Center for Climate Change and Transformation - INQUIMUS 2024
INQUIMUS 2024
The upcoming INQUIMUS 2024 edition will take place in Eurac Research, Bolzano, on 04-06.12.2024.
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Eurac Research is proud to announce the upcoming INQUIMUS 2024 on Climate and Disaster Risk storylines – an approach to embrace complexity of risks and heterogeneity of evidence in risk science, risk management and risk communication.
The event will take place between December 4th and December 6th at Eurac Research, in Bolzano, Italy.
Workshop Theme: In an era marked by increasing climate extremes and intensifying disaster events with cascading impacts and risks throughout environmental and human systems, the need for risk management approaches that embrace the complexity of risk pathways is more pressing than ever. Climate and disaster risk storylines offer a powerful narrative framework that can foster a comprehensive and holistic understanding of complex risks and improve decision-making processes across diverse sectors and scales.
The objectives of the workshop are:
- Exchange experience on developing and applying climate and disaster risk storylines.
- Illustrate, how quantitative and qualitative elements and evidence can be integrated through risk storylines.
- Discuss, how risk storylines can be extended towards the dynamics of non-climatic risk drivers (exposure, vulnerabiltiy, underlying drivers) and social aspects.
- Understand to which extend and under which conditions storylines can support risk managers in challenging their current risk management practice and adapting them to future conditions.
- Conclude on elements and aspects that constitute a good standard in developing risk storylines.
Format: The workshop will feature a dynamic blend of high-level keynote talks, case studies, practical sessions, and poster presentations. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in thought-provoking discussions, share experiences, and collaborate on hands-on activities aimed at developing actionable risk storylines. We aim to summarize the findings of the workshop in a peer-reviewed position paper.
Who Should Attend? This workshop is tailored for scientists and researchers from different disciplines (including, but not limited to, climate, engineering, social science and humanity, natural sciences, economics) policymakers, disaster risk managers, emergency responders, planners, and practitioners involved in climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and resilience-building efforts. We welcome participants from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to actively contribute their expertise and insights to the discussions.
Registration for the workshop will cost 150€. Lunch and coffee breaks are covered. Participants are invited to bring a poster and submit an abstract as part of the registration. Since space is limited, we encourage interested participants to register early to secure their spot. Details regarding registration and the workshop agenda will be provided by the end of summer.
INQUIMUS 2024 - Abstract submission is now open!
We are pleased to inform you that the call for abstract to participate in the INQUIMUS2024 is now open.
Interested participants should send an abstract (max 400 words), discussing the following issues:
- Motivation for application and relevance to guiding questions listed above;
- Methods applied;
- Achievements and challenges;
- Scientific merit and insights.
To submit the abstract, you are kindly asked to send it as one pdf file to the email address inquimus@eurac.edu by 16.08.2024. Abstracts should include the name and affiliation of the presenters.
INQUIMUS 2024 Keynote Speakers
Veronica Casartelli
Session: practitioner corner
Veronica Casartelli is an Environmental Engineer with a PhD in Urban Policy and Planning, and a Master's degree in Geopolitics and global security. She became an officer of the Italian Civil Protection Department in 2005 (currently on leave), contributing to activities covering the entire DRM cycle. Fully trained within the UCPM, she is part of the Italian pool of deployable experts. She was seconded to the Civil Protection Directorate of the Veneto Region from 2018 to 2022. Since 2019 she has been a scientist at CMCC, leading a research unit focused on risk governance and participating in several European projects.
Ted Shepherd
Session: Climate Risk Storylines
Ted Shepherd is Grantham Professor of Climate Science in the Meteorology Department at the University of Reading, and Senior Scientist at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Ted is a specialist in large-scale atmospheric dynamics. His recent research has pioneered a ‘storyline’ approach to representing the deep uncertainty in aspects of climate change related to atmospheric circulation, including extreme events. This has motivated him to begin engaging with stakeholders (e.g. on drought risk), and in inter-disciplinary collaborations. He currently co-chairs the World Climate Research Programme’s Lighthouse Activity ‘My Climate Risk’.
Simona Pedde
Session: Social Science and Humanities in Risk Storylines
Simona Pedde is a scenario analyst, focusing understanding future conditions to achieve resilience, both short and long term. In line with today's environmental research priorities and needs, she develops, combines and applies a range of methods which stem from both natural and social science. Co-designing and co-developing research with those using our scientific findings facilitates impact of her research in the real world. She focuses on European and regional analysis, particularly connecting SSP scenario communities between WUR, SEI and other institutes. She is also part of the Archetype of Sustainability network and Scientific Advisor in several EU Research Projects.
Julia Crummy
Session: DRR-oriented Risk Storylines
Julia Crummy is a volcanologist specialising in explosive volcanic eruptions and associated hazards. Her main interests lie in volcanic (multi-)hazards and impacts of volcanic eruptions on all scales, from local communities to national and global. Julia’s research primarily focused on quantitative hazard analysis; however, Julia has been exploring qualitative methods to understand hazard impacts on people and assets. Julia leads a task to develop multi-hazard multi-risk storylines for the EU HORIZON2020 MYRIAD-EU project. Storylines and narratives are being developed with stakeholders for disaster risk management to support planning and decision-making for multi-hazard, multi-risk events.
ABOUT
INQUIMUS is latin for WE SAY. a workshop series aiming to provide exchange, new inspiration and generative dialogues.
There is growing demand by policy- and action-oriented users for operational and integrative assessments of complex, multidimensional phenomena such as vulnerability and resilience. In recent years, quantitative and qualitative assessment methods as part of targeted efforts to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation have been pushed towards operational levels. Whilst the scientific progress regarding the development of theoretical frameworks and associated definitions has been remarkable, further attention needs to be given to coherent assessment methods. Therefore, we need a critical scientific discussion on assessment methodologies that evaluates and benchmarks approaches and intervention options. In the context of social-ecological systems and complex and multi-dimensional phenomena, a key issue is the relevance of spatial and temporal monitoring and how it can effectively support decision making.
Against this background, the Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS at the University of Salzburg, Austria and the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) initiated in 2014 a series of INQUIMUS workshops (lat. “we say”) – Integrating quantitative and qualitative assessment methodologies for multi-dimensional phenomena. The purpose of these highly interactive workshops is to identify common achievements and methodological challenges, which will enable us to identify insights and future ways ahead. Additionally, these workshops will provide the possibility to exchange with practitioners who are active in this field and interested in the application and operationalization of assessments.
More information about our past workshops are available here.
For inquiries, please contact inquimus@eurac.edu.