Marie Bogataj AXA Research Fund & Group Foresight Director
June 28, 2018

How to protect coastal areas from the impacts of climate change

Prof. Roshanka Ranasinghe and his team of researchers from the UNESCO Institute for Water Education have recently developed a prediction model that provides a new way to estimate climate change-driven coastal erosion. It extends our understanding of what the next 100 years may hold for vulnerable coastal communities, and give us the means to better protect them.
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Roshanka Ranasinghe is one of the 563 researchers supported by the AXA Research Fund since its creation in 2008. The goal of this philanthropic initiative is to support top tier scientific research that contributes to societal progress, and to encourage researchers to share their findings to enlighten decision-making and public debate.