About Sadie McEvoy

Dr Sadie McEvoy is a senior researcher and climate adaptation specialist, focusing on adaption planning and decision making under deep uncertainty for water resources, coasts, and urban areas. She is particularly interested in how climate adaptation is planned and in methods to support decision making for adaptation. She combines her research with work on adaptation projects alongside planners and decision makers around the world. In these projects, Dr McEvoy often uses Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways, Collaborative Risk Informed Decision Analysis, the Climate Resilient Cities Toolbox, and policy hackathons, among others.

Since 2021, Dr McEvoy has led the adaptation planning research and development for UNESCO’s BeResilient Programme for Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis in biosphere reserves across South Africa and Zimbabwe. This project developed bottom-up climate change vulnerability assessments and adaptation pathways for more resilient communities and landscapes. She is also a lead researcher on Climate Resilient Development Pathways for European cities, in the European REACHOUT project.

Dr McEvoy regularly publishes in scientific journals, presents in international conferences, contributes to trainings and courses, and supervises students. She has served on the board of the Society for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty and was Chapter Scientist and Contributing Author for the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Working Group II. She is currently a member of the European Joint Programme Initiative: Knowledge Hub Sea Level Rise and is a member of Deltares’ Science Council.