Robert Kates

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Robert Kates is affiliated with the following schools: Brown University, Clark University, University of Chicago

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Robert Kates

Earth Sciences

#187

World Rank

#393

Historical Rank

#83

USA Rank

Geography

#74

World Rank

#146

Historical Rank

#21

USA Rank

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Robert Kates's Degrees

PhD Geography University of Chicago
Masters Geography University of Chicago
Bachelors Geography University of Chicago

Why Is Robert Kates Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Robert W. Kates was an American geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine, and University Professor at Brown University. Background Kates was born in Brooklyn, New York. Unusually for an academic, he never completed an undergraduate degree. He studied Economics at New York University from 1946-8, but dropped out. He married Ellie Hackman at the age of 19 and went to work in a steel mill in Indiana for 12 years, working with the labor union and other movements. He had a chance encounter with a naturalist in a state park in Indiana when on vacation with his family, and this meeting inspired him to train to become an elementary school teacher, a job he thought would free up summer vacations for the family. To realise this career he signed up for night school at Indiana University, Gary in 1957, when aged 28. One of his classes to become a teacher was in geography. Having found his calling and his discipline, he sought study advice from Gilbert F. White at the University of Chicago. White gave him some key texts to read, Kates returned to discuss them, White recognized his abilities and steered him through an MA and eventually a PhD in Geography . Kates taught at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University from 1962 until 1987. At Clark he founded CENTED , now part of the Marsh Institute, where he remained a Distinguished Scientist. He worked in Africa with Clark colleagues, and also developed and directed a resource assessment centre at the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania .

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Robert Kates's Published Works

