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A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience (2021)
Journal Article
Pelling, M., Chow, W. T., Chu, E., Dawson, R., Dodman, D., Fraser, A., …Ziervogel, G. (2021). A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience. Climate and Development, 14(7), 617-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1956411

Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic opens an opportunity for enhanced research and action on inclusive urban resilience to climate change. Lessons and their implications are used to describe a climate resilience research renewal agenda. Three... Read More about A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience.

Vulnerabilities associated with slow-onset events (SoEs) of climate change: multi-level analysis in the context of Pakistan (2021)
Journal Article
Anjum, G., & Fraser, A. (2021). Vulnerabilities associated with slow-onset events (SoEs) of climate change: multi-level analysis in the context of Pakistan. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 54-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.02.004

This paper explores physical, psychological, social, and institutional vulnerabilities associated with slow-onset events (SoEs) of climate change. Based on review of interdisciplinary research in the context of Pakistan, this paper reviews the releva... Read More about Vulnerabilities associated with slow-onset events (SoEs) of climate change: multi-level analysis in the context of Pakistan.

Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts (2020)
Journal Article
Fraser, A., Pelling, M., Scolobig, A., & Mavrogenis, S. (2020). Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts. Global Environmental Change, 63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102102

The continued rise of global disaster losses pushes our attention yet further to the causal factors that drive risks, beyond the frame of standardised risk assessment models. A key gap in our understanding of the causality of disasters remains establ... Read More about Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts.

An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change (2019)
Journal Article
Byskov, M. F., Hyams, K., Satyal, P., Anguelovski, I., Benjamin, L., Blackburn, S., …Venn, A. (2019). An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change. Climate and Development, 13(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2019.1700774

As experts predict that at least some irreversible climate change will occur with potentially disastrous effects on the lives and well-being of vulnerable communities around the world, it is paramount to ensure that these communities are resilient an... Read More about An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change.

How do you Build Back Better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, post?Hurricane Irma (2019)
Journal Article
Collodi, J., Pelling, M., Fraser, A., Borie, M., & Di Vicenz, S. (2021). How do you Build Back Better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, post?Hurricane Irma. Disasters, 45(1), 202-223. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12423

The Sendai Framework and Sustainable Development Goals call for action to build back better in ways that leave no one behind. At the same time, ensuring local voice is increasingly central to humanitarian action. These ambitions contrast with limited... Read More about How do you Build Back Better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, post?Hurricane Irma.

Africa's urban adaptation transition under a 1.5° climate (2017)
Journal Article
Pelling, M., Leck, H., Pasquini, L., Ajibade, I., Osuteye, E., Parnell, S., …Boubacar, S. (2018). Africa's urban adaptation transition under a 1.5° climate. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 31, 10-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.11.005

For cities in sub-Saharan Africa a 1.5 °C increase in global temperature will bring forward the urgency of meeting basic needs in sanitation, drinking water and land-tenure, and underlying governance weaknesses. The challenges of climate sensitive ma... Read More about Africa's urban adaptation transition under a 1.5° climate.

Africa’s urban risk and resilience (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A., Leck, H., Parnell, S., & Pelling, M. (2017). Africa’s urban risk and resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 26, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.09.050

The literature on disaster risk and its reduction in Africa’s urban centres remains limited, despite evidence of disaster risks increasing with urban growth. This Special Issue brings together new synthetic reviews, detailed empirical case studies an... Read More about Africa’s urban risk and resilience.

Meeting the challenge of risk-sensitive and resilient urban development in sub-Saharan Africa: Directions for future research and practice (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A., Leck, H., Parnell, S., Pelling, M., Brown, D., & Lwasa, S. (2017). Meeting the challenge of risk-sensitive and resilient urban development in sub-Saharan Africa: Directions for future research and practice. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 26, 106-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.10.001

At the heart of the papers in this Special Issue is the call for research and practice to move to understand and act on the direct and indirect interlinkages between urban development and risk accumulation processes; a broader conception of risk on a... Read More about Meeting the challenge of risk-sensitive and resilient urban development in sub-Saharan Africa: Directions for future research and practice.

The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A. (2017). The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk. Environment and Planning A, 49(12), 2835-2852. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17732341

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Studies of urban disaster and climate change risk have increasingly invoked governmentality as a theoretical frame for understanding how urban risk governance functions. This article argues that the use of governmentalit... Read More about The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk.

Developing Frameworks to Understand Disaster Causation: From Forensic Disaster Investigation to Risk Root Cause Analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Fraser, A., Paterson, S., & Pelling, M. (2016). Developing Frameworks to Understand Disaster Causation: From Forensic Disaster Investigation to Risk Root Cause Analysis. Journal of Extreme Events, 03(02), Article 1650008. https://doi.org/10.1142/s2345737616500081

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 calls for science to support policy move toward more holistic solutions to disaster risk. This paper outlines an original framework to promote inter-disciplinary research into disaster causat... Read More about Developing Frameworks to Understand Disaster Causation: From Forensic Disaster Investigation to Risk Root Cause Analysis.

Redefining risk from below: political responses to landslide risk assessments in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia (2016)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A. (2016). Redefining risk from below: political responses to landslide risk assessments in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia. In M. Roy, S. Cawood, M. Hordijk, & D. Hulme (Eds.), Urban poverty and climate change: life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin AmericaTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter examines the construction of urban risk as an entry point to urban adaptation, with emphasis on the what, who and how' questions of adaptation. It examines three case study communities with differential exposure and vulnerability to la... Read More about Redefining risk from below: political responses to landslide risk assessments in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia.

Understanding risk in the context of urban development (2016)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A., Pelling, M., & Solecki, B. (2016). Understanding risk in the context of urban development. In S. Bartlett, & D. Satterthwaite (Eds.), Cities on a finite planet: towards transformative responses to climate change, 17-40. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter presents the conceptual landscape used in this book to analyse urban disaster and climate change risk. As well as providing working definitions to be taken forward in subsequent chapters, it discusses the implications for urban adaptatio... Read More about Understanding risk in the context of urban development.