Innovations and Technologies for Responding to Global Climate Change: The Role of the Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Center (RVAC), South Africa
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, 13 Nov 2012 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm |
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| Location: | 262 College of Design |
| Cost: | free |
| Contact: | Francis Owusu |
| Phone: | 515-294-7769 |
| Channel: | College of Design |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Climate change is emerging as one of the main challenges humans will face for many years to come, with the impact extending to water resources, ecological and biodiversity systems, food security, human health, human settlement and migration. Many people in Southern Africa and the African continent as a whole depend on the natural environment for sustenance and livelihood and are thus more susceptible to interference with the natural environment.
The South African Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Center primarily is an information technology platform, designed to facilitate the uptake of information for use in policy formulation and other relevant applications. RVAC is developing an atlas to assist decision makers in identifying risk to enable planning and mapping a future that will be more resilient to climate change. The center also is working to improve the flow of information from researchers to society to bridge the gap between global climate change science and policy. This presentation will cover opportunities for possible collaborations with RVAC.