Nadia Ahmad's Qualifying Exam

Nadia Ahmad will stand for the Qualifying Examination for acceptance into candidacy for the Ph.D. degree on Tuesday, April 30 at 3:00 p.m. in the 380 Edwards St seminar room. All faculty (only faculty) are welcome and invited to attend. Copies of Nadia’s dissertation prospectus and qualifying exam questions and answers can be obtained from the Doctoral Program Office (contact: elisabeth.barsa@yale.edu).

Committee members:
• Profs. Dan Esty and Gerald Torres (Co-Chairs)
• Prof. Luke Sanford

Question 1: Resilience as Critical Focus of Climate Change Policy
Why has resilience (or adaptation) emerged as a critical area of focus in climate change policy? What issues are getting attention in this regard – and why? What impediments to advancing a resilience/adaptation agenda have emerged? What can be done to overcome these obstacles?

Question 2: A Resilience Toolkit
Q2) As resilience and adaptation become more central to climate change policy, what tools strategies, best practices, and technologies—need to be developed? What specific conceptual concerns and practical challenges does this resilience toolkit need to address? How do the tools that you propose change the way the critical challenges get framed or impediments get overcome?

Dissertation Prospectus: “Democratizing Climate Evacuation Readiness: A Collaborative Approach Operationalizing AI, Citizen Science and Geospatial Data for Multi-Hazard Resilience”

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