Katie Johnson
Katie Johnson is a researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE).
Katie Johnson
Katie is a researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) where her work focuses on climate adaptation policy and governance. She is involved in policy-oriented research efforts through the European Topic Centre on Climate change adaptation and LULUCF, including the assessment of reported national adaptation actions under the EU Governance Regulation. Katie often applies a health lens to adaptation policy analysis, contributing to the European Climate and Health Observatory and to the Human health and Infectious disease chapters of the first European Climate Risk Assessment. She is currently researching climate policy co-benefits and trade-offs on infectious disease risk in the Horizon Europe project IDAlert, and analyzing heatwave management practices and policy frameworks in the Interreg project HEATSAFE. She has experience with stakeholder engagement for the co-design of adaptation pathways, as well as communication and outreach activities.
Katie’s background is in Environmental Analysis and Policy (BA, Boston University). She has a specialization in Climate and Society (MA, Columbia University), and holds a PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia). Before joining EIEE, she conducted research at both the Center for Climate Systems Research and the Columbia Water Center at The Earth Institute in New York City, and at FEEM in Venice.
Past projects include Accelerating and upscaling transformational adaptation in Europe: demonstration of water-related innovation packages (TransformAr, H2020), Adriadapt (Interreg Italy-Croatia), and Post-carbon cities of tomorrow (POCACITO, FP7).
