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Defining the new normal – how our stakeholders are adapting their strategies after COVID-19
It was in the midst of RECEIPT and CASCADES stakeholder workshops that the current pandemic unfolded. This overturned our plans, but also provided unexpected live insights into how disruptive events can shake economies and how stakeholders adapt. As with climate risk impacts, COVID has very distinct impacts on different economic sectors, and sectors are revising […]
+ Read MoreAll connected, all at risk – How COVID highlights the vulnerability of our global networks
What can storyline research teach us about the pandemic? And how does the pandemic affect climate change research? Although COVID-19 and climate change cause very different types of disruptions, there are quite some similarities. For instance, both cause system-wide, global impacts. Our world has highly interconnected global network systems. From fashion trends to diplomatic relationships […]
+ Read MoreYou Can’t Learn it All from Books – Why stakeholder workshops are essential for the success of climate research
Behind the research series, episode 2. Starting a big EU-funded research project requires planning. RECEIPT is developing storylines to explore how remote climate events will impact Europe. That’s a tall order, especially in a world where virtually all sectors and regions are interconnected. Which climate events will be most impactful? Which regional disturbances will affect […]
+ Read MoreImagining the Unprecedented: Developing Climate Risk Storylines
It is difficult to imagine risks we haven’t faced before, even though people’s ability to imagining unprecedented events got changed in the last year. Visualisation tools, models and storylines are a method scientists use to imagine what has never happened before. Last November, the annual meeting Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) highlighted the importance […]
+ Read MoreRECEIPT’s research featured in IFRC World Disasters Report 2020
One of the ambitions of RECEIPT is to explore how future climate variability and change could undermine the development, competitiveness, stability and resilience of partner countries of the EU. To do so, our researchers have expanded the widely used INFORM (Index for Risk Management) to include projections of climate change amplified hazards such as floods […]
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