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Overview

Coleen Vogel is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily related to sustainability, climate change, and resource management.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this area, more specific subfields addressed by their work comprise:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Coleen Vogel's research topics extend over multiple interconnected themes, such as:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Water resources management and optimization

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • South African Journal of Science
  • Water Policy
  • Climate Services
  • Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • World Development

Regular collaborators in their research are:

  • Caradee Y. Wright
  • Barend Erasmus
  • François Engelbrecht
  • Albert Edgar Manyuchi
  • David Olivier

Some recent research papers authored or coauthored by Coleen Vogel include:

  • "Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?" (2021, World Development)
  • "Getting to the heart of transformation" (2021, Sustainability Science)
  • "Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science" (2023, Nature Sustainability)
  • "Water governance challenges in rural South Africa: exploring institutional coordination in drought management" (2020, Water Policy)
  • "Shape of a water crisis: practitioner perspectives on urban water scarcity and 'Day Zero' in South Africa" (2020, Water Policy)

Best Publications

  • The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

    Eric F. Lambin;B.L. Turner;Helmut J. Geist;Samuel B. Agbola

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships

    Coleen Vogel;Susanne C. Moser;Roger E. Kasperson;Geoffrey D. Dabelko

  • Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?

    Siri Eriksen;E. Lisa F. Schipper;Morgan Scoville-Simonds;Morgan Scoville-Simonds;Katharine Vincent

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

    F. Biermann;F. Biermann;K. Abbott;S. Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Living and responding to multiple stressors in South Africa—Glimpses from KwaZulu-Natal

    Paul Reid;Coleen Vogel

  • Who can eat information? Examining the effectiveness of seasonal climate forecasts and regional climate-risk management strategies

    Coleen Vogel;Karen OBrien

  • Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Kenneth Abbott;Steinar Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Living with drought in South Africa: lessons learnt from the recent El Niño drought period

    Marie-Ange Baudoin;Coleen Vogel;Kirsty Nortje;Myra Naik

  • Global risks: Pool knowledge to stem losses from disasters

    Susan L. Cutter;Alik Ismail-Zadeh;Irasema Alcántara-Ayala;Orhan Altan

  • You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change

    Karen O'Brien;Jonathan Reams;Anne Caspari;Andrew Dugmore

  • Vulnerable peoples and places

    Roger Kasperson;Kristin Dow;Emma R.M Archer;Daniel Caceres

  • Land-cover change and human–environment interactions in a rural cultural landscape in South Africa

    Monica Giannecchini;Wayne Twine;Coleen Vogel

  • Global environmental change: conceptualising the growing challenge for cities in poor countries

    Susan Parnell;David Simon;Coleen Vogel

  • Seasonal Climate Forecasts – Potential Agricultural-Risk Management Tools?

    E. Klopper;C. H. Vogel;W. A. Landman

  • Institutional dynamics and climate change adaptation in South Africa

    Ingrid Christine Koch;Coleen Vogel;Zarina Patel

  • Heads or tails? Stakeholder analysis as a tool for conservation area management

    Patrick Mushove;Coleen Vogel

  • Climate Change Impacts on African Rangelands

    M. Timm Hoffman;Coleen Vogel

  • Vulnerability and global environmental change : rhetoric and reality

    Coleen Vogel;Karen O'Brien

  • Historical evidence for Southern Oscillation-southern African rainfall relationships

    J. A. Lindesay;C. H. Vogel

  • Climate services in Africa: Re-imagining an inclusive, robust and sustainable service

    Coleen Vogel;Anna Steynor;Albert Manyuchi

  • Climate Change: Writing team

    Katherine Richardson;Will Steffen;Diana Liverman

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Karen O'Brien
Karen O'Brien University of Oslo
Frank Biermann
Frank Biermann Utrecht University
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Francois Engelbrecht
Francois Engelbrecht University of the Witwatersrand
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Willem A. Landman
Willem A. Landman University of Pretoria

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