About
Emma Tompkins is an environmental social scientist / human geographer working on how people adapt to climate and weather hazards. She collaborates with natural scientists, oceanographers, hydrologists, biologists, engineers, arts and humanities researchers, and remote sensers on floods, droughts, storms, and complex and compound hazards. She teaches climate adaptation. She currently researches: the effectiveness of adaptations to climate and weather hazards; how to assess global/large scale evidence of climate adaptation; and how people are adapting in real-time to complex hazards e.g. the nuisance seaweed (sargassum spp.) affecting the tropical Atlantic
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