Projects
While I have focused more recently on climate change adaptation, my research experience spans climate change adaptation and mitigation, human judgment and decision-making, risk perception and risk analysis, land use change, water resource governance, energy policy, distributed generation, international development and technology diffusion, examined through complementary qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry.
CLIMATE RESILIENT COMMERCIAL FARMING IN SOUTH AFRICA
A project evaluating weather and climate risk management and climate-adaptive decision making by commercial grain farmers in South Africa. Work towards methodological innovation funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
You may read this work in Global Environmental Change, Climatic Change, Risk Analysis, Environmental Science & Policy, Weather, Climate and Society and my doctoral dissertation (linked below).
In collaboration with Terre Satterfield, Milind Kandlikar, and Simon Donner.
THE VALUE OF CLIMATE SERVICES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
A project evaluating the production, circulation and use of climate services for climate change adaptation, particularly for decision makers in small island developing states of the South Pacific. Funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant.
You may read this work in Nature Climate Change, with further papers forthcoming.
In collaboration with Sophie Webber, Milind Kandlikar and Simon Donner.
CLIMATE ADAPTIVE FORESTRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (BC)
A project evaluating the ‘upstream’ public and stakeholder perceptions of the use of genomics-based assisted migration to help BC’s commercial forests adapt to climate change. A GE3LS project funded by Genome Canada and many others.
You may read this work in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), People and Nature, Environmental Research Letters and Journal of Environmental Management. Details on the broader project may be found on the CoAdapTree website.
In collaboration with Shannon Hagerman, Rob Kozak, Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent, Ricardo Pelai and Veronika Gukova.