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Diana's research has focused on the human dimensions of global environmental change and her main research interests include climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and climate policy and mitigation especially in the developing world. Her current projects on climate justice include (including the role of women in climate science, climate and poverty in Tucson, and climate in the new Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs). She is also working with the Earth Commission to envision safe and just targets for the earth system.

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Courses
  • RD
    Research Design

  • CCHCSCSR
    Climate Change: Human Causes, Social Consequences and Sustainable Responses

  • ES
    Environment and Society

  • WRCGP
    World Regions: Comparative and Global Perspectives

  • ESII
    Environmental Studies: Ideas and Institutions

Grants
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    Rainfall Variability, Extreme Events, and Vulnerability in Heterogeneous Social and Environmental Systems

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $396.6K
    Active
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    New Governance Architecture for Addressing Global Systemic Risks

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $161.1K
    Active
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    RPA: Working Group 4 Transformations

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $50.0K
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    Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multi-Scalar Analysis of Environmental Variability Adaptation Projects

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $18.0K
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    Drought Impacts and Drought Vulnerability in Rural Communities of California's San Joaquin Valley

    Key Personnel (KP)

    2016

    $94.1K
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    IRAP: Integrating Climate Information and Decision Processes for Regional Climate Resilience

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2013

    $3.2M
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    Collaborative Research: EaSM2 - Quantifying and Conveying the Risk of Prolonged Drought in Coming Decades

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2013

    $1.4M
News
  • UArizona named No. 1 producer of Fulbright Scholars

    2023

  • Women in climate change: Ellen McMahon

    2022

  • UArizona climate adaptation experts contribute to latest IPCC climate report

    2022

  • Women in climate change: Kirsten Engel

    2022

  • Women in climate change: Mona Arora

    2022

  • Women in climate change: Beth Tellman

    2022

  • Women in climate change: Jessica Tierney

    2022

  • Women in climate change: Theresa Crimmins

    2022

  • Women in climate change: Joellen Russell

    2022

  • Women in climate change: Courtney Crosson

    2022

  • UArizona Paleoclimatologist Weighs in on 'Hot Drought' as a Lead Author on IPCC Climate Report

    2021

  • Diana Liverman Elected to National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    2020

  • Tucson Festival of Books to Transform UA Campus into Literary Wonderland

    2019

  • Liverman Testifies Before House Climate Committee

    2019

  • UA Scientists Selected as Authors for International Climate Report

    2018

  • IPCC Global Warming Report Co-Authored by UA Professor

    2018

  • 12 UA Graduate Students Named Carson Scholars

    2018

  • Community Impacts Ripple From Challenge Grant Winners

    2017

  • UA at the Forefront as Climate Change Heats Up

    2016

  • Network Makes Environmental Change Tangible

    2016

  • UA Engages Children in Science Through Art

    2016

  • ENR2 Goes Platinum, Gains Highest LEED Certification

    2016

  • ENR2: Where Art and Science Meet

    2015

  • UA Delegation to Attend Climate Conference

    2015

  • UA Debuts Its Greenest Building at ENR2 Dedication

    2015

  • 5 Facts About UA's Greenest Building

    2015

  • UA Employees, Programs Honored

    2015

  • UA Poll: Arizonans Concerned About Global Warming

    2015

  • Former President of Ireland to Speak at UA

    2015

  • Honoring Our Relationship With Words

    2015

  • Project Diversifies Voices in the National Public Sphere

    2014

  • Arizona's Future Climate: Temps Rising, Water Disappearing

    2014

  • Women's History Month: Esteemed UA Researchers, Scholars

    2014

  • 'What I Wish I Had Known as a Freshman'

    2014

  • Eight From UA Contribute to National Climate Change Report

    2014

  • New UA Center to Offer Solutions for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

    2014

  • UA Employees, Programs Honored Locally, Nationally

    2014

  • UA Professor Diana Liverman Named Guggenheim Fellow

    2014

  • A Feast of Hot Topics for Foodies

    2014

  • Arts and Sciences Are Writing a New Love Story Together

    2014

  • $50M Gift From Haury Estate to Focus on Environment, Society and Southwest

    2014

  • New Book Outlines Unique Challenges Climate Instability Poses to Southwest

    2013

  • Climate Change Report Forecasts Major Impacts for the Southwest

    2013

  • Honoring Global Cultural Understanding, Exchange

    2013

  • Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Build Collaboration, Productivity

    2013

  • UA Ranked Top in Nation for Environmental Research

    2013

  • Eco-Friendly Building Under Construction at UA Designed to Foster Collaboration, Sustainability

    2013

  • Dr. Esther Sternberg to Head Research at UA Center for Integrative Medicine

    2012

  • Policy Changes Needed to Combat Environmental Change

    2012

  • UA Climate Conference to Welcome World-Renowned Scientists

    2012

  • UA Downtown Launches Sustainable City Project

    2012

  • UA, Sandia Labs to Partner on Environment Research

    2011

  • Two UA Professors Awarded Regents' Honor

    2011

  • UA Awarded $2.95M to Study Monsoon Ecology

    2011

  • At the UA, It's Earth Day All Week Long

    2011

  • UA Professor Advised Developers of New Video Game

    2010

  • Vanishing Water and Shifting Climate

    2010

  • Special Report: UA’s Climate Change Research a Team Effort

    2010

  • New Web Portal Opens Door to Environment and Sustainability

    2010

  • Communication Key to Climate Change Fight

    2010

  • EarthWeek Features Student Research Plus 'Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy'

