Publications

Academic Articles

How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather (March 2025)

Anticipatory actions: lessons from the storm Ana in Mocuba district, Mozambique (December 2024)

Detectable use of ENSO information on crop production in Southern Africa (December 2024)

Socio-economic assessment of drought impacts in Lesotho: implications for early action (November 2023)

Challenging the universality of heatwave definitions: gridded temperature discrepancies across climate regions (November 2023)

Untapped Potential: The Role of Local Governments in Locally Led Adaptation. Experiences from the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) in Niger, Lesotho, and Cambodia (August 2023)

Adapting to climate change through anticipatory action: The potential use of weather-based early warnings (December 2022)

Reports

Anticipatory Insurance with African Risk Capacity: A Holistic Benefit-Cost Analysis (August 2024)

Briefs

Everyone says they want “localization” in anticipatory action — but what does that mean? (July 2024)

Acting in Advance of Flooding: Early action in South Sudan (May 2023)

News/Opinion Pieces

Goma is threatened by conflict and a volcano: we’ve created a handbook to help hotspots like these (The Conversation; February 17, 2025)

Climate, migration and conflict mix to create ‘deadly’ intense tropical storms like Chido (The Conversation; December 20, 2024)

Solutions: As climate change worsens, so too will natural disasters. Here’s how to pay for them (LA Times; November 13, 2024)

Books/Chapters

Refugees, Self-Reliance, Development: A critical history (Bristol: Bristol University Press 2022).