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Jean's work

jmslick — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:09:58 CDT

My research interests combine three fields: educational technology, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

Finding a research topic - I contacted Dr. Pablo Suarez , who is Associate Director of Programs with the International Red Cross Climate Centre about the research gaps and needs. Dr. Suarez and the Climate Centre have been doing work using video-mediated strategies as a tool for integrating climate adaptation approaches into participatory disaster risk reduction programming. He indicated that the evidence base to support these strategies was weak, and that this might be an area for study and research. My research focus has evolved from my discussions with Pablo, and my own reading and reflection about research gaps and needs.

I have developed a concept map to explain my research topic, it can be found in this section.

My initial thoughts were to design and test a learning system, and I have since come to learn about design based research, which seems to fit with my interests. This is a great resource site : Design-based Research EPSS (the material is from 2006, but none the less, it is also a model of a media rich resource design)

Disaster and Climate Home

jmslick — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:06:21 CDT

Welcome to the Disaster and Climate collaborative research resource site. I created this pathfinder in July and August 2009, as a means of organizing information and resources related to my proposed doctoral research. I am enrolled in the EdD online program at the University of Calgary, and specializing in Educational Technology. My research focus is to design and test a scalable model for participatory disaster risk reduction interventions, which incorporates climate science with local knowledge, and influences adaptive behaviours. I am specifically interested in how the power of high-tech can be used in low-tech environments. You can read more about my work under the section Our Research.

While this site has a primary purpose of organizing resources and material pertinent to my study, it has also been designed as a means of collaboration for working with students enrolled in the Master's in Disaster and Emergency Management Program at Royal Roads University, where I am the Program Head. Some of our research supports work being done by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Climate Centre (IFRC Climate Centre).

This site supports research and study related to the integration of disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation, which have evolved from two different fields of research and practice. The relationship between these two fields of study are obvious. 90% of disasters are climate and weather related. They are increasing in frequency and severity, and have the greatest toll in developing countries. Over 250 million people are affected on an annual basis by disasters. These numbers are daunting; behind every number is a face, and a human story. The two videos in the sidebar on this page give a human message about climate change, one is from a global perspective, the other is a film made by farmers, who tell their own story about the need for climate adaptation. The humanitarian imperative for addressing climate change is urgent; applied research is needed to increase the evidence base of effective approaches for addressing this global problem.

While this pathfinder will expand and grow, my initial work on the development of this wiki led me to some interesting resources and researchers. Here are few examples of sites and people I found that were exciting:

Other Researchers - Petra Tschakert: I found an article she had written as part of my literature review. She has a good website which further describes her work. Of all the articles I read, this was one of the most informative, and most aligned with my own research interests, both from the topic and the research method.

Web Resources: weADAPT wiki and the Climate Change Explorer Tool. Given that I have just started to use wikis, it was interesting to see how the wiki tool has been used to support collaboration on climate adaptation. I would be curious to see what the life of this tool will be, and how it is used. It has a section on social learning, which is an approach that Petra Tschakert discusses and promotes in her paper.

This site is expected to change as I invite others to use this wiki as a collaborative tool. While the structure at present meets my needs, I suspect that it may need to change to function as a shared site.

Jean Slick, August 2009

Climate Centre

jmslick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:40:45 CDT

There is no abstract available for this page revision.

Definitions

jmslick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:05:22 CDT

The terms on this page are important to the understanding of my topic and research. Definitions, or key concepts associated with terminology are captured on this page, as a means for now of collecting the various approaches to understanding of various concepts. Separate pages have been created to note the ways in which key concepts have been explored and discussed in the literature.

My approach to the understanding of disasters and climate change is informed by a social constructionist perspective, which recognizes that disasters are not simply events influenced by nature, but rather that they occur as a result of the intersection of social, political, economic and other factors, which combined create vulnerabilities and thus influence the risk and exposure to a hazard.

My research integrates three distinct fields: disaster risk reduction, climate science, and educational technology. The climate science and disaster management fields have traditionally been separate, and though they share some similar terminology, the meaning of terms may differ between fields. The context for my research is low and medium ranked developing countries, and thus this dimension influences the lens through which the other three fields are studied. The educational program interventions I am interested in are non-formal in nature; there is little literature that links disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation programming with learning or instructional theory, and educational technology.

