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A systematic review of the impacts of climate variability and change on electricity systems in Europe

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Actionable Knowledge for Environmental Decision Making: Broadening the Usability of Climate Science

Adaptation planning and the use of climate change projections in local government in England and Germany

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Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?

scholarly article by Neil Adger et al published 20 November 2008 in Climatic Change

Articles 4.8 and 4.9 of the UNFCCC: adverse effects and the impacts of response measures

Assessing the quality of state-of-the-art regional climate information: the case of the UK Climate Projections 2018

scientific article published in 2021

Assessing the robustness of adaptation decisions to climate change uncertainties: A case study on water resources management in the East of England

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Assessing the value of seasonal climate forecasts for decision-making

Barriers and enablers to the use of seasonal climate forecasts amongst organisations in Europe

scientific article published on 15 April 2016

Barriers and opportunities for robust decision making approaches to support climate change adaptation in the developing world

scholarly article by Ajay Gajanan Bhave et al published 2016 in Climate Risk Management

Building narratives to characterise uncertainty in regional climate change through expert elicitation

scholarly article by Suraje Dessai et al published 26 June 2018 in Environmental Research Letters

Burden sharing and cohesion countries in European climate policy: the Portuguese example

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Challenges and Outcomes at the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

scholarly article by Suraje Dessai et al published June 2005 in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Challenges in using probabilistic climate change information for impact assessments: an example from the water sector

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Climate change beliefs and perceptions of weather-related changes in the United Kingdom

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Climate change. Hell and high water: practice-relevant adaptation science

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Climate change. Is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation funding?

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Climate service development, delivery and use in Europe at monthly to inter-annual timescales

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Climate services for society: origins, institutional arrangements, and design elements for an evaluation framework

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Combining dispersion modelling with synoptic patterns to understand the wind-borne transport into the UK of the bluetongue disease vector

scientific article published on 14 January 2017

Communicating the value of atmospheric services

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Communicating uncertainty in seasonal and interannual climate forecasts in Europe

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Communicating uncertainty: lessons learned and suggestions for climate change assessment

scholarly article by Anthony Patt & Suraje Dessai published March 2005 in Comptes Rendus Geoscience

Creating an enabling environment for investment in climate services: The case of Uruguay’s National Agricultural Information System

Customising global climate science for national adaptation: A case study of climate projections in UNFCCC's National Communications

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Database support for adaptation to climate change: An assessment of web-based portals across scales

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Defining and Experiencing Dangerous Climate Change

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Development goals: Science alone cannot shape sustainability

scientific article published in January 2013

Does tomorrow ever come? Disaster narrative and public perceptions of climate change

scholarly article by Thomas Lowe et al published October 2006 in Public Understanding of Science

Editorial introduction to the special issue on Uncertainty and Climate Change Adaptation

scholarly article by Tiago Capela Lourenço et al published 16 June 2015 in Climatic Change

Editorial: On uncertainty and climate change

scholarly article by Suraje Dessai et al published February 2007 in Global Environmental Change

Enhancing the contribution and role of practitioner knowledge in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group (WG) II process: Insights from UK workshops

scholarly article by Candice Howarth et al published January 2017 in Climate Services

Ensembles and uncertainty in climate change impacts

scholarly article by Pete Falloon et al published 31 July 2014 in Frontiers in environmental science

Envisioning Climate Change Adaptation Futures Using Storytelling Workshops

scientific article published in 2021

Erratum to: Using Information-Gap Decision Theory for Water Resources Planning Under Severe Uncertainty

scholarly article published in Water Resources Management

Examination of climate risk using a modified uncertainty matrix framework—Applications in the water sector

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Examining the Goals of the Regional Climate Outlook Forums: What Role for User Engagement?

scholarly article by Meaghan Daly & Suraje Dessai published October 2018 in Weather, Climate and Society

Exploring the use of seasonal climate forecasts in Europe through expert elicitation

Hand in hand: public endorsement of climate change mitigation and adaptation

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Heat protection behaviors and positive affect about heat during the 2013 heat wave in the United Kingdom

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Heat protection behaviour in the UK: results of an online survey after the 2013 heatwave

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Heat stress and mortality in Lisbon Part II. An assessment of the potential impacts of climate change

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Heat stress and mortality in Lisbon part I. model construction and validation

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How do UK climate scenarios compare with recent observations?

