Elda Pipa is a PhD candidate in the Department of Water and Climate Risk at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Groningen and an MSc in Earth Sciences: Global Environmental Change and Policy from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. For her master’s thesis, Elda examined how rising sea levels affect migration and inequality in coastal Mozambique, using agent-based modeling.
Her broader research interests include climate justice, vulnerability, local impacts and knowledge, adaptation, risk, communication, and spatial modeling.
Currently her PhD research focuses on modelling equitable adaptation and climate justice implications from coastal risk. Her PhD is part of a project focused on “Pathways Towards Equitable Coastal Climate Adaptation”, which aims to marry agent-based modeling with empirical insight to investigate pathways for government adaptation decisions and household responses towards equitable distribution of climate risk.
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Education
2025: MSc Earth Science: Global Environmental Change and Policy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2024: BSc Physics, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
