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Resilience through climate services
Climate services provide essential scientific information to assist decision-making. It can help society to enhance resilience and seize new opportunities in the face of climate risks. But “what are priorities to advance and deliver climate services for resilience and preparedness?” That’s what Voices has asked 13 lead scientists on the topic, among who RECEIPT’s lead […]
+ Read MoreMeet Sadhana Nirandjan, PhD researcher at IVM, The Hague foodie
As the academic year is starting, RECEIPT is writing another chapter in its “yearbook” introducing our younger “classmates”. Meet Sadhana Nirandjan who works in The Hague at the Institute for Environmental Studies of the University of Amsterdam. Hikes with nice views, exploring new food and basketball; Sadhana’s hobbies are as diverse as the topic she […]
+ Read MoreBuilding climate storylines: The case of the European Union Solidarity fund
Scientists commonly explore how past disasters could have turned out differently to improve future disaster risk management. This approach is called downward counterfactual thinking. RECEIPT researchers have created a framework to develop climate storylines based on downward counterfactuals. They tested the framework on the impact of tropical cyclone events on the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF). […]
+ Read MoreThe future is uncertain and that’s okay
The future isn’t set in stone. As we’ve experienced in the last eighteen months, we can’t plan for everything or predict what the future holds. Likewise, scientists cannot use a crystal ball to know all climate change impacts in 10, 20 or 100 years. While it’s certain that climate change will have increasingly far-reaching effects […]
+ Read MoreStorylines of future European drought events
In her newest paper, RECEIPT scientist Karin van der Wiel presents a method for creating sound climate storylines using model simulations. This method creates storylines of future climate events that are similar to events that happened in the past. To develop and test this method, the researchers studied the major drought that hit western Europe […]
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