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Published Works

Sustainability Science (2001) (1970)
Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient (2012) (986)
Characterizing and measuring sustainable development (2003) (855)
Global Change in Local Places: How Scale Matters (1999) (606)
Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: A research perspective (2006) (575)
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.@@@The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere Over the Past 300 Years. (1993) (502)
Reconstruction following disaster (1977) (466)
What kind of a science is sustainability science? (2011) (443)
Sustainability Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Review of Multinational and Global Trends (2006) (399)
Cautionary Tales: Adaptation and the Global Poor (2000) (370)
Natural Hazard in Human Ecological Perspective: Hypotheses and Models (1971) (369)
Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigation (1997) (357)
The Perception of Natural Hazards in Resource Management (1963) (329)
Climate Impact Assessment (1985) (319)
Knowing better and losing even more: the use of knowledge in hazards management (2001) (317)
Long-term trends and a sustainability transition (2003) (307)
Hazard And Choice Perception In Flood Plain Management (1962) (277)
Perilous Progress: Managing The Hazards Of Technology (1985) (248)
Population growth and agricultural change in Africa. (1994) (236)
Characterizing a sustainability transition: Goals, targets, trends, and driving forces (2003) (228)
The Interaction of Climate and Society (1985) (185)
The nature of technological hazard. (1983) (175)
Comparative risk analysis of technological hazards (a review). (1983) (162)
Do Global Attitudes and Behaviors Support Sustainable Development? (2005) (154)
Beyond Adapting to Climate Change: Embedding Adaptation in Responses to Multiple Threats and Stresses (2010) (152)
Climate impact assessment : studies of the interaction of climate and society (1986) (141)
Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation: effects of supernova feedback (1996) (141)
African poverty: A grand challenge for sustainability science (2007) (135)
The human ecology of extreme geophysical events (1968) (120)
Three Years after Katrina: Lessons for Community Resilience (2008) (119)
Risk Assessment Of Environmental Hazard (1978) (115)
Making the Global Local Responding to Climate Change Concerns from the Ground (2003) (107)
The Human Environment: The Road Not Taken, The Road Still Beckoning (1987) (106)
Global Change in Local Places (1998) (101)
Where the Poor Live (1992) (98)
Environmental Surprise: Expecting the Unexpected? (1996) (81)
Methods for estimating greenhouse gases from local places (1998) (77)
Population and Consumption: What We Know, What We Need to Know (2000) (77)
Ch. 16: Northeast. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (2014) (69)
Long-term population change. (1990) (68)
From the Unity of Nature to Sustainability Science: Ideas and Practice (2012) (62)
World food security: prospects and trends (1994) (60)
Human Impact of the Managua Earthquake (1973) (59)
Readings in Sustainability Science and Technology (2010) (54)
America's Climate Choices: Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change (2010) (51)
Geography, resources and environment (1986) (47)
The distrust of nuclear power. (1977) (47)
Sustaining life on the earth. (1994) (42)
Accelerating Sustainable Development (2005) (42)
Experiencing the Environment as Hazard (1976) (40)
Departments (1986) (35)
Man's Response to the Physical Environment. (1966) (33)
Industrial flood losses : damage estimation in the Lehigh Valley (1965) (32)
Greenhouse gases special: Thinking locally in science, practice and policy (1998) (32)
Theory evidence study design. (1993) (31)
Labnotes from the Jeremiah Experiment: Hope for a Sustainable Transition (1995) (28)
The floodplain and the seashore: a comparative analysis of hazard zone occupancy. (1964) (28)
Population, technology, and the human environment: a thread through time. (1996) (26)
THE HUMAN ECOLOGY OF COASTAL FLOOD HAZARD IN MEGALOPOLIS. (1969) (26)
Population, society and desertification. (1977) (25)
Handling hazards: can hazard management be improved. [Potential and strategies for improvement] (1978) (25)
CLIMATE AND SOCIETY: LESSONS FROM RECENT EVENTS* (1980) (23)
Queries on the Human Use of the Earth (2001) (23)
Readings in Resource Management and Conservation (1965) (23)
The Making of Deserts: Climate, Ecology, and Society (1977) (23)
Perceptual regions and regional perception in flood plain management (1963) (22)
Three Years after Katrina Lessons for Community (2008) (21)
Social science perspectives on the coming San Francisco earthquake : economic impact, prediction, and reconstruction (1974) (21)
HUMAN RESPONSE TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE GEOGRAPHICAL CONTRIBUTIONS (1968) (20)
Self-regulating Galaxy Formation as an Explanation for the Tully-Fisher Relation (1998) (19)
Climate change and world food security: Editorial (1994) (18)
Editorial: The N-Place Problem (2003) (17)
THE HUNGER REPORT: UPDATE 1989 (1989) (15)
Sustainable Development in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria: The Role of Social Capital, Participation, and Science and Technology (2004) (15)
The International Response to the Threat of Chlorofluorocarbons to Atmospheric Ozone (1982) (14)
Great T ransition Values Present Attitudes, Future Changes (2006) (14)
Sustainability and Sustainability Science (2015) (14)
THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE AND THE WISDOM OF THE CHILD (1977) (12)
The hunger report: 1988. (1988) (12)
Theories of Nature, Society and Technology (1988) (12)
Indexes of leading climate indicators for impact assessment (1995) (12)
Worker/Public Protection: The Double Standard (1981) (11)
Stimulus and Symbol: The View from the Bridge (1966) (11)
The Earth as Transformed by Human Action in Retrospect (1994) (11)
The Earth Day Series: Earth Day 1995, A Celebration an Assessment a Forecast (1995) (11)
Human Issues in Human Rights (1978) (11)
Target: Highway Risks: II. The Government Regulators (1979) (11)
Gilbert F. White, 1911–2006 Local Legacies, National Achievements, and Global Visions (2008) (10)
Methods for Analyzing and Comparing Technological Hazards (1986) (10)
THE SHORES OF MEGALOPOLIS: COASTAL OCCUPANCE AND HUMAN ADJUSTMENT TO FLOOD HAZARD. (1965) (10)
