School of Earth and Environment

Emma Tompkins Dr Emma Tompkins

Visiting Researcher

Email address: e.l.tompkins@soton.ac.uk

Biography

Emma is based in Southampton University, but retains a visiting position at Leeds. Emma has worked on climate change adaptation since 2001 specifically barriers and limits to institutional adaptation, public-private partnerships for adaptation, and drivers of individual action and national policy on adaptation.

Emma sits on the Editorial Board of Ecology and Society and on the Advisory Group for the UK Climate Impacts Programme.

She is a lead author of the IPCC AR5, a contributing author to the IPCC Special Report on Climate Extremes and Disasters (due 2011), was an expert reviewer for the IPCC fourth Assessment Report, and provides on-going expert reviews for research councils in the UK and seven other European

countries. She has published numerous papers, articles and policy briefs on environmental management, adaptation to climate change, and social and ecological resilience as well as handbooks on surviving climate change in small islands and participatory coastal zone management. She has a PhD Environmental Science (UEA), MSc Environmental and Resource Economics (UCL) and BA Economics (Leicester).

Research interests:

Her research interests include:

1. sustainable adaptation to climate change

2. decision support tools for climate change decision making

3. social transitions and processes of institutional change

4. individual behavioural change

Her research areas are:

1. natural hazards, especially tropical cyclones, floods and droughts

2. climate change

3. small island states

4. coastal zones

Teaching:

Emma co-teaches the Masters module SOEE 5550 (Climate change impacts and adaptation) with Andy Challinor.

PhD supervision:

Emma is currently supervising:

Rachel Berman Mainstream climate change and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Can 'good development' interventions deliver effective low carbon climate resilient growth?

Arnoldo Matus Kramer (started 2007) Adaptation to Climate Change in the Tourism Sector of the Rapidly Urbanizing Yucatan Caribbean Coast

Khandaker Munim (started 2008) Implications of Salinity Intrusion for Food Security in Two Food Systems in South-western Bangladesh

Paola Hernandez Montes de Oca (started Feb 2009) Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Public-Private Partnerships as Drivers for SMEs to Fight Climate Change in the Southeast of Mexico

Salma Hegga (started 2009) Disaster resilience in the Mzinga wetland in Tanzania

Steven Orchard (started 2010) Adaptation and development: Pathways to a sustainable future

She is interested in supervising in the following areas:

  • climate change adaptation
  • resilience and development
  • risk management and risk communication
  • decision support tools for climate change decision making;
  • psychological and economic limits to adaptation
  • integrated coastal zone management
  • small island sustainability.

