Archived Publications
Mike Hulme has an H-Index of 51 (Scopus) and 78 (Google Scholar) (March 2017). A full listing of career publications can be downloaded here. Major publications are also listed by year: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, etc. Thomson Reuters reports Mike Hulme as the 10th most cited author in the world in the […]
New appointment as Head of Department
(6 March) Appointment as Head of the Department of Geography. I will be taking up this new role at King’s College London from the beginning of April. This coincides with a major new recruitment cycle of academic positions in the Department: six posts currently advertised (see below), plus three further chairs in geography to be […]
Governing climate after the Paris Agreement
1.5C and climate research after the Paris Agreement
(2 February) ‘1.5C and climate research after the Paris Agreement‘ Read my commentary in Nature Climate Change, published yesterday. The Paris Agreement contains an ambition to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, changing the context for policy-relevant research and extending a challenge to the IPCC and researchers.
Living with climate change, with or without the Paris Agreement
Given what has gone before, the Paris Agreement on climate change is certainly an impressive achievement of international negotiation. But what countries will be signing-up to, should they ratify it, is hardly going to reduce the challenges of dealing with a changing climate. And it has very little to contribute to addressing the chronic deficiencies […]
Is climate change to blame for Syrian civil war?
(30 November) Blog Post: ‘Is climate change really to blame for Syria’s civil war?’ Jan Selby and I answer this question with a ‘no’.
‘Knowledge pluralism’ [and climate governance]
(23 November) NEW Book chapter. ‘Knowledge pluralism‘ has now been published as Chapter 49 in Backstrand,K. and Lovbrand,E. (2015) Research Handbook on Climate Governance Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 630pp.
Inaugural lecture podcast
Four new papers published
(6 November) NEW papers now published. The following four papers are now all published on-line: Turnhout,E., Dewulf,A. and Hulme,M. (2016) ‘What does policy-relevant global environmental knowledge do? The cases of climate and biodiversity‘ Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 18, 65-72; Hulme,M. (2015) ‘Finding the message of the Pope’s Encyclical‘ Environment 57(6), 16-19; Hulme,M. (2015) ‘Changing […]



