Peer-reviewed publications
Our practical reports and guides are grounded in research and a strong evidence base. Our team has been involved in research from around the world and publish in leading academic journals and books – have a look at the list below.
2022
Poortinga, W., Latter, B. and Wang, S. (2022). Comparing coronavirus (COVID-19) and climate change perceptions: Implications for support for individual and collective-level policies. In Frontiers in Psychology (p. 5882). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.996546
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press. (Contributing Author: Sawas, A.)
Hampton, S., Blundel, R., Wahga, A., Fawcett, T. and Shaw, C. (2022). Transforming small and medium‐sized enterprises to address the climate emergency: The case for values‐based engagement. In Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. DOI: 10.1002/csr.2279
Latter, B. (2022). Climate Change Communication and Engagement With Older People in England. In Frontiers in Communication (Vol. 7). DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.848671
Michaelowa, A. and Sippel, M. (2022). How Can Global Carbon Markets Promote Low-Carbon Cities in Developing Countries? Lessons Learnt from the Clean Development Mechanism. In Planning Climate Smart and Wise Cities (pp. 291–315). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80165-6_8
Orr, A., Ahmad, B., Alam, U., Appadurai, A., Bharucha, Z. P., Biemans, H., Sawas, A. et al. (2022). A Horizon Scanning Exercise to Identify the Top 100 Research Questions in Social and Natural Sciences. In Earth’s Future, 10 (4).
2021
Butzengeiger, S., Michaelowa, A., Weldner, K., Deng-Beck, C., Mogyorósy, E., Harrs, J.-A. and Sippel, M. (2021). Urban Components Under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: Final Report.
Capstick, S., Khosla, R. and Wang, S. (2021). Bridging the gap – the role of equitable low-carbon lifestyles. In Emissions Gap Report 2020 (pp. 62–75). DOI: 10.18356/9789280738124c010
Chazalnoël, M.T. and Randall, A. (2021). Migration and the slow-onset impacts of climate change: Taking stock and taking action. In World Migration Report 2022 (M. McAuliffe and A. Triandafyllidou, eds.). International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva.
Corner, A., Shaw, C., Capstick, S. and Pidgeon, N. (2021). Climate Change Communication. In Lemery, J., Knowlton, K and Sorensen, C (eds.) Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice, 2nd Edition, Wiley.
Doblas-Reyes, F. J., Sörensson, A. A., Almazroui, M., Dosio, A., Gutowski, W. J., Haarsma, R., Hamdi, R., Hewitson, B., Kwon, W-T., Lamptey, B. L., Maraun, D., Stephenson, T. S., Takayabu, I., Terray, L., Turner, A., Zuo, Z. (2021) Linking Global to Regional Climate Change. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science 5 Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on 6 Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. 7 Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. 8 Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press. (Contributing Author: Shaw, C)
Dudman, K., de Wit, S. (2021). An IPCC that listens: introducing reciprocity to climate change communication. In Climatic Change (168:2). DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03186-x
Latter, B. and Capstick, S. (2021). Climate Emergency: UK Universities’ Declarations and Their
Role in Responding to Climate Change. In Frontiers in Sustainability (2). DOI: 10.3389/frsus.2021.660596
McLoughlin, N. (2021). Communicating efficacy: How the IPCC, scientists, and other Communicators can facilitate adaptive responses to climate change without compromising on policy neutrality. In Climatic Change (169:5). DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03232-8
Pidcock, R., Heath, K., Messling, L., Wang, S., Pirani, A., Connors, S., Corner, A., Shaw, C. and
Gomis, M. (2021). Evaluating effective public engagement: local stories from a global network of IPCC scientists. In Climatic Change (168:3-4). DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03230-w
Szaguhn, M. and Sippel, M. (2021). Vom Konsumhandeln zum zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagement – Können Veränderungsexperimente für mehr Klimaschutz im Alltag dazu beitragen, den Footprint-Handprint-Gap zu überwinden? In Nachhaltiger Konsum (pp. 169–183). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-33353-9_10
Szaguhn, M., Sippel, M. and Wöhler, T. (2021). Mit #climatechallenge zu mehr CSR? Ein innovatives Lernformat für Verantwortungsübernahme in der großen Transformation. In Management-Reihe Corporate Social Responsibility (pp. 237–251). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-62679-5_12
Walker, I. and Wang, S. (2021). Implicit Bias. In The Routledge International Handbook of Discrimination, Prejudice and Stereotyping (pp. 197–210). DOI: 10.4324/9780429274558-14
Wang, S., Hurlstone, M. J., Leviston, Z., Walker, I. and Lawrence, C. (2021). Construal-level theory and psychological distancing: Implications for grand environmental challenges. In One Earth (4:4, pp. 482–486). DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.03.009
