{"id":40429,"date":"2020-11-03T11:38:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/?p=40429"},"modified":"2020-11-03T11:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:38:34","slug":"lena-fuldauer-awarded-1st-prize-in-the-allianz-climate-risk-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/news\/lena-fuldauer-awarded-1st-prize-in-the-allianz-climate-risk-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Fuldauer awarded 1st prize in the Allianz Climate Risk Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Lena Fuldauer (ITRC Researcher and PhD student at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University) who has won 1st prize in the <strong>Allianz Climate Risk Research Awards. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Allianz Climate Risk Research Award supports scientific research that improves our understanding of climate change-related risks.\u00a0This year the awards focused on how the consequences of climate change are already evident and how they can be tackled.<\/p>\n<p>Lena\u2019s research develops a novel systems approach that for the first time spatially assesses impacts of hazards across a nation\u2019s entire built and natural assets \u2013 including energy, health care or ecosystems \u2013 and the ways in which impacts may interact to influence the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n<p>Lena says, \u201cI am delighted that my research on assessing the impacts of climate risks on the Sustainable Development Goals won this award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApplying this research in a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/content.unops.org\/publications\/Saint-Lucia-National-Infrastructure-Assessment.pdf\">adaptation study in Saint Lucia<\/a>\u00a0has helped decision-makers better prioritise adaptation in vulnerable areas, added spatial granularity to the island&#8217;s National Adaptation Plan, and highlighted the importance of wetlands in protecting the\u00a0built environment from increasing storm surges and flash floods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very grateful to Allianz for the opportunity to present my research, and to the fantastic partnership between the University of Oxford&#8217;s ECI\/ ITRC, UNOPS and the Ministry of Finance in Saint Lucia and all the people who helped make this research happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/person\/fuldauer\/\">Lena Fuldauer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allianz.com\/content\/dam\/onemarketing\/azcom\/Allianz_com\/responsibility\/documents\/20201028_AllianzClimateRiskResearchAward.pdf\">Allianz Awards 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/allianz-climate-risk-research-award_allianz-research-science-activity-6727564436938231808-j3E8\">Allianz Awards finalists video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/content.unops.org\/publications\/Saint-Lucia-National-Infrastructure-Assessment.pdf\">St Lucia: National Infrastructure Assessment, August 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Lena Fuldauer (ITRC Researcher and PhD student at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University) who has won 1st prize in the Allianz Climate Risk Research Awards. The Allianz Climate Risk Research Award supports scientific research that improves our understanding of climate change-related risks.\u00a0This year the awards focused on how the consequences of climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":40430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[128,129],"tags":[],"areas":[],"class_list":["post-40429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-prizes-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40433,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40429\/revisions\/40433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40429"},{"taxonomy":"areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/areas?post=40429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}