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The implementation of this inter-disciplinary research approach includes the following disciplines: integration and risk analysis, climatology, hydrology and water resources management, ecology, agriculture, medicine, social sciences, economics and remote sensing. The WADI core group consists of a supra-regional research network of German competence centres, including PIK, the Humboldt University Berlin and the Universities of Potsdam, Marburg and Heidelberg. EVA Environmental Vulnerability Assessment Project speakers: Wolfgang Cramer, Richard Klein. Project scientists: Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik, Anne de la Vega-Leinert, Thies Eggers, Markus Erhard, Hans- Martin Füssel, Torsten Grothmann, Jochen Hinkel, Fritz Reusswig, Dagmar Schröter, Frank Thomalla, Söhnke Zaehle. The EVA Research Questions The research questions addressed within EVA are those that stakeholders have indicated and will indicate as important. EVA takes a stakeholder approach to its work because it recognizes that science, policymakers, the private sector and the public need to work together to reduce vulnerability to global change. Each project within EVA has its own set of research questions but the overarching research questions for EVA are as follows: What will be the combined effects of global change on terrestrial and coastal ecosystems and the functions and services they provide to society? • How will these changes affect social and economic processes in society and how will they interact with other ongoing developments? • What capacity do ecosystems and society have to adapt to global change and what opportunities and constraints are there to increase this capacity? The EVA Projects EVA approaches these three research questions in the following collaborative, externally funded projects: • Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling (ATEAM) - Assesses the vulnerability of European ecosystem services to environmental change, using numerical models of ecosystems, multiple scenarios of 38 Additional international partners, i.e. scientists and stakeholders from the case study regions, contribute to WADI through comprehensive assessments of local adaptation and mitigation practices to floods and droughts and the further development and adaptation of scientific methods for the integrated model. One of the case study regions will be in southern Africa, where both droughts and floods occur. Welfare of human society depends on ecosystem services such as drought prevention and promotion of slope stability. changing environmental forcings and explicit involvement of stakeholders. • Dynamic and Interactive Assessment of National, Regional and Global Vulnerability of Coastal Zones to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise (DINAS-COAST) - Develops a CD-Rom based model that allows users to analyse coastal vulnerability to climate change at various scales for a range of greenhouse-gas emission, sealevel rise, adaptation and other scenarios. • Socio-Economic Vulnerability to River Flood Events (SEVERE) - Uses risk assessment and management techniques and takes a stakeholder approach to iden-
tify differential flood risks and risk perceptions in the lower Rhine Valley in Germany. • Security Diagrams: Improving a New Approach to Assessing the Risk of Extreme Climate Events on Society - Develops a quantitative approach to evaluate the capacity of countries to cope with water crises. Includes a case study in India. • Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Human Health (cCASHh) - Identifies and evaluates climate change adaptation options for human health in Europe with regard to thermal stress, extreme weather events, vector-borne diseases and food- and water-borne diseases. • Indicators for Recent and Future Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Europe (WAKE) - Defines indicators to characterize climate change and its impacts in the recent past, the present and the near future in Europe and its regions. 39
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Page 7 and 8: The First 10 Years By Udo E. Simoni
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Scientific Relations
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A Network for Our Future Understand
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Public Relations
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Organization Chart
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Board of Trustees Chair: State/Fede
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