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2026

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48
Citations
14310
World Ranking
5411
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Gina Ziervogel is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa and has an extensive research record primarily focused on social sciences and environmental science. Their work intersects several subfields, including global and planetary change, sociology and political science, urban studies, political science and international relations, as well as management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The research topics covered by Ziervogel emphasize sustainability and climate change governance, disaster management and resilience, water governance and infrastructure, urban and rural development challenges, climate change impacts on agriculture, water resources management and optimization, and flood risk assessment and management.

Ziervogel has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa, 2021, Climate Policy
  • Climate urbanism through the lens of informal settlements, 2020, Urban Geography

Frequent co-authors in Ziervogel's research include Mark New, Johan Enqvist, Nadine Methner, Hallie Eakin, and Alice McClure.

The scientist has published multiple papers in notable venues, with Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, World Development, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Climate Risk Management, and SSRN Electronic Journal being among the prominent publication venues used.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Resilience and vulnerability: Complementary or conflicting concepts?

    Fiona Miller;Henny Osbahr;Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Frank Thomalla

  • Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa

    Gina Ziervogel;Mark New;Emma Archer van Garderen;Guy Midgley

  • Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

    Alexandre Magnan;E.L.F. Schipper;Maxine Burkett;S. Bharwani

  • Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk

    Gina Ziervogel;Mark Pelling;Anton Cartwright;Eric Chu

  • Adapting to climate variability: Pumpkins, people and policy

    Gina Ziervogel;Sukaina Bharwani;Thomas E. Downing

  • Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases

    Sheona Shackleton;Gina Ziervogel;Susannah Sallu;Thomas Gill

  • Assessing vulnerability for climate adaptation

    T.E. Downing;A Patwardhan;Rjt Klein;E Mukhala

  • Developing a Municipal Adaptation Plan (MAP) for climate change: The city of Cape Town

    Pierre Mukheibir;Gina Ziervogel

  • Climate variability and rural livelihoods: assessing the impact of seasonal climate forecasts in Lesotho

    Gina Ziervogel;Rebecca Calder

  • Adapting to climate change to sustain food security

    Gina Ziervogel;Polly J. Ericksen

  • The utility of weather and climate information for adaptation decision-making: current uses and future prospects in Africa and India

    Chandni Singh;Joseph Daron;Amir Bazaz;Gina Ziervogel

  • Agent-based social simulation: a method for assessing the impact of seasonal climate forecast applications among smallholder farmers

    Gina Ziervogel;Mike Bithell;Richard Washington;Tom Downing

  • A status quo, vulnerability and adaptation assessment of the physical and socio-economic effects of climate change in the Western Cape

    G F Midgley;R A Chapman;B Hewitson;P Johnston

  • Vulnerability interventions in the context of multiple stressors: lessons from the Southern Africa Vulnerability Initiative (SAVI)

    K. O’Brien;T. Quinlan;G. Ziervogel

  • Facing the heat: Barriers to mainstreaming climate change adaptation in local government in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

    L. Pasquini;R.M. Cowling;G. Ziervogel

  • Water governance and justice in Cape Town: An overview

    Johan P. Enqvist;Gina Ziervogel

  • Mapping narratives of urban resilience in the global south

    Maud Borie;Mark Pelling;Gina Ziervogel;Keith Hyams

  • Urban transformative potential in a changing climate

    Patricia Romero-Lankao;Harriet Bulkeley;Mark Pelling;Sarah Burch

  • Vulnerable peoples and places

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

  • Targeting seasonal climate forecasts for integration into household level decisions: the case of smallholder farmers in Lesotho

    Gina Ziervogel

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas E. Downing
Thomas E. Downing Stockholm Environment Institute
Clifford Shearing
Clifford Shearing University of Cape Town
Mark New
Mark New University of Cape Town
Mark Pelling
Mark Pelling King's College London
Richard Washington
Richard Washington University of Oxford
David Simon
David Simon Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Richard M. Cowling
Richard M. Cowling Nelson Mandela University
Guy F. Midgley
Guy F. Midgley Stellenbosch University
Bruce Hewitson
Bruce Hewitson University of Cape Town
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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