Katriona McGlade

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Ecologic Institute

To which areas of REACHOUT will you contribute?

WP1, supporting WP3 and WP5

What are your hopes/goals for REACHOUT?

To support interesting and new collaborations between stakeholders and citizens. I am looking forward to seeing how we can draw together different experiences and perceptions to create climate services that are accessible and adapted to users needs.

Bio

Katriona McGlade (F) is a Fellow at Ecologic Institute, Germany where she focuses on climate adaptation policy and practice especially in coastal regions. Her interests are in collaborative, stakeholder-centred adaptation processes to develop shared knowledge and solutions. Examples of her previous work on stakeholder-centred adaptation include Co-designing the Assessment of Climate Change Costs (COACCH), Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies Towards a Sustainable Europe (BASE) and Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts – toolKIT (RISC-KIT) under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7). Parallel to her role at Ecologic Institute, Katriona is studying for a PhD on knowledge and coastal adaptation at the University of East Anglia, UK.

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The climate story of Gdynia​

Short summary: A story about Jan and Maria during extreme precipitation.

Theme: Flooding

End user: Citizens

Link to the climate story