Climate change adaptation and resilience

This research area focuses on climate risk management, addressing questions of how we can improve the resilience of countries, companies and communities to current and future changes to the climate. A multi-disciplinary approach is taken, including from human geography and economics perspectives.

Research projects

UK Climate Change Risk Assessment

Pathways to resilience in semi-arid economies (PRISE)

Uncertainty reduction in models for understanding development (UMFULA)

Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance (ZFRA)

Hurricane Harvey Impacts

Climate resilience in the UK wine sector – CREWS-UK

Evaluating the Resilience Impact of Climate Insurance (ERICI)

The economic impact of El Niño-related floods and drought on small and medium enterprises in Botswana, Kenya and Zambia

Women Entrepreneurs in Climate Change Adaptation (The WECCA Project)

Learning from the Past to Build a Better Future: Supporting Urban Flood Resilience in Kuwait Through a Forensic Analysis of the 2018 Flash Floods

Publications

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Organisational preparedness for the physical risks of climate change in the UK: headline findings from a UK-wide survey (April–May 2021)

Policy publication

by Denyse S. Dookie, Declan Conway and Suraje Dessai

on 12 October, 2021

Do governments track the implementation of national climate change adaptation plans? An evidence-based global stocktake of monitoring and evaluation systems

Research article

by Timo Leiter

on 20 September, 2021

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Assessing the quality of state-of-the-art regional climate information: the case of the UK Climate Projections 2018

Research article

by Suraje Dessai and David Stainforth

on 6 September, 2021

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Identifying drivers of streamflow extremes in West Africa to inform a nonstationary prediction model

Research article

by Declan Conway

on 21 July, 2021

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News

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COP 26: How much is the developing world getting to fight climate change?

In the news

featuring Alina Averchenkova

on 22 September, 2021

Rich countries far from target to help developing world fight climate crisis (in Portuguese)

In the news

featuring Alina Averchenkova

on 20 September, 2021

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Flash floods: a grim reminder that adaptation is as important as reducing emissions

Commentary

by Swenja Surminski and Viktor Roezer

on 23 July, 2021

COP26: Floods, Fire, and the Future

In the news

featuring Alina Averchenkova

on 22 July, 2021

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Forthcoming events

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What is climate resilience for all?
Event Type: Social Life of Climate Change Seminar Series

This seminar is presented by Lisa Schipper, Environmental Social Science Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Climate... Read more

Event Date 9 Nov '21
Towards a collaborative, risk-based approach to adaptation economics | David Bresch
Event Type: Research Seminar Series

David Bresch is a Professor for Weather and Climate Risks at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich and MeteoSwiss. He will be presenting his paper ‘Towards a collaborative, risk-based approach to adaptation economics’. Read more

Event Date 19 Jan '22
The Global Water Footprint of Distortionary Agricultural Policy | Tamma Carleton
Event Type: Research Seminar Series

Tamma Carleton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UC Santa Barbara. She will be presenting her paper ‘The global water footprint of distortionary agricultural policy’. Read more

Event Date 2 Feb '22

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