Drought and the Human Story: Braving the Bull of Heaven (2014) (10)
Ending deaths from famine. The opportunity in Somalia. (1993) (9)
Responding to the Double Standard of Worker/Public Protection (1983) (9)
Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs (1998) (9)
THE FUTURE OF HAZARD RESEARCH: A REPLY TO WILLIAM I. TORRY (1981) (9)
Global Change and Local Places: A grand query: how scale matters in global change research (2003) (9)
Towards a food-secure world: prospects and trends. (1996) (9)
Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards (1988) (8)
Global Change and Local Places: Global change and local places: lessons learned (2003) (8)
Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy properties: Environmental effects (1998) (8)
The hunger report: 1990. (1990) (8)
Relationships of Environmental Justice to Ecological Theory (2007) (7)
SUSTAINABILITY VALUES ,A TTITUDES, AND BEHAVIORS: A Review of Multinational (2006) (7)
Selected writings of Gilbert F. White (1986) (6)
The Legacy of Earth Day: Reflections at a Turning Point (1995) (6)
Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Transition: Population and consumption: From more to enough (2000) (5)
The Environment as Hazard (1979) (5)
Will Rhode Island be the First Green State (1990) (5)
The human environment: Penultimate problems of survival (1983) (5)
Themes From The Work Of Gilbert F. White (1986) (5)
Institutional responses to Three Mile Island (1979) (4)
PLANNING FOR HAZARDS IN EVERYDAY LANDSCAPES (1975) (4)
Introduction: halving hunger (1990) (4)
Geography, Resources and Environment. Vol. 1. Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White. Vol. 2. Themes from the Work of Gilbert F. White (1987) (3)
Cultural Hydrology: A Review@@@Choice of Adjustment to Floods@@@Hazard and Choice Perception in Flood Plain Management@@@Regulating Flood-Plain Development (1966) (3)
Causal Structure: A Framework for Policy Formulation (2019) (3)
MIRROR OR MONITOR FOR MAN (1985) (3)
From agricultural growth to stagnation: the case of the Ngwa, Nigeria, 1900-1980. (1993) (3)
Natural Hazards, Climate Change, and Adaptation: Persistent Questions and Answers (2012) (2)
Sustainability Transition: Human–Environment Relationship (2001) (2)
Part and Apart (1999) (2)
Water as a Focus for Rural Research (1968) (2)
Invasive Alien Species: Musings on a Spring Morning (2004) (2)
Interview with Robert Kates, Pathfinder in Sustainability Science (2012) (2)
In the midst of change (1987) (2)
Overarching Themes of the Conference : Sustainability Science (2009) (2)
Protecting Workers, Protecting Publics: The Ethics of Differential Protection (1985) (2)
Our hazardous environment. [Need for assessing indirect and broadly distributed impacts] (1978) (2)
The double standard. (1981) (2)
We Aren't Worth a Mention? (2000) (1)
Editorial: Leadership at Summit's End (2002) (1)
Creating a Climate for Change: Foreword (2007) (1)
Accelerating Sustainable Development [Editorial] (2005) (1)
Global Change and Local Places: The research strategy: linking the local to the global (2003) (1)
Geography in Exile (2001) (1)
Good intentions: the Cairo Declaration/the Bangkok Affirmation/the Bellagio Declaration. (1990) (1)
Estimating Probabilities of Research Success in the Atmospheric Sciences: Results of a Pilot Investigation (1969) (1)
Editorial: A Tale of Three Cities (1994) (1)
Planned irrigated settlement. A study of four villages in Sodona and Singida regions, Tanzania. (1970) (1)
The Scientists' Dilemma: Conflict Between Concerns for Human Rights and the Imperative to Communicate (1979) (1)
Making the Most of the Least: Alternative Ways to Development (1980) (1)
Urban Sustainability—A Unique Moment in Time (2006) (1)
Symposium: Perception and Natural Resources: Foreword (1963) (0)
Editorial: A Matter of Balance (1993) (0)
Corporate Management of Health and Safety Hazards: Current Practice and Needed Research (2019) (0)
Ending hunger for the second billion. (1987) (0)
The Retreat from the Coast (2007) (0)
Population society and desertification. Background document [prepared for the U.N. Conference on Desertification August 29- September 9 1977 Nairobi Kenya] (1976) (0)
A MODERN, ENVIRONMENTAL JEREMIAH (2004) (0)
NA2758 Robert Kates, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli (2014) (0)
Effects of supernovae feedback on galaxy formation (1994) (0)
Letter to the editor. (1973) (0)
APPLIED GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH IN EAST AFRICA (1973) (0)
Editors’ Picks (2010) (0)
Population Belongs on the Johannesburg Agenda (2002) (0)
Union Carbide Corporation and the Bhopal Disaster (2019) (0)
Geographical Concepts in the Academy: Sustainability, GIS, and the World (2007) (0)
Consumption of Water. (1963) (0)
Seeding Hurricanes (1973) (0)
Long-term potentials for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from local areas (2003) (0)
Impacto humano del terremoto de Managua (1973) (0)
Confronting Equity in Radioactive Waste Management: Modest Proposals for a Socially Just and Acceptable Program 1 (2019) (0)
Managing Occupational and Catastrophic Hazards at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant (2019) (0)
Making the Most of the Least: Alternative Ways to Development. (1981) (0)
Managing Occupational Hazards at a PHARMACHEM Corporation Plant (2019) (0)
You Are Not Forgotten (1979) (0)
Editors' Picks (2011) (0)
Managing Hazards at PETROCHEM Corporation (2019) (0)
Turning the Corner (2007) (0)
Population, society and desertification : background document (1977) (0)
“The Skeptics Agenda” and What Science Now Says about Global Warming (2000) (0)
Human rights: good news and an apology. (1978) (0)
Seminal Article: “Environmental Surprise, Expecting the Unexpected?” (2019) (0)
Institutional Responses to Different Perceptions of Risk (2019) (0)
CORRESPONDENCE AND COMMENT (1964) (0)
A PLAN FOR A NATIONAL CLIMATE INFORMATION SYSTEM (1987) (0)
Human Rights: Good News and an Apology (1978) (0)
The world of hunger. Program of Brown University to address world hunger problems of the present and future. (1987) (0)
Risk from Nature in the City (2005) (0)
Editorial: Great Ideas (1994) (0)
Editorial: Redefining Security (1994) (0)
Population Growth and Agricultural Changein Africa (1995) (0)
Canadian Resources and American Requirements (1964) (0)
SCOPE 27-Climate Impact Assessment, Index (2009) (0)
Editorial: Popular Science (1993) (0)
Books Of Note: Convronting Consumption (2003) (0)

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