Mathilde de Goër de Herve

Mathilde de Goër de Herve's research focuses on disaster risk management as part of climate change adaptation. Her studies investigate topics such as just processes and outcomes, prioritization of critical services, long-term strategies and integrated management. 

Mathilde de Goër de Herve has more than six years of experience researching and advising in the field of climate risk management. She defended her PhD thesis in September 2024, in Risk and Environmental Studies (Karlstad University, Sweden). The title was Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Development: The role of Justice and Temporality. She has then worked as a climate change adaptation consultant to support the work of different European institutions, notably the European Environment Agency and the  Secretariat of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.

Earlier studies: Mathilde graduated in 2018 with an International Joint Master's Degree in Sustainable Territorial Development (STeDe) from KU Leuven (Belgium), Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (France), and Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy). Before that, her studies were focusing on economics (Université Lumière Lyon II (France) and Université de Bordeaux (France)). 

Affiliations:

→  Risk and Environmental Studies, Karlstad University

→  Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS)

→  Centre for Societal Risk Research (CSR)

→ de Goër de Herve, M., & Pot, W.D. (2024) When, at what speed, and how? Resilient transformation on the Vesdre river basin (Belgium) following the 2021 floods, Environmental Sciences Europe, 36(105). doi: 10.1186/s12302-024-00928-3 

→ de Goër de Herve, M., Schinko, T., Handmer, J. (2023) Risk justice: Boosting the contribution of risk management to sustainable development, Risk Analysis, 1-15. doi: 10.1111/risa.14157

→ de Goër de Herve, M. (2022) Fair strategies to tackle unfair risks? Justice considerations within flood risk management, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 69 (102745). doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102745

→ Nilson, F. & de Goër de Herve, M. (2023) Exploring the transfer of risks, Safety Science, 166 (106240). doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106240 

Disaster risk management - Climate change adaptation - Climate risks - Water extremes - Floods - Droughts - Integrated risk management - Evaluation - Decision-making processes - Justice - Redistribution of vulnerability - Temporality - Social sciences - Interdisciplinary research