This section has been developed as place for collecting the definitions of key terms that I have come across in my review of the literature. I have not made any attempt at this point to analyze the various perspectives, rather my intent is on finding and understanding the different ways in which terms and concepts have been defined by various authors and organizations.

Climate Change, and related terminology - A comprehensive glossary of terms from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 4th Assessment Report, 2007, is attached at the bottom of this page. It is an excellent resource guide to help with understanding the meaning of many of the terms used pertaining to climate change.

Adaptation measures - "policies, infrastructure and technology investments, behavioural change" (IPCC, 2007)

"Dimensions of adaptive practices:

spacial scale (local...national); sector; actor; climatic zone; baseline development level, or some combination thereof
temporal scale: current variability (which also reflect learning from past adaptations to historical climates); observed medium and long-term trends in climate; anticipatory planning in response to model-based scenarios of long-term climate change, these are often intertwined and might form a continuum" (IPCC, 2007, p. 720)

Adaptive capacity - " is the ability or potential of a system to respond successflly to climate variability and change, and includes adjustments in both behaviour and in resources and technologies: (IPCC, 2007, p. 727)

"there are individuals and groups within all societies that have insufficient capacity to adapt to climate change" (IPCC, 2007, p. 719)

Resilience - "the capacity of a system, community or society to resist or to change in or that it may obtain an acceptable level in functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing itself and gthe ability ti increase its capacity for learning and daptation, including the ability to recover from a disaster (UN/ISDR, 2002, p.24)

Vulnerability
"the characteristics of a person or group and their situation that influence their capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a natural hazard" (Wisner, et al. 2004, p.11)
"Vulnerability to climate change is generally understood to be a function of a range of biophysical and socioeconomic factors...The most recent report of the IPCC provides a useful typology suggesting that vulnerability may be characterized as a function of three components: adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure" (Obrien et al., 2004, p. 304).

Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) - "one of four major theories within the domain of psychological research on health behaviour" (Grothmann & Patt, 2005) The following terminology is associated with this approach:

Risk appraisal - is " a person assesses a threat's probability and damage potential to things he or she values, under the condition of no change in his or her own behaviour". Risk appraisal is based on perceived probability, which is "the person's expectancy of being exposed to the threat" and perceived severity, which is" the person's appraisal of how harmful the consequences of the threat would be to things he or she values if the threat were actually to occur" (Grothmann & Patt, 2005).

Adaptation appraisal - is " a person evaluates his or her ability to avert being harmed by the threat, along with the costs of taking such action". The result of adaptation appraisal is perceived adaptive capacity. Adaptation appraisal is triggered by the degree of perception of threat, as assessed by risk appraisal. It is only when the threat has degree of significance that adaptation appraisal occurs. This entails three steps: a) perceived adaptation efficacy, which is the belief that actions can effectively protect; b) perceived self efficacy, which is the perception of one's ability to take specific actions; and c) percieved adaptation costs, which is assumed costs of taking action (Grothmann & Pratt, 2005).

Other terminology used by Grotthman and Patt (2005) is important to the understanding of their theoretical approach which examines adaptation from a cognitive psychological approach. The other terms are:
adaptation, maladaptation, adaptation intention, objective adaptive capacity, cognitive biases and heuristics, risk experience appraisal

Learning and Education
Social Learning -
Educational technology

Research
Design method
Phenomenology
Action research

About Us

jmslick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:04:07 CDT

Jean Slick is an Associate Professor at Royal Roads University, and Program Head for the Master in Disaster and Emergency Management Program, the first graduate program in disaster management in Canada. Prior to joining Royal Roads on a full time basis, Jean was the Director of Disaster Management for the Canadian Red Cross, where she was employed for 28 years.

Jean began her involvement with disaster response 20 years ago with the Edmonton Tornado, and has since led Red Cross responses to a range of disaster types in both domestic and international contexts. She returned in the spring of 2007 from a two year posting in Indonesia, as the Country Representative for the Canadian Red Cross tsunami and earthquake response programs. Working is some of the worst tusnami affected areas, she led the organization’s disaster recovery operation, which included the rebuilding of over 5,500 homes, and water and sanitation, livelihood and disaster risk reduction programming.

