Date: 11 June 2025
Lecture Topic: Integrating the Role of Nature-Based Solutions in Indicator-Based Risk Assessments

Speaker: Fabrice Renaud

Affiliation: University of Glasgow

Speaker Profile: Professor Fabrice Renaud is Head of the School of Social & Environmental Sustainability and Professor of Environmental Risk and Community Resilience at the University of Glasgow, as well as Director of the National Centre for Resilience in Scotland. His research focuses on vulnerability and risk assessment under natural hazards, and the multiple roles of ecosystems in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation, with a particular focus on communities in coastal areas and estuarine deltas. He has extensive international research experience in South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Africa.

Lecture Overview: This lecture will explore the role of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) in indicator-based risk assessments. Despite the growing global attention to the role of NbS in reducing natural disaster risks, their integration into risk assessments remains limited, especially in indicator-based assessments. Traditional risk assessments mainly focus on social and economic indicators, often neglecting environmental variables. This lecture will introduce new frameworks developed in recent years that better integrate social, economic, and environmental indicators to more comprehensively capture the risks faced by social-ecological systems. These advancements include recognizing the role of ecosystems in DRR within the frameworks and capturing the links between society and ecosystems through the concept of ecosystem services.
These new frameworks and their applications help to:

Provide actionable recommendations for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR);
Enhance the confidence of stakeholders, particularly at-risk communities, in the effectiveness of NbS in DRR.

Lecture Time:

Beijing Time: 20:00 on 11 June

UK Time: 13:00 on 11 June

Lecture Link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b76b5e3e-b136-4533-8764-b12e991c41ee@cf264fc0-aeb8-449f-9054-82ce4454084b

News Information