Monday, May 6th

Room 002, Institute of Geography

8.00 - 9.00          Registration and welcome coffee

9.00 - 9.15          Welcome and Introduction of the Risk and Resilience Cluster, Speaker: Dr Md Sarwar Hossain

9.15 - 10.05       Keynote 1: The Game Changes: New Imperatives and New Directions in Disaster Risk Reduction, Speaker: Prof David Alexander, University College                                         London;  Moderator: Prof. Margreth Keiler, University of Bern 

10.05 - 10.55    Keynote 2 (Virtual): Resilient societies in the face of climate change: natural hazard, adaptation and individual decision-making, Speaker: Prof Tatiana                                  Filatova, University of Twente; Moderator: Prof Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, University of Bern 

10.55 - 11.05    Coffee break

11.05 - 12.20    Oral presentations, Moderator: Dr Md Sarwar Hossain

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Indicators of risk and resilience

11:05 - 11:20: Desiree Daniel: Discussion on the notion of resilience

11:20 - 11:40: Finn Laurien: Measuring flood resilience: A Typology of Community Flood Resilience  

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 Conceptualizing dynamics between human and natural systems

11:40 - 12:00: Shaun Maskrey: Building a community Understanding flood risk using participatory modeling

12:00 - 12:20: Britta Höllermann: Dynamics of human-water interactions

12:20 - 13:20   Lunch

13:20 - 15:40   Oral presentations, Moderator: Dr Md Sarwar Hossain

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Modeling human and natural systems

13:20 - 13:40: Simon Moulds: Towards a system dynamics model of the Indo-Gangetic Plain for sustainable water resources management

13:40 - 14:00: Toon Haer: Integrating decision-making processes in flood risk analysis

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Modeling human behavior towards risk and resilience

14:00 - 14:20: Liang Emlyn Yang: Investigating and modeling resilience to flood hazards: Cases from developing Asia

14:20 - 14:40: Marlies Barendrecht: The value of empirical data for estimating the parameters of a socio-hydrological flood risk model

 

Interdisciplinary challenges and communicating model results

14:40 - 15:00:  Chris Skinner: SeriousGeoGames - Planting the seeds of resilience

15:00 - 15:20:  Adrian Almoradie: An interdisciplinary approach to enhance flood resilience - Collaborative Modeling

15:20 - 15:40:  Wei Liu: Serious games for disaster resilience communication and capacity development

15.40 - 16.40   Coffee break and poster session

16.40 - 17.40    Keynote 3 (Virtual): Disaster Resilience: From Theory to Models to Practice, Speaker: Prof Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina; Moderator: Prof                                     Chinwe  Ifejika Speranza, University of Bern

17.40 - 17.45   General announcements, Dr. Md Sarwar Hossain

 

Tuesday, May 7th 
Rooms 216/220/320, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern
9.00-18.00   Group discussions
19.30 dinner (Pittaria, Falkenplatz. 1, 3012 Bern)
 

Wednesday, May 8th
Room 001, Institute of Geography
Presentation of group discussions (9.00-15.30) 
Early career workshop (15.30-16.30)
Concluding remarks: Prof. Margreth Keiler, University of Bern  (16.30-17.00)