Climate risk
Compound shocks, vulnerability, displacement pressure, and institutional preparedness.
Research area
Climate, Water, and Resilience
How environmental change becomes a political, economic, and institutional challenge.
Scope
Research scope
HAI integrates environmental analysis with research on institutions, infrastructure, livelihoods, markets, and public policy. The central question is how societies and governments anticipate, absorb, and adapt to climate and resource pressures before they become wider humanitarian, economic, or political crises.
Core questions
Core research questions
Water governance
Surface and groundwater systems, shared resources, allocation, infrastructure, and cooperation.
Drought and food systems
Monitoring, early warning, pastoral and agricultural adaptation, preparedness, and recovery.
Environmental change
Watersheds, ecosystems, land use, urban pressure, and water-energy-food linkages.
Adaptation institutions
Public capability, climate finance, local governance, implementation, and accountability.
Climate information
Remote sensing, risk indicators, hydrological information, scenarios, and decisions under uncertainty.
Research Outputs
Research and policy analysis
Climate-risk assessments, vulnerability analysis, water-resource scenarios, early-warning frameworks, adaptation strategies, and institutional recommendations.
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