Wang, S. and van den Berg, B. (2021). Neuroscience and climate change: How brain recordings can help us understand human responses to climate change. In Current Opinion in Psychology (42, pp. 126–132). DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.06.023
2020
Anwar, N. H., Sawas, A. and Mustafa, D. (2020). “Without water, there is no life”: Negotiating everyday risks and gendered insecurities in Karachi’s informal settlements. In Urban Studies (57:6, pp. 1320–1337).DOI: 10.1177/0042098019834160
Hurlstone, M. J., Price, A., Wang, S., Leviston, Z., and Walker, I. (2020). Activating the legacy motive mitigates intergenerational discounting in the climate game. In Global Environmental Change (60, p. 102008). DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.102008
Mirumachi, N., Sawas, A. and Workman, M. (2020). Unveiling the security concerns of low carbon development: climate security analysis of the undesirable and unintended effects of mitigation and adaptation. In Climate and Development (12:2, pp. 97–109). DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2019.1604310
Sawas, A., Broto, V. C., Anwar, N. H. and Rehman, A. (2020). Intersectional coproduction and infrastructural violence: experiences from Pakistan. In Community Development Journal (55:1, pp. 83–101). DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsz027
2019
Gioli, G., Thapa, G., Khan, F., Dasgupta, P., Nathan, D., Chhetri, N., Adhikari, L., Mohanty, S. K., Aurino, E. and Scott, L. M. (2019). Understanding and Tackling Poverty and Vulnerability in Mountain Livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. In The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment (pp. 421–455). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_12 (Contributing Author: Sawas, A.)
Mustafa, D., Anwar, N. and Sawas, A. (2019). Gender, global terror, and everyday violence in urban Pakistan. In Political Geography (69, pp. 54–64). DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.12.002
Pozo, C., Limleamthong, P., Guo, Y., Green, T., Shah, N., Acha, S., Sawas, A., Wu, C., Siegert, M. and Guillén-Gosálbez, G. (2019). Temporal sustainability efficiency analysis of urban areas via Data Envelopment Analysis and the hypervolume indicator: Application to London boroughs. In Journal of Cleaner Production (239, p. 117839). DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117839
Wang, S., Hurlstone, M. J., Leviston, Z., Walker, I. and Lawrence, C. (2019). Climate Change From a Distance: An Analysis of Construal Level and Psychological Distance From Climate Change. In Frontiers in Psychology (10). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00230
2018
Shaw, C., Hurth, V., Capstick, S. and Cox, E. (2018) Intermediaries’ perspectives on the public’s role in the energy transitions needed to deliver UK climate change policy goals. Energy Policy (116, pp. 267–276).
Shaw, C. (2018). ‘Searching for the middle ground on climate change.’ Tvergastein. Interdisciplinary Journal of the Environment. (10, pp 10-17).
Sippel, M., Meyer, D. and Scholliers, N. (2018). What about greenhouse gas emissions from students? An analysis of lifestyle and carbon footprints at the University of Applied Science in Konstanz, Germany. In Carbon Management (9:2, pp. 201–211). DOI: 10.1080/17583004.2018.1440851
Wang, S., Corner, A., Chapman, D. and Markowitz, E. (2018). Public engagement with climate
imagery in a changing digital landscape. In WIREs Climate Change (9:2). DOI: 10.1002/wcc.509
Wang, S., Leviston, Z., Hurlstone, M., Lawrence, C. and Walker, I. (2018). Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change. In Global Environmental Change (50, pp. 25–40). DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.03.002
2017
Hurlstone, M. J., Wang, S., Price, A., Leviston, Z. and Walker, I. (2017). Cooperation studies of catastrophe avoidance: implications for climate negotiations. In Climatic Change (Vol. 140, Issue 2, pp. 119–133). DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1838-3
Randall, A. (2017). Engaging the media on climate-linked migration. In Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
DOI: 10.4337/9781785366598.00021
Shaw, C. (2017). The Two Degrees Celsius Limit. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.15
Shaw, C. and Corner, A. (2017). Using Narrative Workshops to socialise the climate debate: Lessons from two case studies – centre-right audiences and the Scottish public. In Energy Research & Social Science (Vol. 31, pp. 273–283). DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.029
2016
Chapman, D. A., Corner, A., Webster, R., & Markowitz, E. M. (2016). Climate visuals: A mixed methods investigation of public perceptions of climate images in three countries. In Global Environmental Change (Vol. 41, pp. 172–182). DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.10.003
Shaw, C. (2016). The role of rights, risks and responsibilities in the climate justice debate. In International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management (Vol. 8, Issue 4, pp. 505–519). DOI: 10.1108/ijccsm-10-2014-0127
Shaw, C., Hellsten, I. and Nerlich, B. (2016). Framing Risk and Uncertainty in Social Science Articles on Climate Change, 1995–2012. In Communicating Risk (pp. 208–228).