Human Health Impacts of Climate Change in Portugal: Study Approach and Key Findings

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Integrating mitigation and adaptation into climate and development policy: three research questions

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Introduction to the Special Issue on “Adaptation and Resilience of Water Systems to an Uncertain Changing Climate”

scholarly article in Water Resources Management, vol. 27 no. 4, January 2013

Investing in a good pair of wellies: how do non-experts interpret the expert terminology of climate change impacts and adaptation?

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Limited sensitivity analysis of regional climate change probabilities for the 21st century

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Linguistic analysis of IPCC summaries for policymakers and associated coverage

Mini-me: Why do climate scientists’ misunderstand users and their needs?

Modelling Climate Change Impacts for Adaptation Assessments

scholarly article published 17 October 2011

Negotiating future climates for public policy: a critical assessment of the development of climate scenarios for the UK

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On the role of climate scenarios for adaptation planning

Policy Coordination for National Climate Change Adaptation in Europe: All Process, but Little Power

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Predicting, deciding, learning: can one evaluate the ‘success’ of national climate scenarios?

article by Mike Hulme & Suraje Dessai published October 2008 in Environmental Research Letters

Promoting protection against a threat that evokes positive affect: The case of heat waves in the United Kingdom

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Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change

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Public perception of climate risk and adaptation in the UK: A review of the literature

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Public perception of drought and climate change in southeast England

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Public priorities and expectations of climate change impacts in the United Kingdom

scientific article published in August 2017

Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate

scholarly article in Water Resources Management, vol. 27 no. 4, October 2012

Representing and communicating deep uncertainty in climate-change assessments

scholarly article by Milind Kandlikar et al published March 2005 in Comptes Rendus Geoscience

Robust adaptation to climate change

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Sectoral use of climate information in Europe: A synoptic overview

Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

article by Ted G. Shepherd et al published 2018 in Climatic Change

Surveying Climate Services: What Can We Learn from a Bird’s-Eye View?

Tailoring the visual communication of climate projections for local adaptation practitioners in Germany and the UK.

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The Climatic Impact‐Driver Framework for Assessment of Risk‐Relevant Climate Information

scientific article published in 2022

The Marrakech Accords to the Kyoto Protocol: analysis and future prospects

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The concept of climate sensitivity: history and development

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The right stuff? informing adaptation to climate change in British Local Government

scholarly article by James J Porter et al published November 2015 in Global Environmental Change

The social and scientific values that shape national climate scenarios: a comparison of the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK

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The special climate change fund: origins and prioritisation assessment

scholarly article by Suraje Dessai published September 2003 in Climate Policy

Unstable climates: Exploring the statistical and social constructions of ‘normal’ climate

Usable Science? The U.K. Climate Projections 2009 and Decision Support for Adaptation Planning

Using Information-Gap Decision Theory for Water Resources Planning Under Severe Uncertainty

scholarly article in Water Resources Management, vol. 27 no. 4, October 2012

Varieties of approaches to constructing physical climate storylines: A review

scientific article published in 2023

Ventures should not overstate their aims just to secure funding

scientific article published in Nature

Vulnerability to climate variability and change in East Timor

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Water Resource Planning Under Future Climate and Socioeconomic Uncertainty in the Cauvery River Basin in Karnataka, India

scientific article published on 3 February 2018

Water resource vulnerability: simulation and optimisation models

article published in 2017

What can climate services learn from the broader services literature?

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

What do we know about UK household adaptation to climate change? A systematic review

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Will OPEC lose from the Kyoto Protocol?

“Proximising” climate change reconsidered: A construal level theory perspective

scholarly article by Adrian Brügger et al published June 2016 in Journal of Environmental Psychology