Jean has a passion for teaching and facilitating; she has developed and delivered disaster management training programs across Canada, been a trainer with Reach Out (a refugee protection program), and developed and managed the Canadian Red Cross Immigration Detention Monitoring Program.

Jean holds a MEd from Dalhousie University, a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and has completed the course requirements for a Certificate in Negotiation and Mediation. As a lifelong learner, she recently decided to it was time to pursue doctoral studies, and she was accepted in the EdD on-line program at the University of Calgary, and is specializing in Educational Technology.

Jean loves the outdoors, and in her spare time can be found in her garden, or hiking or kayaking along the coast.

Carla Taylor

Michael Kolubar

Nicki Albus

Toby Bellis

Conferences

jmslick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:41:18 CDT

Here are links to upcoming conferences related to disaster management, disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and educational technology. Click on the image to take you to the conference website.

International Conferences

Web Resources

jmslick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:36:53 CDT

This site contains links...to links... These are our favourite sites, and they in turn provide links to other sites. Many of these sites are also great resources for general disaster management or humanitarian assistance information.

Cool Tools

Examples of the use of educational technology and disasters and/or climate change. Click on the image to link to the site:
Stop Disasters - an interactive game

Calculate your carbon footprint

Climate Change in Africa

Commonwealth of Learning - Learning for Development

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)

Advancing Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation
I found a good link on this wiki weADAPT, which then link you to the Climate Change Explorer Tool which is another excellent resource, and an excellent example of how wiki's can be used as a collaborative tool for creating, developing and expanding access to knowledge and tools.

Global Humanitarian Forum

Institute for Development Studies (IDS) - Climate Change and Development Centre (CCDC)
This site provides links to IDS research, networks and knowledge services, and teaching, training and mentoring

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Climate Centre (IFRC Climate Centre)

Overseas Development Institute
Check out the theme areas of climate change, natural disasters and humanitarian response.

Provention Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
This site is a portal to further information on the topic, and contains links to key actors, conferences and workshops, publications, further reading, academic courses, country case studies and over 120 videos. The Community Risk Assessment Toolkit provides a comprehensive set of resources and case studies to support community based disaster risk reduction programs.

ProventionWeb
One of the two main resource sites for disaster risk reduction resources.

Relief Web - Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change

The Earth Institute, Columbia University
They are doing research on how to effectively communicate climate science and climate forecasts.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UN Climate Conference - Copenhagen December 2009

Natural Resources Canada - Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Division

Articles

jmslick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:32:50 CDT

Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Articles

Suarez, (2008). Video-Mediated Approaches for Community-Level Climate Adaptation.
Climate change adaptation work must take into account the complexities of poverty, and ways need to be found to extend the benefits of climate science to the poor. Introducing climate science to communities in support of disaster risk reduction requires that the information to be communicated in a form that is accessible, is of use and value to communities, and results in co-learning. The use of video has been shown to be of value in health risk management, and building these approaches, pilot projects using video-mediated strategies where carried out in Malawi, the Bahamas, Argentina and Indonesia. Based on these case examples video is recommended as a tool for awareness raising, training, advocacy and community risk reduction planning. Areas for further investigations on video-mediates approaches are proposed and include: developing guidelines for the design and implementation of video as part of participatory adaptation strategies; developing rigourous assessment methods which would support expanded use of participatory video strategies; and developing multidisciplinary teams to support these efforts.

van Aalst, M., Cannon, T., and Burton, I. (2007) Community level adaptation to climate change: The potential role of participatory risk assessment. Gobal Environmental Change, 18, p 165-179.
This is an excellent and rich article chronicalling the historical developments in climate science and climate adaptation and participatory disaster risk reduction. Based on a review of qualitative evidence and practitioner experience, recommendations are made for the research needs to support the use of community based risk reducation approaches as an effective climate adaptation tool. The historical approaches to climate change have come from a 'top-down' model based on global analysis of our changing climate, framed as a socially constructed pollution problem. The inadequacies of initial approaches to adaptation include oversimplification of some climate variables, and lack of attention to other factors such as current or future socio-economic circumstances which may influence or affect adaptation. Adaptation was assumed to to be related to available technology and knowledge. Locally referenced approaches to understanding climate change impacts came to be a focus, and this shifted the orientation from assessing future uncertainties to assessing known climate changes and adaptation or coping mechanisms. These local approaches are then able to account for and integrate other variables. The history of participatory disaster risk reduction efforts is reviewed, and includes early methods of 'participatory rural appraisal, vulnerability and capacity assessment models, and sustainable livelihoods strategies.

