Climate Change Adaptation, Flood Risk, and Beyond: State of Play in the Science-Policy-Action Nexus

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Massimiliano Granceri Bradaschia is a post-doc researcher at IUAV University of Venice and an independent consultant with more than 10 years of work experience in Urban and Environmental Planning Climate Change Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation Public policy analysis. He is a professional with diverse and multicultural experiences as both scholar and practitioner in Brazil France Spain Italy and in the lusophone African countries. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development (2020) and a M.Sc. in Urban and Environmental Planning (2014). He is officially chartered to the Italian Urban Planning National Register (2014) and to the Turin Architects and Urbanists register (2020). Hes been working at the services i) governments ii) private companies and consortia iii) learning and research institutions iv) donors and funding organizations supporting the improvement and update of their operative frameworks with the aim to mainstream Sustainability and Climate Change Adaptation.    Francesco Musco urban and environmental planner PhD in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development (Ca Foscari Venice) Full Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning at the Department of Architecture and Arts University Iuav of Venice. Currently teaches Environmental planning Spatial Planning for Climate Change Urban design.  Currently is Director of Research at Iuav (2021-2024). Director of the MS in Urban Planning for Transition and professor of PhD program in Spatial planning and public policies for the territory at Iuav. Scientific coordinator of numerous EU funded projects and research and he obtained more than 8 million euros of competitive research funds in the period 2011-20. Among his publications: with M. van Staden (2010) Local Government for Climate Change Springer NY; (2016); (ed) Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Scenario Springer NY.   Filippo Magni urban planner holds a PhD in planning and public policies for the territory at Università Iuav di Venezia a master's degree in planning at Iuav with a double-title from the International Master in Estudios Territorials i de la Poblaciò issued by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is currently a researcher (RTDa) in urban and regional planning (ICAR/20). He has carried out research and teaching abroad at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Universidad de Sevilla and the Drexel University of Philadelphia where through a multidisciplinary approach he focused on the need to redesign urban planning tools recognised as the main vectors capable of increasing greater resilience to climate change.