Webinar Series on Global Sustainability: A Collaborative Event between Future Earth Taipei and Climate Resilience Project (UNU)

Date and Time :
Taiwan time: 4 July, 16:00-17:00
Central Europe: 4 July, 10:00-11:00
India time 4 July, 13:30-14:30
 (around 1 hour)

Description:
Collaborating with the UNU Climate Resilience Project, Future Earth Taipei Risk Working Group invites you to join us for a joint webinar discussion navigating DRR solutions for floods in Asia.

In this one-hour dialogue forum, we invite two scholars from Taiwan and two experts from South Asia. Together, they will share and discuss their experience with the state-of-the-art flood modeling and early-warning systems for flood risk management; and the importance of community/citizen engagement and green infrastructure in climate resilience building.

Join us on July 4th (Monday) to discuss and interact with international participants on solutions for a climate-resilient future.

This event is also part of the Flood Knowledge Summit 2022. The online participation is still possible and free. Please indicate your interest in attending FKS 2022 online in the below NOTE area or email our contact persons


Moderators:
- Tailin Huang, Assistant Professor, International Master Program in Interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies at National Cheng Kung University
- Nidhi Nagabhatla, Senior Research Fellow, the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS)

Venue: Virtual meeting

Language: English

Organizers: Collaborative Event between Climate Resilience Project (UNU: https://cri.merit.unu.edu/ ) and Future Earth Taipei

Agenda:

1. Opening

Welcome– Tailin Huang and Nidhi Nagabhatla, the design of the event  (3 min)

Professor Jian-Hong Wu or Director Yue-Gau Chen, brief introduction of Future Earth Taipei (3 min)

Nidhi Nagabhatla, introduction of the UNU project (7 mins)

2. The Dialogue (6 mins talk + 4 min Q&A for each panelist)

Jiun-Huei, Jang, Associate Professor, Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (10 mins)

- Title: Flood modeling and risk management in urban areas

Ranjan K Panda, Expert from Global South, Combat Climate Change Network, India (10 mins)

- Title: Role of community and citizen engagement in building Climate Resilient Societies

Jihn-Sung Lai, Research Fellow, Hydrotech Research Institute, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (10 mins)

- Title: Flood early-warning systems and community resilience building

Padmi Ranasinghe, Ph.D. Student (Youth Representative), The University of Texas at Arlington, USA (7 mins)

- Title: Green Infrastructure for urban stormwater (DRR) management (7 minutes intervention – max 5 slides)

3. Q&A session and Closing remarks (10 min)


For any inquiries, please contact
Dr. Chichi Peng: chichi1017@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Ms. Linda Yang: yanyenlinda@gate.sinica.edu.tw