diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a50f195..9589654 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .ONESHELL:
 SHELL = /bin/bash
 .PHONY: help clean environment kernel post-render data
-YML = $(wildcard chapters/*.yml)
+YML = $(wildcard notebooks/*.yml)
 QMD = $(wildcard chapters/*.qmd)
 REQ = $(basename $(notdir $(YML)))
 CONDA_ENV_DIR := $(foreach i,$(REQ),$(shell conda info --base)/envs/$(i))
diff --git a/notebooks/Makefile b/notebooks/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9589654
--- /dev/null
+++ b/notebooks/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+.ONESHELL:
+SHELL = /bin/bash
+.PHONY: help clean environment kernel post-render data
+YML = $(wildcard notebooks/*.yml)
+QMD = $(wildcard chapters/*.qmd)
+REQ = $(basename $(notdir $(YML)))
+CONDA_ENV_DIR := $(foreach i,$(REQ),$(shell conda info --base)/envs/$(i))
+KERNEL_DIR := $(foreach i,$(REQ),$(shell jupyter --data-dir)/kernels/$(i))
+CONDA_ACTIVATE = source $$(conda info --base)/etc/profile.d/conda.sh ; conda activate ; conda activate
+
+help:
+	@echo "make clean"
+	@echo " clean all jupyter checkpoints"
+	@echo "make environment"
+	@echo " create a conda environment"
+	@echo "make kernel"
+	@echo " make ipykernel based on conda lock file"
+
+clean:
+	rm --force --recursive .ipynb_checkpoints/
+	for i in $(REQ); do conda remove -n $$i --all -y ; jupyter kernelspec uninstall -y $$i ; done
+
+$(CONDA_ENV_DIR):
+	for i in $(YML); do conda env create -f $$i; done
+
+environment: $(CONDA_ENV_DIR)
+	@echo -e "conda environments are ready."
+
+$(KERNEL_DIR): $(CONDA_ENV_DIR)
+	pip install --upgrade pip
+	pip install jupyter
+	for i in $(REQ); do $(CONDA_ACTIVATE) $$i ; python -m ipykernel install --user --name $$i --display-name $$i ; conda deactivate; done
+
+kernel: $(KERNEL_DIR)
+	@echo -e "conda jupyter kernel is ready."
+
+post-render:
+	for i in $(QMD); do quarto convert $$i; done
+	- mv chapters/*.ipynb notebooks/ >/dev/null 2>&1
+	- for f in chapters/*.quarto_ipynb ; do mv -- "$f" "${f%.quarto_ipynb}.ipynb"  >/dev/null 2>&1; done
+	cp Makefile notebooks/
+
+data:
+	wget -q -P ./data https://cloud.geo.tuwien.ac.at/s/AezWMFwmFQJsKyr/download/floodmap.zip
+	cd data && unzip -n floodmap.zip && rm floodmap.zip
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