Responses to flooding and implications for policy
Protection of human life and property from flooding is a strategic priority in the UK. We examine how to encourage home owners to protect themselves and their residences. A … read more »
Publication type: Research articles
City solutions to global problems
Cities have clearly played a major role in the creation of the problem of anthropogenic climate change and they will form a central part of any response. No effective … read more »
Avoiding disastrous climate change is possible but not inevitable
Reference Scott Barrett: ‘Avoiding disastrous climate change is possible but not inevitable’.
Climate change policy in the European Union: confronting the dilemmas of mitigation and adaptation.
Rietig, K. Book review. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, v.29, pp.186-187.
Integrating ecosystem services and economic theory: what can we do, what should we do, and what has been done?
Fisher, B., Turner, K., Balmford, A., Brouwer, R., Costanza, R., de Groot, R., Farber, S., Ferraro, P., Green, R., Hadley, D., Harlow, J., Jefferiss, P., Kirby, C., Morling, P., Mowatt, S., Naidoo, R., Paavola, J., Strassburg, B., Yu, D. and Zylstra, M. 2008.Ecological Applications, v.18, pp.2050-2067.External link to more information
Integrated land degradation monitoring and assessment: horizontal knowledge management at the national and international levels
Chasek, P; Essahli, W; Akhtar-Schuster, M; Stringer, LC; Thomas, RJ. 2011.. Land Degradation and Development, v.22, pp.272-284.
Assessing climate change impacts, sea level rise and storm surge risk in port cities: a case study on Copenhagen
This paper presents a first estimate of the exposure of the world’s large port cities (population exceeding one million inhabitants in 2005) to coastal flooding due to sea-level rise … read more »
A global ranking of port cities with high exposure to climate extremes
This paper presents a first estimate of the exposure of the world’s large port cities (population exceeding one million inhabitants in 2005) to coastal flooding due to sea-level rise … read more »
A preliminary assessment of the potential impact of climate change on flood risk in Mumbai
Managing risks from extreme events will be a crucial component of climate change adaptation. In this study, we demonstrate an approach to assess future risks and quantify the benefits … read more »
Aerosol mass spectrometer constraint on the global secondary organic aerosol budget
Spracklen, D.V., Jimenez, J.L., Carslaw, K.S., Worsnop, D.R., Evans, M.J., Mann, G.W., Zhang, Q., Canagaratna, M.R., Allan, J., Coe, H., McFiggans, G., Rap, A., and Forster, P. February 2011. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, v.11, pp.5699-5755. External link to full article