Here is my piece of CAKE. My main research interest is adaptation to climate change in water management. Based at the Centre for Water and Climate of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, my research is firmly rooted in the global change community branching out into institutional as well as biophysical aspect. My work seeks to identify robust land and water management strategies and opportunities to implement these strategies at the regional scale. My scientific background in water management, climate adaptation, environmental sciences and experimental physics is complemented by practical experience, working in the national government and the private sector.
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Open University of Sri Lanka.
My main areas of teaching and research and coastal hydrodynamics and sediment transport, coastal zone management, extreme events, water pollution and sustainable sanitation.
I have also been involved in several inter-disciplinary intiatives including the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) project (www.loicz.org) and the establishment of the Master of Development Practice at the University of Peradeniya (http://www.pdn.ac.lk/arts/econ/mdp/index.htm).
Dennis Carlberg, AIA, LEED AP is the Sustainability Director at Boston University working to move the University and its culture to greater resource efficiency and environmental responsibility. http://www.bu.edu/sustainability/ He is an architect with over 25 years of experience who began his career at the Solar Energy Research Institute conducting daylighting research to reduce building energy consumption and improve the indoor environment.
Dennis co-chairs the Sustainability Council at the Urban Land Institute – Boston, a council dedicated to exploring policies and solutions that address global climate change and which are both feasible and effective at the nexus of energy, land use, infrastructure and real estate. He also co-chairs ULI – Boston’s the Sea Level Rise committee developing programming to educate and motivate the Boston-area real estate community decision makers (private and public sector) on climate adaptation and ultimately achieve action from policy makers on these issues.
Field of Interests:
Conservation Biology in a Changing Climate
The Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) brings leading experts from around the world together with industry, community, and government decision-makers to explore the risks posed by top-of-mind climate change issues and identify opportunities for sustainable adaptation.
