Evan Fraser
Centre member
Evan is based at the University of Leeds, where he is a senior lecturer in sustainable development. He also holds an Economic and Social Research Council Fellowship and is on three years of research leave.
Media articles
2011
The psychology of food riots: when do price spikes lead to arrest?
|Evan Fraser and Andrew Rimas, Foreign Affairs, 30 January
2010
Food crisis: what happens when we run out of bread
|Evan Fraser, GOOD, 4 October
Want to improve food security? Ask an investment banker
|Evan Fraser and Andrew Rimas, AOLNews (opinion), 19 July
Research articles
2012
Simelton, E., Fraser, E.D.G., Challinor, A.J., Dougill, A.J., Forster, P.M, et al. Online first - forthcoming. The socioeconomics of food crop production and climate change vulnerability: a global scale quantitative analysis of how grain crops are sensitive to drought. Food Security. External link to full details|
Antwi-Agyei, P., Fraser, E., Dougill, A., Stringer, L., and Simelton, E. March 2012. Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data. Applied Geography, v.32, pp.324–334. External link to full article|
2011
Paavola, J., and Fraser, E. May 2011. Ecological economics and environmental history. Ecological Economics, v.70, pp.1266-1268. External link to full article|
Simelton, E., Quinn, C.H., Antwi-Agyei, P., Batisani, N., Dougill, A.J., Dyer, J., Fraser, E.D.G., Mkwambisi, D., Rosell, S., Sallu, S., and Stringer, L.C. African farmers' perceptions of erratic rainfall. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of article| (1.69MB)
Twyman, C., Fraser, E.D.G., Stringer, L.C., Quinn, C., Dougill, A.J., Ravera, F., Crane, T.A., and Sallu, S.M. 2011. Climate science, development practice, and policy interactions in dryland agroecological systems. Ecology and Society, v.16. External link to full article|
Fraser, E., Dougill, A., Hubacek, K., Quinn, C., Sendzimir, J., and Termansen, M. 2011. Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions. Ecology and Society, v.16. External link to full article|
Antwi-Agyei, P., Fraser, E.D.G., Dougill, A.J., Stringer, L.C., and Simelton, E. March 2011. Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (1.16MB)
Antwi-Agyei, P., Fraser, E.D.G., Dougill, A.J., Stringer, L.C., and Simelton, E. March 2011. . Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. (1.16MB)
Mkwambisi, D.B., Fraser, E.D.G., and Dougill, A.J. 2011. Urban agriculture and poverty reduction: evaluating how food production in cities contributes to food security, employment and income in Malawi. Journal of International Development, v.23, pp.181-203. External link to full article| (PDF, 261KB)
2010
Dougill, A.J., Fraser, E.D.G., and Reed, M.S. 2010. Anticipating vulnerability to climate change in dryland pastoral systems: using dynamic systems models for the Kalahari.
Simelton, E., Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Benton, T.G., Gosling, S.N., South, A., Arnell, N.W., Challinor, A.J., Dougill, A.J., and Forster, P.M. August 2010. Climate change and the socioeconomics of global food production: a quantitative analysis of how socioeconomic factors influence the vulnerability of grain crops to drought. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London. Download PDF of paper| (468KB)
Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Hubacek, K., Dougill, A.J., Sendzimir, J., and Quinn, C. June 2010. Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London. Download PDF of paper| (267KB)
2009
Clay, G.D., Worrall, F., Clark, E., and Fraser, E.D.G. October 2009. Hydrological responses to managed burning and grazing in an upland blanket bog. Journal of Hydrology, v.376, pp.486-495. External link to full article|
Fraser, E.D.G. July 2009. Crops and climate change: progress, trends and challenges in simulating impacts and informing adaptation. Journal of Experimental Botany, v.60, pp.2775-2789. External link to full article|
Simelton, E., Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Forster, P.M., and Dougill, A. June 2009. Typologies of crop-drought vulnerability: an empirical analysis of the socio-economic factors that influence the sensitivity and resilience to drought of three major food crops in China (1961-2001). Environmental Science & Policy, v.12. External link to full article|
Chapman, D.S., Termansen, M., Quinn, C.H., Jin, N., Bonn, A., Cornell, S.J., Fraser, E.D.G., Hubacek, K., Kunin, W.E., and Reed, M.S. April 2009. Modelling the coupled dynamics of moorland management and upland vegetation. Journal of Applied Ecology, v.46. External link to full article| (PDF, 604KB)
Fraser, E.D.G., March 2009. Economic crises, land use vulnerabilities, climate variability, food security and population declines: will history repeat itself or will our society adapt to climate change? Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (353KB)
Clay, G.D., Worrall, F., and Fraser, E.D.G. March 2009. Effects of managed burning upon Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in soil water and runoff water following a managed burn of a UK blanket bog. Journal of Hydrology, v.367, pp.41-51. External link to full article|
Suckall, N., Fraser, E.D.G, Cooper, T., and Quinn, C. February 2009. Visitor perceptions of rural landscapes: a case study in the Peak District National Park. Journal of Environmental Management, v.90. External link to full article|
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