Gina Ziervogel

Dr Gina Ziervogel is a geographer by training, with 12 years of experience in the field of adaptation and vulnerability to global environmental change. She is a Senior lecturer in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science researching issues related to development in a context of climate change. Through this she has focused on a number of areas including municipal adaptation strategies, institutional barriers to adaptation, flood governance, water and food security. Gina completed her PhD in Geography at the University of Oxford in 2002 after completing her BSc at the University of Cape Town and her Honours in Environmental Water Management at Rhodes University.