Publications
Social and Cultural Barriers to Adaptation Implementation: The Case of South Africa
Leck, H., Sutherland, C., Scott, D., and Oelofse, G. 2011. Chapter 4 in Masters, L., and Duff, L. (eds.) Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation Implementation in Southern Africa, Pretoria: … read more »
The luck of the development draw: environmental volatility and the takeoff to modern economic growth
This paper tests the implications of the model developed by Acemoglu and Zilibotti [Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti, 1997. Was Prometheus unbound by chance? Risk, diversification and growth. Journal … read more »
Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: Scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments
Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude and sign. This creates challenges for adaptation planning in exposed … read more »
The effects of natural disasters on human capital accumulation
In this paper I investigate the effects of disasters on human capital accumulation using an extensive panel dataset on natural disasters, covering 170 countries over a 25 year period … read more »
Knock, knock, knocking on closed doors: exploring the diffuse ideal of the collaborative research relationship
The collaborative research relationship is a diffuse ideal amongst geographers conducting qualitative research with other organisations. The language of working ‘with’ other organisations is widely used in academic publishing … read more »
Pattern scaled climate change scenarios: are these useful for adaptation?
Pattern scaling methods are being widely applied to generate scenarios of climate change for quantication of their impacts on different systems. While generic limitations of this … read more »
Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments
Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude and sign. This creates challenges for adaptation … read more »
Spending adaptation money wisely
Discussions about adaptation finance have largely concentrated on process: how money should be raised and how adaptation spending should be governed and monitored. This article seeks to move the … read more »
Simulating the effects of climate and land management practices on global crop yield
Deryng, D., Sacks, W., Ramankutty, N., et al. (2011). Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 25(2).
Disasters and development: natural disasters, credit constraints and economic growth
We demonstrate, using a simple two-period equilibrium model of the economy, the potential effects of extreme event occurrences – such as natural or humanitarian disasters – on economic growth … read more »
