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Speaker
Louise
Elstow
Director, Fynbos Consulting Limited | Interdisciplinary Social Scientist & Resilience Specialist
Louise Elstow is an interdisciplinary social scientist and resilience consultant. Since 2008, she has been working with partners to plan for and respond to crises and emergencies, beginning her career in Local Government in London as an Emergency Planner. Passionate about protecting the environment, in her work at the Cambridge University’s Centre for Sustainable Development, she helps engineers to design sustainably and within the Earth’s parameters, using systems thinking approaches. She has recently worked on research projects exploring the impact of physical climate risks on healthcare infrastructure, resilient procurement, accountability in resilience structures, and is currently partnering with the National Trust and hill farmers on a Welsh Integrated Natural Resources Scheme (INRS) to build environmental and agricultural resilience on Sugar Loaf mountain. Louise also sits as an indpendent panel member on the Wessex Regional Flood and Coastal Committee. She has just returned from facilitating a workshop on African Wildlife Credits for WWF in Tanzania. Her PhD thesis explored the contruction of scientific knowledge in contamination emergencies using Fukushima as a case study. She also holds an MSc in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management, and a BSc in German, Swedish and Economics.
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