This 10-week online seminar focuses on the multifaceted and complex impacts of natural and anthropogenic hazards on societies under changing environments. Natural impacts include droughts, flooding, landslides, wildfires, and anthropogenic impacts such as deforestation, armed conflict, environmental pollution and contamination, and climate change will be covered in the seminar.
The course will familiarize students with key concepts, theories, and approaches in responding, studying, and assessing these hazards. This seminar is crucial in ensuring the safety and resilience of societies through effective mitigation strategies and emergency preparedness plans by the policymakers, stakeholders, and the wider community. This also helps to minimize the impacts of disasters on human lives, infrastructure, and the environment by ultimately creating more sustainable and resilient communities.Â
Presented by the New University in Exile Consortium at The New School for Social Research.
By joining this online event, you will be prompted to accept Zoom Terms of Service. If the session is recorded, you acknowledge that by participating, your name, phone number, and profile picture might be visible to the public. You can customize your personal information when creating your Zoom account. The New School may use any recorded material from the event.
The New University in Exile Consortium’s Co-Led Online Seminars are taught by two endangered scholars – one who is hosted by a Consortium member institution, and the other a colleague of their choice. The seminars are designed to reconnect endangered scholars with the academic community they have lost while in exile and reengage students from around the world with professors they have lost. They are free and open to anyone anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
Participants who attend 8 out of 10 complete seminar sessions are elligible to receive a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion signed by the Executive Dean of The New School for Social Research.
Dr. Tesfay Gebremicael is a highly accomplished professional in water resources and hydrology with over 15 years of experience in basic and applied research, specializing in catchment hydrology, surface and groundwater modeling, soil erosion and sediment transport, wastewater management, agricultural water management, climate change impacts, water quality, and river system dynamics. His expertise also extends to applying remote sensing for integrated land and water management. With a strong foundation in traditional engineering, Dr. Gebremicael has dedicated his career to fostering sustainable interactions between environmental management and ecosystems. His research has consistently delivered tailored water management strategies that address local and regional environmental challenges, promoting sustainability and resource conservation across diverse climatic regions.
Dr. Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile is an accomplished physical geographer with over a decade of interdisciplinary experience in research and teaching in Ethiopia, China, and the United States. His research examines regional and global hydrological changes driven by climate variability and anthropogenic drivers, addressing critical issues of drought, climate change, and water scarcity. As part of multinational, multi-institutional projects, he has collaborated with world-leading scientists to analyze hydroclimatic extremes across temporal and spatial scales, leveraging state-of-the-art hydrological and climate models. A passionate advocate for collaborative growth, he has led initiatives integrating training, research, and community service, addressing pressing environmental and climate challenges. Beyond academia, he serves as an editor for Climatic Change and PLOS Water and a reviewer for high-impact journals
The New University in Exile Consortium is committed to an open, inclusive, and collaborative environment. As facilitators of a global online learning community, the Consortium does not tolerate harassment in any form. We are colleagues and we treat each other with respect. Registrants and participants in our co-led online seminars are expected to adhere to the Online Code of Conduct.
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