DOI: 10.1057/9781137478788_13
2015
Newell, P., Bulkeley, H., Turner, K., Shaw, C., Caney, S., Shove, E. and Pidgeon, N. (2015). Governance traps in climate change politics: re‐framing the debate in terms of responsibilities and rights. In WIREs Climate Change (Vol. 6, Issue 6, pp. 535–540). DOI: 10.1002/wcc.356
Randall, A. (2015). Mobilising action on climate change and migration: The UK Migration and Climate Change Coalition. In Rosenow-Williams, Kerstin & Gemenne, François & Blocher, Julia (eds.). Organizational Perspectives on Environmental Migration. Routledge.
Shaw, C. (2015). The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change. DOI: 10.4324/9781315768892
Shaw, C. and Nerlich, B. (2015). Metaphor as a mechanism of global climate change governance: A study of international policies, 1992–2012. In Ecological Economics (Vol. 109, pp. 34–40). DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.11.001
2014
Kern, F., Smith, A. G., Shaw, C., Raven, R. P. J. M. and Verhees, B. (2014). From laggard to leader: explaining offshore wind developments in the UK. Energy Policy, 69, 635-646. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.02.031
Shaw, C. (2014). Reframing climate risk to build public support for radical emission reductions: the role of deliberative democracy. In Carbon Management (Vol. 5, Issue 4, pp. 349–360). DOI: 10.1080/17583004.2014.997078
2013
Mustafa, D., Sawas, A. and Siddiqi, A. (2013). Geographical Scales of Water and Security Nexi in South Asia. In Europa Regional Surveys of the World. Routledge.
Shaw, C. (2013). Choosing a dangerous limit for climate change: Public representations of the decision making process. In Global Environmental Change (Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp. 563–571). DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.12.012
Sippel, M. and Michaelowa, A. (2013). Financing a Green Urban Economy: The Potential of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). In The Economy of Green Cities (pp. 363–368). DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1969-9_31
2011
Corner, A. and Randall, A. (2011). Selling climate change? The limitations of social marketing as a strategy for climate change public engagement. In Global Environmental Change (Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 1005–1014). DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.05.002
Sippel, M. (2011). German cities, their climate mitigation activities, and the potential of city-partnerships. In Journal of Resources, Energy and Development (Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 37–48). DOI: 10.3233/red-120080
Sippel, M. (2011). Urban GHG inventories, target setting and mitigation achievements: how German cities fail to outperform their country. In Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management (Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 55–63). DOI: 10.3763/ghgmm.2010.0001
2010
Sippel, M. and Jenssen, T. (2010) What explains cities’ climate policy-making? A review of drivers and barriers. Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism (1:1, pp. 39-56).
2009
Mcevoy, D., Lonsdale, K., Rawlins, J., Lindley, S., Hinckel, J. and Falaleeva, M. (2009). Adaptation in the urban environment: A story of process and outcome. Iop Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 6. DOI: 10.1088/1755-1307/6/3/332003.
Shaw, C. (2009). The Dangerous Limits of Dangerous Limits: Climate Change and the Precautionary Principle. In The Sociological Review (Vol. 57, Issue 2_suppl, pp. 103–123). DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954x.2010.01888.x
Sippel, M. and Neuhoff, K. (2009) A history of conditionality: lessons for international cooperation on climate policy. Climate Policy (9:5, pp. 481-494). DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2009.0634
2007
Marshall, G. (2007). Carbon Detox: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Real about Climate Change. Gaia Books.
Marshall, G. (2007). Asleep On Their Watch: In Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe. Pluto Press, 2007 (pp. 196–216). DOI: /10.2307/j.ctt18fs5k6.
2004
Brannstrom, C., Clarke, J., & Newport, M. (2004). Civil society participation in the decentralisation of Brazil’s water resources: Assessing participation in three states. In Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (Vol. 25, Issue 3, pp. 304–321). DOI: 10.1111/j.0129-7619.2004.00188.x
2002
Marshall, G. (2002). The Human Environment: Social Scenarios and Landscape Impacts. In Landscapes (3:2, pp. 48–54). DOI: 10.1179/lan.2002.3.2.48
Our team members have also published the following two books:
- Corner, A. and Clarke, J. (2017). Talking climate: From research to practice in public engagement. Springer Nature.
- Marshall, G. (2015). Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
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