Cities, Settlements and Infrastructure Online - Reducing Risks & Addressing Liability
Tracks
Cities, Settlements and Infrastructure
Monday, October 13, 2025 |
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
Speaker
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 PMBiography
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.
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 PMBiography
With over 8 years of experience, Maitreyi Koduganti specializes in water and climate policy, gender equity, urban water governance, sustainability, and nature-based solutions.
Ana Maria Vargas
Lund University
Climate legal consciousness: An emerging concept to study the role of the law in climate adaptation
8:30 PM - 8:45 PMBiography
Ana Maria's academic background includes a PhD in sociology of law from Lund University and the University of Milan. Her thesis was awarded the prize for Best Dissertation in Sweden in the field of working environment by Forum for Working Life Research in 2016. She has published research on inclusive urbanization and local democracy, the everyday life of street vendors and rickshaw drivers, the local politics of air pollution, and everyday forms of resistance to climate change adaptation. Ana Maria is from Colombia where she studied Law at the National University. Her publications on Everyday Resistance to Climate Adaptation were selected for the 10 Insights in climate science in 2024.
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 PMBiography
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.
