Co-producing Capacity for Climate Adaption

with Maria Carmen Lemos

Professor - University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

The talk will focus on different means of increasing the use of climate knowledge to support decision-making in different sectors and scales with particular emphasis on the scholarship of science co-production and use. 

Wednesday, September 30 - Online Meeting

3:20 - 4:25 p.m. Presentation with Q&A Session

Maria Carmen Lemos is Professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and co-Director of the Great Lakes Sciences and Assessments Center (GLISA) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also Senior Policy Scholar at the Udall Center for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the use of scientific knowledge in environmental public policymaking in Latin America and the U.S., especially related to climate change (adaptation and adaptive capacity building) and the co-production of science and policy (the different means to narrow the gap between useful and usable knowledge). She was a contributing and lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4 and AR5) and the US National Climate Assessment and has published over 100 articles focusing on climate change adaptation, water governance and disaster response. She has MSc. and PhD degrees in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.

Co-producing Capacity for Climate Adaption Colloquium Video (Echo360)