Christopher Bryant
Universities of Montreal and Guelph
Canada
Title: Adaptation and resilience building for human activities to cope with climate change and variability
Biography
Biography: Christopher Bryant
Abstract
Key Themes that can be addressed in the Workshop: 1. Research approaches for understanding the vulnerability of human activities to CCV
2. Action research as a particularly useful approach to link researchers working on adaptation, resilience building and reduction of vulnerability directly with other actors
3. Adaptation as a social process of innovation diffusion
4. Resilience building
5. The role of holistic strategic planning for coping with CCV to avoid marginalization of adaptation, resilience building and vulnerability reduction in relation to CCV
6. Different territorial or community contexts, e.g. agricultural and rural communities, coastal communities, communities with a strong focus on tourism development, large and medium-sized cities