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Sandy Bisaro, M.Sc.
Research Fellow
European Climate Forum
Research Process: Adaptation and Social Learning
Guest Scientist
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Research Domain IV: Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods
Contact:
Pappelallee 20
14469 Potsdam, Germany
Phone: +49-331-288-2424
Email: sandy.bisaro@pik-potsdam.de
Sandy Bisaro is a research fellow at European Climate Forum in the Adaptation and Social Learning cluster and a doctoral candidate at the Division of Resource Economics at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He studied physics at the University of Victoria, Canada (B.Sc.) and sociology of science and technology (STS) at the Universiteit van Amsterdam where he obtained an M.Sc. in 2005.
Research Interests
Sandy's doctoral research looks at governance of natural resources in southern Africa through the multi-level policy processes which influence climate adaptation and natural resource management at the local level. These issues are addressed from an institutional economics perspective.
As a member of the FAVAIA (Formal Approaches to Vulnerability Assessment which Informs Adaptation), he is interested in relations between and role of concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, adaptive capacity and other related concepts.
Scientific Publications
- Bisaro, A., Hinkel, J. and Kranz, N., 2010 Multilevel water, biodiversity and climate adaptation governance: evaluating adaptive management in Lesotho, Environmental Science and Policy,13(7), 637-647.
- Bisaro, A., Wolf, S. and Hinkel, J., 2010 Framing climate vulnerability and adaptation at multiple levels: Addressing climate risks or
institutional barriers in Lesotho?, Climate and Development, 2(2),161-175.
- Hinkel, J., Bisaro, A., Downing, T.E., Hofmann, M.E., Lonsdale, K., McEvoy, and D., Tabara, D.J., 2010. Learning to adapt: re-framing climate change adaptation , in Making Climate Change Work for Us: adaptation and mitigation perspectives from Europe, 2009, Hulme and Neufeld (eds.)
Reports
- Bisaro, A., Kirk, M., Zimmermann, W., and Zdruli, P., 2011. “Analysing new issues in desertification: research trends and research needs”. Final report of the IDEAS project to the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF). Institute for Co-operation in Developing Countries, Marburg, Germany.
Presentations
- VAD Conference Panel Presentation, New Boundaries for Development? Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa, Freiburg, Germany, May 14-17, 2008
- Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Traditional Livelihoods and Adaptation Strategies in the Lesotho Highlands, February 22-23, 2008
- CAIWA International Conference on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management, Formal and Informal in the Wetlands of the Lesotho Highlands, Basel, Switzerland, November 12-15, 2007
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