ICCCAD Research OfficeLevel 5, House 27, Road 1, Block A, - Bashundhara R/A
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Date(s) - 12/05/2016
11:00 - 12:30
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ICCCAD Research Office
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Due in large part to high population densities along rivers and low-elevation coastal zones, Asian countries have among the highest numbers of people exposed to the impacts of climate-related hazards and, thus, at greatest risk of mass death. Floods, droughts, and storms have always tested civilian governments and international humanitarian aid agencies. However, climate change threatens to make the problem worse by increasing the intensity and possibly the frequency of climate-related hazards. Increasingly, both national and foreign militaries are called upon to carry out humanitarian assistance operations in the event of major climate shocks. The presentation will cover the findings of the effort to map sub-national climate security vulnerability in 11 countries in South and Southeast Asia. Study countries include six countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and five countries in Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam).
About the speaker: Nisha Krishnan is a Doctoral Candidate at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation focuses on deepening our understandings of household level vulnerability and resilience to climate change and its implications for international development policy and practice. Her other research spans the breadth of climate change and its implications for human security, the politics of climate change policies, tracking, measuring, and evaluating foreign aid effectiveness and policies, and complex emergencies and political stability. Prior returning to graduate school, she worked on the Global Adaptation Atlas at Resources for the Future (RFF), conducted vulnerability assessments in Central and West Asia, and designed guidance on climate change adaptation strategies for USAID. She has written on several topics, including assessing vulnerability to climate change in Africa, security implications of climate change policy in Asia and the Pacific, and monitoring and tracking systems for adaptation and disaster-related aid.