References - What I read in July and August 2009:

Adger, W.N., S. Agrawala, M.M.Q. Mirza, C. Conde, K. O’Brien, J. Pulhin, R. Pulwarty, B. Smit and K. Takahashi, 2007: Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani,
J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 717-743.

Adger, W. N., & Vincent, K. (2005). Uncertainty in adaptive capacity. Comptes Rendus Geosciences, 337(4), 399-410.

Burton, I., Huq, S., Lim, B., Pilifosova, O., & Schipper, E. L. (2002). From impacts assessment to adaptation priorities: The shaping of adaptation policy. Climate Policy (Elsevier), 2(2), 145.

Grothmann, T., & Patt, A. (2005). Adaptive capacity and human cognition: The process of individual adaptation to climate change. Global Environmental Change Part A, 15(3), 199-213.

Helmer, M., & Hilhorst, D. (2006). Natural disasters and climate change. Disasters, 30(1), 1-4.

Marx, S. M., Weber, E. U., Orlove, B. S., Leiserowitz, A., Krantz, D. H., Roncoli, C., et al. (2007). Communication and mental processes: Experiential and analytic processing of uncertain climate information. Global Environmental Change, 17(1), 47-58.

O'Brien, G., O'Keefe, P., Rose, J., & Wisner, B. (2006). Climate change and disaster management. Disasters, 30(1), 64-80.

Rojas Blanco, A. V. (2006). Local initiatives and adaptation to climate change. Disasters, 30(1), 140-147.

Schipper, L., & Pelling, M. (2006). Disaster risk, climate change and international development: Scope for, and challenges to, integration. Disasters, 30(1), 19-38.

Suarez, P., Ching, F., Ziervogel, G., Lemaire, I., Turnquest, D., de Suarez, J. M., et al. (2008). Video-mediated approaches for community-level climate adaptation. IDS Bulletin, 39(4), 96-104.

Thomalla, F., Downing, T., Spanger-Siegfried, E., Han, G., & Rockström, J. (2006). Reducing hazard vulnerability: Towards a common approach between disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. Disasters, 30(1), 39-48.

Tschakert, P. (2007). Views from the vulnerable: Understanding climatic and other stressors in the sahel. Global Environmental Change, 17(3-4), 381-396.

van Aalst, M. K. (2006). The impacts of climate change on the risk of natural disasters. Disasters, 30(1), 5-18.

van Aalst, M. K., Cannon, T., & Burton, I. (2008). Community level adaptation to climate change: The potential role of participatory community risk assessment. Global Environmental Change, 18(1), 165-179.

Vincent, K. (2007). Uncertainty in adaptive capacity and the importance of scale. Global Environmental Change, 17(1), 12-24.

Jean's Future Reading List:

Alberini, A., Chiabai, A., & Muehlenbachs, L. (2006). Using expert judgment to assess adaptive capacity to climate change: Evidence from a conjoint choice survey. Global Environmental Change, 16(2), 123-144.

Armitage, D., Marschke, M., & Plummer, R. (2008). Adaptive co-management and the paradox of learning. Global Environmental Change, 18(1), 86-98.

Burton, I., Bizikova, L., Dickinson, T., & Howard, Y. (2007). Integrating adaptation into policy: Upscaling evidence from local to global. Climate Policy (Earthscan), 7(4), 371-376.

Climate change and disaster programs in the health sector(2008). Pan American Health Organization.

Cundill, G., & Fabricius, C. Monitoring in adaptive co-management: Toward a learning based approach. Journal of Environmental Management, In Press, Corrected Proof

Dessai, S., O’Brien, K., & Hulme, M. (2007). Editorial: On uncertainty and climate change. Global Environmental Change, 17(1), 1-3.

