Extreme Weather Adaptation Lab
We help communities, governments, and partners prepare for weather-related hazards. By combining cutting-edge research, tailored policy tools, and strong stakeholder collaboration, we work to build more resilient and sustainable futures.
Our mission
To support policymakers, planners, and communities in preparing for extreme weather events by advancing research that:
- Fosters Innovation: leveraging transdisciplinary, cutting-edge tools to enable planning and policymaking that address complex challenges.
- Improves evaluation: helping decision-makers identify which interventions are most effective-and for whom.
- Encourages participation and centers communities: engaging a broad range of actors and paradigms to develop solutions that leave no one behind.
Our vision
A world where proactive governance and planning realize more livable and resilient communities by:
- Identifying and strengthening policy and planning tools that deliver significant impacts with limited resources
- Streamlining research-to-policy collaboration to accelerate knowledge transfer and real-world solutions
