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2022/06/08 Dresden, Germany
Global Water and Climate Adaptation Center – Aachen, Bangkok, Chennai, Dresden
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- Expected start date:
- 2021/06/01
- Expected end date:
- 2025/12/31
- Institute:
- UNU-FLORES
- Project Status:
- Ongoing
- Project Type:
- Capacity Development
- Project Manager :
- Daniel Karthe
Jointly with TU Dresden and RWTH Aachen Germany and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras IIT (Chennai, India) and the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand), UNU-FLORES plan to establih a “Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre” with a hub at IIT Madras and a satellite at AIT Bangkok.
The Centre will address the question of how society can adapt to the impact that climate change has on water resources. Core focus of the center is the joint supervision of students, including the creation of a Master’s program on “Water Security and Global Change” and partial scholarships for PhD students (research stays abroad). Under a joint governance structure, the project aims to:
Establishing a global hub for water security and climate adaptation;Educating responsible future environmental leaders;Enabling transfer through a new dialogue between science and global society.
This project is funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
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Daniel Karthe Head of Research Programme – Resource Nexus for Regions in Transformation
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Lulu Zhang Adjunct Researcher
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Věra Greschner Farkavcová Scientific Knowledge Coordinator
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Christina Froemder Associate Programme Officer: Capacity Development in Sustainability and Innovation Management
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Floor Brouwer Adjunct Professor
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Edeltraud Guenther Director
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Serena Caucci Associate Programme Officer
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Karthe, Daniel, Lee, Halim and Ganbat, Gantuya. 2022. “Fragmented Infrastructure Systems in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: Assessment from an Environmental Resource Nexus and Public Health Perspective.” In Urban Infrastructuring, edited by Iossifova, Deljana, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Zavos, Stylianos, Gamal, Yahya and Long, Yin, 15–34. Singapore: Springer Nature.
Karthe, Daniel, Bogardi, Janos J. and Borchardt, Dietrich. 2021. “Water Resources Management: Integrated and Adaptive Decision Making.” In Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples, edited by Bogardi, Janos J., Gupta, Joyeeta, Nandalal, K.D.W., Salamé, Léna, van Nooijen, Ronald R. P., Kumar, Navneet, Tingsanchali, Tawatchai, Bhaduri, Anik and Kolechkina, Alla G., 365–381. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
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Resource Nexus Dialogue and Workshop of the Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre (ABCD Centre)
- DATE / TIME :
- 2022/02/04 10:00 – 12:00 Online
- LOCATION:
- Online