Kirstin Dow
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Carolina Trustees Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kirstin Dow is a Carolina Trustees Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina and the Lead Investigator of the Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments . She is also a co-author of The Atlas of Climate Change which has been published in ten languages and a science advisor on climate change alleviation and adaptation for local and national efforts such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Kirstin Dow's Published Works
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Published Works
- Climate Change 2014: Impacts,Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) (3440)
- Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA (1998) (395)
- Crying wolf: Repeat responses to hurricane evacuation orders (1998) (387)
- Climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability – IPCC WGII AR5 summary for policymakers (2014) (345)
- Exploring differences in our common future(s): the meaning of vulnerability to global environmental change (1992) (328)
- Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limits (2014) (307)
- Two types of global environmental change: Definitional and spatial-scale issues in their human dimensions (1990) (303)
- Emerging Hurricane Evacuation Issues: Hurricane Floyd and South Carolina (2002) (261)
- Public orders and personal opinions: household strategies for hurricane risk assessment (2000) (200)
- Limits to adaptation (2013) (185)
- Climate Change 2014 (2015) (180)
- Social dimensions of gradients in urban ecosystems (2000) (119)
- Feeling at Risk Matters: Water Managers and the Decision to Use Forecasts (2005) (108)
- Climate of the Southeast United States: Variability, Change, Impacts, and Vulnerability (2013) (99)
- Limits to adaptation to climate change: a risk approach (2013) (92)
- Vulnerable peoples and places (2005) (84)
- The Climate Adaptation Frontier (2013) (82)
- SUBSIDIZED INEQUITIES: THE SPATIAL PATTERNING OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND FEDERALLY ASSISTED HOUSING (2001) (68)
- Understanding global environmental change: the contributions of risk analysis and management (1990) (68)
- Integrating scientific and local knowledge to inform risk-based management approaches for climate adaptation (2014) (67)
- Why worry? Community water system managers’ perceptions of climate vulnerability (2007) (61)
- WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND DROUGHT FORECASTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA 1 (2005) (60)
- The role of ad hoc networks in supporting climate change adaptation: a case study from the Southeastern United States (2013) (59)
- What Stakeholder Needs Tell Us about Enabling Adaptive Capacity: The Intersection of Context and Information Provision across Regions in the United States (2015) (58)
- Comparing Sentinel-2 MSI and Landsat 8 OLI in soil salinity detection: a case study of agricultural lands in coastal North Carolina (2019) (55)
- The Role of Perceived Risk, Uncertainty, and Trust on Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Planning (2016) (55)
- Design and evaluation of a local analytic-deliberative process for climate adaptation planning (2016) (41)
- Atlas of Climate Change (2012) (39)
- Impact of Climate Change on Vibrio vulnificus Abundance and Exposure Risk (2018) (38)
- Critical environmental regions: concepts distinctions and issues. (1995) (36)
- Developmental and Geographical Equity in Global Environmental Change (1991) (34)
- Adaptation opportunities, constraints and limits. Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2014) (34)
- News coverage of drought impacts and vulnerability in the US Carolinas, 1998–2007 (2010) (32)
- Cross-level differences and similarities in coastal climate change adaptation planning (2014) (32)
- THE EXTRAORDINARY AND THE EVERYDAY IN EXPLANATIONS OF VULNERABILITY TO AN OIL SPILL (1999) (28)
- Climate in Context: Science and Society Partnering for Adaptation (2016) (27)
- Climate Science and Decision Making (2007) (27)
- The Missing Piece: Drought Impacts Monitoring (2013) (27)
- Climate-Sensitive Decisions and Time Frames: A Cross-Sectoral Analysis of Information Pathways in the Carolinas (2014) (26)
- Consideration of User Needs and Spatial Accuracy in Drought Mapping 1 (2009) (24)
- Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, Massachusetts, US (2014) (24)
- Chapter 8 Hazard Perception and Geography (1993) (23)
- The potential use of climate forecasts by community water system managers (2006) (19)
- Learning Through Participatory Modeling: Reflections on What It Means and How It Is Measured (2017) (19)
- Negotiating a Mainstreaming Spectrum: Climate Change Response and Communication in the Carolinas (2014) (18)
- Summary for Policy Makers: Working group 11 contribution to the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (2014) (17)
- Forests and Climate Change in the Southeast USA (2013) (16)
- Local Observers Fill In the Details on Drought Impact Reporter Maps (2014) (16)
- Building a sustained climate assessment process (2016) (14)
- Assessing needs and decision contexts: RISA approaches to engagement research (2016) (14)
