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Overview

Siri Eriksen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway and has contributed extensively to environmental science and social sciences, focusing on sustainability, climate change adaptation, and related fields.

The scientist's work spans several specific topics, including:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Main fields of study encompass Environmental Science, Social Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, while subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Key publication venues where Siri Eriksen has appeared include Global Change Biology, npj Urban Sustainability, World Development, Climate and Development, and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

  • "Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?" (2021, World Development)
  • "Turbulent transformation: abrupt societal disruption and climate resilient development" (2020, Climate and Development)
  • "Affective adaptation = effective transformation? Shifting the politics of climate change adaptation and transformation from the status quo" (2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change)
  • "Is my vulnerability so different from your's? A call for compassionate climate change research" (2022, Progress in Human Geography)
  • "Adapting to climate change among transitioning Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes." (2022, The Journal of Peasant Studies)

Frequent collaborators include E. Lisa F. Schipper, Bruce Glavovic, Nicholas P. Simpson, Lindsay C. Stringer, and Benard Muok, reflecting a network of co-authorship primarily in environmental and social science disciplines.

Best Publications

  • IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • Why different interpretations of vulnerability matter in climate change discourses

    Karen O'brien;Siri Eriksen;Lynn P. Nygaard;Ane Schjolden

  • Reframing adaptation: The political nature of climate change adaptation

    Siri H. Eriksen;Andrea J. Nightingale;Hallie Eakin

  • When not every response to climate change is a good one: Identifying principles for sustainable adaptation

    Siri Eriksen;Paulina Aldunce;Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati;Rafael D'almeida Martins

  • 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

  • The dynamics of vulnerability: locating coping strategies in Kenya and Tanzania

    Siri H. Eriksen;Katrina Myrvang Brown;P. Mick Kelly

  • Institutional adaptation to climate change: Flood responses at the municipal level in Norway

    Lars Otto Næss;Guri Bang;Siri Eriksen;Jonas Vevatne

  • Developing Credible Vulnerability Indicators for Climate Adaptation Policy Assessment

    S. H. Eriksen;P. M. Kelly

  • Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement

    Andrea Joslyn Nightingale;Siri Eriksen;Marcus Taylor;Timothy Forsyth

  • Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

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

  • What's in a word? Conflicting interpretations of vulnerability in climate change research

    Karen O'Brien;Siri E H Eriksen;Ane Schjolden;Lynn P. Nygaard

  • Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change into development assistance

    Richard J. T. Klein;Siri E. H. Eriksen;Lars Otto Næss;Anne Hammill

  • Adaptation as a Political Process: Adjusting to Drought and Conflict in Kenya’s Drylands

    Siri Eriksen;Jeremy Lind

  • Vulnerability, poverty and the need for sustainable adaptation measures

    Siri H. Eriksen;Karen O'brien

  • Livelihoods and poverty

    Lennart Olsson;Maggie Opondo;Petra Tschakert;Arun Agrawal

  • Questioning Complacency: Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation in Norway

    Karen O'Brien;Siri Eriksen;Linda Sygna;Lars Otto Naess

  • The vulnerability context of a savanna area in Mozambique: household drought coping strategies and responses to economic change

    Siri Eriksen;Julie A. Silva

  • Vulnerable peoples and places

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

  • Sustainable adaptation to climate change

    Siri Eriksen;Katrina Brown

  • Climate Change in Eastern and Southern Africa Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation

    Siri Eriksen;Karen O’Brien

  • Public Sector Reform and Governance for Adaptation: Implications of New Public Management for Adaptive Capacity in Mexico and Norway

    Hallie Eakin;Siri Eriksen;Per Ove Eikeland;Cecilie Øyen

  • Climate Change Adaptation and Poverty Reduction : Key Interactions and Critical Measures.

    S.E.H. Eriksen;R.J.T. Klein;K. Ulsrud;L.O. Naess

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen O'Brien
Karen O'Brien University of Oslo
Hallie Eakin
Hallie Eakin Arizona State University
Katrina Brown
Katrina Brown University of Exeter
Petra Tschakert
Petra Tschakert Curtin University
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Claudia Pahl-Wostl Osnabrück University
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Philip K. Thornton
Philip K. Thornton Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Gina Ziervogel
Gina Ziervogel University of Cape Town
Mark Pelling
Mark Pelling King's College London

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