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        Sukaina Bharwani

        Senior Research Fellow

      • Role(s): Co-leader, SEI Initiative on Climate Services
      • Expertise: Vulnerability, Climate change adaptation and decision-making
      • sukaina.bharwani@sei.org
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      Sukaina Bharwani is an interdisciplinary senior researcher with a background in both social anthropology and computer science, providing her with a unique range of qualitative and quantitative skills to further climate adaptation research in innovative ways.

      Sukaina co-leads the SEI Climate Services initiative and several work streams in large European and international projects. She also coordinates the strategic and technical development of the weADAPT global platform and network for climate change adaptation.

      Her current research includes supporting urban adaptation in southern Africa , connecting communities working on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Europe, and contributing to the field of climate services.

      Sukaina has a Ph.D. in Applied Computing (Social Sciences) and a BA (Hons) in Social Anthropology.

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      Meet Sukaina Bharwani, Senior Research Fellow

      Meet Sukaina, an interdisciplinary senior researcher at SEI Oxford. Sukaina started working at SEI in 2003.

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      Publications by Sukaina Bharwani

      • Understanding and supporting climate-sensitive decision processes in southern African cities
      • Co-producing climate information for Windhoek decision making
      • Refocusing the climate services lens: introducing a framework for co-designing “transdisciplinary knowledge integration processes” to build climate resilience
      • Transforming knowledge management for climate action: a road map for accelerated discovery and learning
      • Enabling Climate Science Use to Better Support Resilience and Adaptation Practice
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      Perspectives by Sukaina Bharwani

      • Is the new IPCC report a game changer for adaptation?
      • Bouncing back or bouncing forward? The overlooked role of taxonomies for climate action and pandemic recovery
      • Una hoja de ruta que acelera la gestión de conocimiento para la acción climática
      • A road map to accelerate information exchange for climate action
      • Exploring the power of collaboration to address climate change in urban Africa
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      Featured stories with Sukaina Bharwani

      • Q&A: How IPCC reports get written, why they matter and what role governments play in them
      • The role of international cooperation in disaster risk reduction
      • Introducing “Participate!” – an online course that teaches how to better facilitate events on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
      • Collaboration to bridge the gap between climate science and adaptation policy
      • Working in Tandem: focusing on collaboration to link climate science and climate policy
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      Projects and tools with Sukaina Bharwani

      • Adaptation at Altitude
      • Iniciativa Servicios Climáticos de SEI
      • FRACTAL
      • PLACARD
      • IMPRESSIONS
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