Brown Bag Lunch Talk by Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado, Boulder and Director of the Western Water Assessment
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Please join us on Thursday, February 20 for a brown bag lunch talk by Lisa Dilling titled Is Adaptation Success a Flawed Concept? There has been a focus on measuring and defining climate adaptation effectiveness both as an academic pursuit and as a goal of international climate policy processes. However, defining adaptation success is a challenging goal, because of differing baselines, time frames for analysis, perspectives of actors, and value orientations. This talk will review these challenges, raise questions, and suggest paths forward for future research and practice for setting climate adaptation goals and evaluating success.
Lisa Dilling is Director of the Western Water Assessment and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Western Water Assessment is a NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment that studies and facilitates the use of climate information in decision making in the Intermountain West. Her scholarship focuses on decision making, the use of information, and science policy, to understand how we can best manage climate and weather risks. Her research topics include drought and urban water management, climate adaptation in cities and on public lands, carbon management, and geoengineering governance. She holds a PhD in biology from the University of California Santa Barbara.
No RSVP required for this talk. Please feel free to bring your lunch and we'll provide cookies and refreshments.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions.