Breil Margaretha

Breil Margaretha is a senior Researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC) in Venice, Italy, specializing in urban sustainability and climate change adaptation within the Economic analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy Division (ECIP). Her work focuses on assessment and design of urban adaptation policies with emphasis on social dimensions.

Her research spans urban sustainability, climate change adaptation, nature-based solutions (NBS), social vulnerability analysis, and marine policy adaptation. She investigates inequalities in climate impacts, co-benefits of NBS, and socioeconomic dimensions of urban resilience, contributing to frameworks for equitable adaptation planning in European cities.

Margaretha coordinates the INTERREG Italy-Croatia Project ADRIADAPT (since 2019), developing a Resilience Information platform for Adriatic cities. She actively contributes to European Environment Agency (EEA) reports on urban adaptation (2016, 2020) and thematic analyses of climate inequality through the EEA working group on Urban and Social Aspects of Adaptation.