Climate Adaptation and Resilience
The Climate Adaptation and Resilience research theme addresses the growing threat of severe climate hazards and their compound and cascading impacts on societies, ecosystems, and infrastructure. It spans six interconnected areas, linking climate-risk science with decision support to translate vulnerability knowledge into actionable adaptation.
Driven by a vision to enable societies, ecosystems, and infrastructure to thrive amid a changing climate, the Climate Adaptation and Resilience research theme focuses on advancing the science, innovation, and implementation needed for long-term climate-resilient planning. The theme's mission centres on delivering science-based, scalable, and equitable adaptation solutions across six interconnected pillars, addressing escalating climate risks – including heatwaves, droughts, floods, and coastal hazards – and their compound and cascading impacts:
- Climate risks and extremes: Understanding climate hazards, compound and cascading risks, and future risk hotspots.
- Resilient cities and infrastructure: Strengthening cities, communities, and interconnected critical infrastructure systems.
- Nature-based solutions and ecosystem resilience: Harnessing natural systems to reduce climate risks while supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services.
- Water security and food systems: Safeguarding against climate disruptions.
- AI, digital twins, and climate intelligence: Combining Earth observation, AI, modeling, and digital twins for forecasting, scenario testing, and actionable decision support.
- Governance, economics, and social resilience: Developing policy, financing, and governance approaches to manage water resources, agriculture, and food systems for climate justice and equitable, resilient societies.
By connecting these disciplines, the theme helps KTH Climate Action Centre to bridge the gap between climate science and real-world implementation, supporting the transition from vulnerability assessment to actionable and transformative resilience.
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