Minutes Tuesday, 11th of December 2012

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Session Recordings and Materials

Seminar theme 1: Adaption to Climate Change in Mombasa

Speaker: Cynthia Awuor|Kenia, Care International

Seminar Recording:

Further Reading


Seminar theme 2: Designing Green Infrastructure for Brazilian Cities

Speaker: Pierre-André Martin|Brazil

Seminar Recording:

Further Reading and Links

Tasks for the next session

Assignment 2

  • Working groups L + M to complete assignment 2 before December 17
  • Working group P to complete assignment 2 before December 23

Assignment 3

Next Steps

  • complete chapters 4 - 6 of your case study page (cultural context, local climate and vulnerability), be concise: you do not need to have more than 250 - 300 words per chapter.
  • add an image and the map to your case study page, details on how to do this are given in the help section if not done yet, please do not overwrite existing files.
  • please consider that copyright applies to both images and texts. Please always cite correctly. Images from other sources (like other webpages) can not be uploaded to this wiki unless you have an admission from the authors or the image is free of copyright (like creative commons). You can also set links to other sites so we can find an image/map/graph you want to refer to.


Work Process in general:

  • the analysis part of your case study should be finished before the seminar break.
  • after December 18 please concentrate on the adaptatio/mitigation measures and scenarios and illustrate it with sketches and drawings.
  • the deadline for this assignemt will be on Monday, January 14. For the assessment we will consider that status of this day.
  • In addition, the three presentation slides for the plenary need to be uploaded on January14 as well. We will prepare a separate section for this on your case study pages. For this you can save your Powerpoint of PDF as JPGs and then upload the individual files.

Preparation for the next session

  • Dr. Manoj Roy will present findings from the ClimUrb research project. You may read more about this project here