Ivan Villaverde Canosa
- Email: ee18ivc@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Voices from the frontline: Climate change, wildfires, and adaptation in high-latitude environments
- Supervisors: Professor James Ford, Professor Jouni Paavola
Profile
Hi there and welcome! My name is Ivan, and I am a second-year PhD candidate at the University of Leeds. My research focuses on how people at the community level perceive, experience, and respond to wildfires in high-latitude contexts, including the Arctic and surrounding boreal regions. I am interested in understanding why people throughout the high North are more or less vulnerable to the effects of wildfires and how we can increase their resilience. I have been involved in various projects at under- and postgraduate levels focusing on assessing climate impacts and vulnerability in spatially explicit and context-specific ways and tracking climate change adaptation at global and regional levels. I am also active in publishing my scholarly contributions in the peer-reviewed literature.
Research interests
- Wildfire risk and adaptation
- Community vulnerability and resilience
- Climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction
- Compound impacts
Qualifications
- MSc, Climate Change and Environmental Policy, University of Leeds
- BSc, Geography and Territorial Management, University of Santiago de Compostela
Research groups and institutes
- Climate Change Adaptation, Vulnerability and Services