 Walker Institute at Planet under Pressure conference, 26-29 March 2012
Research from the University of Reading's Walker Institute will be featuring large and loud at the international Planet under Pressure conference in London.
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A selection of our research being presented at Planet under Pressure:
Understanding and predicting the risks from climate
• How quickly will we see the effects of climate change? Dr Ed Hawkins and Prof Rowan Sutton (Meteorology/NCAS-Climate)
• Managing the risks from climate hazards such as storms: Dr Jane Strachan/Prof Pier Luigi Vidale: Challenges in utilising natural hazard research for risk-assessment and risk-management
• Energy crop cultivation iin Ghana and Brazil: Dr Emily Black
• Dr Andy Turner, Dr Steve Woolnough, Dr Stephanie Bush: Analysing Indian Monsoon Biases in the Met Office Unified Model
• Maria Shahgedanova: Glacier change in the mountains of northern and central Asia and its links to the changing climate: a review of the observed and projected trends (poster)
The impacts and consequences of a changing climate
• Dr Emily Boyd (1): Enabling adaptation: A Polycentric institutional approach; (2): Small is beautiful: Evaluating 'success' factors in a case of the small-scale cooperative afforestation CDM project on private land in India
• Dr Nick Bardsley: Exploring paradigm shifts around climate change policy and research
• Henny Osbahr: "Supporting agricultural innovation in Uganda to respond to climate risk: linking climate change and variability with farmers' perceptions".
• Ros Cornforth: Making climate science useful: Effective dialogue between climate scientists and humanitarian and development 'end users'
• Estimating the CO 2 mitigation potential of horizontal Ground Source Heat Pumps in the UK (Raquel Garcia, Anne Verhoef, GuoHui Gan, Anthony Chong, Douglas Clark, Pier Luigi Vidale, Jon Finch, Eleanor Blyth)
• Prof Peter Cooper, Dr Roger Stern, Dr Maria Noguer, Dr John Gathenya: Climate change adaptation in East Africa
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