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SUMMARY: Limits to adaptation in the Thames Estuary: sea level rise and de
 cision-making - Professor Jim Hall\, Director\, Environmental Change Insti
 tute\, Oxford University
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CONTACT:Dr Dick Fenner
DESCRIPTION:Professor Jim Hall is Director of the Environmental Change Ins
 titute\, Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks in the School of Geo
 graphy and the Environment\, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of
  Engineering Science and fellow of Linacre College. His research focuses u
 pon management of climate-related risks in infrastructure systems\, in par
 ticular relating to flooding\, coastal erosion and water scarcity. He move
 d to the University of Oxford in 2011 having previously held academic posi
 tions in Newcastle University and the University of Bristol. \n\nJim worke
 d in the UK and internationally as a coastal engineer before embarking on 
 an academic career pioneering new uncertainty handling and decision-suppor
 t methods for flood and coastal risk analysis.. Jim was a coordinating lea
 d author in the OST’s Foresight project on Flood and Coastal Defence\, w
 hich analysed risks and responses to flooding and coastal erosion in the U
 K over the period 2030-2100. In 2010 Jim Hall was elected as a Fellow of t
 he Royal Academy of Engineering "for his contribution to the development o
 f methods for flood risk analysis\, which underpin approaches for flood ri
 sk management in the UK and internationally."\n\nJim has worked extensivel
 y on application of generalized theories of probability to civil engineeri
 ng and environmental systems\, including random set theory\, the theory of
  imprecise probabilities and info-gap theory. The work has been particular
 ly fruitful in the analysis of uncertainties relating to global climate mo
 delling\, yielding the only paper on imprecise probability theory cited in
  the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report and leading to two recent publicati
 ons in PNAS. \n\nIn recent years Jim has played an increasingly high profi
 le role in relation to engineering and climate change\, with a particular 
 emphasis on adaptation to climate change in urban areas and infrastructure
  systems. Jim was a Contributing Author to the Fourth Assessment Report of
  the IPCC. He has managed the UK programme Sustaining Knowledge for a Chan
 ging Climate and was until 2010 Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for 
 Climate Change Research. Jim Hall is the engineer on the Adaptation Sub-Co
 mmittee of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change which was brough
 t into being by the 2008 Climate Change Act. He now leads the UK Infrastru
 cture Transitions Research Consortium\, which is funded by a £4.7million 
 Programme Grant for EPSRC and is developing and demonstrating a new genera
 tion of system simulation models and tools to inform analysis\, planning a
 nd design of national infrastructure.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 0\, Engineering Department\, Trumpington Street
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