Programme
Second Caucasus Summer School 2021
DATE: 20-24 September 2021
LOCATION: Zoom online platform
September 20, Day 1
Opening Remarks, Presentation of Guests:
Nina Shatberashvili, Executive Director, Sustainable Caucasus
David Tarkhnishvili, Co-chair of the SNC-mt, Ilia State University
David Chichinadze, National Program Officer, SDC
Raisa Gracheva, Chair of the scientific committee of CSS2021, IGRAS
Anna Scolobig, Senior research associate, University of Geneva
Andrey Medvedev, Head of cartography and remote sensing department, IGRAS Brief introduction of the students
Moderator – Fuad Bagirov, Sustainable Caucasus
Dictionary of Natural Hazards. What are risk, danger, hazard, disaster, catastrophe,and other terms? The difference, definitions. Why a hazard is natural, disasters are not?
Presentation – Hakan Yiğitbaşıoğlu
Why mountains are the arena of natural hazards and disasters. Cases in the Caucasus region
Presentation – Zurab Javakhishvili
Climate changes as drivers of natural hazards
Presentation – Nüzhet Dalfes
Landslides in Poland - research state-of-art, DEM interpretations and solutions for special planning
Presentation – Paweł Kroh
September 21, Day 2
Basic principles of Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Risk Management (DRR&DRM)
Presentation – Anna Scolobig
Natural hazard and risk assessment
Presentation – Simon Allen
Methods and tools for recognizing and mapping evidences and risk of natural hazards. How to perform the real-time mapping the natural hazards and to share data obtained
Presentation – Andrey Medvedev, Suren Arakelyan
September 22, Day 3
Study area characteristic. Tbilisi area: from source of natural hazard to urban disasters
Presentation – Lasha Sukhishvili
How to perform the real-time mapping of the natural hazards and to share data obtained
Exercises in GIS use, processing of remote sensing data, thematic mapping and data dissemination to the public
Presentation – Andrey Medvedev
September 23, Day 4
Self-study: online working with maps, space images and other sources for creating maps of natural hazards (under the lecturers’ guidance)
Andrey Medvedev, Suren Arakelyan, Natavan Jafarova, Zurab Javakhishvili, Lasha Sukhishvili
September 24, Day 5
Consultations from the lecturers
Andrey Medvedev, Suren Arakelyan, Natavan Jafarova, Giorgi Merebashvili, Lasha Sukhishvili
Finalization of the results
Presentations of the results by each group: maps created
Andrey Medvedev, Suren Arakelyan, Natavan Jafarova, Giorgi Merebashvili, Lasha Sukhishvili
Closure & Awarding Ceremony