Cities, Settlements and Infrastructure - Equity and Justice
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Cities, Settlements and Infrastructure
Monday, October 13, 2025 |
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM |
Speaker
Dr Deepal Doshi
Postdoc Researcher
LMU Munich
Who enables equitable adaptation? Negotiating roles, responsibilities and accountability in transformative change
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Dr. Deepal Doshi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). Her research focuses on questions of urban risk, adaptation finance and risk governance – particularly in the Global South. She also serves as a Chapter Scientist in the IPCC’s upcoming Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.
Prof Hallie Eakin
Professor
Arizona State University
Who enables equitable adaptation? Negotiating roles, responsibilities and accountability in transformative change
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Hallie Eakin, Professor, researches the roles, responsibilities and relationships among actors in rural and urban adaptation governance. She collaborates extensively with colleagues in Mexico, Central America, South Africa, and Canada in her exploration of the political economy of adaptation and the determinants of more transformative adaptive capacity.
Prof. Matthias Garschagen
LMU Munich
Who enables equitable adaptation? Negotiating roles, responsibilities and accountability in transformative change
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Prof. Matthias Garschagen is chair in Human Geography and Human Environment Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). His research focuses on risk, vulnerability, adaptation and transformation in the context of environmental hazards and climate change, particularly in cities. He has been an author in several IPCC reports.
Vanessa Luek
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
Who enables equitable adaptation? Negotiating roles, responsibilities and accountability in transformative change
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Vanessa Lueck is a Researcher-in-Residence on the Living with Water project at PICS and a Senior Sustainability Scientist at GIOSI. Her research and work include sustainable coastal adaptation, adaptation governance, complex adaptive systems, justice and equity, local and Indigenous perspectives, nature-based approaches and innovative governance solutions.
Nadine Methner
African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
Who enables equitable adaptation? Negotiating roles, responsibilities and accountability in transformative change
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Nadine is a Research Officer a the ACDI where she has successfully managed several complex, interdisciplinary research projects at the interface of climate change adaptation and sustainable development. Nadine’s work focuses on building partnerships and fostering knowledge co-production to advance effective and equitable climate change adaptation across Africa.
Ayesha Siddiqi
University of Cambridge
Who enables equitable adaptation? Negotiating roles, responsibilities and accountability in transformative change
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Ayesha Siddiqi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the production of socio-political relationships, networks and knowledges around climate relation disasters in the postcolonial world.
Mr Dennis Wilke
Phd Candidate
Osnabrück University
Who enables equitable adaptation? Negotiating roles, responsibilities and accountability in transformative change
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Dennis Wilke is a research associate in the working group of Resources Management at Osnabrück University since October 2022. His PhD research examines the conditions that foster adaptive capacity of social-ecological systems to water scarcity, focusing on community-based water organizations in northwest Costa Rica.
Dr Lisa de Kleyn
Research Fellow
La Trobe University
Just Adaptation
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Lisa de Kleyn is Postdoctoral Researcher at the La Trobe Climate Adaptation Lab.
Prof David Schlosberg
Director/professor
Sydney Environment Institute / University of Sydney
Just Adaptation
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
David Schlosberg is Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney
Prof David Schlosberg
Director/professor
Sydney Environment Institute / University of Sydney
Just Adaptation
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
David Schlosberg is Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney
Justin See
University of Melbourne
Just Adaptation
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Justin See is Lecturer of Development Studies, University of Melbourne.
Brooke Wilmsen
La Trobe University
Just Adaptation
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Dr Brooke Wilmsen is a Human Geographer in the Department of Social Inquiry.
Prof Hallie Eakin
Professor
Arizona State University
Who enables equitable adaptation? Negotiating roles, responsibilities and accountability in transformative change
4:00 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Hallie Eakin, Professor, researches the roles, responsibilities and relationships among actors in rural and urban adaptation governance. She collaborates extensively with colleagues in Mexico, Central America, South Africa, and Canada in her exploration of the political economy of adaptation and the determinants of more transformative adaptive capacity.
Prof David Schlosberg
Director/professor
Sydney Environment Institute / University of Sydney
Just Adaptation
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
David Schlosberg is Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney
