Nick Simpson

Publications

• Nicholas Philip Simpson, Clifford D. Shearing & Benoit Dupont. 2019. When Anthropocene shocks contest conventional mentalities: a case study from Cape Town, Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2019.1609402
• Simpson, N.P. and Krönke, M. 2019. Police in Zimbabwe: Helping hand or iron fist? Afrobarometer. http://afrobarometer.org/sites/default/files/publications/Dispatches/ab_r7_dispatchno296_perceptions_of_zimbabwe_police.pdf
• Simpson, N.P. 2018. Accommodating landscape-scale shocks: Lessons on transition from Cape Town and Puerto Rico, Geoforum, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.12.005
• Simpson, N.P. and Basta, C. 2018. Sufficiently capable for effective participation in environmental impact assessment? Environmental Impact Assessment Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2018.03.004
• Simpson, N.P. 2018. Applying the capability approach to enhance the conceptualisation of well-being in environmental assessment. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2018.1469118
• Portia Adade Williams, Olivier Crespo, Mumuni Abu and Nicholas Philip Simpson, 2018. A systematic review of how vulnerability of smallholder agricultural systems to changing climate is assessed in Africa, Environmental Research Letters, http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae026
• Resilience Policing: An Emerging Response to Shifting Harm Landscapes and Reshaping Community Policing
• Feasibility assessment of climate change adaptation options across Africa: an evidence-based review
• Managing city-scale slow-onset disasters: Learning from Cape Town's 2015–2018 drought disaster planning
• The role of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge in water sector adaptation to climate change in Africa: A structured assessment
• Design principles for sustainability: Tearfund’s expanding international development approach
• AFFIL: Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation
• Climate change adaptation to extreme heat: A global systematic review of implemented action
• Understanding responses to climate-related water scarcity in Africa
• Funding flows for climate change research on Africa: where do they come from and where do they go?
• Climate change adaptation in conflict-affected countries: A systematic assessment of evidence
• Accommodating landscape-scale shocks: Lessons on transition from Cape Town and Puerto Rico
• Police in Zimbabwe: Helping hand or iron fist?
• When Anthropocene shocks contest conventional mentalities: a case study from Cape Town
• Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought
• Climate Gating: A Case Study of Emerging Responses to Anthropocene Risks
• Gated Adaptation during the Cape Town Drought: Mentalities, Transitions and Pathways to Partial Nodes of Water Security
• Insurance in the Anthropocene: Exposure, Solvency and Manoeuvrability
• Synthesis Report: South Africa climate change and security
• Assessing and responding to complex risk in a changing climate
• Compound Climate Risks During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Perspective
• Sufficiently capable for effective participation in environmental impact assessment?
• Applying the Capability Approach to Enhance the Conceptualization of Well-being in Environmental Assessment
• A systematic review of how vulnerability of smallholder agricultural systems to changing climate is assessed in Africa
• Building a Sustainable Future
• Adoption rationales and effects of off-grid renewable energy access for African youth: A case study from Tanzania
• A framework for complex climate change risk assessment
• A capabilities approach to environmental assessment: enhancing the integration of human development and well-being in participatory environmental decision making
• A framework for complex climate change risk assessment
• Assessing and responding to complex risk in a changing climate
• Climate Change Literacy in Africa
• ‘Partial functional redundancy’: an expression of household level resilience in response to climate risk
• Effective EIA Public Participation in the Western Cape, South Africa
• Police in Zimbabwe: Helping hand or iron fist?
• A Theoretically Inspired Q-Methodological Approach for the Evaluation of Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment
• Closing the Adaptation Gap in Mountains
• A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation
• A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
• Decolonizing climate change–heritage research
• Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation
• A frame-work for complex climate change risk assessment
• A framework for complex climate change risk assessment
• Summary for Policymakers
• Technical Summary
• Point of Departure and Key Concepts
• Poverty, Livelihoods and Sustainable Development
• Africa
• Key Risks Across Sectors and Regions
• African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates
• Role of Indigenous and local knowledge in seasonal forecasts and climate risk preparedness: a case study of smallholder farmers in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
• The role of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge in water sector adaptation to climate change in Africa: a structured assessment
• Tradeoffs and Synergies Across Global Climate Change Adaptations in the Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus
• A capabilities approach to environmental assessment: enhancing the integration of human development and well-being in participatory environmental decision making
• The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa
• African Union Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan (2022-2032)
• Climate Resilient Development Pathways in Global Drylands
• Decision making options for managing risk
• Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions
• White Paper II: Impacts, vulnerability, and understanding risks of climate change for culture and heritage
• Climate change in South Africa: Risks and opportunities for climate-resilient development in the IPCC Sixth Assessment WGII Report
• IN Press: Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions
• Climate Change in Cities and Urban Areas: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
• Decolonising climate change-heritage research
• Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions
• Adaptation to compound climate risks: a systematic global stocktake
• Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake
• Integrating climate change in Environmental Impact Assessment: A review of requirements across 19 EIA regimes
• African Shifts
• ICSM CHC White Paper II: Impacts, vulnerability, and understanding risks of climate change for culture and heritage
• Risk from responses to a changing climate
• Climate-resilient development planning for cities: progress from Cape Town
• Author Correction: Climate-resilient development planning for cities: progress from Cape Town
• Tradeoffs and Synergies Across Global Climate Change Adaptations in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
• Role of Indigenous and local knowledge in seasonal forecasts and climate adaptation: A case study of smallholder farmers in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
• Vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate variability in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
• Introduction: A Framework for Assessing Climate Security
• Securing a Climate-resilient Pathway for South Africa
• Climate Security at a Crossroads: The Evolution and Future of Climate Security in the United Nations Security Council and its Member States
• Indigenous and local knowledge in the vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate variability and change in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
• Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report
• African Shifts: The Africa Climate Mobility Report, Addressing Climate-Forced Migration & Displacement
• Ratcheting up effectiveness to improve the Global Stocktake process
• A global assessment of actors and their roles in climate change adaptation
• Human adaptation to climate change in the context of forests: A systematic review
• Integrating climate change in Environmental Impact Assessment: A review of requirements across 19 EIA regimes
• Research priorities for climate mobility
• The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security
• Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions
• Taking stock of Just Energy Transition Partnerships
• The Climate – Education Research Framework
• Towards Sustainable Fuel Subsidy Reform in Nigeria: Evaluating progress and pathways to success
• Putting the 'just' in Just Energy Transition Partnerships: What role for the multilateral development banks?
• One size won't fit all: Designing country platforms for different political contexts
• Between tinkering and transformation: A contemporary appraisal of climate change adaptation research on the world's islands
• Is indigenous knowledge serving climate adaptation? Evidence from various African regions
• The land degradation and desertification-socioeconomic nexus in Egypt's delta region: A case study on Alexandria and Beheira
• Engaging diverse knowledge holders in adaptation research
• UK aid for sustainable cities: Literature review
• Progress and gaps in climate change adaptation in coastal cities across the globe
• Heritage adaptation to climate change: reducing risk and harnessing opportunities
• Community-based custody of heritage as melting glaciers uncover World War I relics: The case of the Ortler Collectors Association
• Pathways for urgent action towards climate resilient development
• Climate change literacy in Africa
• The effects on public health of climate change adaptation responses: a systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries
• Equity in human adaptation-related responses: A systematic global review