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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Susan Hanson is affiliated with Clark University in the United States, contributing significantly to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work has covered a diverse range of topics, notably Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Change adaptation and migration, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones research, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Climate variability and models, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure," 2021, published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Integrating new sea-level scenarios into coastal risk and adaptation assessments: An ongoing process," 2021, published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Demand for Ports to 2050: Climate Policy, Growing Trade and the Impacts of Sea-Level Rise," 2020, published in Earth's Future
  • "Status of global coastal adaptation," 2023, published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Global survey shows planners use widely varying sea-level rise projections for coastal adaptation," 2023, published in Communications Earth & Environment

Frequent coauthors include Robert J. Nicholls, Jiayi Fang, Jochen Hinkel, Sally Brown, and Robert G. Bell. Collaborative work with these colleagues has helped shape insights into coastal risk, adaptation, and climate impacts.

Publications by Susan Hanson are often found in the following venues:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Earth's Future
  • Anthropocene Coasts

The scientist has been recognized with fellowships that include Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 1991, and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Gender, Work and Space

    Susan Hanson;Geraldine Pratt

  • Gender and mobility: new approaches for informing sustainability

    Susan Hanson

  • The Geography Of Urban Transportation

    Susan Hanson;Genevieve Giuliano

  • Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization

    Richa Nagar;Victoria Lawson;Linda McDowell;Susan Hanson

  • Job Search and the Occupational Segregation of Women

    Susan Hanson;Geraldine Pratt

  • GENDER DIFFERENCES IN WORK-TRIP LENGTH: EXPLANATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

    Susan Hanson;Ibipo Johnston

  • Rethinking Innovation: Context and Gender

    Megan K Blake;Susan Hanson

  • Reconceptualizing the links between home and work in urban Geography

    Susan Hanson;Geraldine Pratt

  • ON NOT EXCLUDING HALF OF THE HUMAN IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

    Janice Monk;Susan Hanson

  • THE TRAVEL-ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF URBAN RESIDENTS: DIMENSIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS TO SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS

    Susan Hanson;Perry Hanson

  • Gender and Entrepreneurial Networks

    Susan Hanson;Megan Blake

  • Dynamic Dependencies: A Geographic Investigation of Local Labor Markets*

    Susan Hanson;Geraldine Pratt

  • Accessibility and Intraurban Travel

    S Hanson;M Schwab

  • SYSTEMATIC VARIABILITY IN REPETITIOUS TRAVEL

    Susan Hanson;O. James Huff

  • STRUCTURES OF LEISURE TRAVEL: TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY.

    Robert Schlich;Stefan Schönfelder;Susan Hanson;Kay W. Axhausen

  • Gender and Urban Activity Patterns in Uppsala, Sweden

    Susan Hanson;Perry Hanson

  • Geography and the construction of difference

    Geraldine Pratt;Susan Hanson

  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    James T. Murphy;Susan Hanson;Yuko Aoyama

  • Spatial Diversification and Multipurpose Travel: Implications for Choice Theory

    Susan Hanson

  • Repetition and Variability in Urban Travel

    James O. Huff;Susan Hanson

Frequent Co-Authors

Vsevolod V. Gurevich
Vsevolod V. Gurevich Vanderbilt University
Jens Meiler
Jens Meiler Vanderbilt University
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Linda McDowell
Linda McDowell University of Oxford
Elvin Wyly
Elvin Wyly University of British Columbia
Mei-Po Kwan
Mei-Po Kwan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Richard Shearmur
Richard Shearmur McGill University
Genevieve Giuliano
Genevieve Giuliano University of Southern California

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