Adaptation to Climate Change Cambridge University

In this final seminar of the series, Professor Kennel discusses the essential role of assessment in the adaptive management of complex systems; the regional specificity of climate change impacts; the critical role of local communities; the complexity of knowledge assembly for regional and local decision‐support; and the need to encourage timely decisions. “Knowledge Action Networks” comprising international experts and local decision‐makers can foster informed and timely decisions at the regional and local levels.

You can find the lecture slides and other material here: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/programmes/visiting-research-fellowships/prof-charles-kennel/

In this seminar, Professor Kennel discusses the first and most advanced regional assessments; impacts on regional natural systems, regional technical systems, and populations; and assessments - the first step in adaptive management.

You can find the lecture slides and other material here: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/programmes/visiting-research-fellowships/prof-charles-kennel/

This seminar looks at factors affecting rates of global and local sea level rise; how advanced regions are preparing - Venice, the Netherlands, and Sacramento Bay-Delta; vulnerable cities, agricultural river deltas, low-lying island nations.

You can find the lecture slides and other material here: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/programmes/visiting-research-fellowships/prof-charles-kennel/

CSaP's inaugural Visiting Research Fellow Professor Charlie F Kennel delivers a series of seminars on adaptation to climate change, hosted by Christ's College Cambridge.

Professor Kennel is Vice-Chancellor and Director emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Christ’s College. He spent the 2014 Lent term as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy,

You can find the lecture slides and other material here: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/programmes/visiting-research-fellowships/prof-charles-kennel/

CSaP's inaugural Visiting Research Fellow Professor Charlie F Kennel will deliver a series of seminars on adaptation to climate change, hosted by Christ's College Cambridge.

Professor Kennel is Vice-Chancellor and Director emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Christ’s College. He will be spending the next three months as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy.