Graham McDowell

Dr. Graham McDowell
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Group on Environment and Climate: Impacts, Risks and Adaptation (Eclim)
Geographisches Institut - Human Geography
Universität Zürich
Winterthurerstr. 190 - Irchel
Zürich, 8057
Canada


E-mail: grahammcdowell(at)gmail.com
URL Institution: eclim-research.ch
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
Project Leader - Canadian Mountain Assessment (Canadian Mountain Network)


Key Publications of Graham McDowell (up to ten) :
Hock, R., Rasul, G., … McDowell, G., et al. (2019) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). High Mountain Areas chapter.

McDowell, G., Huggel, C., Frey, H., Wang, F., Cramer, R., Ricciardi, V. (2019) Adaptation action and research in glaciated mountain systems: Are they enough to meet the challenge of climate change? Global Environmental Change. 54: 19-30.

McDowell, G. & Koppes, M. (2017) Robust adaptation research in high mountains: Integrating the scientific, social, and ecological dimensions of glacio-hydrological change. Water 9: 739. (Special Issue - Global Warming Impacts on Mountain Glaciers and Communities).

McDowell, G., Stephenson, E., Ford. J. (2016) Adaptation, Adaptation Science, and the Status of Adaptation in Mountain Regions. In Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: An Upstream-Downstream Lens, eds. Salzmann, N., Huggel, C., Nussbaumer, S., & Ziervogel, G. Springer.

McDowell, G. et al. (2016) 25 years of community-level climate change vulnerability research: Trends, progress, and future directions. Environmental Research Letters. 11:033001

Ford, J., McDowell, G., Pearce, T. (2015) The adaptation challenge in the Arctic. Nature Climate Change. 5:1046-1053.

McDowell, G. et al. (2014). Adaptation to climate change in glaciated mountain regions. Climatic Change 126:77-91.

Carey, M., McDowell, G. et al. (2014). Integrated Approaches to Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Dynamic Socio-Cryospheric Systems. In Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks and Disasters, eds. W, Haeberli & C. Whiteman. Elsevier.

McDowell, G. and Ford, J. (2014). The socio-ecological dimensions of hydrocarbon development in the Disko Bay region of Greenland: Opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs. Applied Geography 46:98-110.

Ford, J., McDowell, G. et al. (2013). The dynamic multi-scale nature of climate change vulnerability: An Inuit harvesting example. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 103:1193-1211.

McDowell, G. et al. (2013). Climate-related hydrological change and human vulnerability in remote mountain regions: A case study from Khumbu, Nepal. Regional Environmental Change 13: 299-310.



Expertise of Graham McDowell:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Topic HydrosphereFresh Water Systems / Rivers / Lakes
Precipitation / Runoff
Topic CryosphereGlaciers
Topic Economy/ResourceUseWater
Topic Politics/LawAdaptation
Conventions / Protections
Topic SustainabilityEcological Sustainability
Social Sustainability
MethodsData Collection - Interviews, Questionnaires
Literature Study
Integrated Assessment
Mountain Research InitiativeNorth America
Hindu Kush Himalayas

Specialties of Graham McDowell:
I study lived experiences of climate change in high mountain regions, with a focus on vulnerability and adaptation to changes in glacial hydrology. I have led community-level projects in the Nepal Himalaya, Peruvian Andes, Rocky Mountains, Greenland, and Baffin Island as well as numerous global-scale evaluations of climate change vulnerability and adaptation in cold regions. I am active in publishing and presenting my scholarly contributions and am committed to the mobilization of scientific knowledge, including through my work as a Contributing Author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I am currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the University of Zurich as well as the Project Leader for the Canadian Mountain Assessment. I hold degrees from the University of British Columbia (PhD), the University of Oxford (MSc), and McGill University (BA Hons). For more, see: grahammcdowellresearch.com

Last update: 11/24/21
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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