I am Professor of Human Geography. My expertise is on how societies adapt to contemporary environmental risks – how policy and practice of adaptation evolves to build resilience of people and places. I use approaches from ecological and institutional economics and human geography.
I have contributed to international and national scientific assessments of climate change, public health, and ecosystem services. My interests span the UK, Asia, Africa and global issues.
Adger WN, Barnett J, Heath S, Jarillo S (2022). Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(11), 1465-1473.
Morrison TH, Adger WN, Agrawal A, Brown K, Hornsey MJ, Hughes TP, Jain M, Lemos MC, McHugh LH, O’Neill S, et al (2022). Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems. Nature Climate Change, 12(12), 1100-1106.
Lu C, Adger WN, Morrissey K, Zhang S, Venevsky S, Yin H, Sun T, Song X, Wu C, Dou X, et al (2022). Scenarios of demographic distributional aspects of health co-benefits from decarbonising urban transport. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(6), e461-e474.
Quinn T, Adger WN, Butler C, Walker-Springett K (2021). Community Resilience and Well-Being: an Exploration of Relationality and Belonging after Disasters. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111, 577-590.
Adger WN, Safra De Campos R, Siddiqui T, Franco Gavonel M, Szaboova L, Rocky MH, Bhuiyan MRA, Billah T (2021). Human security of urban migrant populations affected by length of residence and environmental hazards. Journal of Peace Research, 58(1), 50-66.
Mach KJ, Kraan CM, Adger WN, Buhaug H, Burke M, Fearon JD, Field CB, Hendrix CS, Maystadt JF, O Loughlin J, et al (2019). Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict. Nature, 571, 193-197.