BC3 contribuye en el Plan Social para el Clima para proteger a los colectivos vulnerables
Congratulations to new BC3 PhD graduate Pablo Herreros
Dr. Pablo Herreros has successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Co-producing Climate Risk Knowledge for Urban Adaptation and Resilience“, today at the ICTA-UAB.
His thesis was developed at BC3 under the support of the la Caixa Foundation INPhINIT Incoming fellowship programme. The thesis was supervised by researchers Johannes Langemeyer, Marc Neumann and Timon McPhearson, and has been developed across the Basque Centre for Change (BC3), the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), and the Urban Systems Lab in New York University (USL).
Abstract: This dissertation aims to support cities in bringing together diverse knowledge systems to guide climate adaptation planning. Despite extensive agreement that climate adaptation planning must rely on an understanding of climate risks, and the significant advances in risk and vulnerability assessments, city agencies and civic organizations face challenges in the generation, translation, and integration of risk knowledge. These challenges, categorized under justice, complexity, and usability, play a key role in how climate risks are framed in the understanding phase of climate adaptation planning, ultimately influencing how adaptation is (or is not) designed and implemented. Across this dissertation, I call for and explore the role that knowledge co-production plays in supporting climate adaptation planning by making the generation of climate risk knowledge more inclusive, complexity-aware, and usable. To do so, I elicit lessons learned from co-producing climate risk knowledge in two U.S. cities: Milwaukee and New York City. I rely on flooding as a case-study, while recognizing the transferability of the lessons learned to other climate hazards.
Thesis Committee: Tischa Muñoz-Erickson, Francesc Baró, and Mariana Madruga de Brito
