Publications

 

Dissertations

Dessai, S. (2001) Heat stress and mortality in Lisbon: an assessment of the potential impacts of climate change, BSc dissertation, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

 

Book chapter (* denotes peer-reviewed)

Dessai, S. (2000) A interdisciplinaridade das ciências do ambiente, 19-24. In 1998 Summer Institute on Global Environmental Issues: Relatórios elaborados pelos participantes, Fundação Luso Americana para o Desenvolvimento (in Portuguese).

* Dessai, S. (2000) The Fifth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: advancement or derailing of the process?, 192-207. In Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 1999 Yearbook, the University of Colorado School of Law.

* Casimiro, E., J.M. Calheiros and S. Dessai (2002) Human health, 241-300. In F.D. Santos, K. Forbes and R. Moita (eds.) Climate change in Portugal. Scenarios, impacts and adaptation measures: SIAM Project, Gradiva, Lisboa.

 

Peer-reviewed articles (international circulation)

Dessai, S. (1999) A critique of the EU burden sharing agreement. Change, (47), 13-16.

Dessai, S. (1999) Symposium responses. Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, 10, (2), 249-250 & 341-343.

Dessai, S. and A. Michaelowa (2001) Burden sharing and cohesion countries in European climate policy: a case study from Portugal. Climate Policy, 1, (3), 327-341.

Dessai, S. and M. Hulme (2001) Climatic implications of revised IPCC emission scenarios, the Kyoto Protocol and quantification of uncertainties. Integrated Assessment, 2, (3), 159-170.

Dessai, S. (2001) Why did The Hague climate conference fail? Environmental Politics, 10, (3), 139-144.

Barnett, J. and S. Dessai (2002) Articles 4.8 and 4.9 of the UNFCCC: adverse effects and the impacts of response measures. Climate Policy, 2, (2-3), 231-239.

Dessai, S. (2002) Heat stress and mortality in Lisbon. Part I. model construction and validation. International Journal of Biometeorology, 47, (1), 6-12.

Dessai, S. and E.L. Schipper (2002) The Marrakech Accords to the Kyoto Protocol: Analysis and Future Prospects. Global Environmental Change, 13, 149-153.

Lacasta, N.S., S. Dessai and E. Powroslo (2002) Consensus among many voices: articulating the European Union position on climate change. Golden Gate University Law Review, 32 (4), 351-414.

Dessai, S. (2003) Heat stress and mortality in Lisbon. Part II. an assessment of the potential impacts of climate change. International Journal of Biometeorology, 48, 37-44.

Dessai, S. (2003) The Special Climate Change fund: origins and prioritisation assessment. Climate Policy, 3, 295-302.

Dessai, S., N.S. Lacasta and K. Vincent (2003) International political history of the Kyoto Protocol: from The Hague to Marrakech and beyond. International Review for Environmental Strategies, 4 (2), 183-205. See Tyndall Working Paper 12.

Dessai, S., W.N. Adger, M. Hulme, J. Turnpenny, J. Köhler and R. Warren (2004) Defining and experiencing dangerous climate change. Climatic Change, 64, 11-25.

Barnett, J., S. Dessai, M. Webber (2004) Will OPEC lose from the Kyoto Protocol? Energy Policy, 32, 2077-2088.

Dessai, S. and M. Hulme (2004) Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities?  Climate Policy, 4, 107-128.  

Dessai, S., E.L.F. Schipper, E. Corbera, A. Haxeltine, B. Kjellén and M. Gutiérrez (2004) International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (in press).

Dessai, S., X. Lu and J. Risbey (2005) The role of climate scenarios for adaptation planning. Global Environmental Change (in press).

Patt, A. and S. Dessai (2005) Communicating uncertainty: lessons learned and suggestions for climate change assessment. Comptes Rendus Geoscience (in press)

Kandlikar, M., J.S. Risbey and S. Dessai (2005) Representing and Communicating Deep Uncertainty in Climate Change Assessments. Comptes Rendus Geoscience (in press)

Peer-reviewed articles (national circulation)

Dessai, S. (2000) Simple climate modeling. The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics, 18, (1), 19-25.

Dessai, S. and R.M. Trigo (2001) The science of climate change. Finisterra, XXXVI, No. 71, 117-132 (in Portuguese).

Conference proceedings (with peer-review)

Dessai, S. and M.E. Walter (2000) Self-Organised Criticality and the Atmospheric Sciences: selected review, new findings and future directions. Proceedings of the Conference on “Extreme Events: Developing a Research Agenda for the 21st Century”, Boulder, Colorado, US.

Dessai, S., K. Branco and M.F. Doria (2001) Climate change and media in Portugal: preliminary results. Proceedings of the International Conference on “Climate Change Science, Economics and Politics”, Lisboa, Portugal (in press).

Other publications

Dessai, S. (1996) Clima, está realmente a mudar? Jornal do Gil, No. 28, 11 (in Portuguese).

Dessai, S. (1998) European climate policy: a case study from Portugal. EURONATARA Working Paper, 2/98, 19pp.

Dessai, S. (1999) Chaos, Ignorance and Injustice in Portugal. In Proceedings of the Third Annual International Environmental Essay Contest 1998, Francis Marion University, South Carolina, US.

Lacasta, N.S. and S. Dessai (1999) Resumo histórico-político do quadro internacional, comunitário e nacional relativamente à problemática das alterações climáticas. EURONATARA Working Paper, 3/99, 21 pp (in Portuguese).

Dessai, S. (2001) Climate Change and European Leadership: A Sustainable Role for Europe?, by J. Gupta and M. Grubb (eds.). Book review, Environmental Politics, 10, (4), 135-136.

Dessai, S. (2001) Land Use, Land-use Change, and Forestry: A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, by R.T. Watson, I.R. Noble, B. Bolin, N.H. Ravindranath, D.J. Verardo and D.J. Dokken (eds.). Book review, International Journal of Environmental Studies (in press).

Dessai, S. (2001) The climate regime from The Hague to Marrakech: saving or sinking the Kyoto Protocol. Tyndall Centre Working Paper, No. 12, 24pp.

Haxeltine, A., R. Few, J. Turnpenny and S. Dessai (2003) Climate change: the UK’s role in a global challenge. British Council Briefing Sheer No. 20.

Barnett, J., S. Dessai, R. Jones (2003) Climate Change In Timor Leste: Science, Impacts, Policy and Planning. Briefing to Government, civil society, and donors, República Democrática de Timor-Leste. The University of Melbourne and CSIRO.

Brown, K. and the TDAT group (2004) Today is time to take environmental action. Nature 431, 897.