Amazonian cities and extreme hydro-climatic events: research to reduce vulnerability and build resilience

这一研究伙伴关系将建立和加强英国和巴西研究人员之间的科学合作。我们的团队将共同努力，开发新的创新研究，以减少亚马逊城市对极端气候事件的脆弱性，如洪水和干旱。我们希望这项研究能够帮助巴西的决策者确定在气候紧急情况下最需要人道主义援助的城市，并建立长期抵御洪水和干旱的能力。我们的团队成员来自不同的学科，包括统计学，健康科学，经济学，环境社会科学和空间建模。我们将利用二级数据来源，研究适应能力、地方机构和自然灾害风险（干旱和洪水的发生）如何影响这些气候事件对生活在亚马逊城市的人们的福祉的负面影响。我们还感兴趣的是，极端气候事件可能如何影响这些城市的粮食价格，从而影响到最贫穷城市居民的粮食负担能力。我们的网络也涉及当地公民，我们将与我们的重点城市的一系列社区成员合作，以确保我们的研究是当地相关和有用的。最后，我们正在投入巨大努力来改善亚马逊科学家的职业机会，并将通过英国和巴西研究人员交流以及在英国和巴西培训硕士和博士生的研讨会来实现这一目标。

This research partnership will build and strengthen scientific collaboration between UK and Brazilian researchers. Our team will work together to develop new, innovative research in order to reduce the vulnerability of Amazonian cities to extreme climatic events, such as floods and droughts. We hope that this research enables decision-makers in Brazil to identify those cities that need humanitarian assistance most during climate emergencies, and also build long-term resilience (capacity to absorb these shocks) to floods and droughts. Our team members come from various academic disciplines, including statistics, health science, economics, environmental social science, and spatial modelling. We will use secondary data sources to examine how adaptive capacity, local institutions and natural hazard exposure (the occurrence of droughts and floods) influence the negative impacts of these climate events on the well-being of people living in Amazonian cities. We are also interested in how extreme climatic events may influence food prices in these cities, which has implications for the affordability of food for the poorest city-dwellers. Our network also involves local citizens, and we will work with a range of community members in our focal cities in order to make sure that are research is locally-relevant and useful. Finally, we are investing significant effort in improving career opportunities for Amazonian scientists, and will achieve this through UK-Brazil researcher exchange, and workshops to train Masters and PhD students in the UK and Brazil.