Adger, W. N., Huq, S., Brown, K., Conway, D. and Hulme, M. (2009) Adaptation to climate change in the developing world pp.161-185 in, Earthscan reader in adaptation to climate change (eds.) Schipper, E. L. and Burton, I., Earthscan, London Adger,W.N., Dessai,S., Goulden,M., Hulme,M., Lorenzoni,I., Nelson,D., Otto-Naess,L., Wolf,J. and Wreford,A. (2009) Are there social limits […]
Month: December 2009
Current and Recent Funded Projects
Information about current and recently completed research projects for which I am/was the Principal, or Co-Principal, Investigator. Current Research Contracts Framing energy futures and risk: exploring public understandings, 2007-2011 (with Irene Lorenzoni and Jacquie Burgess) (Leverhulme Energy, £216,000) Recently Completed Contracts and Grants ADAM: adaptation and mitigation strategies in support of European climate policy, 2006-2009 […]
Chosen by The Economist as one of the ‘books of the year’
(4 December) One of The Economist magazine’s select ‘Books of the year’: Why We Disagree About Climate Change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity. The citation says “How global warming has been transformed from a physical phenomenon that is measurable and observable by scientists into a social, cultural and political one, by a professor of climate […]
Book Projects
The results of the ADAM Project will be published through a mini-series of four books from Cambridge University Press. The first of these – the synthesis volume, Making Climate Change Work For Us – is now published (see below), and the three other books will appear from CUP early in 2010: Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012 (eds. Biermann et al.), […]
Op-eds on science and politics
(3 December) THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. Read my reflections on the relationship between the science and politics of climate change in this Wall Street Journal op-ed and a second take on the same matter in The Guardian newspaper, ‘Laboratories’ Outer Limits’.
Climate Change (AGW): Let’s take it seriously
(December) Read this review and interesting interpretation of Why We Disagree About Climate Change from Richard D North.
The lessons from ‘ClimateGate’
(1 December) ‘SHOW YOUR WORKING’: What ClimateGate means. Read this Green Room Commentary, written with Jerry Ravetz, from the BBC News On-line web site.
