Keynote Presentations from the 2nd AVEC International Summer School, Peyresq, 18-30 September 2005

Speaker: Anne C. de la Vega-Leinert
ac.delavega<at>gmail.com
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg C4, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Title of the talk: How to integrate stakeholders´ needs in Vulnerability Assessments?


Biosketch

Physical geographer by training (Msc. Quaternary geomorphology and sedimentology at University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland). PhD in Holocene coastal environmental change, with emphasis on palaeoecology, coastal morpho-dynamics in the Scottish Orkney archipelago (Coventry University, UK).

• 1st Postdoctorate appointment as Research Fellow focussed on bottom-up coastal vulnerability assessment with focus on accelerated sea-level rise in Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific and part-time lecturer in coastal zone management (Flood Hazards Research Centre, UK).


• 2nd Postdoctorate at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) as: 1) coordinator of the stakeholder dialogue within the ATEAM project (Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Analyses and Modelling), and 2) scientific coordinator of the DINAS-COAST project (top-down integrated modelling of coastal vulnerability to accelerated sea-level rise).


• Current research interests: theory and practice of science – stakeholder dialogue; Participative research and decision making; Perceptions of climate and global change; Integrated and vulnerability assessments.

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