Joy Jacqueline Pereira

Joy Jacqueline Pereira (* 1965 ) is a Malaysian geoscientist. She is a Professor in Disaster Prevention at the National University of Malaysia .

Life

Pereira earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the National University of Malaysia in 1989, a Master of Science degree from the University of Leicester in 1991 and a PhD from the University of Malaya in 1996 .

Act

Pereira's research includes disaster risk reduction , adaptation to climate change, and the management of natural resources for sustainable development with a focus on linking science and politics. In 2009, Pereira led a group to develop Malaysia’s national climate policy on behalf of the Ministry of Environment. It also developed the National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Pereira is u. a. one of the authors of the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2014) and the special report on global warming of 1.5 degrees by the IPCC (2018).

Publications (selection)

• RA Begum, C. Siwar, JJ Pereira and AH Jaafar: Attitude and behavioral factors in waste management in the construction industry of Malaysia. In: Resources, Conservation and Recycling. Volume 53, No. 6, 2009, pp. 321-328.
• I. Burton et al .: Managing the risks: international level and integration across scales. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

credentials

1. ↑ opac.my
2. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.ipcc.ch/report/authors/report.authors.php?q=32&p=  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} https://www.ipcc.ch/nominations/cv/cv_joy_pereira.pdf
4. ↑ http://epic.awi.de/37530/