Thematic Session 2

Thematic Session 2: Natural Disasters: an ongoing challenge for the Caucasus

Place: Building I, Flour II, Room 1205, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi

Scheduled: Tuesday 4, 2023; 11:15 – 13:00

CO-CHAIRS:

Prof. Dr. Hakan Yigitbasioglu, Ankara University

PRESENTERS:

Bakur Jinoria, Philipp Aigner

In terms of natural hazard, similarities between the Caucasus Mountains and the Alps, and features and news of risk assessment

Hayk Igityan, Aram Gabrielyan, Suren Arakelyan, Armen Gevorgyan, Satenik Bakuns

Mitigation of the impact of climate change-related disasters in vulnerable communities at the community level (by landslides example)

Tamerlan Mehdiyev, Anar Nuriyev

Assessing the possibility of applying a hydrological modeling-based approach for flood vulnerable area identification on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus

Ravana Mirzaliyeva

The effect of floods on the population settlement on the southern slope of the Greater Caucasus (within Azerbaijan)

Lasha Sukhishvili

Surface indications of the active tectonic and its influence on landscape modification in Eastern Georgia