Time: 100:00-11:30, November 27 (Monday)
Venue: Lecture Hall 221, Building No. 16
Speaker：Prof. Larissa Naylor from the University of Glasgow
Abstract:
Drawing on research in China, Africa and Europe, Prof. Larissa Naylor will outline how inter and transdisciplinary (with communities and practitioners) research can help society better deliver sustainable development goals and climate resilient places. This involves using a socio-geomorphological approach to critical zone and coastal processes research where the combined impacts of human activities, development choices and anthropogenic climate changes on landscape processes, including nature-based solutions, are examined.
About the speaker
Larissa Naylor is Professor of Geomorphology and Environmental Geography at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. She works at the interface of geomorphology, ecology and engineering and applies this interdisciplinary approach to address ecological and climate change challenges facing society in Europe, Canada, Asia and West Africa. She has also held roles in government agencies and environmental consultancies in the UK and Canada. Recently, she advised the World Bank’s Executive Board, as an appointed expert to the World Bank’s Inspection Panel on a project in West Africa.
She helped establish the UK’s Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership; informed the IPCC 4th and 5th Assessments; and advised the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Her work has won notable awards for career achievements, best papers, industry innovation and as exemplars of international best practice on coastal risk management projects, including co-leading a chapter in US Corps of Army Engineers International guidelines on Natural and Nature-based Solutions. Her work has been featured by multiple news outlets including the New Scientist, The Sunday Times, BBC, FrenchNews24, Inside Climate News and National Geographic Kids.
