2nd Natural Hazards and Climate Change

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Date:

21-23 May 2025

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Venue:

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Department of Geoinformatics, Physical and Environmental Geography
University of Szeged, Hungary

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As a result of the recent perturbations in the climate system, the frequency and magnitude of natural hazards are expected to increase in the near future. The role of the scientific community in this situation is twofold; firstly, we need to develop techniques to monitor and model natural processes that threaten the operations of our society; secondly, we ought to come up with recommendations and solutions to facilitate the mitigation and adaptation of hazards at the least expense possible.
As natural hazards (GEOhazards) are very complex, the cooperation of specialists is essential to meet the two expectations outlined above. Consequently, ideas need to be shared continuously, and synergies must be identified from time to time; however, these actions were hindered greatly by the pandemics in the past years.
Our society's need for solutions is also resembled by the growing number of funding opportunities related to natural hazards and climate change research. This also calls for exchanging ideas since relevant answers to the problems can only be provided if relevant projects are generated, but for these essential projects, the significant cooperation is needed.
After identifying the recent knowledge exchange and cooperation gaps, we decided to organise a regional workshop and mini-conference at the University of Szeged.

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Thematic sessions:

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• Hydrological and meteorological hazards
• Geomorphological and geophysical hazards
• Lessons that can be learnt from past climate and environmental change
• Vegetation and landscape changes

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Workshops:

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• Meet the stakeholders: We intend to invite representatives of the stakeholder groups most affected by climate change driven natural hazards in the region and beyond
• Find your project partner: We intend to sow the seeds of future project cooperation by organising thematic discussion groups and joint thinking

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Organising Committe

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Dr. György Sipos
Prof. Dr. Gábor Mezősi
Dr. Viktória Blanka-Végi
Olympia Gesztes
Dr. Ferenc Kovács