Agenda of the Second International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World 2021

Session 1: „Impact of land degradation, drought and wildfires on ecosystem services“ (Convener: PD Kirsten Thonicke, PIK Potsdam, Jennifer von Keyserlingk, University of Potsdam)

Session 2: „ Human contributions to climate risks “ (Convener: Dr. Philip Bubeck, Prof. Annegret Thieken, Lisa Berghäuser, all University of Potsdam)

Prof. Britta Tietjen, FU Berlin, Germany  (invited talk)

Restoring ecosystem functions and services in drylands: challenges and chances

Prof. David N. Bresch, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (invited talk)

An artefact of the future: Globally consistent open-source multi-hazard impact assessment

Suraj Das, IIT Rorkee, India

Climate Change, dietary shift, and traditional norms in the western Himalayan region

Samuel Juhel, CIRED, France

Global indirect impacts of extreme flood events

Prof. Andrew Hobbs, University of San Francisco, USA

Do Droughts Drive Deforestation? Evidence from Mozambique

PD Heidi Kreibich, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany

Monetary loss reduction due to flood early warning

Agata Keller, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland

Country-wide statistical modelling of flow variability impact on the riverine macroinvertebrates in Poland

Dr. Thomas Thaler, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Mapping the characteristics and conditions of path dependency: Re- and deconstructing the 1980-2020 flood risk management in the Aist and Enns river regions in Austria

Prof. Gunnar Lischeid, ZALF Müncheberg, Germany

Easy-to-use diagnostics of mean-term drought vulnerability

Tim Busker, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Forecast-based operation of blue-green roofs as a new solution to decrease the impact of extreme weather in cities

Session 3: „Floods and storms“ (Convener: Prof. Axel Bronstert, University of Potsdam, Prof. Ankit Agarwal, IIT Rorkee)

Session 5: „Geomorphological events “ (Convener: Prof. Oliver Korup, PhD, University of Potsdam)

Prof. Paul H. Whitfield, Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada (invited talk)

Detecting changing flood generating mechanisms in long records from reference hydrological sites

Dr. Kristen L. Cook, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany (invited talk)

Detection, Observation, and Early Warning of Catastrophic Flow Events Using Regional Seismic Networks

Maureen Anyango Wanzala, University of Reading, UK

Trends in Seasonality and Flood Timings Over Kenya

Sophie Lagarde, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany

Insights on rockslide collapse mechanism from pre-event cracking

Timothy Tiggeloven, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Nature-based solutions and global coastal flood risk estimates

Lisa Victoria Luna, University of Potsdam, Germany

Landslide inventories are incomplete. Can we still use them to make forecasts?

Henrike Lorenz, FU Berlin, Germany

Impacts of extreme wind speeds and other factors on vegetation disturbances in the German railway network

Prof. Edier Vicente Aristizába, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Debris flows induced by Multiple Occurrence Regional Landslides Events in the Colombian Andes

Job C.M. Dullaart, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Accounting for tropical cyclones more than doubles the global population exposed to low-probability coastal flooding

Katrin Dohmen, TU Berlin, Germany

Defining criteria for the formation of landslide induced tsunamis in elongated and narrow water bodies

Session 4: „Causes, impact and mitigations of earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes in an urban changing world“ (Convener: Prof. Fabrice Cotton, GFZ Potsdam)

Session 6: „Analysis of complex changing systems “ (Convener: Dr. Tobias Sieg and Dr. Ugur Örzürk, both University of Potsdam)

Dr. Helen Crowley, Eucentre, Italy (invited talk)

An Open European Seismic Risk Model (ESRM20)

Dr. Jakob Zscheischler, University of Bern, Switzerland (invited talk)

A typology of compound weather and climate events

Shubham Sharma, University of Potsdam, Germany

Testing physics and statics based hybrid ETAS models

Prof. Gabriele Messori, Uppsala University, Sweden

Wintertime Compound Climate Extremes in North America and Europe

Dr. Mauro Cacace, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany

A novel physics-based and statistical forecast model for induced seismicity

Dr. Marleen C. de Ruiter, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Multi-hazard risk and the asynergies of disaster risk reduction measures: the need for an integrated approach

Dr. Cecilia Nievas,German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany

The use of high-resolution building exposure models: earthquake damage scenario for the city of Cologne, Germany

Dr. Mariana Madruga de Brito, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Germany

Integrating network analysis and sequential pattern mining to assess drought compound and cascading impacts

Juan Camilo Gomez Zapata,German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany

Scenario-based multi-risk assessment for consecutive earthquakes and tsunamis in Lima, Peru

Manon Glockmann, PIK Potsdam, Germany

Projections of global urban land cover growth