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Bern is suffering from the heat wave. Temperatures exceeded 40 °C for the first time in Bern’s urban climate monitoring network (Linkedin Nils Tinner), and the temperature of the Aare broke the all-time record as early as June (Link to the article in the 'Berner Zeitung'). In line with this, Duncan Pappert and Olivia Romppainen explain the circulation patterns that lead to prolonged heat waves (Link to the article in the 'Environmental Research').

• Max Rudolf
  «Ethical consumption in global supply chains: A case study on Swiss chocolate consumers»
  (10:15, lecture room 001, GIUB)

• Andrin Sutter
  «Dynamic flood hazard maps under increasing peak discharge: Assessment of hazard transitions and building damage across selected Swiss river sections»
  (10:15 – 11:15, room 324, Uni Mittelstrasse, Mittelstrasse 43)

• Aline Hertli
  «Intergenerationale Begegnung an öffentlich zugänglichen Orten in Brig-Glis»
  (09:15 – 10:15, room 324, Uni Mittelstrasse, Mittelstrasse 43)
• Runa Schaumburg
  «Counteracting age-based residential segregation: Participatory housing arrangements & governance of ageing in place»
  (10:15 – 11:15, lecture room 001, GIUB)

Dr. Nitin Bathla, University of Zurich
Berner Humangeographisches Kolloquium
(14:15, room 324, Uni Mittelstrasse, Mittelstrasse 43)

Organized by the Units:
Social and Cultural Geography / Economic Geography /
Critical Sustainibility Studies /
Political Urbanism and Sustainable Spatial Development /
Geographies of Disasters
in cooperation with the mLAB of the Institute of Geography