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Merylyn Hedger
Merylyn is an environmental policy specialist who has worked within international, national and local levels of governance. She has specialised on climate change for 16 years, first as WWF's International Policy Coordinator, and later established the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP). She was head of climate change in the Environment Agency and then became a national expert at the European Environment Agency. Her research interests are on climate change- planning and finance and integration of adaptation and low carbon development.
Selected Projects and Recent Work
- European Development Co-operation on climate change to 2020
- Scoping studies for Climate Change Actions Plans in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh
Thematic Expertise
Climate Change; Finance; Water and Sanitation.
Selected Publications »»
- Hedger, M and Vaideeswaran (2010) 'Action Plan on Climate Change in Madhya Pradesh: scoping report for Government of Madhya Pradesh' , Brighton: IDS
- Hedger, M and Vaideeswaran (2010) 'Action Plan on Climate Change in Orissa: scoping report for Government of Orissa' , Brighton, UK: IDS
- Hedger, M., Singha, A. and Reddy, M. (2010) 'Building Climate Resilience at State Level: DRM and Rural Livelihoods in Orissa', Strengthening Climate Resilience Discussion Paper 5, Brighton: IDS
- Mitchell, T., Ibrahim, M., Harris, K., