Ms Susan Hanson

Visiting Senior Researcher

Ms Susan Hanson is Visiting Senior Reseacher within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.

Susan is a member of the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) and has also been a member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research . Prior to this she was based in the Flood Hazard Research Centre , at Middlesex University.

Her research has coverd a range of climate related topics but her main area of interest is coastal adaptation to change.Recent topics have covered:

Coastal implications of climate change: impacts (physical and economic), vulnerability and adaptive and management responses;
The development of sea-level scenarios for adaptation planning;
Coastal systems anaylsis: physical and societal aspects;
Large-scale coastal morphological behaviour, including flooding and erosion.

Research

Publications

Contact

Susan is currently working as part of the DECCMA (DEltas, vulnerability & Climate Change: Migration & Adaptation) project which is analysing the impacts of climate change and other environmental drivers across contrasting deltas in Africa and Asia.

Previous projects include:

EPSRC ‘ Shipping in Changing Climates ' project
exposure estimates for large port cities to climate extremes carried out with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Department of Energy and Climate Change's AVOID programme
the global DIVA (Dynamic Interactive Vulnerability Assessment) database
EC funded THESEUS project which is looking at integrated coastal zone management with an emphasis on coastal risk assessment and mitigatio;
the costs of adaptation to sea-level rise for the World and Asian Development Banks
INTERREG IIIB funded project BRANCH (Biodiversity Requires Adaptation in Northwest Europe under a Changing climate), which investigated the impacts of sea-level rise on designated habitats on the South coast of the UK;
The Tyndall Coastal Simulator.
CIRCE (Climate change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Environment) looking at the impacts of sea-level rise;
PESETA (Projection of Economic impacts of climate change in Sectors of the European Union based on boTtom-up Analysis) projects;

Research group

Energy and Climate Change

Affiliate research group

Coastal Engineering and Management

Articles

Book

Nicholls, R. J. (Ed.) , Hutton, C. W. (Ed.) , Adger, W. N. , Hanson, S. E. (Ed.) , Rahman, M. M. (Ed.) , & Salehin, M. (2018). Ecosystem service for well-being in deltas: Integrated assessment for policy analysis . Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8

Book Chapters

Conferences

Letter/Editorial

Brown, S. , & Hanson, S. (2019). Don’t squander sand: save it for sea-level rise . Nature , 572 , 312. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02444-4

Reports

Nicholls, R. J. , Hanson, S. , Lowe, J. A., Warrick, R. A., Lu, X., Long, A. J., & Carter, T. A. (2011). Constructing sea-level scenarios for impact and adaptation assessment of coastal areas: a guidance document . Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Whitehouse, R., Balson, P., Beech, N., Brampton, A., Blott, S., Burningham, H., Cooper, N., French, J., Guthrie, G. , Hanson, S. , Nicholls, R. J. , Pearson, S., Pye, K., Rossington, K., Sutherland, J., & Walkden, M. (2009). Characterisation and prediction of large-scale, long-term change of coastal geomorphological behaviours: final science report . Environment Agency UK.
Nicholls, R. J. , Hanson, S. , Balson, P., Brown, I., French, J., & Spencer, T. (2006). Capturing geomorphological change in the coastal simulator . (Tyndell Research Project T3.42; No. 46). Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Working Papers

Nicholls, R. J. , Brown, S. , Hanson, S. , & Hinkel, J. (2010). Economics of coastal zone adaptation to climate change . (World Bank Discussion Papers; No. 10). International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / World Bank.
Nicholls, R. J. , Hanson, S. , Herweijer, C., Patmore, N., Hallegatte, S., Corfee-Morlot, J., Château, J., & Muir-Wood, R. (2007). Ranking port cities with high exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes: exposure estimates . (Environment Directorate Working Papers; No. ENV/WKP(2007)1). Organisation for Economic and Co-operative development (OECD).
Nicholls, R. J. , Hanson, S. , Lowe, J. A., Vaughan, D. A., Lenton, T., Ganopolski, A., Tol, R. S. J., & Vafeidis, A. T. (2006). Metrics for assessing the economic benefits of climate change policies: sea-level rise . Organisation for Economic co-operation and development (OECD).

Ms Susan Hanson
Engineering, University of Southampton, Southampton Boldrewood Innovation Campus, Burgess Road, Southampton, SO16 7QF

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