Time: Thursday 21 May 16.00-17.30
Room: Planet
Session chairs: Xinyu Yang, Chalmers, MERGE; Elena Raffetti, Uppsala University, CLIMES
Session description
This session explores how climate extremes such as heatwaves, floods, wildfires and droughts affect population health and society. We will discuss differential vulnerabilities across population groups, the cascading impacts on infrastructure, economic systems and other sectors, and strategies for adaptation and mitigation. The session will also focus on future risks under projected climate scenarios and their implications for sustainable transformation in Sweden and beyond.
Session programme
Minor changes to the programme may occur.
16:00 Opening introduction Elena Raffetti and Xinyu Yang
16:15 Agri labour Mobility in a Changing Climate: A Systems Approach to Vulnerability and Precarity Among Migrant Farmworkers Sinem Kavak (Lund University)
16:30 Vulnerabilities of swedish food security to AMOC collapse Stephanie Rost (University of Gothenburg)
16:40 Function and feeling intertwined: Age-Friendly urban adaptation to heatwaves Johanna Johansson (Jönköping University)
16:50 Thermal Injustice and Heat Health in Ghana Amanda Odoi (Lund University)
17:00 MotherHeat Alert: an early warning system app for pregnant and postpartum women, infants and health workers Chuansi Gao (Lund University)
17:15 Understanding Adaptation to Heat in Maternal Healthcare: Lessons from Rural Uganda for Climate-Resilient Health Systems Annabelle Marusic and Crispus Amutuhaire (Karolinska Institute & Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
17:25 Wrap up and closing remarks Elena Raffetti and Xinyu Yang
Poster Highlight Presentations
- Social Resilience of Tropical Forest Ecosystems Massoud Behboudian et al (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) presented 21 May at 14:30-16:00
