Dr Armand Kablan is an Environmental Scientist. He belongs to the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Young Scientists Programme and the Global Young Academy (GYA). Dr Kablan is a Lecturer at the Department of Earth Science at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d’Ivoire. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Swiss Center for Scientific Research (CSRS). Both his Masters and PhD focused on the vulnerability of urban dwellers to climate change. His Research interests include human security, urban land use/cover change, climate change adaptation and mitigation, vulnerability and risk assessment, disaster risk management and reduction, GIS, water, sanitation and environmental pollution as well as sustainable development. Dr Kablan is currently a Fellow of the DAAD/climapAfrica where he is working on "Threshold and new information and communication technologies-based improvement of early warning system related to the urban flood in Abidjan".
