Athanasopoulos-Zekkos awarded Interdisciplinary Climate and Equity Seed Grant
Sep 18, 2024
Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos is a coPI on a Interdisciplinary Climate and Equity Seed Grant, that will focus on developing new methods for accurately integrating equity in flood risk management. Dr. Anna Serra-Llobet is the PI and brings expertise in flood risk management policies, environmental planning, floods after fire, residual risk of extreme floods, and nature-based solutions for flood risk management.
The Seed Grant awarded from the UC Berkeley's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, is meant to "support the formation of interdisciplinary teams to prepare for external funding opportunities to advance innovative and integrative interdisciplinary understandings and approaches to the study of Climate and Environmental Equity."
The multi disciplinary team also incudes Prof. Danielle Rivera and Prof. Matt Kondolf from the College of Environmental Design, Prof. Chris Ansell from Political Science, Prof. Kenichi Soga from CEE and Gabriela Paredes, a PhD student in Geosystems.
More information is provided here.