EUPeace Project: Building Bridges on Rising Waters: Climate Change and International Disaster Management
- Building Bridges on Rising Waters: Climate Change and International Disaster Management
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- Context and Objective of the Project
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The accelerating changes in the global climate are linked to a rise in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events and natural disasters, such as floods, droughts, and even earthquakes. These challenges transcend national borders, pose serious risks to societies, and give rise to new socio-political, economic, legal, and technological questions, as well as pressing transformation needs, necessitating a re-evaluation of disaster risk management strategies. Considering this topic’s current relevance, this project seeks to establish a joint blended learning master seminar on disaster risk (reduction) management for students from different scientific disciplines (e.g. political science, geography, law, engineering, economics,…).
By following an inverted classroom approach, the project offers a distinctive teaching format, combining lectures and presentations by experts and practitioners available online (asynchronous teaching) with regular online discussions and working sessions (synchronous teaching). Thereby, the project promotes not only an interdisciplinary learning approach but also fosters exchange and cooperation among participating international students and lecturers.
- Project Coordination
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- Prof. Dr. Helmut Breitmeier
Main Project Coordinator
Professor for International Relations
Department of Political Science (FB03)
- Prof. Dr. Helmut Breitmeier
- Project Partner Institutions
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- Philipps University Marburg (UMR) | Germany
Cooperating departments: Geography; Economics - University of Limoges (UNILIM) | France
Cooperating departments: Law and Economics; Water Engineering and Environment; - University of Calabria (UNICAL) | Italy
Cooperating departments: Environmental Engineering Department
- Philipps University Marburg (UMR) | Germany
- Staff
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- Prof. Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer
Professor of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences focusing on Sustainable Food Systems
Institute of Sociology (FB03) - Katrin Strobehn
Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate at ZEU
- Prof. Dr. Sandra Schwindenhammer
- Acknowledgements
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The project is generously funded by the EUPeace Fund.