Climate Adaptation

Lisa Schipper is an adaptation researcher based in Bangkok, Thailand. Her PhD at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, examined three elements of adaptation – theory, policy and practice, with a case study in El Salvador. Her PhD was funded by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The PhD thesis can be downloaded here: Schipper PhD Thesis 2004.

Throughout her PhD, Lisa wrote, edited and team led IISD‘s Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage of the UNFCCC negotiations, continuing to do so until 2009.

Lisa has since worked at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka, where she helped co-ordinate the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (published by Earthscan). She is currently at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Bangkok, Thailand, where she continues research on adaptation, vulnerability and development issues in the context of climate change and disasters.

Lisa is an Associate Editor of the new journal Climate and Development, and a Lead Author in Chapter 2 of the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (due to be published in 2011).

Lisa is also a member of the International Advisory Panel for the International Program on Climate Change and Variability Risk Reduction (IP-CVR).

Some publications include:

• Schipper, E.L.F., I. Burton (eds.) (2009) ‘The Earthsan Reader in Adaptation to Climate Change’, Earthscan: London.
• Schipper, E.L.F .‘Religion as an Integral Part of Determining and Reducing Climate Change and Disaster Risk: an Agenda for Research’ in Voss, M. (ed.) Climate Change: The Social Science Perspective, VS-Verlag: Wiesbaden, Germany (forthcoming).
• Schipper, E.L.F. (2009) ‘Meeting at the crossroads?: Exploring the linkages between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction’ Climate and Development 1(1): 16-30.
• Schipper, E.L.F. (2009) ‘Adapting to climate change in developing countries: institutional and policy responses for urbanizing societies’ Background paper for the 2009 UN World Economic and Social Survey – Climate Change and Development.
• Smakhtin, V., Schipper, E.L.F. (2008) ‘Droughts: The Impact of Semantics and Perceptions’ Water Policy 10 (2): 131-143.
• Schipper, E.L.F., M.P. Cigarán, M. McKenzie-Hedger (2008) ‘Adaptation to climate change: the new challenge for development in the developing world’ UNDP Environment and Energy Group, UNDP: New York.
• Schipper, E.L.F. (2007) ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Development: Exploring the Linkages’ Tyndall Working Paper No. 107.
• Schipper, E.L.F. (2006) ‘Climate Risk, Perceptions and Development in El Salvador’ Tyndall Working Paper No. 93.
• Schipper, E.L.F. (2006) ‘Conceptual History of Adaptation to Climate Change under the UNFCCC’ Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL) 15 (1): 82-92.
• Schipper, E.L., E. Boyd (2006) ‘UNFCCC COP 11 and COP/MOP 1: At last, some hope?’ Journal of Environment and Development, 15(1): 75-90.
• Schipper, L., M. Pelling (2006) ‘Disaster Risk, Climate Change and International Development: Scope for, and Challenges to, Integration’, Disasters, 30 (1): 19-38.
• Dessai, S., Schipper, E.L.F., Kjellén, B., Corbera, E., Gutiérrez, M., Haxeltine, A., (2005) ‘Challenges and Outcomes at the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 5 (2) 105-124.
• Klein, R.J.T., Schipper, E.L., Dessai, S. (2005) ‘Integrating mitigation and adaptation into climate and development policy: Three research questions’, Environmental Science and Policy, 8: 579-588. (Tyndall Working Paper version here)
• Dessai, S., Schipper, E.L. (2003) ‘The Marrakech Accords to the Kyoto Protocol: Analysis and Future Prospects’, Global Environmental Change, 2 (13) 149-153.
• Boyd, E., Schipper, E.L. (2002) ‘The Marrakech Accord – at the Cross-Road to Ratification’ Journal of Environment and Development, 2 (11): 184-190.
• Burton, I., Huq, S., Lim, B., Pilifosova, O., Schipper, E.L. (2002) ‘From Impacts Assessment to Adaptation Priorities: The Shaping of Adaptation Policy’ Climate Policy, 2-3 (2): 145-159.

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