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Expertengremium fordert verbesserte Anpassung an Klimawandel in Deutschland 23 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
Klimawandel und Extremereignisse sind bereits heute in vielen Bereichen des öffentlichen Lebens deutlich spürbar. Hochwasserschäden, wie sie zuletzt im Juli entstanden sind, kosten Deutschland mehr al...
Workshop: Ecosystem Services and Disaster Risk Reduction 20 Aug 2013 | 09:13 pm
Anthropogenic activities modify natural systems and lead to environmental pressures at a global level. Land use change, growing population and increasing energy consumption together with climate chang...
Call for Applications - Catalyst-Local Winter Academy on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation 19 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
The CATALYST-Local Winter Academy is inviting young research students and post-doctoral researchers from across Europe and Mexico to come to Guanajuato State in Mexico, to learn from experienced train...
Call for Applications - DAAD Alumni Summer School: Coping with Disasters and Climate Extremes 7 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
The 2013 DAAD Alumni Summer School explores issues on disasters and climate extremes from an interdisciplinary perspective with particular focus on climatic, environmental and human factors. | Read m...
Training module on Disaster Risk Reduction in West Africa: UNU-EHS, UN OCHA ROWCA and the Togolese Red Cross join forces 2 Aug 2013 | 06:32 pm
From 10 to 21 June 2013 UNU-EHS organized a training module in Lomé, Togo, where 10 students from the WASCAL Project (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use) were t...
Quality in e-Learning 31 Jul 2013 | 05:47 pm
Since 2008 UNU has been involved in Open ECBCheck, a global initiative for quality in e-Learning. Together with a number of UN agencies and other international bodies dealing with capacity building in...
James Cockayne Appointed as Head of UNU-ONY 19 Jul 2013 | 04:36 pm
Mr. James Cockayne of Australia has been appointed as Head of the UNU Office at the United Nations in New York (UNU-ONY). Mr. Cockayne previously worked at the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooper...
UNU-EHS hosts first training school: Field research methods (qualitative and quantitative) in environmentally induced migration 16 Jul 2013 | 03:18 pm
From the 8th - 12th of July, 2013 UNU-EHS with the support of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) hosted the first Training School, “Field Research Methods (Qualitative and Quan...
Bonn Dialogues – Climate change: Non-economic loss and damage 25 Jun 2013 | 07:18 pm
The 13th Bonn Dialogues held on 10 June 2013, brought together experts spanning the diverse fields of academia, humanitarian aid and policy, to discuss the nature of non-economic loss and damage, its ...
Final WISDOM PhD Seminar 21 Jun 2013 | 06:08 pm
Organized and hosted by UNU-EHS, the third PhD Scientific Seminar of WISDOM’s second project phase took place from June 10-12, 2013 at the UN Campus in Bonn. | Read more
