How triage can help to make decisions
We all know the harsh reality of having to make decisions on how to spend such resources as our time and focus. Last week I co-wrote an article with Ben Preston for The Conversation on climate adaptation and triage. Triage as a concept emerged in World War I and is: a process of prioritizing actions […]
Normalising ideas
I am still reading Seth Godin’s book ‘This is marketing” how ideas spread and ideas develop, and it still keeps giving me great ideas and inspiration. What Seth really emphasis is the role of narratives and the importance of paying attention to these: You can’t get someone to do something that they don’t want to […]
Will COP24 deliver the great expectations?
This week in Queensland, temperatures are soaring, with temperature records consistently breaking this week, with potential for fire tornadoes with the strong winds, and also potentially a devastating season for our coral reefs as the summer heat begins. Meanwhile, school children and youth in Australia are staging a campaign and not going to school as […]
Is conservation missing the boat on climate adaptation?
This week I have attended the 5th European Congress on Conservation, organised by Society of Conservation Biology. My reason attending this conference is that I am curious as to how climate adaptation is treated/examined in other fields (it’s also in Finland, which of course is a plus). In general, I want to have a better […]
Rebuilding in a changing world
This week, several news items have focused on rebuilding and relocation. There are many areas that have experienced devastating disasters where people still rebuild, often because they do not necessarily have a choice. Others are willing to take more risks and assess for example living in a flood prone area as a gamble that they […]
3 reasons why everyone needs to understand leadership
Although my main area of expertise is in decision-making around climate change adaptation, I have been recently reading multiple books on different concepts around leadership and what it means to lead well both in an organisation and in personal life. My current reads include Good to Great by Jim Collins and One Mission by Chris Fussell; both […]
Why don’t you pick something realistic? How I ended up in climate adaptation.
I’m always intrigued by the actual stories how people have found their careers. Contrast to many popular career development books and advice out there, it seems to me that paths are rarely straight forward as life happens and people find themselves faced with opportunities, which take them one way rather than the other. I thought […]