The students will know about the characteristics of climate change, its importance for new challenges of urban and regional development and get insight into selected concepts and strategies as well as instruments and projects strengthening resilience.
Ring-Lecture:
Specific topics will be presented by experts from different disciplines of Wien Energie GmbH, AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology) and TU Wien (different Faculties).
Presented topics will be discussed in open sessions.
all sessions take place at seminar room 384 "Neues EI"
13.3.2019 1. session:
Brigitte Bach (Wien Energie) & Rudolf Giffinger (TU Wien):
Introduction, objectives, overview, structure
Rudolf Giffinger (TU Wien):
Resilience: Understanding, definitions, challenges
20.3.2019 2. session
Wouter Dorigo (TU Wien):
Observing Climate Change Impacts from Space
Tanja Tötzer (AIT):
Climate Change and Vulnerability and Urban Resilience
3.4.2019 3. session
Helmut Rechberger (TU Wien):
Vulnerability and resilience considerations exemplified for the Austrian Phosphorus use
Jürgen Komma (TU Wien):
Engineering strategies of enhancing the resilience of cities of art to floods
10.4.2019 4. session
Sabine Knierbein (and colleagues tbc) (TU Wien):
Limits of Resilience Discourse - Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives
8.5.2019 5. session
Ivona Brandic (TU Wien):
Resilience and Energy Efficiency in IT System with Special Focus on Geo-temporal Conditions
15.5.2019 6. session
Arthur Schindelegger (TU Wien):
Natural hazards - vulnerability and resilience in risk management
Hans-Martin Neumann (AIT):
Prototyping Urban Resilience: From Design to Implementation
22.5.2019 7. session
Amela Ajanovic & Reinhard Haas (TU Wien):
Resilience and sustainable energy pathways
Brigitte Bach (Wien Energie):
Resilience and sustainable energy pathways
29.5.2019 8. session
written Examination
Brigitte Bach (Wien Energie) & Rudolf Giffinger (TU Wien)