Dr Emma Tompkins is a Professor of Geography, Environment and Development. She has worked on human dimensions of climate change adaptation since 2001 specifically barriers and limits to institutional adaptation, public-private partnerships for adaptation, and drivers of individual action and inaction, as well as national policy on adaptation.
Her focal areas are:
CoastalRes: pathways to coastal resilience in England and Wales over the next 100 years
CoastalRes, led by Professor Robert Nicholls, is a one year NERC funded project, running from February 2019 – January 2020. The aim is to develop and demonstrate prototype methods to assess realistic pathways for strategic coastal erosion and flood resilience in the UK the light of climate change, including sea-level rise.
Deltaic Environments, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration as Adaptation (DECCMA)
DECCMA is a 4 year, IDRC-funded, CAD$13.5million programme of applied research on the adaptation options, limits and potential in deltaic environments to current weather variability and extremes, as well as climate change. The project ran from February 2014 to September 2018. Research focussed on four deltas – the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (Bangladesh and India); the Nile (Egypt); the Volta (Ghana); and the Mahanadi (India). Large tracts of land at low elevation make deltas vulnerable to sea-level rise, but they also experience climate impacts such as droughts and fluvial flooding. Deltas have some of the highest population densities in the world with 500 million, often poor, residents. Key outputs all free to download:
Tompkins et al (2018) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.545
Suckall et al (2019) https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/419960/
Nicholls et al (2019) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-23517-8
Pathways of resilience to future storms - PREFUS (2013-2017)
This Leverhulme-funded project investigated the drivers of resilience of crop lands to tropical cyclones. We focussed on a case study of Kendrapara, Odisha in East India. PREFUS focussed specifically on identifying where (and why) rice croplands withstand or recover rapidly from tropical cyclone impacts such that there is little or no harm to livelihoods, food security and economic development in the region. Key outputs from this project (free to download):
Duncan et al (2017) https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/411640/1/agrfood_02_00165_002.pdf
Duncan et al (2017) https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss4/art3/
This project explores the synergies and trade-offs between adaptation, mitigation and development, looking at different development pathways and policy mixes in coastal areas.
This demand-led project aims to support policy makers in making hard choices about resource allocation to achieve climate compatible development. The project involves an assessment of the co-benefits of adaptation and mitigation activities in the coastal zone. It focuses on case studies in four areas off Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Environmental Change and Sustainability: Global Environmental Change and Earth Observation
GEOG3057 – Adapting to climate and weather hazards (convenor)
Margherita Fanciotti (Southampton, started 2014)
Tropical cyclone resilience in the Mahanadi Delta, India
Giorgia Prati (Southampton, started 2014)
Gender and adaptation: the implications of migration for women’s adaptive capacity in the Mahanadi delta, India
Heather Brown (Southampton, started 2016)
Governance of cyclone risk in coastal zones: a case study of Samoa https://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/postgraduate/research_students/hb11g13.page
Sien van der Plank (Southampton, started 2016)
Management of coastal flooding in England through spatial planning, engineering and insurance https://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/postgraduate/research_students/svdp1c16.page
Martin Watts (Southampton, started 2018)
The role of multi-storey home gardens in adaptation to climate change in mountainous regions
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/postgraduate/research_students/maw2u17.page
Yanna Fidai (Southampton, started 2019)
‘The assessment of the spatial and temporal distribution and impact of Sargassum seaweed across the tropical Atlantic basin’
Miriam Joshua (Southampton, 2012-2019)
Formal institutions in equitable access to drinking water for food security in Malawi
Fiona Simmance (Southampton, 2013-2017)
The role of small-scale Inland Capture Fisheries for food security in Malawi
Radhika Dave (Southampton, 2012- 2016)
The relationship between forest management and agricultural resilience in smallholder farming communities in Madagascar
Alex Chapman (Southampton, 2012-2015)
Climate change adaptation, mitigation and development in the Mekong Delta
Tudor Vilcan (Southampton, 2012-2016)
Discourses of resilience in climate change adaptation policy
Paola Hernandez Montes de Oca (Leeds, 2009-2013)
Vulnerability and resilience of SMEs to extreme weather events in south-east México
Khandaker Munim (Leeds, 2008-2013)
Vulnerability of food systems to salinity intrusion in south-west Bangladesh
Salma Hegga (Leeds/Southampton, 2008-2013)
Social capital and flood preparedness in Kilosa District, Tanzania
Arnoldo Matus Kramer (Oxford, 2006- 2011)
Adaptation to climate change in the tourism sector of the rapidly urbanizing Yucatan Caribbean coast
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