workshop This event is the first workshop of the international workshop series in the scope of the TWIN-SEA project "Expert network and twinning institute on climate and societal change for South-east Asia". The project aims at establishing an expert network as well as an institutional partnership in Southeast Asia to improve Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies. It focuses on the analysis of coastal communities and to identify best practice examples and low regret measures in the context of risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Particular attention was paid to the relation of DRR and CCA options to development pathways.

Objective of the workshop

The objective of the first workshop was to outline the state-of-the-art of the assessment of current and future coastal hazards and vulnerability patterns in South East Asia and Indonesia, specifacally as well as their linkages with adaptation.

The following guiding questions were addressed :

  • -  What are and how to identify and assess current and future coastal hazards in the context of climate change in Indonesia and South East Asia?
  • -  What are and how to analyze and evaluate present and future vulnerability patters in selected coastal zones in Indonesia and South East Asia?
  • -  How to develop scenarios for vulnerability and inter-related, diffrent risk profiles at sub-national and local level?
  • -  How can we use hazard and vulnerability information to develop effective "low-regret" adapatation measures?
By identifying research gaps and needs related with those questions, the workshop explored potential joint pilot activities in Indonesia.

Daily programme

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