PhD (Geography) (Oxford), MSc (EnvTech) (Imperial College, UK), BSc (Plant Sciences) (Imperial College, UK)
Research Fellow, SEQCARI, Urban Research Program
Contact details for Dr Florence Crick
Research interests
- Adaptation to climate change at the international, national and local levels
- Climate change adaptation and development
- Social dimensions of adaptation to climate change
- Resilience/adaptation in rural livelihoods in developing countries, particularly in Africa
- Emergency management and climate change adaptation in urban areas/human settlements
Biography
Florence is a Research Fellow working on the SEQCARI. Prior to joining the URP in 2009, she worked as Research Coordinator at the NCCARF, coordinating the development of Australian national adaptation research plans and investigating impacts, and subsequent adaptations, of past extreme events in Australia. She has worked in Paris as a Climate Change Adaptation Consultant in the OECD's Environment Directorate, which focused on two key areas: (i) integrating adaptation to climate change into development cooperation; and (ii) economic aspects of adaptation to climate change. Florence has also consulted for the Dutch government on improving the integration of climate risk management into their development portfolio in Ethiopia. In 2008 she completed her PhD entitled 'Exposure to drought: Adaptive strategies amongst rural natural resource dependent societies in Africa'.
Publications
Books
- Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. (2009) Integrating climate change adaptation into development co-operation: Policy Guidance, Paris, OECD Publishing.
Book chapters
- Agrawala, S. and Crick, F. (2009) 'Climate change and development: Time to adapt', in Palosuo, E. (ed) Rethinking development in a carbon-constrained world ? Development cooperation and climate change, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Development Policy Information Unit.
- Agrawala, S., Crick, F., Jetté-Nantel, S. and Tepes, A. (2008) 'Empirical estimates of adaptation costs and benefits: a critical assessment', in Agrawala, S. and Fankhauser, S. (eds) Economic aspects of adaptation to climate change: Costs, benefits and policy instruments, Paris, OECD Publishing.
- Abegg, B., Agrawala, S., Crick, F. and de Montfalcon, A. (2007) 'Climate change impacts and adaptation in winter tourism', in Agrawala, S. (ed) Climate change in the European Alps: Adapting winter tourism and natural hazards management, Paris, OECD Publishing.
Journal articles
- Huq, S., Reid, H., Konate, M., Rahman, A., Sokona, Y. and Crick, F. (2004) 'Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)', Climate Policy 4(2): 25?43.
Other publications
- Dougherty, W. and Crick, F. (2007) 'Poverty reduction at risk in Ethiopia. An assessment of the impacts of climate change on poverty alleviation activities'. Report written for DGIS, Netherlands.