Publications

  • Barange M; Allen I; Allison E; Badjeck M-C; Blanchard J; Drakeford B; Dulvy NK; Harle J; Holmes R; Holt J; Jennings S; Lowe J; Merino G; Mullon C; Piling G; Rodwell L; Tompkins EL; Werner F (2011) Predicting the impacts and socio-economic consequences of climate change on global marine ecosystems and fisheries, In: Cochrane KL; Ommer R; Perry I; Cury P (Ed) World Fisheries: A Socio-Ecological Analysis, Fish and Aquatic Resources, Wiley-Blackwell, pp.31.
  • Tompkins EL; Boyd E; Nicholson-Cole S; Adger WN; Weatherhead K; Arnell N (2010) Observed adaptation to climate change: UK evidence of transition to a well-adapting society?, Global Environmental Change, 20, pp.627-635. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.05.001
  • Boyd E; Tompkins EL (2010) Climate Change. A Beginners Guide, Oneworld Pubns Ltd.
  • Tompkins E; Hurlston L-A; Poortinga W (2009) Foreignness as a constraint on learning: the impact of migrants on disaster resilience in small islands, Environmental Hazards, 8, pp.263-277.
  • Eakin H; Tompkins EL; Nelson D; Anderies JM (2009) Hidden costs and disparate uncertainties: Trade-offs involved in Approaches to Climate Policy., In: Adger; N W; Lorenzoni; I; Brien O; K (Ed) Adapting to climate change: thresholds, values, and governance, Cambridge University Press, pp.212-226.
  • Doria M; Boyd E; Tompkins E; Adger W (2009) Using expert elicitation to define successful adaptation to climate change, Environmental Science & Policy, 12, pp.810-819. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2009.04.001
  • Boyd E; Osbahr H; Ericksen PJ; Tompkins EL; Lemos MC; Miller F (2008) Resilience and ?Climatizing? Development: Examples and policy implications, Development, 51, pp.390-396. doi: 10.1057/dev.2008.32
  • Tompkins EL; Lemos MC; Boyd E (2008) A less disastrous disaster: managing response to climate-driven hazards in the Cayman Islands and NE Brazil, Global Environmental Change, 18, pp.736-745. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.07.010
  • Tompkins E; Brown K; Few R (2008) Scenario-based stakeholder engagement: a framework for incorporating climate change into coastal decision making, Journal of Environmental Management, 88, pp.1580-1592. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.07.025
  • Lemos MC; Tompkins EL (2008) Creating less disastrous disasters, IDS Bulletin, 39, pp.60-66.
  • Tompkins E; Amundsen H (2008) Perceptions of the effectiveness of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in advancing national action on climate change, Environmental Science & Policy, 11, pp.1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2007.06.004
  • Few R; Brown K; Tompkins E (2007) Public participation and climate change adaptation: avoiding the illusion of inclusion, Climate Policy, 7, pp.46-59.
  • van Beukering P; Brander L; Tompkins EL; Mackenzie E (2007) Valuing the environment in small islands. An environmental economics toolkit, H.M. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, pp.1-128.
  • Lemos MC; Boyd E; Tompkins E; Osbahr H; Liverman D (2007) Developing adaptation and adapting development, Ecology and Society, 12, pp.pp.26.
  • Few R; Brown K; Tompkins EL (2007) Climate change and coastal management decisions: insights from Christchurch Bay, UK, Coastal Management, 35, pp.255-270. doi: 10.1080/08920750601042328
  • Arnell N; Tompkins E; Adger WN (2005) Eliciting information on the likelihood of rapid climate change, Risk Analysis, 25, pp.1419-1431. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00689.x
  • Adger WN; Arnell NW; Tompkins EL (2005) Adapting to climate change: perspectives across scales, Global Environmental Change, 15, pp.75-76. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2005.03.001
  • Tompkins E; Nicholson-Cole SA; Hurlston LA; Boyd E; Hodge GB; Clarke J; Gray G; Trotz N; Varlack L (2005) Surviving climate change in small islands: A guidebook, Norwich: Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, pp.132p.
  • Adger WN; Brown K; Tompkins E (2005) The political economy of cross-scale networks in resource co-management, Ecology and Society, 2, pp.pp.9.
  • Pielke RA; Agrawala S; Bouwer LM; Burton I; Changnon S; Glantz MH; Hooke WH; Klein RJT; Kunkel K; Mileti D; Sarewitz D; Tompkins E; Stehr N; von Storch H (2005) Clarifying the attribution of recent disaster losses: A response to Epstein and McCarthy, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , 86, pp.1481-1483. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-86-10-1481
  • Tompkins E; Adger WN (2005) Defining response capacity to enhance climate change policy, Environmental Science & Policy, 8, pp.562-571. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2005.06.012
  • Tompkins E (2005) Planning for Climate Change in Small Islands: Insights from the Cayman Islands Government, Global Environmental Change Part A, 15, pp.139-149. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2004.11.002
  • Adger N; Arnell N; Tompkins E (2005) Successful adaptation to climate change across scales, Global Environmental Change Part A, 15, pp.77-86. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2004.12.005
  • Tompkins EL; Adger WN (2004) Responding to climate change: implications for development, id21 insights, 53, pp.4-4.
  • Tompkins EL; Adger WN (2004) Does Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Enhance Resilience to Climate Change?, Ecology and Society, 9, .
  • Tompkins E (2003) Development pressures and management considerations in small Caribbean Islands' coastal zones, CSERGE Working Paper, ECM 03-08, .
  • Tompkins E (2003) Using stakeholders preferences in multi-attribute decision making: elicitation and aggregation issue, CSERGE Working Paper, ECM 01-13, .
  • Brown K; Tompkins EL; Adger WN (2002) Making Waves. Integrating Coastal Conservation and Development, Earthscan, pp.1-164.
  • Tompkins E; Adger N; Brown K (2002) Institutional Networks for Inclusive Coastal Zone Management in Trinidad and Tobago, Environment and Planning A, 34, pp.1095-1111. doi: 10.1068/a34213
  • Brown K; Tompkins EL; Adger WN (2001) Trade Off Analysis for Participatory Coastal Zone Management, Overseas Development Group, UEA, pp.1-109.
  • Brown K; Adger WN; Tompkins E; Bacon P; Shim D; Young K (2001) Trade-off analysis for marine protected area management, Ecological Economics, 37, pp.417-434. doi: 10.1016/S0921-8009(00)00293-7
  • Adger WN; Brown K; Tompkins EL; Bacon P; Shim D; Young K (2000) Evaluating trade-offs between uses of marine protected areas in the Caribbean, In: Lee N; Kirkpatrick C (Ed) Integrated Appraisal and Sustainable Development in a Developing World, Edward Elgar, pp.159-179.
  • Tompkins EL; Hurlston L-A (Not yet published) Public-private partnerships in the provision of environmental governance: a case of disaster management, In: Boyd E; Folke C (Ed) Adapting Institutions, Governance and Complexity: Insights for Social-Ecological Resilience, Cambridge University Press.