Thursday 23 November 2023
GeoHero had the honor and pleasure to interview Dr. Debra Roberts about her career trajectory and perspective on climate change adaptation. Watch the interview below.
About Debra Roberts
Dr. Debra Roberts holds a PhD in urban biogeography and is currently head of the Sustainable and Resilient City Initiatives Unit in eThekwini Municipality (Durban, South Africa). She was a lead author of Chapter 8 (Urban Areas) and a contributing author to Chapter 12 (Africa) of Working Group II’s contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). More recently, Debra Roberts is also a part-time professor at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science at the University of Twente.
