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The five-day summer school will cover three topics. The course will mainly consist of lectures and assignment workshops. The topics for this summer school are:
- (i) drought hazard characterisation and forecasting,
- (ii)drought impact assessment, and
- iii)drought management.
Drought as a hazard and the options for reducing the associated risks are receiving increasing attention by policy makers and scientists. Emphasis is based management and improved drought preparedness to mitigate the mpacts of droughts on society, economy and the environment. In particular, the development of drought management plans is fostered on evidence-based decision support and making.
The DROUGHT-R&SPI Summer School will cover the major drought management-related issues and will ntroduce the premises for improving drought preparedness through increased knowledge and improved science-policy interfacing.
Read more about the programme and the lecureres (PDF).
Who should attend
The school is addressed to Master and PhD students, as well as junior scientists, studying or conducting research primarily on drought-related topics (hazard, impacts & management) or on water management in dry/water scarce regions. The activity will be conducted in English. Participants should also bring their own portable computer.
Request for participation
The Application Form is available at: www.eu-drought.org/ Applications should be sent via e-mail to arrive not later than 28/2/2014 to:ekamp@chemeng.ntua.gr
Links
About Syros: www.hermoupolis.gr
Organiser
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- The Summer School is an activity organized as part of the EU-funded FP7 project DROUGHT-R&SPI.
- For more information and news from DROUGHT-R&SPI, you can visit the web site at: www.eu-drought.org/