Paula A. Harrison

Biography

Prior to joining CEH, Paula Harrison worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK for 24 years, as a visiting scientist at the International Global Change Institute, University of Waikato, New Zealand and for the Atmospheric Impacts Research Group at the University of Birmingham, UK. She coordinates the EU-funded IMPRESSIONS project (www.impressions-project.eu) which is investigating the consequences of high-end climate change and how such knowledge can be embedded within effective and integrated adaptation and mitigation decision-making processes. She is also a WP leader for the EU-funded OpenNESS project (www.openness-project.eu) focusing on methods for assessing the biophysical control of ecosystem services. Previously she was the Coordinator of the EU-funded projects CLIMSAVE (Climate change integrated assessment methodology for cross-sectoral adaptation and vulnerability in Europe) and RUBICODE (Rationalising biodiversity conservation in dynamic ecosystems), and Deputy Coordinator of the EU-funded project BESAFE (Biodiversity and ecosystem services: Arguments for our future environment). She is a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPBES regional assessment of Europe and central Asia leading on Integrated and Cross-Scale Analysis of the Interrelationships between Nature and Society. She also led the review of climate change impacts research on ecosystem services in the Europe chapter of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, and was a Coordinating Lead Author for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment Follow-on Project, assessing the robustness of response options for ecosystem services.

Research Interest

Ecology & Hydrology