Key qualifications:

Ms. Melike Kuş (PhD), who has an urban and regional planning background, has been working intensively with various stakeholders on site within the framework of climate change adaptation and natural resource management and has substantial experience in community based adaptation strategies in the most climate stressed regions of Turkey. She has been initiating climate smart agriculture implementations in highly vulnerable agroecosystems with a focus on soil, water and biodiversity conservation. She has wide experience on climate change mitigation and adaptation, efficient irrigation techniques, value change analysis, vulnerability analysis at different socio-ecological settings, community based monitoring and assessment of the project implementations and problem solving with a participatory approach. She is particularly interested in mediating between demands of scientific findings regarding climate change and constraints of socioeconomic and cultural structure in the agricultural sector.