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1 James Martin 21st Century School Research Fellows ECI is a founding member of the new James Martin 1st Century School at Oxford. The School was created through a munificent benefaction by Dr James Martin, with an objective to stimulate Oxford’s capacity for ‘the invention of invention’. During the first three years of the 21st Century School the ECI’s involvement, led by Professor Diana Liverman, is on two priority topics: climate change and environmental governance. Our association with the School is enabling us to take a stronger international role in the analysis and formation of policies on climate change, international environmental policy, and sustainable development. In climate change there is a great need for research that clarifies uncertainties regarding regional impacts, vulnerabilities, and economic costs to identify the most effective ways of reducing the risks in the context of sustainable and equitable development paths. ECI’s new research in environmental governance will lead theoretical and empirical work on new approaches such as the effectiveness of pricing, privatisation, and changes in scale as ways of managing the global environment. Dr Emily Boyd Emily’s current focus is on exploring governance issues in the context of global environmental change. In particular her research focuses on aspects of climate change policy relating to development, including the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). She is focused on developing understanding of scale, interplay, and institutions in managing climate change and conservation of natural resources. Other research includes understanding socio-ecological interactions, resilience and institutions (e.g. property rights), in particular exploring the concepts of political and institutional change, as well as social resilience; vulnerability; decision support tools for environmental management; participatory processes; and the science-policy interface. Boyd, E., Gutierrez, M., Chang, M. Small-scale forest carbon projects: Adapting CDM to low-income communities. Global Environmental Change in press. Dr Max Boykoff Max is undertaking analyses of non-state actors at the climate science-policy interface. Currently, he is conducting comparative analyses of media coverage of climate change between the United States and the UK. He is also examining the role of climate change-related celebrity endeavours, and is exploring links between these projects and environmental ethics as well as environmental justice social movements. Previously, he has looked at how United States mass-media coverage influences international climate change science and policy cooperation and conflict, and has explored how these relations impact upon public understanding. Max’s research uses insights from critical discourse analysis, political economy, science studies, political ecology, and sociology. Boykoff, M. and J. Boykoff. (2004) Bias as Balance: Global Warming and the U.S. Prestige Press. Global Environmental Change (14)2, pp. 125-136.
Prof Maria carmen-lemos Maria Carmen Lemos is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment where the overall focus of her research is the intersection of technoscientific knowledge and governance of environmental issues. During her sabbatical at ECI she investigated the role of governance institutions in building adaptive capacity to climate variability and change in water management in Brazil. Using survey data from eighteen river basin committees and consortia across different regions, she explores the implications of the use of technoscientific knowledge, including climate information, to foster adaptation and democracy in the management of vulnerable water resources. Eakin, H. and M.C. Lemos (2006). Adaptation and the state: Latin America and the challenge of capacity-building under globalization. Global Environmental Change, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 7-18. Dr Dave frame Dave is looking at how uncertainties in predictions of global climate change models can affect climate policy, and the role of ‘ensemble’ climate forecasts and what they might imply. He is interested in how understanding recent and future global warming rates might improve the questions policy makers ask, as well as working on ways of understanding the uncertainties in the answers to those questions. He is also interested in philosophical aspects of climate research, especially questions regarding foundational issues in climate modelling. Formerly Dave was the coordinator of climateprediction.net, the world’s largest participatory computer climate model, with 1/4million contributors from over 150 countries. Frame D. J., Stone D. A., Stott P. A., Allen M. R. (2006) Alternatives to stabilisation scenarios, Geophysical Letters 33 L14707. Dr Cameron hepburn Cameron is an environmental economist specialising in climate policy and longterm decision-making. He has recently been working on the functioning of the European emissions trading scheme, instrument choice, adaptation finance, and the absence of a clear carbon price signal for business post-Kyoto 2012. He assisted the UK Government’s Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and is advising OECD governments on their discounting frameworks, which determine how a balance is struck between short-term and long-term public objectives. He is a member of the Academic Panel for the UK Government’s Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Hepburn, C., Neuhoff, K., Grubb, M., Matthes, F. and Tse, M. (2006) Auctioning of EU ETS Phase II allowances: why and how? Climate Policy 6:1, 137-160. Dr samuel randalls Sam’s research analyzes the nascent weather derivatives market in relation to contemporary themes in climate policy. Can weather derivatives be used to adapt to the costs of climate change? How might weather derivatives interact with the EU emissions trading scheme and renewable energy financing? These questions are explored through empirical research on weather derivatives examining both the financial and meteorological networks underpinning the market. This work is informed through theoretical approaches developed in human geography and the sociology of science. Prof Timmons Roberts While on sabbatical at the ECI, Timmons is researching foreign aid and climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing nations. With special funds now for adaptation and huge carbon trading activities, the role of aid has been under-studied. His project will consider past aid and its impact on carbon emissions; effectiveness of 1,600 specific climate change aid projects; and case studies of China, Brazil, and India. This work builds on his book Greening Aid? Understanding Foreign Assistance for the Environment, analysing 430,000 aid projects between 1970 and 2001. Timmons uses political economy theory to explain unequal suffering by poor nations of climate change impacts, unequal responsibility for the problem, and unequal participation in treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol. Roberts, J.T. and Hite, A., 2006. The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Social Change (Second Edition). Blackwell Publishers. prof john schellnhuber John is Founding Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research and a Distinguished Science Adviser and former Research Director of the UK’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He has recently been appointed as the ‘Chief Sustainability Scientist’ for the German Government in the 2007 G8/EU twin presidency and the overall post-Kyoto process. His research has advanced crossdisciplinary understanding of the crucial processes involved in climate change. He has contributed more than 230 pertinent articles and books and was, for instance, Coordinating Lead Author of the WG II synthesis chapter in the Third Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report. He received an honorary CBE in recognition of his accomplishments in climate change science and diplomacy, and he is an elected member of a number of learned societies (including the US National Academy of Sciences and the German Max Planck Society). Oxford now provides his UK base when not in Germany. Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, 2006. Edited by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Wolfgang Cramer, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Tom Wigley, Gary Yohe. Foreword by Rt Hon Tony Blair MP, Introduction by Dr Rajendra Pachauri. Dr Emma Tompkins Emma researches how societies can and should adapt to climate change. Her current projects include societal responses to natural hazards as an analogy for preparing for climate change; processes of institutional learning and the role of international conventions; drivers of private sector responses to weather hazards; and motivators of individual change. She is focusing on 4 themes: knowledge transfer across social groups and cultural contexts; tools to support climate change decision making; the role of governance in enabling and constraining climate change responses; and identifying the psychological and economic limits to adaptation. With colleagues from the Caribbean she recently wrote a manual on ‘Surviving climate change in small islands; a guidebook‘. Tompkins, E. L. 2005. Planning for climate change in small islands: Insights from national hurricane preparedness in the Cayman Islands. Global Environmental Change 15 (2):139-143. 1
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