Delivering lectures at the CCCI PhD School in Oslo, Norway!
Prof. Kamrul Hossain, one of the lead partners in the NordForsk-funded project — Scenario Analyses Regarding Climate-Change Hazards and Critical Infrastructure in the Arctic – delivered lectures at the PhD School on Climate Change and Critical Infrastructure in the Arctic. The School was held at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Oslo, Norway, from 12 to 16 August 2024. Twelve participants from the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, the UiT Arctic University of Norway, and Lund University in Sweden attended the summer school. The PhD School aimed to primarily work on and develop scenario analyses, risk and resilience management strategies, and climate change adaptation regarding extreme climate change-related hazards and their impacts on critical infrastructure and vital societal functions in the Nordic region. The School discussed the critical perspectives from several different disciplines, including but not limited to social sciences, law studies, engineering, and natural sciences.
The Summer School discussed various issues concerning the societal and human impact caused by climate change. For example, climate change-induced hazards, such as flooding and flash floods, cloudbursts, landslides, wildfires, extreme storms, and temperature extremes, are likely to increase their frequency and severity. There might also be completely unexpected, complex hazard developments. These climate change-induced hazards, in turn, will have further cascading effects, most notably leading to critical infrastructure failures. The Summer School participants developed scenarios for promoting preparedness and response tools based on imaginary threats and risks arising from these possible hazards.
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