Dear all,

We are hosting an online panel about recent and devastating extreme climate events, the role of science in modelling, predicting and responding to these events, and how science can inform and support response and replanning efforts. Modeling Climate Change: Towards more harmonious and resilient human settlements

The event is online and open to all, and details about how to join are included below.

We hope to see you there.

Aline Villavicencio (Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Exeter, and University of Sheffield, UK) Marco Idiart (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) On behalf of the organising committee

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Modeling Climate Change: Towards more harmonious and resilient human settlements

Date: September 27, 2024, 3pm UK Website: https://sites.google.com/view/climate-change-southern-brazil Location: Join the Zoom Meeting https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/91435912802?pwd=KC4M7HxkKljx8HJb3sE23H9M2nwMtw.1 https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/91435912802?pwd=KC4M7HxkKljx8HJb3sE23H9... Meeting ID: 914 3591 2802 Password: 164009

Human settlements alter the course of rivers, narrow their banks, and eliminate forests and wetlands, ecosystems that retain water and allow its absorption into the soil. For decades or even centuries, it was possible to avoid natural disasters simply by erecting protective barriers to prevent the waters from returning to their natural beds. On the other hand, global warming destabilizes the climate and increases the frequency of extreme weather events such as excessive rainfall and floods. This makes the protections for villages and cities less effective, leading to major climatic disasters as observed in southern Brazil. There is consensus that the frequency and severity of these events will tend to increase in coming years, and therefore, we must consider what kind of planning we should make for the future. Either we continue to build increasingly larger dams, dikes and barriers, or we need to rethink human occupation of territories. In this panel, we discuss how to replan or relocate climate affected settlements, making them more harmonious with nature and resilient to climatic effects, and how data science and artificial intelligence can assist us in this.

A Discussion with:

Ricardo Campos (University of Exeter, UK) Marina Hirota (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Tiago de Melo Cartaxo (University of Exeter, UK) Marcia Zilli (University of Oxford, UK) Moderator: Ronaldo Menezes (University of Exeter, UK)

More information is available on the website https://sites.google.com/view/climate-change-southern-brazil?usp=sharing; registration is not required.