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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.Show Less
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Courses
- RDResearch Design
- CCHCSCSRClimate Change: Human Causes, Social Consequences and Sustainable Responses
- ESEnvironment and Society
- WRCGPWorld Regions: Comparative and Global Perspectives
- ESIIEnvironmental Studies: Ideas and Institutions
Grants
- Rainfall Variability, Extreme Events, and Vulnerability in Heterogeneous Social and Environmental Systems
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$396.6K
Active - New Governance Architecture for Addressing Global Systemic Risks
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$161.1K
Active - RPA: Working Group 4 Transformations
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$50.0K
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multi-Scalar Analysis of Environmental Variability Adaptation Projects
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$18.0K
- Drought Impacts and Drought Vulnerability in Rural Communities of California's San Joaquin Valley
Key Personnel (KP)
2016
$94.1K
- IRAP: Integrating Climate Information and Decision Processes for Regional Climate Resilience
Co-Investigator (COI)
2013
$3.2M
- 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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