Gallopín, G. C. (2006). Linkages between vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity. Global Environmental Change, 16(3), 293-303.

Ha-Duong, M., Swart, R., Bernstein, L., & Petersen, A. (2007). Uncertainty management in the IPCC: Agreeing to disagree. Global Environmental Change, 17(1), 8-11.

Moss, R. H. (2007). Improving information for managing an uncertain future climate. Global Environmental Change, 17(1), 4-7.

Pahl-Wostl, C. A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes. Global Environmental Change, In Press, Corrected Proof

Pelling, M., & High, C. (2005). Understanding adaptation: What can social capital offer assessments of adaptive capacity? Global Environmental Change Part A, 15(4), 308-319. Polsky, C., Neff, R., &

Yarnal, B. (2007). Building comparable global change vulnerability assessments: The vulnerability scoping diagram. Global Environmental Change, 17(3-4), 472-485.

Smit, B., & Wandel, J. (2006). Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability. Global Environmental Change, 16(3), 282-292.

Tol, R. S. J., & Yohe, G. W. (2007). The weakest link hypothesis for adaptive capacity: An empirical test. Global Environmental Change, 17(2), 218-227.

Twomlow, S., Mugabe, F. T., Mwale, M., Delve, R., Nanja, D., Carberry, P., et al. (2008). Building adaptive capacity to cope with increasing vulnerability due to climatic change in africa – A new approach. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 33(8-13), 780-787.

Vogel, C., Moser, S. C., Kasperson, R. E., & Dabelko, G. D. (2007). Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships. Global Environmental Change, 17(3-4), 349-364.

Yohe, G., & Tol, R. S. J. (2002). Indicators for social and economic coping capacity—moving toward a working definition of adaptive capacity. Global Environmental Change, 12(1), 25-40.

Key Journals
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction:
these are the two journals which have the best articles on climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

Papers

jmslick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:25:03 CDT

Papers, or other multi-media assignments, that I have written or developed in fulfillment of doctoral course requirements, and as associated with my research, are listed below.

ED779.01, Summer 2009, Advanced Concepts in Educational Technology
My blog MyEdDucational Journey
A wiki on grassroots video developed by Jean, Belina, Mitch, Lisa & Peter
An initial literature review, framing the history and evolution of my research topic, and providing further specificity on the research gaps (see link below).
And of course, this wiki, Disaster and Climate.

Adaptive Capacity

jmslick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:23:48 CDT

This is a term that I need to explore, and so I've created a separate page as a place to keep notes of concepts that I come across in my reading.

Adaptation approaches or measures:
IPCC, p. 719

Mainstreaming and integration of adaptive approaches:
p. 719 IPCC

Uneven adaptive capacity:

Limits and barriers to adaptation:
"there are also significant knowledge gaps for adaptation as well as impediments to flows of knowledge and information relevant for adaptive decisions" (IPCC, 2007, p. 719)

Toby's work

jmslick — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:22:24 CDT

Toby Bellis...bio to follow.

Toby's Major Research Project, completed in July 2009 (see document link at bottom of this page).

Literature Resources

jmslick — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:58:08 CDT

This section contains material I've read, as well as other literature this has led me to that is important to my research topic.

The terms used for my literature searches are noted below:
Initial literature review, summer 2009 - disaster* and climate adaptation, and adaptive capacity and learning

Other Researchers

jmslick — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:42:22 CDT

This page contains links to information about key researchers working in the area of climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and educational technology. The researchers listed on this page are ones that I have come across in my reading, and whose work I found to be important to my research topic. For links to organizations, institutions and related networks check out the section on Web Resources.

Pablo Suarez
Dr. Suarez is the ...with the IFRC Climate Centre. We first met in Panama, in June of 2008, where I was facilitating a regional Red Cross pre-hurricane planning meeting. I was introduced to his work on the use of video-mediated strategies for supporting climate adaptation programming, and learned from him about the need to bring a greater evidence base to support disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation programming. Pablo was able to faciliate a placement for one of the learners (see Toby's work in this section) in the MADEM program at RRU in 2008/9, and an additional two learners (Carla and Micheal) are seeking a similar placement for their Major Research Projects in 2009/10. I have been in discussion with Pablo to identify research gaps and needs, and my research topic has developed from my discussions with him, and my own reading.

