ACCESS - Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science
ACCESS - Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science

Adaptation and Resilience Task Force

Task Force 3 runs from September 2025 to September 2026. 

Its focus is on understanding and enabling increased consideration and use of social science by policy makers for climate change adaptation in respect to behavioural and societal responses to natural hazards and building resilience to disasters.

The objectives of the Task Force for are to:

  • bridge the gap between existing social science evidence and its application in policy
  • support adaptation and build resilience by exploring how individuals and communities can adapt to chronic, acute, and compound hazards
  • consider the overlaps, synergies, and conflicts between adaptation, resilience, and mitigation


THE TASK FORCE

Task Force includes both academic and government social scientists with extensive subject knowledge and experience of working across the science-policy interface.

Members and more details will be added shortly but for more information on the Adaptation and Resilience Task Force, please contact:

Dr Rory Walshe – Rory.Walshe@Go-Science.gov.uk

Prof. Irene Lorenzoni – i.lorenzoni@uea.ac.uk

Dr Steven Guilbert – s.guilbert3@exeter.ac.uk