Event: SIDS: Vulnerability and Resilience under Climate Change
Date: 7 December 2021
Time: 15:00
Venue: Room VC 101, IT 福利在线免费 Building, University of Malta, Msida Campus, as well as online on Zoom. It will also be live-streamed on the ISSI鈥檚 Facebook Page
Venue: Room VC 101, IT 福利在线免费 Building, University of Malta, Msida Campus, as well as online on Zoom. It will also be live-streamed on the ISSI鈥檚 Facebook Page
The Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI) of the University of Malta has the pleasure to invite you to the seminar/webinar entitled "Small Island Developing States: Vulnerability and Resilience under Climate Change".
The event will be taking place on 7 December between 15:00 and 16:00 (CET) in room VC 101, IT 福利在线免费 Building, University of Malta, Msida Campus, as well as online on Zoom. It will also be live-streamed on the .
Registration for the limited spaces available both in situ and on Zoom can be made until 12:00 noon (CET) of Monday, 6 December. To participate in person, please fill . For virtual participation via Zoom, kindly provide your details through .
The event will see the global launch of the book "Small island developing states: Vulnerability and resilience under climate change", which was recently published by .
Speakers will be the editors of the book:
- Dr Stefano Moncada, Director of the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta;
- Prof. Lino Briguglio, Professor at the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta;
- Prof. Hilary Bambrick, Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health and Social Work at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;
- Prof. Ilan Kelman, Professor of disasters and health at the University College London, England, and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway;
- Prof. Catherine Iorns, Professor of law at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;
- Prof. Leonard Nurse, visiting Professor of integrated coastal management and climate change adaptation, University of the West Indies (UWI), Barbados
Other speakers will be Prof. Frank Bezzina, Chairperson of the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta, and James Ellsmoor, Founder and CEO of Island Innovation.
The event will be chaired by H.E. Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino, Ambassador of Malta for Islands and Small States and former Chairperson of the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta.
The presentations will last 40 minutes, followed by another 20 minutes where you can share your questions and comments with the panel.
Please contact the ISSI on islands@um.edu.mt, should you require further information.
