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Professor Tom Tanner's Outputs (118)

Influencing resilience: The role of policy entrepreneurs in mainstreaming climate adaptation (2019)
Journal Article
Tanner, T., Zaman, R., Acharya, S., Gogoi, E., & Bahadur, A. (2019). Influencing resilience: The role of policy entrepreneurs in mainstreaming climate adaptation. Disasters, 43(S3), S388-S411. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12338

One way to make development pathways more resilient in the face of a changing climate has been through mainstreaming adaptation into government policies, planning and sectoral decision‐making. To date, many of the transferable lessons have taken the... Read More about Influencing resilience: The role of policy entrepreneurs in mainstreaming climate adaptation.

Youth, Gender and Climate Resilience: Voices of Adolescent and Young Women in Southern Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Tanner, T., Mazingi, L., & Muyambwa, D. F. (2022). Youth, Gender and Climate Resilience: Voices of Adolescent and Young Women in Southern Africa. Sustainability, 14, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148797

In contrast to the dominant ‘vulnerability narrative’ applied to studies of gender, age, and other intersectional characteristics in determining ifferentiated impacts of climate change, there is growing attention to the agency and voices of young pe... Read More about Youth, Gender and Climate Resilience: Voices of Adolescent and Young Women in Southern Africa.

Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change (2014)
Journal Article
Tanner, T., Lewis, D., Wrathall, D., Bronen, R., Cradock-Henry, N., Huq, S., Lawess, C., Nawrotski, R., Prasad, V., Rahman, M. A., Alaniz, R., King, K., McNamara, K., Nadiruzzaman, M., Henly-Shepard, S., & Thomalla, F. (2015). Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change. Nature Climate Change, 1(4), 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2431

The resilience concept requires greater attention to human livelihoods if it is to address the limits to adaptation strategies and the development needs of the planet's poorest and most vulnerable people. Although the concept of resilience is increas... Read More about Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change.

Building forward better: A pathway to climate-resilient development in fragile and conflict-affected situations (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Opitz-Stapleton, S., Gulati, M., Laville, C., Vazquez, M., & Tanner, T. Building forward better: A pathway to climate-resilient development in fragile and conflict-affected situations. London

People living in places affected by fragility and/or violent conflict are among the most vulnerable in the world to climate change. In these situations, a natural hazard – such as a flood or a drought – can quickly trigger disasters and exacerbate pr... Read More about Building forward better: A pathway to climate-resilient development in fragile and conflict-affected situations.

Programming systemic risk management: An exploration of tenets and approaches (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Peters, K., & Tanner, T. Programming systemic risk management: An exploration of tenets and approaches. London

Development, humanitarian and peacebuilding programmes in peaceful and fragile settings are often limited in their abilities to consider the interacting drivers of vulnerability and systemic risks they face (Maskrey et al., 2021; Brooks et al., 2022)... Read More about Programming systemic risk management: An exploration of tenets and approaches.

The Triple Dividend of Building Climate Resilience: Taking Stock, Moving Forward (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Heubaum, H., Brandon, C., Tanner, T., Surminski, S., & Roezer, V. The Triple Dividend of Building Climate Resilience: Taking Stock, Moving Forward. Washington, D.C

Highlights
▪ The triple dividend of resilience (TDR) is an approach that considers avoided losses (first dividend), induced economic or development benefits (second dividend), and additional social and environmental benefits (third dividend) of adap... Read More about The Triple Dividend of Building Climate Resilience: Taking Stock, Moving Forward.

How can policy makers be globally inclusive when it comes to sustainability? (2022)
Digital Artefact
Kinthaert, L., Bayrak, M., Dawson, A., Ekhator, E., Harman, O., Harvey, B., Ojino, J., Pereira, L., Schipper, E. L. F., Tanner, T., Telli, H., & Verdini, G. How can policy makers be globally inclusive when it comes to sustainability?

Many people in North America or Europe experience the concept of sustainability as one of limits: limiting air travel, limiting consumption or type of goods, limiting choices – choices around what we eat, wear, or do. These sorts of attitudes, unfort... Read More about How can policy makers be globally inclusive when it comes to sustainability?.

A COP Fit For Children: How to support children’s participation (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kapell, A., Strømsø, I., Edwards, J., Luthen, S., Wakefield, J., Cooke, J., & Tanner, T. A COP Fit For Children: How to support children’s participation. London

The climate crisis is affecting children and their rights first and worst, and will continue to affect future generations of children. Across the world, a growing global movement of children are demanding climate action, providing leadership on how t... Read More about A COP Fit For Children: How to support children’s participation.

SportsPro CEO Playbook 2022: Advice from the Experts in a Changed World (2022)
Other
Rogan, M., Tanner, T., & and, O. SportsPro CEO Playbook 2022: Advice from the Experts in a Changed World. London

Welcome to the CEO Playbook 2022 – a how-to guide to leading sports businesses in 2022. Throughout the last two years, my Playbook partnership with the team at SportsPro has aimed to offer the sports industry C-suite agenda-free, pragmatic advice, le... Read More about SportsPro CEO Playbook 2022: Advice from the Experts in a Changed World.

SportsPro Podcast: Dr Tom Tanner on how sport can mount a meaningful climate fightback (2021)
Digital Artefact
Tanner, T., & Rogan, M. SportsPro Podcast: Dr Tom Tanner on how sport can mount a meaningful climate fightback. [Podcast]

As COP26 arrives, SportsPro senior contributor Matt Rogan talks to SOAS’s Dr Tom Tanner centre director and programme director at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy about how sports bodies can respond to the climate emergency.
Dr T... Read More about SportsPro Podcast: Dr Tom Tanner on how sport can mount a meaningful climate fightback.

Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South (2021)
Book
Bahadur, A., & Tanner, T. (2021). Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355066

Drawing on evidence from urban resilience initiatives around the globe, the authors make a compelling argument for a "resilience reset", a pause and stocktake that critically examines the concepts, practices and challenges of building resilience, par... Read More about Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South.