This post describes the workshop that was held online on October 14th, 2020, as the first workshop in the Climate Stress Syria project. It was co-written by Cecilia Axelsson Örberg, Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund who were the workshop organizers.

The purpose of the workshop was to bring together experts in the related fields, to summarize the current state of knowledge, as well as to outline methodological and data related issues and share solutions based on interdisciplinary approaches. The networking in the workshop could also help define future research directions in the research community, and to summarize the lessons learned. Below is a summary of the workshop.