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Advanced Institute on Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change
Final Programme
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
May 5
Day 3
Chair: Neil Leary
Conceptual
Framework and
Core Analytic
Issues
Lecture 1:
Coupled human –
environment
system
IIASA Logistics
Walter Foith
12.00
13.30 – 17.00
Framing lectures
(1) Socioeconomic
processes
Tariq Banuri
(2)Vulnerability
of Agriculture
Günther Fischer
15.30 – 16.00
Break
May 7
Day 5
9.00 – 12.00
Conceptual
Framework
and Core
Analytic Issues
Lecture 4:
Resilience
Facilitated working
groups to discuss the
five lectures in Theme
1 and explore the
relevance to the
research proposals of
the scholars
Jan Sendzimir
Chairs of WGs:
11.00 – 12.00
Meetings with
supervisors and
mentors
Mahendra Shah
Anand Patwardhan
Jill Jaeger
10.45 – 11.15
Break
IIASA
Computers
Asen
Novatchkov
Lunch
Chair: Neil Leary
May 6
Day 4
Chair: Anand
Patwardhan
Plenary Discussion on
WG Outcomes
Lunch
13.30 – 17.00
Lunch
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch
13.00 -15.00
Lunch
13.00 – 17.00
Library
Orientation (in
small groups)
First briefing in
Gvishiani
Room, then tour
library
Lecture 2:
Vulnerability to
extreme events
Joanne Bayer
Lecture 5:
Linking with
the Millennium
Development
Goals
Mahendra Shah
Tom Downing
15.00 – 17.00
Conceptual
Framework and
Core Analytic
Issues
15.30 -17.00
Roundtable
Discussion on
Conceptual
Frameworks
And Core
15.30 – 17.30
Another
opportunity for
scholars to meet
with supervisors
(3) Our Changing
Planet
Jill Jaeger
“Hands-on-Exercise”
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Lecture 3:
Social
Vulnerability
Anand
Patwardhan
Analytic Issues
Chair: Leary
Shah,
Sendzimir,
Patwardhan
Downing, Bayer
Buffet in IIASA
Restaurant
19.00 – 21.30
Buffet in IIASA
Restaurant
19.00 – 21.30
Guest lecture on
population
trends
Wolfgang Lutz,
IIASA
17.00 – 18.00
19.00
Meetings with
with supervisors
Buffet in IIASA
Restaurant
19.00 – 21.30
Buffet in IIASA
Restaurant
19.00 – 21.30
Social event –
Heuriger in
Gumpoldskirchen
BUS LEAVES FROM
IIASA FRONT
ENTRANCE AT
18.30. LEAVES
HEURIGER AT 21.30
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
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 – 15.00
Identifying
stakeholders
(exercise)
Jill Jäger
15.00 – 15.30
Break
15.30 – 17.00
Policy uses of
vulnerability
measures and
maps. The role
of stakeholders
in FIVIMS
Barbara
Huddleston
May 11
Day 7
Chair: Barbara
Huddleston
Methods
May 12
Day 8
Methods
May 13
Day 9
Methods
May 14
Day 10
Methods
Spatial Analysis
Colin Polsky
Qualitative
methods
Fabio Pittaluga
Floods in Nepal
Dipak Gyawali
Measuring
vulnerability
Mapping
Vulnerability
Karen O’Brien
Lunch
Risks and Hazards
Joanne Bayer
Lunch
13.00 – 17.30
“Hands on Exercise”
14.00 -17.30
“Hands on”
exercise
Spatial Analysis of
Vulnerability Maps
Mapping
Vulnerability to
Climate Change
in India
Lunch
13.00 – 17.00
Lunch
13.00 – 15.30
Vulnerability
Profiles and
Participatory
Methods
(including
“hands-on
exercise” and
synthesis)
Catastrophic risks
– Monte Carlo
simulations,
country studies
16.30 – 17.30
16.30
Synthesis on
Methods
17.00
17.00 – 17.30
17.30
17.30 – 18.00
Meetings with
supervisors and
visiting experts
19.00
17.30 Meeting of
Co-Directors,
and Core
Faculty: MidTerm Balance
17.30 - 18.30
Synthesis – what have
we learned so far about
methods
17.30 -18.00
Meetings with
supervisors,
mentors, etc
REVISED PROPOSAL
(NOT FINAL
VERSION) TO
SUPERVISORS AND
MENTORS (HOME
AND EXTERNAL)
17.30 Omoregie
calls Ostrom
17.30 Nazare
calls Patt
18.00 Lwasa
calls Sanchez
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WEEK 3
Morning
Session
May 17
Day 11
9.00 – 12.00
May 18
Day 12
9.00 – 12.00
May 19
Day 13
9.00 – 12.00
May 20
Day 14
9.00 – 12.00
Thematic
lecture
Presentations II
Case Study I
Case study II
Watersheds
Mexico
Africa
Amy Luers
Oladele Ogunseitan
Agricultural
Vulnerability
and Decision
Support
Systems in
Latin America
Walter
Baethgen
12.00
14.00
May 21
Day 15
Check out of
rooms, pay bills at
Petty Cash, return
library books,
bring luggage to
Schloss
11.00 – 12.00
Discussion and
Synthesis I
Lunch/Reading
14.00 – 16.00
Presentations I
Lunch/Reading
14.00 – 15.30
Presentations III
Small holder
agriculture
Coastal
Lunch/Reading
13.30 – 16.30
Lunch/Reading
14.00 – 16.30
Presentations IV
Case study III
China
Hills and Mountain
Areas
14.45 – 15.15
Break
15.00 – 15.30
Break
Lunch
13.30 -14.30
Discussion and
synthesis II
15.00
Closing Ceremony
(Diplomas)
Case study IV
Vietnam
15.15 – 16.30
Presentations V
Forests,
agroforestry
16.00 – 16.30
Break
16.30
19.00
1
16.30 – 17.30
Methods
1
Discussion
Groups
Social Event in
Laxenburgerhof
15.30 – 16.00
Break
16.00 – 17.30
Methods
Discussion Groups
16.30 – 17.30
16.30……..
Meetings with
supervisors
Reading
17.00
Saldana calls Conde
Kelkar calls
Biermann
Aguilar calls
Conway
BUS LEAVES
FROM FRONT
DOOR IIASA AT
17.00. PLEASE
TAKE ALL
YOUR
BELONGINGS
WITH YOU
Final Dinner at
Schloss
Weikersdorf,Baden
Survey design, interview techniques; scenario construction; spatial data analysis; vulnerability profiles; indicators and
measures; decision support systems; catastrophe modeling.