Prof Michael Hulme
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Professor |
M dot Hulme at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3162 |
Environmental 2.42 |
Biography
I am Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA, and was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK from 2000 to 2007. I currently lead the EU Integrated Project ADAM: Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies (2006 to 2009), which comprises a 26-member European research consortium contributing research to the development of EU climate policy. I edit the journal Global Environmental Change with Neil Adger and Katrina Brown and am the Editor-in-Chief of the newly commissioned Wiley’s Interdisciplinary Reviews – Climate Change. [eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-370137.html]
I have prepared climate scenarios and reports for the UK Government (including the UKCIP98 and UKCIP02 scenarios), the European Commission, UNEP, UNDP, WWF-International and the IPCC. I was co-ordinating Lead Author for the chapter on 'Climate scenario development' for the Third Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as well as a contributing author for several other chapters. I have published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 30 book chapters on climate change topics, together with over 230 reports and popular articles. I have advised numerous companies and non-governmental organisations about climate change and its implications. I was jointly awarded the Hugh Robert Mill Medal in 1995 by the Royal Meteorological Society for work on global precipitation and I delivered the prestigious Queen's Lecture in Berlin in 2005. For 12 years, I wrote a monthly climate column for The Guardian newspaper.
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Significant Recent Publications
Hulme, M. (2009) Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 392pp.
Hulme, M., Dessai, S., Lorenzoni, I. and Nelson, D. (2009) Unstable climates: exploring the statistical and social constructions of ‘normal’ climate Geoforum 40(2), 197-206 doi 10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.09.010
Dessai, S., Hulme, M., Lempert, R. and Pielke, R. jr. (2009) Do we need better predictions to adapt to a changing climate? EOS 90(13), 111-112
Hulme, M. (2008) Geographical work at the boundaries of climate change. Trans. Inst. Brit. Geogr. 33(1), 5-11.
Hulme, M. and Dessai, S. (2008) Negotiating future climates: a critical review of the development of climate scenarios for the UK. Environmental Science and Policy 11(1), 54-70, doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2007.09.003
Hulme, M. (2008) The conquering of climate: discourses of fear and their dissolution. The Geographical Journal, 174(1), 5-16
Dessai, M. and Hulme, M. (2007) Assessing the robustness of adaptation decisions to climate change uncertainties: a case-study on water resources management in the East of England, Global Environmental Change, 17(1), 59-72.
Dessai, S. and Hulme, M. (2004) Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities? Climate Policy 4, 107-128.
Hulme, M., Jenkins, G.J., Lu, X., Turnpenny, J.R., Mitchell, T.D., Jones, R.G., Lowe, J., Murphy, J.M., Hassell, D., Boorman, P., McDonald, R. and Hill, S. (2002) Climate change scenarios for the UK: the UKCIP02 scientific report Tyndall Centre, UEA, Norwich, UK, 112pp.
Mearns, L.O., Hulme, M., Carter, T.R., Lal, M., Leemans, R. and Whetton, P.H. (2001) Climate scenario development pp.739-768 in, Climate change 2001: the scientific basis (eds.) Houghton, J.T., Ding, Y., Griggs, D.J., Noguer, M., van der Linden, P.J., Dai, X., Maskell, K. and Johnson, C.A. (eds.) (2001) Contribution of WG1 to the IPCC Third Assessment, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 944pp.
