Climate change effects on agriculture: Economic responses to biophysical shocks
Nelson, G.C., Valin, H., Sands, R.D., Havlik, P., Ahammad, H., Deryng, D., et al. (2014). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(9), pp.3274–3279.
Topic: Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience
Integration of Adaptation and Mitigation in Climate Change and Forest Policies in Indonesia and Vietnam
Thuy PT; Moeliono M; Locatelli B; Brockhaus M; Di Gregorio M; Mardiah S (2014). In: Forests, 5, pp.2016-2036.
Reflection on the current debate on how to link flood insurance and disaster risk reduction in the European Union
Reflection on the current debate on how to link flood insurance and disaster risk reduction in the European Union read more »
The concept of loss and damage of climate change – a new challenge for climate decision-making? A climate science perspective
This paper reviews the implications of Loss and Damage L&D for decision-making with a special focus on the role of climate science. read more »
Migrating to tackle climate variability and change? Insights from coastal fishing communities in Bangladesh
There is an on-going debate about climate-induced migration but little empirical evidence. We examine how climate-induced migration has impacted vulnerability and adaptation of a coastal fishing community in Bangladesh. We used household surveys, interviews and focus group discussions to compare fishery dependent households who migrated from Kutubdia Island to mainland with those who stayed behind. […]
Business and development: Changing discourses in the extractive industries
This paper identifies how organisational field dynamics have changed over time within the field of business and development. Using the extractive industries as the empirical setting, development agency policy documents and corporate reports are analysed in order to identify convergence and divergence of discourses and changing institutional logics. The business-development organisational field became structured around […]
The impact of climatic hazards on social network structure: Insights from community support networks in Western Uganda
Social support networks are considered important coping mechanisms in the literature, however not all households experience the same levels of inclusion in these networks. Understanding how support networks vary across climatic shocks is necessary to ensure that adaptation and development policies do not erode access to networks but few studies have investigated this phenomenon. We […]
Understanding the adaptation deficit: why are poor countries more vulnerable to climate events than rich countries?
This paper analyses the link between income and adaptation to climate events theoretically and empirically. read more »
A simple framework for the estimation of climate exposure
This article introduces a new methodology to estimate climate exposure at the household’s level with the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) as its building block. As the probability distribution of … read more »
Beyond urban-rural boundaries: Encouraging inter-municipal collaboration for climate change adaptation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Chapter 5 in Steele,W., Alizadeh, T., Eslami-Andargoli, L., and Serrao-Neumann, S (eds) Planning Across Borders in a Climate of Change, Routledge: London.