Neil Adger
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| workplaces = University of Exeter
| alma_mater = University of Edinburgh
Wye College, University of London
University of East Anglia
| thesis_title = Social vulnerability to climate change in Vietnam
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| thesis_year = 1998
| doctoral_advisor = Kerry Turner and Mick Kelly{{cite thesis|title=Social vulnerability to climate change in Vietnam|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.389394|website=British Library EThOS|year=1998|access-date=8 October 2016|type=Ph.D|last1=Adger|first1=William Neil|archive-date=6 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306164307/http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.389394|url-status=dead}}
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| spouse = Katrina Brown
| website = [http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Neil_Adger Professor Neil Adger]
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William Neil Adger (born 1964) is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter.{{cite web|title=Refugee crisis: Is climate change affecting mass migration?|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/refugee-crisis-is-climate-change-affecting-mass-migration-10490434.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/refugee-crisis-is-climate-change-affecting-mass-migration-10490434.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=The Independent|date=7 September 2015|access-date=3 March 2016}}
Background
Neil Adger is Northern Irish, born in Ballymena.{{cite web | url=https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/galardonados/neil-adger-2/ | title=Neil Adger }} He was educated at the University of Edinburgh (MA Economics), Wye College, University of London (MSc Agricultural Economics) and the University of East Anglia (PhD, 1998).{{cite web|title=Professor Neil Adger|url=http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Neil_Adger|website=University of Exeter|access-date=3 March 2016}}
==Contributions==
Adger, an environmental economist by training, has been a significant contributor to debates about how social conditions and culture shape our vulnerability to climate change and our ability to adapt to it, with over 140,000 citations as of 2024.{{cite web | url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Adshs2wAAAAJ&hl=en | title=Neil Adger }} He has largely worked on group projects synthesizing cases and data, but has also worked closely on coastal vulnerability and migration resulting from climate change in Vietnam and Bangladesh.{{cite web | url=https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/galardonados/neil-adger-2/ | title=Neil Adger }}
He has been a Co-ordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, contributing significantly to reports in 2001 and 2007.Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group 1. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Summary for Policymakers and Technical Summary and Frequently Asked Questions. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Awards
- Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2001
- Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Scientist.{{Cite web|url=https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/|title=Highly Cited Researchers|accessdate=18 March 2023}}
- Frontiers of Knowledge award 2012, BBVA Foundation{{cite web | url=https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/galardonados/neil-adger-2/ | title=Neil Adger }} {{cite press release |url=https://www.premiosfronterasdelconocimiento.es/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/PressRelease-13th-Frontiers-Knowledge-Awards-Climate-Change.pdf
|title=The BBVA Foundation recognizes Neil Adger, Ian Burton and Karen O'Brien for incorporating the social dimension to climate change science through the study of adaptation to unavoidable impacts |publisher=BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards |author=
|website=premiosfronterasdelconocimiento.es
|date=13 January 2021 |edition=13th
|access-date=3 Sep 2024}}
Key Publications
- Adger, W. N. (2006) Vulnerability. Global Environmental Change 16 (3), 268-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.02.006
- Adger, W. N. (2000). Social and ecological resilience: are they related? Progress in Human Geography, 24(3), 347-364. https://doi.org/10.1191/030913200701540465
- W. N. Adger, NW Arnell, EL Tompkins (2005). [https://research.fit.edu/media/site-specific/researchfitedu/coast-climate-adaptation-libr Successful adaptation to climate change across scales]. Global Environmental Change. 15(2), 77-86.
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Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
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Category:21st-century British geographers
Category:British environmental scientists
Category:Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead authors