Carmen Elrick

Senior Consultant, BSc (Hons)


Carmen has extensive experience across a whole spectrum of projects, from site-specific research to nation-wide climate change risk assessments. Her unique approach to structuring risk assessments ensures outcomes can be mainstreamed into operational programs, which is a major asset for clients. Her dedication to capacity building together with the rapport she creates with everyone she works with is much admired by colleagues and clients alike.

At a glance

  • Carmen is a social and environmental scientist with over 6 years comprehensive experience in the research and consulting industry.
  • As lead trainer in climate change risk assessment and adaptation planning for CZM, Carmen's clients include UNEP in SE Asia, the World Bank in the Pacific, and AusAID, both in Australia and in the Pacific.
  • Extensive skills and experience in community and stakeholder consultation, policy analysis and planning, institutional analysis and reform, and climate change risk assessment and adaptation planning.
  • Carmen trains and mentors representatives from national and local governments in approaches to climate change risk assessment and adaptation planning. She has developed handbooks, training manuals and audio-visual tools to support capacity building programs. Carmen's experience in mentoring and capacity building includes one-on-one training, group mentoring (workshops) and seminar presentations.
  • An experienced project manager for international, state and local clients. Carmen applies a custom Quality Management System that combines elements of the ISO 9000 series with the PRINCE2 Project Management methodology.
  • Core skills in climate change vulnerability assessment, institutional analysis, coastal impact assessment, socio-economic analysis, community consultation, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
  • Academic writing with over 15 published reports.

Little known fact

Carmen has travelled to 16 countries and studied coastal zones in 5 countries, including Australia. During her professional career, she has developed techniques to enable use of GIS information for non-technical audiences, in the process enabling informed coastal management decision-making.

 

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Clients Say...

Thanks to valuable experience and support from Robert, Carmen and CZM team, we are confidently passing through the process of climate change impact/risk assessment, coastal ecosystem restoration and Integrated Coastal Zone Management for one of the most beautiful and vulnerable areas in Albania, Kune-Vain and Patok lagoons. They seem to be online and willing to provide advice every time we need, in spite of very long distance and time difference.

Prof. Dr. Eglantina Bruci

Project Coordinator, UNDP Climate Change Program

Did You Know?


July 2010

Dr Robert Kay was put in the spotlight, quite literally, presenting on camera recently for the UNDP El Salvador conference on Strategies for Adapting Public and Private Infrastructure to Climate Change...more

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