Insights of a once reluctant academic working on urban climate change in Southern Africa
December
6
2021
Gina Ziervogel Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, joins us to discuss the route she has taken over the last 20 years as a geographer working on climate change vulnerability and adaptation, urban governance, and social justice.
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. PST
In this 90-minute presentation and conversation withUrban@UW Faculty DirectorRachel Berney, Gina will reflect on her professional journey, which began working in rural areas and looking at how climate information might be used, and has evolved to focus on urban areas and multi-level governance, as she seeks to understand how citizens and government may better collaborate around issues of urban climate adaptation and resilience. Gina has worked collaboratively with local government and NGOs, exploring how to build engagement on issues of flooding and drought, while addressing social justice. She will explore her work and strong interest in both transformative and transdisciplinary methods.
Gina’s research focuses on climate change adaptation and development across scales from the household to municipal level with a focus on urban water and resilience issues. She is particularly interested in transdisciplinary approaches to address the governance of urban adaptation and social justice. She serves on the City of Cape Town’s Water Resilience Advisory Section 80 Committee, is an IPCC 6th Assessment report author on the Cities chapter, and has been published widely. She is currently in the U.S. at University California Santa Cruz on a Fulbright for 6 months until December.
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