Helen Adams
“For me, building resilience in a time of environmental and climate uncertainty means we leveraging the opportunities associated with the inevitable changes we must encounter, rather than be overwhelmed by loss.”
Helen Adams is a Senior Lecturer in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation at King’s College London where her research explores the role of place attachment in climate-related migration and individual transformation for climate change adaptation. Previously, Helen was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter, carried out her PhD at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, and worked on adaptation to climate change for the UNFCCC and the OECD. Recently, Helen led on science engagement for the COP26 Presidency and was a Lead Author on Working Group II of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment report.