Adaptation Pathways and Economic Evaluation

On 27 and 28 November 2013, I attended two workshops organized by the BASE project, at Deltares in Delft, the Netherlands. The workshop 27/11 focused on adaptation pathways and was hosted by Marjolein Haasnoot (from Deltares), the workshop 28/11 focused on economic evaluation and was hosted by Volker Meyer and Oliver Gebhardt (both from UFZ, Leipzig). Both workshops included a morning session with introducing approaches, and an afternoon session with presenting and discussing case studies in relation to these approaches. It was very interesting to be introduced to the other case studies in the BASE project. Other cases include for example dealing with flood risk management in Copenhagen, Prague and Venice, and in an area Midwest in Finland. Here some pictures taken during the workshop on adaptation pathways; where we had been practising with applying the adaptation pathways approach (as developed by Marjolein Haasnoot) to our own case studies:

These workshops were my first encounter with other participants in the BASE project. And it was very interesting to see who some of the other colleagues are in the BASE project! To get some faces and voices behind the names which pass by on the emails. There was a nice mixture of nationalities, backgrounds, ages and gender, and a friendly atmosphere and interest in each others’ work. At the same time, I was also surprised by the high number of laptops that were opened and used during the various meetings – meaning most of them were not used for taking notes J Is multitasking with open laptops the new standard at professional meetings?