Peter Urich, Managing Director

Dr. Peter Urich is the Managing Director of CLIMsystems Ltd. He has over fifteen years experience in community development, resource management and climate change adaptation and risk assessment. Peter gained his PhD in Human Geography from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra and Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Wisconsin, USA. He also holds a diploma in agriculture from Guelph University in Canada. His work with rural economies and land managers across Asia and the Pacific and his publication record and affiliations across government and non government organisations and private industry position him well to bring climate risk and impact assessment tools and technologies to a diverse array of end users. Peter has recently implemented the development and delivery of customised climate change risk assessment tools for the Governments of Tonga and Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Peter is also the project leader for the Southeast Queensland Climate Change Mapping Project. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the climate change programme at the University of the Sunshine Coast located in Queensland, Australia. He has recently negotiated arrangements for CLIMsystems to market climate risk assessment tools that integrate with Danish Hydraulic Institute Models and with the Decision Support Systems for Agrotechnology Transfer program developed by ICASA in the USA.

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