The research process, schedule, resources, and expectations are all on the syllabus.
This page is to link to specific project resources, collaborative documents, and to hand in results.
The seed of a great research question can start almost anywhere!
Have you perceived something missing, contradictory, or just “off” in any of the literature?
Have interesting questions requiring more research arisen in the conclusions of any literature?
Is there a particular geographic location or region that you are curious and passionate about?
Are you interested in how a particular geographic theory or technique may contribute to knowledge and applications in climate change adaptation & development?
Do you want to know more about the influence an academic theory or discourse has had on real practices?
Which books or articles raise your curiosity to read more?
Which geographic research or planning techniques would you like to learn?
I can recommend several books or special issues of journals that may inspire or inform research topics. Several are available for browsing in my office. These include:
Routledge book series, Advances in Climate Change Research: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Advances-in-Climate-Change-Research/book-series/RACCR
Some of the titles are already available at Middlebury, and some will require library purchases or interlibrary loans.
Social dimensions of climate change: Equity and vulnerability in a warming world (Mearns and Norton 2009)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports https://www.ipcc.ch/
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it Up (Schipper et al 2014)
Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance (Adger et al 2009)
Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change (Adger et al 2006)
Global Environmental Change journal, including two special issues
Papers that significantly advance the frontiers of knowledge about adaptation https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.middlebury.edu/journal/global-environmental-change/special-issue/10GQLDMT0N5
Adding insult to injury: Climate change, social stratification, and the inequalities of intervention https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.middlebury.edu/journal/global-environmental-change/vol/22/issue/2
Alphabetized and in-exhaustive list of other important journals:
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Climate and Development
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Nature Climate Change
Progress in Human Geography
Sustainability
Finding Empirical Data
There is an increasingly rich amount of data related to climate change adaptation out there. Some sources include:
USAID DHS Surveys https://dhsprogram.com/
Global Risk Data Platform https://preview.grid.unep.ch/
Facebook Data for Good https://dataforgood.fb.com/
IPUMS Terra https://terra.ipums.org/home
IPUMS International https://international.ipums.org/international/
AidData https://www.aiddata.org/
ReliefWeb https://reliefweb.int/
PreventionWeb https://www.preventionweb.net/
UNDP
Climate Change Adaptation https://www.adaptation-undp.org/
Adaptation Bulletins: https://us8.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=35f9dfe8df54e8b7e84db8a96&id=7b2b08fdc5
UNFCCC
Least Developed Countries Expert Group https://www.adaptation-undp.org/
National Adaptation Programmes of Action https://unfccc.int/topics/resilience/workstreams/national-adaptation-programmes-of-action/napas-received
National Adaptation Plans https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/NAPC/News/Pages/national_adaptation_plans.aspx
UNEP Climate Change https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-change
Green Climate Fund https://www.greenclimate.fund/
Global Environment Facility https://www.thegef.org/ (includes project database)
weAdapt https://www.weadapt.org/
Habitat III https://habitat3.org/
Famine Early Warning Systems https://fews.net/
Climate Reanalyzer https://climatereanalyzer.org/