    2010

  • UA Conference to Feature Industry Leaders' Insights on Retailing Innovation

    2010

  • Tackling Climate Change: The Power of Art and Culture

    2010

  • Climate Change Already a Burden on the World’s Poor

    2009

  • International Scientists Set Boundaries for Survival

    2009

  • Solar Fusion 2009 Will Showcase UA Solar Energy Innovation

    2009

  • Major Earth Day Celebration at UA on April 22

    2009

  • UA Professor Helps Organize Major Meeting on Climate

    2009

  • Solar Fusion Event to Feature Panel Discussion on Solar Research

    2009

  • Acclaimed Photographer to Speak on Art, Climate Change

    2009

  • UA Establishes Institute for the Environment and Society

    2008

  • Two UA Professors to Lead National Academies' Climate Panels

    2008

  • Center for Latin American Studies Receives Tinker Foundation Grant

    2003

  • $3 Million in Grants Will Support Latin America and Middle East Studies

    2003

  • LAS Fete to Mark Title VI Grant Renewal, New Director

    2003

  • UA Professor Joins National Board Reviewing U.S. Climate Change Program

    2003

  • Poetry Center Reading and Panel Discussion Feature Mexican Poet/Activist Homero Aridjis

    2003

  • UA Undergraduate Named 'Secretary-General' of 2004 Model United Nations Conference

    2003

  • UA Mexican American Studies Names New Director

    2002

Publications (52)
Recent
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seeks to understand and address gender barriers and bias

    2022

  • Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?

    2021

  • Identifying a safe and just corridor for people and the planet

    2021

  • Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets?

    2021

  • NAFTA and environment after 25 years: A retrospective analysis of the US-Mexico border

    2021

  • The Gnat and the Bull: Do Climate Outlook Forums Make a Difference?

    2020

  • Fit for purpose? Transforming National Meteorological and Hydrological Services into National Climate Service Centers

    2019

  • Nationally Determined Contributions: Material climate commitments and discursive positioning in the NDCs

    2019

  • Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

    2018

  • Geographic Perspectives on Development Goals

    2018

  • Building a Framework for Process-Oriented Evaluation of Regional Climate Outlook Forums

    2018

  • The Climate for Women in Climate Science

    2018

  • Why equity is fundamental in climate change policy research

    2017

  • Using Partial Participatory GIS (PPGIS) in vulnerability and disaster risk reduction in Grenada

    2017

  • Southwest climate gap: poverty and environmental justice in the U.S. southwest

    2016

  • This changes everything: Capitalism vs the climate (book review essay)

    2015

  • The U.S. National Climate Assessment gaps and research needs: Overview, the economy and the international context

    2015

  • Climate change: The necessary, the possible and the desirable. Earth League climate statement on the implications for climate policy from the 5th IPCC Assessment

    2014

  • Flooding, resettlement, and change in livelihoods: evidence from rural Mozambique.

    2013

  • A hotspot for change: causes and consequences of global warming in the Southwest.

    2013

  • A good sense of the media

    2013

  • NGOs, elite capture and community-driven development: perspectives in rural Mozambique

    2013

  • Hell and High Water: Practice-Relevant Adaptation Science

    2013

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governanc

    2012

  • Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future

    2012

  • Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project.

    2012

  • Review essay of Hulme (2009) Why we disagree about climate change

    2011

  • Informing Adaptation

    2011

  • Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global temperature increase of four degrees and its implications

    2011

  • Brazil's CDM Governance in the Context of Brazil's Historical Environment-Development Discourses

    2011

  • Mental preparation for climate adaptation: The role of cognition and culture in enhancing adaptive capacity of water management in Kiribati

    2011

  • Copenhagen and the Governance of Adaptation

    2010

  • Earth system governance: A research framework

    2010

  • Carbon soundings: greenhouse gas emissions of the UK music industry.

    2010

  • Navigating the anthropocene: the Earth System Governance Project strategy paper

    2010

  • Understanding Carbon Offset Technologies

    2010

  • Conventions of Climate Change: Constructions of danger and the dispossession of the atmosphere.

    2009

  • How Can the Clean Development Mechanism Better Contribute to Sustainable Development?

    2009

  • Food Security and Environmental Change: Emerging Challenges

    2009

  • Carbon offsetting: Sustaining Consumption.

    2009

  • The geopolitics of climate change: avoiding determinism, fostering sustainable development.

    2009

  • Theorising the Carbon Economy.

    2009

  • Reforming the CDM for sustainable development: lessons learned and policy futures

    2009

  • Planetary boundaries:exploring the safe operating space for humanity

    2009

  • Mind the gap

    2009

  • A safe operating space for humanity.

    2009

  • Accumulation by decarbonisation and the governance of carbon offsets

    2008

  • Assessing Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Reflections on the Working Group II Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    2008

  • Human interactions with the Earth system: People and pixels revisited

    2008

  • From Uncertain to Unequivocal The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change.

    2007

  • Developing adaptation and adapting development,

    2007

  • Scale, Technique and Composition Effects in the Mexican Agricultural Sector: The Influence of NAFTA and the Institutional Environment

    2007

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