Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/10/2015
15:00 - 16:00
Location
ICCCAD Head Office
Categories
The next instalment of the ICCCAD Seminar Series will take place at 3 pm on October 15, 2015. Katarzyna Wieszczeczynska will be presenting in a seminar titled ‘Sustainable Urbanization: Adapting the city of La Paz, Bolivia to climate change’.
About the seminar
Katarzyna will present her Masters’ thesis: ‘Sustainable Urbanization. Adapting the city of La Paz, Bolivia to climate change’. The objective of the thesis was to analyse challenges and options for implementing Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) as a means for preventing flood, thus adapting the city to climate change. The thesis is an example of multi-method research on planning and designing SUDS across the city levels adapted to the condition of a city in a developing country with various cultural, environmental and institutional challenges.
About SUDS: In contrast to insufficient combined drainage-sewer systems, SUDS use the landscape for the filtration, conveyance, storage and evaporation of excess water. This approach may increase the resilience of cities since it is flexible and treats stormwater as a resource which can be used to improve urban recreational options, support aquatic ecosystems and produce groundwater. However, new approaches for stormwater drainage systems (technical and institutional) should be locally-based, appropriate to the communities and complemented by other action programs focusing on behavioural change, the training of locals and proper policy planning.
About the speaker
Kasia (Katarzyna) Alicja Wieszczeczynska is responsible for initializing the new Partnership Programme at ICCCAD in order to establish an operational framework for designing, executing and evaluating successful partnerships. In addition, she is also the coordinator for an upcoming Migration Programme and a dedicated Field Researcher. Her interests lie in working with projects, policies and framework formulations in the interrelated sectors of climate change, poverty alleviation and water resource management in urban context. She has completed two Masters’ degrees in Landscape Architecture from Poland and Denmark. Especially, specialisation in Urban Development at the Master’s Programme at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark has provided her with expertise on green infrastructure and sustainable water management. For her Master’s thesis she investigated the opportunities and challenges for implementing sustainable urban drainage system, as a means for adapting the city of La Paz in Bolivia to the negative consequences of climate change. She enjoys working in Bangladesh, as it fulfills her desire to exploring her professional horizons by working in cross-cultural environment and also with resilient communities.
