President

Caroline van Bers is president of TIAS since October 2021 and active in the association since 2004. She supports planning and implementing a range of research, networking and capacity development activities that promote Integrated Assessment at the science-policy-practice interface. She has been involved in environmental management with academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations for over thirty years, working mainly on interdisciplinary, applied research initiatives, as well as the development and implementation of education and training programmes in sustainable development, food security, climate change adaptation, water management, and integrated assessment approaches. She coordinates an interfaculty programme at the University of Twente (NL), on Drought and Water Scarcity which promotes transdisciplinary research in resilience to climate change. She is also a guest researcher with the Resources Management group in the department of Geography at Osnabrück University in Germany.

Themes

• Climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction
• Adaptive water management
• Resource management in the water-energy-food nexus
• Sustainable food systems and food security

Methods

• Stakeholder involvement and participatory processes, scenario development and analysis, indicators, and environmental & social impact assessment

Activities

• Transdisciplinary applied research
• Capacity development and training
• Communication

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Contact: cvanbers[at]tias-web[dot]info