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Advanced Institute on Vulnerability – Draft Programme as of 15 April 2004
WEEK 1
Morning
Session
9.00 –
12.00
May 3
Day 1
Chair: Jill Jäger
Welcomes
Leen Hordijk,
IIASA
Neil Leary, START
Introductions
Explanation of
expectations
Joanne Bayer
May 4
Day 2
Chair: Jill Jäger
Probing the
questions and
issues that
structure the
Advanced
Institute
Huddleston
Leary
Bayer
IIASA Logistics
Walter Foith
May 5
Day 3
Chair: Barbara
Huddleston
May 6
Day 4
Chair: Anand
Patwardhan
Conceptual
Framework and
Core Analytic
Issues
Lecture 1:
Coupled human –
environment
system
Conceptual
Framework and
Core Analytic
Issues
12.00
13.00
Saleemul Huq
Anand Patwardhan
Jan Sendzimir
Plenary Discussion on WG
Outcomes
11.00 – 12.00
Meetings with
supervisors and
mentors
Lunch
13.00 -15.00
Lunch
Chair: Neil Leary
Lunch
13.00 – 17.00
Lunch
13.00 – 14.30
13.00 – 16.00
Framing lectures
(1) Socio-economic
processes
Tariq Banuri
(2)Vulnerability of
Agriculture
Günther Fischer
(3) Our Changing
Planet
Jill Jaeger
Another
opportunity for
scholars to meet
with supervisors
Lecture 2:
Vulnerability to
extreme events
Joanne Bayer
Lecture 5:
Linking with the
Millennium
Development
Goals
Mahendra Shah
15.00 – 17.00
Conceptual
Framework and
Core Analytic
Issues
15.30 -17.00
Roundtable
Discussion on
Conceptual
Frameworks
And Core
Analytic Issues
Chair: Huq
Shah, Sendzimir,
Patwardhan
Downing, Bayer
Library
Orientation (in
small groups)
Lecture 3:
Social
Vulnerability
Anand
Patwardhan
16.30
16.30 – 18.00
19.00
Meetings with with
supervisors
Buffet in IIASA
Restaurant
19.00 – 21.30
Buffet in IIASA
Restaurant
19.00 – 21.30
Buffet in IIASA
Restaurant
19.00 – 21.30
Chairs of WGs:
Lecture 4:
Resilience
Jill Jaeger
IIASA Computers
Asen Novatchkov
May 7
Day 5
Facilitated working groups
to discuss the five lectures in
Theme 1 and explore the
relevance to the research
proposals of the scholars
Buffet in IIASA
Restaurant
19.00 – 21.30
Guest lecture on
population trends
Wolfgang Lutz,
IIASA
Lunch
13.00 – 17.00
Tom Downing
“Hands-on-Exercise”
Social event – Heuriger in
Gumpoldskirchen
An opportunity to discuss
with mentors and
supervisors and all
participants about the
experiences of the first week
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WEEK 2
Morning
Session
9.00 – 12.00
12.00
13.00
16.30
17.00
17.30
19.00
May 10
Day 6
Chair: Neil
Leary
From Research
to Action
Incorporating
end-user and
stakeholder
needs and
potential
responses
Jan Sendzimir
Lunch
13.00 – 14.30
Tisza study
Joanne Bayer
May 11
Day 7
Chair: Barbara
Huddleston
15.00 -16.30
Identifying
stakeholders
(exercise)
Jill Jäger
14.30 -17.30
“Hands on”
exercise on
indicators and
scenarios
16.30 – 17.00
Synthesis – what
have we learned
today and why is
it important
Meetings with
supervisors and
visiting experts
16.30 Meeting of
Co-Directors
and Core
Faculty: Midterm balance
Methods
Measuring
vulnerability –
use of secondary
data sources;
scenario building
Karen O’Brien
Lunch
May 12
Day 8
Methods
May 13
Day 9
Methods
May 14
Day 10
Methods
Spatial Analysis
Colin Polsky
Qualitative
methods
Fabio Pittaluga
Risks and Hazards
Joanne Bayer
Lunch
13.00 – 17.30
Lunch
13.00 – 17.00
Lunch
13.00 – 15.30
Mapping Vulnerability
(“hands on exercise”)
Vulnerability
Profiles and
Participatory
Methods
(including
“hands-on
exercise” and
synthesis)
Catastrophic risks
– Monte Carlo
simulations,
country studies
16.30 – 17.30
Synthesis on
Methods
17.30 - 18.30
Synthesis – what have
we learned so far about
methods
17.30 -18.00
Meetings with
supervisors,
mentors, etc
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WEEK 3
Morning
Session
May 17
Day 11
8.30 – 10.10
Participant
presentations
[1]
10.40 – 12.20
Participant
presentations
[2]
12.00
12.30
13.30
14.30
16.30
19.00
May 18
Day 12
9.00 – 12.00
May 19
Day 13
9.00 – 12.00
May 20
Day 14
9.00 – 12.00
May 21
Day 15
9.00 – 12.00
Case Study I
Case Study II
Case study III
Mexico
Africa Case Study
Oladele Ogunseitan
Amy Luers
China Case Study
(food security,
climate change,
health, water)
Mahendra Shah
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Participant
discussions –
How I changed
my proposal on
the basis of the
Advanced
Institute –
Roundtable
discussion with
Directors and
Supervisors
Lunch
13.30 – 16.30
13.30 -16.30
13.30 – 16.30
13.30 -15.30
Thematic lecture
Walter Baethgen
and
discussion/synthesis
Thematic lecture
Neil Leary (An
overview of the
AIACC Project)
and
discussion/synthesis
Lecture
And
discussion/synthesis
Closing
Ceremony
(Diplomas)
Lunch
14.30 – 16.10
Participant
presentations
[3]
16.30 – 18.10
Participant
presentations
[4]
Social Event in
Laxenburg
16.30 – 18.00
Meetings with
supervisors
Final Dinner at
Schloss
Weikersdorf,
Baden