CCSS Meeting #73: Defining and measuring socioeconomic resilience

This lecture will be held in hybrid format at our CCSS Living Room (MIN 4.16). The speaker, dr. Stéphane Hallegatte (World Bank), will be speaking online from Washington DC, USA, Prof. dr. Erik Stam will be physically present as the on-site moderator to open the session and initiate discussions. Drinks and nibbles will be provided afterwards. The theme of this CCSS Meeting is Resilience.

Speaker Overview
Stéphane Hallegatte is Chief Climate Economist at the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 2012 after 10 years of academic research in environmental economics and climate science for Météo-France, the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement, and Stanford University. His research interests include the economics of resilient low-emission development, the monitoring and measurement of climate policies on jobs, incomes, poverty, and quality of life; the inclusion of climate change and natural disasters in macroeconomic models and poverty assessments; and exploring the political economy of policies and their robustness to uncertainty. 

Lecture Overview
Resilience is an increasingly common concept in policy and economic discussions, but different definitions and approaches complicate its operationalization and applications. In this presentation, Stéphane will summarize a series of studies that use various approaches at household or firm level to measure socioeconomic resilience and guide, target and prioritize interventions to protect people against the negative impact of shocks and disasters.

There will be 45-min lecture from the speaker, followed by a 15-min discussion session. Drinks and nibbles will be provided afterwards.

To attend the lecture in person, please signup below before 15:00 on Wednesday May 21.