Edward H. Allison, Allison L. Perry, Marie‐Caroline Badjeck, W. Neil Adger et al.
Abstract Anthropogenic global warming has significantly influenced physical and biological processes at global and regional scales. The observed and anticipated changes in global climate present significant opportunities and challenges for societies and economies. We compare the vulnerability of 132...
As a global society, we need to take action not only to prevent the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change but also to adapt to the unavoidable effects of climate change already imposed on the world. Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change looks at the challenges of ensuring that policy...
Sylvia Szabo, Md Sarwar Hossain, W. Neil Adger, Zoë Matthews et al.
As a creeping process, salinisation represents a significant long-term environmental risk in coastal and deltaic environments. Excess soil salinity may exacerbate existing risks of food insecurity in densely populated tropical deltas, which is likely to have a negative effect on human and ecological...
Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, W. Neil Adger, Susan Hanson et al.
This book shares the experience of developing a systematic approach for a large multi-disciplinary project on ecosystem services in coastal Bangladesh
Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, Attila N. Lázár, Andrew Allan et al.
Deltas provide diverse ecosystem services and benefits for their populations. At the same time, deltas are also recognised as one of the most vulnerable coastal environments, with a range of drivers operating at multiple scales, from global climate change and sea-level rise to deltaic-scale subsiden...
W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Tasneem Siddiqui, Maria Franco Gavonel et al.
Abstract It is widely suggested that migration is a key mechanism linking climate change to violent conflict, particularly through migration increasing the risks of conflict in urban destinations. Yet climate change also creates new forms of insecurity through distress migration, immobility and vuln...
W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Tasneem Siddiqui et al.
Environmental change influences population movements at various temporal and spatial scales. Yet individual decisions to migrate involve multiple motivations including perceived environmental risks and economic opportunities. We analyze how perceptions of environmental risks affect migration decisio...
Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger, Sate Ahmad, Ali Ahmed et al.
Abstract While the benefits humans gain from ecosystem functions and processes are critical in natural resource-dependent societies with persistent poverty, ecosystem services as a pathway out of poverty remain an elusive goal, contingent on the ecosystem and mediated by social processes. Here, we i...
Maria Franco Gavonel, W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Emily Boyd et al.
Migration represents a major transformation of the lives of those involved and has been transformative of societies and economies globally. Yet models of sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate the movement of populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: ...
W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Tasneem Siddiqui, Lucy Szaboova
The science of resilience suggests that urban systems become resilient when they promote progressive transformative change to social and physical infrastructure. But resilience is challenged by global environmental risks and by social and economic trends that create inequality and exclusion. Here we...
Sylvia Szabo, W. Neil Adger, Zoë Matthews
The dominant movement of people in the mega-deltas of Asia is from agriculture-dominated rural areas to urban settlements, driven by growing opportunities, but resulting in new human development challenges. In this context, the present study aims to investigate whether remittance income leads to enh...
Tasneem Siddiqui, Lucy Szaboova, W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos et al.
Abstract Addressing sources and drivers of precarity among marginalized migrant populations in urban spaces is central to making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable for all. Yet dominant policy discourses continue to frame migrants as problematic causes of insecurity and tend to exclud...
Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger, Sate Ahmad, Ali Ahmed et al.
Populations in resource dependent economies gain well-being from the natural environment, in highly spatially and temporally variable patterns. To collect information on this, we designed and implemented a 1586-household quantitative survey in the southwest coastal zone of Bangladesh. Data were coll...
Ricardo Safra de Campos, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, W. Neil Adger, Colette Mortreux et al.
Abstract Deltas exemplify trends of great acceleration in the Anthropocene, including the shape of demographic and mobility transitions. The human core of the Anthropocene involves three principal phenomena: Increased human health evident at the population scale; movement of people to urban settleme...
Lucy Szaboova, Ricardo Safra de Campos, W. Neil Adger, Mumuni Abu et al.
Abstract While material conditions of migrant populations on average tend to improve over time as they become established in new destinations, individual trajectories of material and subjective well‐being often diverge. Here, we analyse how social and environmental factors in the urban environment s...