Tea Skrinjaric
Tea is a PlanAdapt Fellow based in France, originally from Croatia.
Tea has experience in climate change adaptation and rural development, with a focus on community-based adaptation for agricultural livelihoods. Previously, she worked as a specialist at the Climate Action Unit of the Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica. In this role, she contributed to applied research and technical assistance projects in Latin America and beyond, focusing on bottom-up approaches to adaptation and resilience from a social-ecological systems perspective that integrates the complexity of interactions between nature and society.
Her experience includes contributing to landscape-scale vulnerability assessments and projects that integrate nature-based solutions into adaptation strategies. She has also worked on the “last mile” of climate services, focusing on the delivery and adoption of demand-based climate and weather services for rural producers. During her position at CATIE, she participated in the Clim-ARM project which resulted in the development of investment blueprints for resilient value-chains in Rwanda and Ethiopia.
Methodologically, she specializes in qualitative participatory methods and participatory mapping, for which she contributed to the development of the technical manual for participatory mapping to analyze vulnerability to climate change in agricultural livelihoods.
Tea is additionally interested in the intersection of “wicked” global problems. She is exploring the synergies between climate change adaptation strategies and mitigating antimicrobial resistance. Furthermore, she is interested in learning how adaptation pathways can be designed to move beyond incremental steps toward transformative change in vulnerable contexts.
Tea holds a master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Ljubljana and the University of Stockholm, as well as a master’s degree in Global Studies from Gothenburg University. She can work professionally in Croatian, English, and Spanish, and has an intermediate level of proficiency in Indonesian.
For more info, see Tea’s LinkedIn page.
Relevant publications:
Nature-based solutions to address climate change and antimicrobial resistance