Adam French
Guest Research Scholar
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Dr. Adam French is the first recipient of IIASA's Peter E. de Janosi Fellowship and joins the Risk and Resilience (RISK) and the Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) programs following a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on natural resource governance, socio-environmental conflict, and institutional innovation in multi-level systems being transformed by global change.At IIASA, Dr. French will combine meta-analytical and empirical research to examine the implementation of the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) paradigm in contexts of the Global South. This work is targeted at the production of policy-relevant insights and analytical tools, including a conceptual framework for identifying key governance factors that facilitate and hinder the development of more integrated—and ultimately more just, adaptive, and sustainable—watershed management practices.
Last update: 28 APR 2016
Publications
UNDRR (2022). Prospects and challenges of transdisciplinary research approaches for managing and communicating climate-related risks. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Fanadzo, M., Ncube, B., French, A., & Belete, A. (2021). Smallholder farmer coping and adaptation strategies during the 2015-18 drought in the Western Cape, South Africa. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 124 (part 1) e102986. 10.1016/j.pce.2021.102986.
French, A., Mechler, R. , Arestegui, M., MacClune, K., & Cisneros, A. (2020). Root causes of recurrent catastrophe: The political ecology of El Niño-related disasters in Peru. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 47 e101539. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101539.
Rasmussen, M., French, A., & Conlon, S. (2019). Conservation Conjunctures: Contestation and Situated Consent in Peru's Huascarán National Park. Conservation and Society 17 (1) p. 1. 10.4103/cs.cs_17_14.
French, A. (2018). Webs and Flows: Socionatural Networks and the Matter of Nature at Peru’s Lake Parón. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 1-19. 10.1080/24694452.2018.1484682.