Project description
Inclusive flood adaptation through social sciences and humanities and STEM co-production
Flood risks in south-east Asia are increasing due to rapid urbanisation and climate change, but current adaptation approaches often fail to include local knowledge, social equity and cultural context. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the PST-CLIMACT project will combine social and environmental research to develop more inclusive and effective flood adaptation strategies in Malaysia’s Johor River Basin. It will analyse how different communities perceive and respond to flood risks using qualitative and spatial methods. PST-CLIMACT will co-create adaptation narratives through social learning videos and assess nature-based solutions by combining participatory methods with technical analysis of their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and impacts. The project will also produce accessible outputs such as visual policy briefs.
Objective
Rapid urbanization and climate change are intensifying flood risks across Southeast Asia, where top-down adaptation often marginalizes local knowledge, equity, and cultural values. While STEM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) offer promise, their uptake is constrained by institutional silos, weak participation, and limited context-specific evidence, challenges best addressed through Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) insights into governance, culture, and justice. This project applies an interdisciplinary SSH–STEM methodology, led from an SSH perspective, to co-produce actionable, equitable adaptation knowledge in Malaysia’s flood-prone Johor River Basin. It will:
1.SSH – analyze how diverse groups perceive and respond to flood risks using qualitative and spatial methods;
2.SSH – develop and test Social Learning Video to co-create narratives of community adaptation;
3.SSH+STEM – apply participatory SWOT-IE with technical assessments of socially grounded NBS;
4.SSH+STEM – produce accessible outputs, including visual policy briefs and open-access training tools.
Grounded in community fieldwork (SSH) and supported by technical NBS modelling (STEM), the project will be refined at Newcastle University’s Centre for Water, enabling two-way Global South–North knowledge exchange. It advances the EU Green Deal and SDGs 11 & 13, delivering transferable SSH–STEM tools for inclusive, climate-resilient urban adaptation.
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NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
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