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2030
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Overview

Suraje Dessai is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and social sciences, with significant contributions spanning multiple subfields including global and planetary change, sociology and political science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, water science and technology, and atmospheric science.

Their work addresses several key topics, notably:

  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Suraje Dessai has published extensively in a variety of venues, with notable frequent publication venues including:

  • Climate Risk Management
  • Climatic Change
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Climate Services
  • Sustainability

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Policy Coordination for National Climate Change Adaptation in Europe: All Process, but Little Power, 2020, Sustainability
  • Towards a deeper understanding of barriers to national climate change adaptation policy: A systematic review, 2022, Climate Risk Management
  • The Climatic Impact-Driver Framework for Assessment of Risk-Relevant Climate Information, 2022, Earth's Future
  • Lake Malawi's threshold behaviour: A stakeholder-informed model to simulate sensitivity to climate change, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Climate impact storylines for assessing socio-economic responses to remote events, 2023, Climate Risk Management

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Marina Baldissera Pacchetti
  • Andrea Taylor
  • Declan Conway
  • Seunghan Lee
  • Jouni Paavola

Best Publications

  • Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change

    W. Neil Adger;Suraje Dessai;Marisa Goulden;Michael Hulme

  • Robust adaptation to climate change

    Robert L. Wilby;Suraje Dessai

  • Integrating mitigation and adaptation into climate and development policy: three research questions

    Richard J.T. Klein;Richard J.T. Klein;E. Lisa F. Schipper;E. Lisa F. Schipper;Suraje Dessai

  • Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities

    Suraje Dessai;Mike Hulme

  • Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

    Theodore G. Shepherd;Emily Boyd;Raphael A. Calel;Raphael A. Calel;Sandra C. Chapman;Sandra C. Chapman

  • Actionable knowledge for environmental decision making: Broadening the usability of climate science

    Christine J. Kirchhoff;Maria Carmen Lemos;Suraje Dessai

  • Does tomorrow ever come? Disaster narrative and public perceptions of climate change

    Thomas Lowe;Katrina Brown;Suraje Dessai;Miguel de França Doria

  • Climate services for society: origins, institutional arrangements, and design elements for an evaluation framework

    Catherine Vaughan;Catherine Vaughan;Suraje Dessai

  • Assessing the robustness of adaptation decisions to climate change uncertainties: A case study on water resources management in the East of England

    Suraje Dessai;Mike Hulme

  • Defining and experiencing dangerous climate change: An editorial esssay

    Suraje Dessai;W. Neil Adger;Mike Hulme;John Turnpenny

  • Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation?

    Suraje Dessai;Mike Hulme;Robert Lempert;Roger Pielke

  • Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change

    Adrian Brügger;Suraje Dessai;Suraje Dessai;Patrick Devine-Wright;Thomas A. Morton

  • Do We Need Better Predictions to Adapt to a Changing Climate

    Suraje Dessai;Mike Hulme;Mike Hulme;Robert J. Lempert;Roger A. Pielke

  • Public perception of climate risk and adaptation in the UK: A review of the literature

    Andrea L. Taylor;Suraje Dessai;Wändi Bruine de Bruin;Wändi Bruine de Bruin

  • Uncertainty and climate change adaptation : a scoping study

    S. Dessai;J.P. van der Sluijs

  • “Proximising” climate change reconsidered: A construal level theory perspective

    Adrian Brügger;Adrian Brügger;Thomas A. Morton;Suraje Dessai;Suraje Dessai

  • Hell and High Water: Practice-Relevant Adaptation Science

    Richard H. Moss;G. Meehl;Maria Carmen Lemos;J. B. Smith

  • On the role of climate scenarios for adaptation planning

    Suraje Dessai;Xianfu Lu;James S. Risbey

  • Communicating uncertainty: lessons learned and suggestions for climate change assessment

    Anthony Patt;Suraje Dessai

  • Heat stress and mortality in Lisbon Part II. An assessment of the potential impacts of climate change

    Suraje Dessai

  • Unstable climates: Exploring the statistical and social constructions of ‘normal’ climate

    Mike Hulme;Suraje Dessai;Suraje Dessai;Irene Lorenzoni;Donald R. Nelson;Donald R. Nelson

  • Avoiding dangerous climate change

    M. R. Allen;N. Andronova;B. Booth;S. Dessai

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
Wändi Bruine de Bruin
Wändi Bruine de Bruin University of Southern California
David A. Stainforth
David A. Stainforth London School of Economics and Political Science
Declan Conway
Declan Conway London School of Economics and Political Science
Jouni Paavola
Jouni Paavola University of Leeds
Robert J. Lempert
Robert J. Lempert RAND Corporation
Graham Jewitt
Graham Jewitt IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich
Robert L. Wilby
Robert L. Wilby Loughborough University
Piers M. Forster
Piers M. Forster University of Leeds

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