WORKSHOP: Climate Change and Emergency Management - Can We Plan to Adapt?
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Climate Change and Emergency Management - Can We Plan to Adapt? : National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Emergency Management Network Workshop |
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The following workshop will feature international perspectives on climate change adaptation along with national and local views concerning the impact of climate change on disaster management, emergency service delivery and adaptation to extreme events.
Introductory comments: Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA), and The University of Western Australia
Keynote presentation: Dr Lisa Schipper
‘Can We Plan to Adapt? A Story about Learning and Looking Ahead’
Lisa Schipper is a Research Fellow at The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), with over ten years of professional experience in development and adaptation to climate change (policy, science and practice). Her research
interests include examining socio-cultural aspects of vulnerability to climate change and other natural hazards.
Lisa has carried out research in Central America (El Salvador, Nicaragua), Africa (Botswana, Ethiopia) and Asia (Southeast Asia, Bhutan). In the last ten years, she has worked and consulted for the UNFCCC secretariat, UNEP/
GRID-Arendal, IISD, UNDP, UNEP, UN/ISDR, GTZ,DfID, Danida, World Bank and Oxfam.
She is a Lead Author of Chapter 2 (Determinants of risks: exposure and vulnerability) of the ongoing IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (due to be published in 2011). Lisa is also a member of the International Advisory Panel for the International Program on Climate Change and Variability Risk Reduction (IP-CVR).
Overview of NCCARF Emergency Management Network:
Professor John Handmer, RMIT University
The Challenges of Climate Change for Emergency Management
in Western Australia: Russell Stevens, FESA
Panel Questions: Open discussion
3:00pm for coffee & tea
Seminar start 3.30pm - 5.30pm
drinks following
Speaker(s) |
Dr Lisa Schipper, Professor John Handmer, Mr Russell Stevens
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Location |
Webb Lecture Theatre,
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Contact |
Janine McCombe
<[email protected]>
: 08 9323 9395
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Start |
Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:30
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End |
Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:30
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RSVP |
RSVP is required.
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Submitted by |
Bryan Boruff <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:24
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