- Chapter 19 : Southeast. Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: The Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II (2018) (12)
- The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge (2019) (11)
- Ch. 29: Research Needs for Climate and Global Change Assessments. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (2014) (10)
- Politics of climate change: A European perspective (1997) (8)
- UNNECESSARILY NEGLECTED IN PLANNING: ILLUSTRATION OF A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO IDENTIFY HUMAN DIMENSION IMPACTS OF MARINE OIL SPILLS (2012) (8)
- The Effects of Climate Change on Natural Ecosystems of the Southeast USA (2013) (7)
- Assessment of adaptation, policy, and capacity building outcomes from 14 processes (2020) (6)
- Risk Perceptions of Natural Hazards: Community Water System Managers in Pennsylvania and South Carolina (2001) (4)
- Climate Change in the Southeast USA: Executive Summary (2013) (4)
- Comparing Coastal Planner Expectations of Change to Climate Science Projections (2015) (4)
- Drought and Coastal Ecosystems: Identifying Impacts and Opportunities to Inform Management (2014) (4)
- The US National Climate Assessment: Innovations in Science and Engagement (2016) (3)
- How can we learn more from learning about risk controversies (2017) (3)
- Caught in the Currents: Pollution, Risk, and Environmental Change in Marine Space (1999) (3)
- Individually experienced heat index in a coastal Southeastern US city among an occupationally exposed population (2022) (2)
- Addressing monitoring needs for drought management (2010) (2)
- Drought and coastal ecosystems: an assessment of decision maker needs for information (2016) (2)
- Integrating Perspectives on Environmental Security (2003) (2)
- Climate Interactions with the Built Environment in the Southeast USA (2013) (2)
- Coastal Ecological Impacts of Drought: Needs for a Drought Early Warning System (2010) (2)
- The Missing Piece:Drought Impacts MonitoringReport from a Workshop in Tucson, AZMARCH 5-6, 2013 (2013) (1)
- Evolving the practice of Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (2016) (1)
- Chapter 6 Vulnerable Peoples and Places Coordinating Lead (2006) (1)
- Indicators of the Occurrence of Vibrio in the Winyah Bay, SC Estuary (2015) (1)
- Understanding context and risk (2016) (1)
- Research needs for climate and global change assessment, Chapter 29 (2014) (1)
- NIST-NOAA survey instrument for business disruption and recovery associated with extreme events: (2020) (1)
- Prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: fire managers’ perspectives on priorities, constraints, and future prospects (2022) (1)
- Risk Amplification and Attenuation as Communication Strategies in Climate Adaptation in Urban Areas (2021) (1)
- Developing a drought early warning information system for coastal ecosystems in the Carolinas (2016) (1)
- Deciphering Small Business Community Disaster Support using Machine Learning (2021) (1)
- Limits to adaptation: Building an integrated research agenda (2022) (0)
- Chapter 13: Climate Adaptations in the Southeast USA (2013) (0)
- Managing knowledge-to-action networks (2016) (0)
- Carolinas Integrated Sciences & Assessments 2014 - 2015 Annual Report (2015) (0)
- Climate Change and Conservation in the Southeast : A Review of State Wildlife Action Plans Final Report October 2018 (2018) (0)
- Water AND Heat: Intervening in Adaptation Hazard Bias (2022) (0)
- Changes in the Availability of Freshwater along the South Carolina and Georgia Coast due to Potential Climate Change Scenarios (2012) (0)
- Synthesising Lessons on Effective Vulnerability Reduction Policy (2001) (0)
- Advancing science policy (2016) (0)
- Integration of Local Planners' and Scientists' Knowledge of Consequences, Vulnerabilities, and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change Related Hazards (2011) (0)
- The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program, Climate Services, and Meeting the National Climate Change Adaptation Challenge (2008) (0)
- Developing a Drought Impact Reporting System for the Carolinas (2008) (0)
- Trust in Government and Scientists Scales (2016) (0)
- Out of harm’s way (2017) (0)
- Engaging to Support Climate-Smart Decisions: Insights From NOAA's RISA Program (2017) (0)
- NIDIS Carolinas Drought Early Warning Pilot Program (2012) (0)
- Oil, Economic Development and Diversification in Brunei Darussalam . By Mark Cleary and Shuang Yann Wong. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. ix, 154 pp. $69.95. (1996) (0)
- Fostering Synergies Among Organizations to put Climate in Context for Use in Decision Making (2016) (0)
- COASTAL ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF DROUGHT: (2010) (0)
- Road Vulnerabilities to Projected Sea-Level Rise by County: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia (2019) (0)
- Challenges, pitfalls, and lessons learned in developing a drought decision-support tool (2016) (0)
- Evolution of a drought monitoring tool (2008) (0)
- All About Attitude: The Theory of Planned Behavior and Small Business Disaster Response (2022) (0)
- A Dynamic Drought Tool for the Carolinas (2008) (0)
- Exclusive: Human Dimensions of Oil Spills (2010) (0)
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