Managing privately-provided public adaptation goods
Tompkins, E.L., and Eakin, H. October 2011. Global Environmental Change.
Topic: Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience
Managing private and public adaptation to climate change.
Tompkins, E.L., and Eakin, H. 2011. Global Environmental Change.
Water resources management: Planning for an uncertain climate and demand regime using Info-Gap decision theory
Korteling B; Dessai S; Kapelan Z (2011). In: Urban Water Management: Challenges and Oppurtunities – 11th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI 2011, 1, .
Adaptation to climate change and economic growth in developing countries
The global climate is changing, and will continue to do so even if greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically curbed. Economies are therefore faced with the challenge of adapting to climate change. This challenge is particularly important in developing countries, which, due to a combination of unfortunate geography and high sensitivity, are most vulnerable to climate […]
Resilient or vulnerable livelihoods? Assessing livelihood dynamics and trajectories in rural Botswana
Abstract of Working Paper 33 We explore the resilience and vulnerability of livelihoods within two different socio-ecological dryland contexts of Botswana over the last 30 years. We draw on primary field data sources, including oral histories, livelihood surveys, ecological surveys, as well as documented evidence of environmental, socioeconomic and institutional dynamics, to identify a broad […]
What role for ‘long-term’ insurance in adaptation? An analysis of the prospects for and pricing of multi-year insurance contracts
Multi-year insurance has been proposed as a tool to incentivise policyholders to invest in property level adaptation. In a world of rising natural catastrophe risks, such … read more »
Forecasting non-life insurance demand in the BRICS economies: a preliminary evaluation of the impacts of income and climate change
Insurance demand is driven by many factors, but for the emerging economies, one of the most significant historical drivers of growth has been income per capita. … read more »
Intercontinental trans-boundary contributions to ozone-induced crop yield losses in the Northern Hemisphere
Hollaway, M. J., Arnold, S.R., Challinor, A.J., and Emberson, L.D. 2011. Biogeosciences, v.9, pp.1–22.
Resilience implications of policy responses to climate change
Adger, W.N., Brown, K., Nelson, D.R., Berkes, F., Eakin, H., Folke, C., Galvin, K., Gunderson, L., Goulden, M., O’Brien, K., Ruitenbeek, J. and Tompkins, E.L. July 2011. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, v.2, pp.757-766.
Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data.
Antwi-Agyei, P., Fraser, E., Dougill, A., Stringer, L., and Simelton, E. March 2012. Applied Geography, v.32, pp.324–334.