Torsten Grothmann

Anthony Patt
Research interests: individual and collective decision-making in relation to climate change

Petra Tschakert - Her research work, both topics and research method, is very much aligned with my own interests.
Research interests: social learning, decision-making and uncertainty, climate change,
Her web page describes her current research projects. Here is a description of one of her new research projects, as described on her website:
"For this new research project, I will be working with Robert Crane (Geography), Esther Prins (Adult Education), Ken Tamminga (Landscape Architecture), and Chris Hoadley (New York University). We hypothesize that cyclical (loop) learning strengthens people's anticipatory capacity in decision-making with respect to climatic and other livelihood stressors. At the core of this research is a resilience-enhancing approach that emphasizes an iterative way of analyzing and learning about changes and uncertainties in the past, present, and future. By focusing explicitly on learning processes and decision-support tools, the aim of the project is to reverse the deterministic notion of presumably vulnerable groups as passive victims of climate change by highlighting people's skills, knowledges, strategic responses, anticipatory capacity, and agency for adaptation planning. I hope that our project will foster people's capacity to influence their future through iterative planning rather than learning by shock. Research will take place in Ghana and Tanzania, in collaboration with partners from the University of Ghana (Geography and Performing Arts), the Afram Plains Development Organization (a Ghanaian NGO), and the University of Dar-es-Salaam (Geography). Please see project flyer for details."

The project flyer contains an illustrations of the research methodology, as well as some of the research questions, which I found to be of interest:Here are some of the questions she and others she is working with are addressing:
How can we facilitate learning and action to increase the coping/adaptive range illustrated by Smit and Wandel (2006)? How do we acknowledge and incorporate uncertainty and surprise in an iterative social learning process built upon a systems view? How do we monitor and learn from past events and actions while anticipating the future? How do we validate different types of knowledge and address power imbalances among multiple and diverse groups of stakeholders?

Here is a video of Petra describing her work and research interests.

Katharine Vincent
Research interests: human dimensions of climate change and adaptation, related politics and policy

Lisa Schipper
Research interests: adaptation to climate change
She has also done work in the area of disaster risk reduction.

Mark Pelling
Research interests: social adaptation (social capital and social learning) in relation to climate change
He is the chair of the Royal Geographic Society with IBG Climate Change Research Group

Sabine Marx
Research interests: decision making under uncertainty and the use of seasonal climate forecasts
She is Associate Director at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) and holds an adjunct research position at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). She is a member of a research team working: Effective Use of Scientific Information: Social Goals, Incentive, Structures, and Learning under Uncertainty, which has the following two research questions: How do incentives, learning, and social goals interact and how do they affect the communication of uncertain information? How do social settings affect learning under uncertainty and can learning from experience be facilitated in a community setting?

Saleemul Huq
Research interests: links between climate change and sustainable development

Ian Burton

Maarten van Aalst

Madeleen Helmer - this link takes you to a video of Madeleen speaking about climate change and disaster risk reduction

Terry Cannon

S. Huq

Ben Wisner
Also see RADIX - Radical Interpretations of Disaster, a blog site by Ben Wisner and Maureen Fordham.

Video Collections

jmslick — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:24:09 CDT

Unfortunately, one of the limitations of this wiki tool is that I am unable to create links to site which have good video collections. This page contains links to good collections of videos related to my research topics.

Climate Change TV

Concept Maps

jmslick — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:22:21 CDT

As my research work evolves, so does my conceptual thinking about the research. My most recent concept map is shown below, along with the previous one, so that you can see the shift and development in my thinking. Earlier versions are archived here.

Past Presentations

jmslick — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:55:48 CDT

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Other Publications

jmslick — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:27:49 CDT

International

Canadian

Other

Our Research

jmslick — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:13:40 CDT

This section of the site contains material to the work each of us is undertaking, or completed, related to disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. Check out our individual sections to learn more about our specific research interests and plans.

Nicki's work

jmslick — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:22:51 CDT

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Michael's work

jmslick — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:32:33 CDT

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