Webinar series of the Working Group on Co-Creating Water Knowledge
HELPING - Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world
Scientific decade of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
Webinar #4
Capacities and skills for locally-led knowledge co-production for managing climate and disaster risk in Europe: lessons from the DIRECTED project
Lydia Cumiskey
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, MaREI, University College Cork
Bio:
Lydia is a senior postdoctoral researcher at MaREI, the Research Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine in the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork. Over the past 10 years Lydia has worked in applied research and consultancy projects in the areas of risk communication, integrated flood risk management, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Creativity and interactivity inspire her work, as well as enabling multi-stakeholder collaboration, co-creation and partnership.
She currently works in an European Horizon funded project called
DIRECTED aiming to enhance disaster resilience for extreme climate events by providing interoperable data, models, communication and governance. Her role relates to developing and applying a risk governance framework and knowledge co-production processes (Risk-Tandem) in Real World Labs across Europe to facilitate integration across Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA).
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