Presentations and Papers from Summer Academy 2009 for Download

The participants at the 2009 UNU-MRF Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability tackled this years´ topic "Tipping Points in Humanitarian Crises" from various angles. Their presentations, posters, pictures and other background material is now available for download.

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Presentations

• 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

Syllabus

• Programme at a Glance

• Overview of Sessions

• Cover of Syllabus

Press Release

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

Newsletter

• CHAOS - Mid-Academy Newsletter

Papers

• 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

Posters

• 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

Picture Selection Summer Academy 2009