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Cities, Settlements and Infrastructure Online - Reducing Risks & Addressing Liability

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Cities, Settlements and Infrastructure
Monday, October 13, 2025
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Speaker

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Mrs Amy Allen
PhD Candidate
University of Canterbury

Online Facilitator

Biography

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Assoc Prof Anuradha Mukherji
Associate Professor of Community & Regional Planning
East Carolina University

Examining residential buyouts in rural Carolinas in the US through the lens of the housing market

8:00 PM - 8:15 PM

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Biography

Dr. Mukherji’s work is located at the intersection of disaster planning, climate change adaptation, and community resilience. She has conducted research in India and Haiti and more recently in Japan and the United States.
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Ms Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata
Researcher
Urban Biodiversity Hub / University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

From rooftops to resilience: socio-economic determinants of urban agriculture in Indian cities

8:15 PM - 8:30 PM

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Biography

With over 8 years of experience, Maitreyi Koduganti specializes in water and climate policy, gender equity, urban water governance, sustainability, and nature-based solutions.
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Dr Anne von Streit
Senior Researcher
Ludwig Maximilians Universität München

Tracking adaptation of German municipalities: actions implemented, gaps and limitations

8:30 PM - 8:45 PM

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Biography

Anne is a senior researcher and lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Munich, Germany. One of her main research interests is to understand how governance processes can shape individual and collective responses to climate risk. Anne’s other areas of expertise include social-scientific inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research.
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Mr Steve Mewes
LNP Coordinator & Advocacy Manager
Somerset Wildlife Trust

Act to Adapt: Building climate resilience through community-based adaptation (CBA) across Somerset, UK

8:45 PM - 8:50 PM

Biography

Steve Mewes, Local Nature Partnership Coordinator at Somerset Wildlife Trust, brings extensive experience in nature restoration and climate change preparation. Founder of Green Wedmore and Somerset Climate Action Network, he has backgrounds in policy and project management across multiple industries, passionate about creating a low-carbon future.
Mr Buddhi Bahadur Adhikari
PhD Student
University of Canterbury

Climate justice in urban adaptation in Nepal: issues for children and young people in informal settlements

8:50 PM - 8:55 PM

Biography

Buddhi Bahadur Adhikari is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. My current project is about climate justice and urban adaptation in Nepal, with the issues of children and young people living in informal settlements.
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