Resilient or vulnerable livelihoods? Assessing livelihood dynamics and trajectories in rural Botswana
Sallu, S.M., Twyman, C., and Stringer, L.C. Published article: 2010. Ecology and Society, v.15.
Topic: Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience
What is Social Learning?
Reed, M.S., Evely, A.C., Cundill, G., Fazey, I., Glass, J., Laing, A., Newig, J., Parrish, B., Prell, C., Raymond, C., and Stringer, L.C. 2010. Ecology and Society, v.15.
The Extreme Flood Outline: Co-Producing Flood Risk Mapping and Spatial Planning in England
Porter, J. (2010) PhD Thesis (unpublished), King’s College London.
Using expert elicitation to define successful adaptation to climate change.
Doria, M; Boyd, E; Tompkins, E; and Adger, W. November 2009. Environmental Science & Policy, v.12, pp.810-819. External link to full article
Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: insights to enhance policy in southern Africa.
Stringer, L.C., Dyer, J.C., Reed, M.S., Dougill, A.J., Twyman, C., and Mkwambisi, D. November 2009. Environmental Science and Policy, v.12.
The costs of adaptation
Policy interest in the cost of adaptation is growing, but compared to the mitigation cost literature, adaptation cost research is still in its infancy. Global adaptation … read more »
Hydrological responses to managed burning and grazing in an upland blanket bog
Clay, G.D., Worrall, F., Clark, E., and Fraser, E.D.G. October 2009. Journal of Hydrology, v.376, pp.486-495.
Economic policy when models disagree
We propose a general way to craft public policy when there is no consensual account of the situation of interest. The design builds on an extension … read more »
A Blueprint for a Safer Planet
A Blueprint for a Safer Planet – from Random House Group. Nicholas Stern, April 2009. Random House, London.
Economic crises, land use vulnerabilities, climate variability, food security and population declines: will history repeat itself or will our society adapt to climate change?
Abstract of Working Paper 1 Although many of today’s ecological, climatic and socio-economic problems seem unprecedented, similar events have occurred in the past. Western Europe’s ‘middle ages’ (circa 11 to 14th century) may be one such case. By the 12th century, medieval Europe had shifted from the subsistence agrarian economy that emerged following the collapse […]