New SEI Grant to Study Climate Change Displacement

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Dr Aaron Opdyke and Dr Susan Banki were awarded funding from the Sydney Environment Institute through its Collaborative Grants to study how climate change impacts the design of settlements and institutions coping with displacement. Project Summary The speed and intensity of climate change is poised to reshape the landscape of displacement contexts in the Global South. As governments and organisations develop places of refuge, climate change is placing new pressures on both temporary and permanent settlements as well as disrupting conventions of whether proximity to home environments matter. This project will explore how the complicating factor of climate change influences the…

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New APN Grant to Advance Flood Risk Decision-Making Under Climate Change

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The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research Collaborative Regional Research Programme has awarded funding (USD 70,000) to a team led by Dr Aaron Opdyke to build decision-making capacity for flood risk under climate change. The project “Advancing Local Flood Decision-Making for Disaster Risk Reduction” aims to transform disaster risk assessments by understanding how climate change will impact localised flood risk and unpack how these assessments can be better incorporated into local planning processes. The project team will accomplish this through an in-depth study of two catchment basins located in the Municipality of Carigara (Leyte, Philippines) and the Regency of Singkil…

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