to humanitarian crises in complex, non-linear systems? by Cilli Sobiech

• Climate Change, Development, and Conservation in the Himalayas: Prospects for Resilience by Georgina Drew

• Environmental Refugees: The Construction of a Crisis by Jessica Lehman

• Arbitrary, ambiguous and political: Tipping from what to what? by James Morrissey

• Rethinking Vulnerability: Livelihood Change in Southern Zimbabwe, 1986-2006 by Josphat Mushongah

• Reducing vulnerabilities through resettlement planning in disaster-affected communities: Relocation or Repopulation? by Kanako Iuchi

• Community vulnerability assessment: a notice of co-evolution of human-environment systems for environmental management by Kuan-Hui Elaine Lin

• Crises Prevention and Climate Change Adaptation in the Coupled Social-Ecological Systems of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: The Need for Rethinking Concepts and Policies by Matthias Garschagen

• The Role of Local NGOs in Anticipating and Responding to climate Change by Maureen Biermann

• Coping Humanitarian Crisis and Building Community Resiliency: A case study of Muhammadiyah microfinance program after earthquake in Yogyakarta 2004, Indonesia by Rahmawati (AMA) Husein

• Social Vulnerability Risk Reduction Model Pertaining to Financial Crises by Sebnem Sener

• ‘Hazardscape’: A Holistic Approach to Assess Tipping Points in Humanitarian Crises by Shabana Khan & Prof. M. J. Crozier

• Crisis aversion in an uncertain world: Cultivation by East African pastoralists by Stacy J. Lynn

• Simulating Shocks in Small Rural-Urban Economies by Syed Ali Asjad Naqvi

• Global patterns of vulnerability: the example of drylands, and their relation to conflicts by Till Sterzel, Matthias Lüdeke, Marcel Kok, Indra de Soysa, Carsten Walther

• Agent based simulation in disaster prevention modelling social phenomena for adaptation risk management. Cilli Sobiech

• Measuring vulnerability of Ethiopian farmers to climate change across regional states. Temesgen Deressa

• Climate Change, Development, and Conservation in the Himalayas: Prospects for Resilience. Georgina Drew

• Disaster Theology: The role of the church in rights-based approaches to disaster management. Ian Frank-Marc Verhaeghe

• Arbitrary, ambiguous and political: tipping from what to what? James Morrissey

• Environemtal Refugees: An Inquiry into the construction of a crisis. Jessica Lehman

• Fragile co-existence in shared natural resource systems under climate change impacts in Sub Saharan Africa. Johnson Nkem

• Research Design: Defining Key Questions for the Study. Joshpat Mushongah

• Reducing Vulnerabilities through Resettlement planning in Disaster-affected Communities: Relocation or Repopulation? Kanako Iuchi

• Community Vulnerability Assessment: A Notice of Co-evolution of Human-Environment Systems for Environmental Management. Kuan-Hui Elaine Lin

• Climate Change and International Migration from Africa to Europe: Identifying "Environmental Hotspots" and Migration Trends from Refugee Centres of Southern Europe. Marc Stal

• Crises Prevention in the Mekong Delta – The Need for Rethinking Concepts and Policies Matthias Garschagen

• The Role of NGOs in Anticipating and Responding to Climate Change. Maureen Biermann

• Garden of Eden, Garden of Resilience: The role of church in disasters. Monica Katherine Verhaeghe

• Coping Humanitarian Crisis and Building Community Resiliency: A case study of Muhammadiyah Microfinance for livelihood program after Earthquake 2004 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Rahmawati (AMA) Husein

• Social Vulnerability Risk Reduction Model. Sebnem Sener

• "Hazardscape": A Holistic Approach to Assess Tipping Points in Crises. Shabana Khan & Prof M. J. Crozier

• Crisis Aversion in an Uncertain World: Cultivation by East African Pastoralists. Stacy J. Lynn

• Simulating Shocks in Small Rural-Urban Economies. Syed Ali Asjad Naqvi

• Analyzing Global Patterns of Vulnerability The example of drylands, and transferring the approach to an armed conflict related context. Till Sterzel

• What principles and priorities of climate change adaptation need to be integrated into development protocols to make it successful and why? Vivek Prasad, Monique V. Helfrich, Susan A. Crate