Browsing Øvrige samlinger by Author "O'Brien, Karen"

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  • Developing strategies for climate change : the UNEP country studies on climate change impacts and adaptations assessment 
    O'Brien, Karen (Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2000)
    This report summarizes four country studies that were undertaken as part of the UNEP "Country Case Studies on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations Assessment." These studies, carried out in Antigua and Barbuda, Cameroon, ...
  • Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability 
    O'Brien, Karen; Carmona, Rosario; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Hochachka, Gail; Sygna, Linda; Rosenberg, Milda (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract Responses to sustainability challenges are not delivering results at the scale and speed called for by science, international agreements, and concerned citizens. Yet there is a tendency to underestimate the ...
  • Getting to the Heart of Transformation 
    Vogel, Coleen; O'Brien, Karen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Abstract Climate change, biodiversity loss, the COVID-19 pandemic, and growing inequity and poverty are some of the key global challenges facing us today. These multiple and interacting crises have elicited growing appeals ...
  • Is information enough? : user responses to seasonal climate forecasts in Southern Africa : report to the World Bank, AFTE1-ENVGC adaptation to climate change and variability in Sub-Saharan Africa, phase II 
    O'Brien, Karen; Sygna, Linda; Næss, Lars Otto; Kingamkono, Robert; Hochobeb, Ben (Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2000)
    Since the mid-1980s, long-lead climate forecasts have been developed and used to predict the onset of El Niño events and their impact on climate variability. Advances in the observational and theoretical understanding of ...
  • Is the 1.5°C target possible? Exploring the three spheres of transformation 
    O'Brien, Karen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Carbon roadmaps and pathways are important for describing, planning and tracking the technical, managerial and behavioral changes that are consistent with the Paris Agreement. Nevertheless, roadmaps and pathways for ...
  • Reflecting on the Anthropocene: The Call for Deeper Transformations 
    O'Brien, Karen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Abstract Research on global environmental change has transformed the way that we think about human-environment relationships and Earth system processes. The four Ambio articles highlighted in this 50th Anniversary Issue ...
  • Reforestation and climate change mitigation : a background study for joint implementation in China and Indonesia 
    Gan, Lin; Næss, Lars Otto; Kasa, Sjur; O'Brien, Karen (Research report / Forskningsrapport, 1998)
    This paper discusses the importance of institutional barriers in promoting reforestation as a means of mitigating global climate change. It is argued that cost-effective implementation of reforestation depends on proper ...
  • Teaching Climate Change in the Anthropocene: An Integrative Approach 
    Leichenko, Robin M.; O'Brien, Karen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Why are we still educating college and university students through a Holocene lens? How can we expect young people to engage with the transformative challenges required to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement when climate ...
  • Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research 
    Fazey, Ioan; Schäpke, Niko; Caniglia, Guido; Patterson, James; Hultman, Johan; van Mierlo, Barbara; Säwe, Filippa; Wiek, Arnim; Wittmayer, Julia; Aldunce, Paulina; Al Waer, Husam; Battacharya, Nandini; Bradbury, Hilary; Carmen, Esther; Colvin, John; Cvitanovic, Christopher; D'Souza, Marcella; Gopel, Maja; Goldstein, Bruce; Hämäläinen, Timo; Harper, Gavin; Henfry, Tom; Hodgson, Anthony; Howden, Mark S.; Kerr, Andy; Klaes, Matthias; Lyon, Christopher; Midgley, Gerald; Moser, Susanne; Mukherjee, Nandan; Müller, Karl; O'Brien, Karen; O'Connell, Deborah A.; Olsson, Per; Page, Glenn; Reed, Mark S.; Searle, Beverley; Silvestri, Giorgia; Spaiser, Viktoria; Strasser, Tim; Tschakert, Petra; Uribe-Calvo, Natalia; Waddell, Steve; Rao-Williams, Jennifer; Wise, Russell; Wolstenholme, Ruth; Woods, Mel; Wyborn, Carina (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The most critical question for climate research is no longer about the problem, but about how to facilitate the transformative changes necessary to avoid catastrophic climate-induced change. Addressing this question, ...
  • "The hottest summer ever!": exploring vulnerability to climate change among grain producers in Eastern Norway 
    Sæther, Bjørnar; O'Brien, Karen (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    This chapter revisits tensions between Norway’s image as a climate-resilient society and the reality of vulnerability among farmers in Eastern Norway. Over the past decade, farmers in Eastern Norway have introduced various ...
  • The Role of Actionless Action in Generating Quantum Social Change: Forum on Snapshots from Home 
    O'Brien, Karen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    This article considers an alternative paradigm for responding to the climate emergency. Drawing on Fierke’s ideas on quantum complementarity and wuwei, or actionless action, it considers what quantum social science and ...
  • Towards an Integrative Discourse on Climate Change 
    O'Brien, Karen; Leichenko, Robin M. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Harriet Bulkeley’s article raises some of the persistent challenges of integrating social science perspectives into climate change research. In this commentary, we consider a broader and deeper approach to integration that ...
  • Transformation in a changing climate: a research agenda 
    Fazey, Ioan; Moug, Peter; Allen, Simon; Beckmann, Kate; Blackwood, David; Bonaventura, Mike; Burnett, Kathryn; Danson, Mike; Falconer, Ruth; Gagnon, Alexandre S.; Harkness, Rachel; Hodgson, Anthony; Holm, Lorents; Irvine, Katherine N.; Low, Ragne; Lyon, Christopher; Moss, Anna; Moran, Clare; Naylor, Larissa; O'Brien, Karen; Russell, Shona; Skerratt, Sarah; Rao-Williams, Jennifer; Wolstenholme, Ruth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    The concept of transformation in relation to climate and other global change is increasingly receiving attention. The concept provides important opportunities to help examine how rapid and fundamental change to address ...
  • Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there 
    Fazey, Ioan; Schäpke, Niko; Rosenberg, Milda Nordbø; Caniglia, Guido; O'Brien, Karen; Hodgson, Anthony; Kendrick, Ian; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Amundsen, Helene; Grandin, Jakob; Dannevig, Halvor (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of ...
  • Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally 
    Shrivastava, Paul; Stafford Smith, Mark; O'Brien, Karen; Szolnai, Laszlo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Despite the decades-long efforts of sustainability science and related policy and action programs, humanity has not gotten closer to global sustainability. With its focus on the natural sciences, sustainability science is ...
  • Virkninger av klimaendringer i Norge : oppsummeringsrapport fra seminaret i Oslo, 30. og 31 oktober 2000 
    Sygna, Linda; O'Brien, Karen (Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2001)
    Denne rapporten oppsummerer et seminar arrangert av CICERO Senter for klimaforskning om ”Virkninger av klimaendringer”. Seminaret fant sted på Håndverkeren i Oslo, 30.- 31. oktober 2000. Bakgrunnen for seminaret er et ...