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Overview

W. Neil Adger is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a primary focus on social sciences and environmental science. Within these fields, their subfield expertise includes sociology and political science, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and urban studies.

The main topics covered in their work include climate change adaptation and migration, migration and labor dynamics, disaster management and resilience, place attachment and urban studies, sustainability and climate change governance, climate change and health impacts, and coastal and marine management.

Their recent publications include:

  • Advancing Coral Reef Governance into the Anthropocene, 2020, One Earth
  • Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses, 2021, Global Environmental Change
  • Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change, 2020, One Earth
  • WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies, 2021, Science

Frequent coauthors in their work include Ricardo Safra de Campos, Mumuni Abu, Maria Franco Gavonel, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, and Tasneem Siddiqui.

They have contributed publications to various academic venues, notably:

  • One Earth
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Science

In addition to journal publications, W. Neil Adger has published books with RAND Corporation eBooks, including A Changing Climate: Exploring the Implications of Climate Change for UK Defence and Security (2020) and Crisis Response in a Changing Climate: Implications of Climate Change for UK Defence Logistics in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) and Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) Operations (2021).

Best Publications

  • Social and Ecological Resilience: Are They Related?

    W. Neil Adger

  • Successful adaptation to climate change across scales

    W. Neil Adger;Nigel W. Arnell;Emma L. Tompkins;Emma L. Tompkins

  • Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters

    W. Neil Adger;Terry P. Hughes;Carl Folke;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Climate Change 2014: Impacts,Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente R. Barros;Michael D. Mastrandrea;Katharine J. Mach

  • Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change

    W. Neil Adger

  • Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change

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

  • Adaptation to Environmental Change: Contributions of a Resilience Framework

    Donald R. Nelson;W. Neil Adger;Katrina Brown

  • The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation

    Nick Brooks;W. Neil Adger;P. Mick Kelly

  • Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World

    David W. Cash;W. Neil Adger;Fikret Berkes;Po Garden

  • Adaptation to climate change in the developing world

    W. Neil Adger;Saleemul Huq;Declan Conway;Mike Hulme

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • Social Vulnerability to Climate Change and Extremes in Coastal Vietnam

    W Neil Adger

  • CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMAN SECURITY AND VIOLENT CONFLICT

    Jon Barnett;W. Neil Adger

  • Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation

    W. Neil Adger;Jon Barnett;Katrina Brown;Nadine Marshall

  • Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries

    Edward H. Allison;Edward H. Allison;Allison L. Perry;Allison L. Perry;Marie-Caroline Badjeck;Marie-Caroline Badjeck;W. Neil Adger

  • The effect of environmental change on human migration

    Richard Black;W Neil Adger;Nigel Arnell;Stefan Dercon

  • Does Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Enhance Resilience to Climate Change

    Emma L. Tompkins;W. Neil Adger

  • ADVANCING A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSES

    W. Neil Adger;Tor A. Benjaminsen;Katrina Brown;Hanne Svarstad

  • Social Vulnerability to Climate Change and the Architecture of Entitlements

    W. Neil Adger;P. Mick Kelly

  • Fair adaptation to climate change

    Jouni Paavola;W. Neil Adger

Frequent Co-Authors

Katrina Brown
Katrina Brown University of Exeter
Emma L. Tompkins
Emma L. Tompkins University of Southampton
Irene Lorenzoni
Irene Lorenzoni University of East Anglia
Jon Barnett
Jon Barnett University of Melbourne
Robert J. Nicholls
Robert J. Nicholls University of East Anglia
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Karen O'Brien
Karen O'Brien University of Oslo
John M. Anderies
John M. Anderies Arizona State University
Jouni Paavola
Jouni Paavola University of Leeds

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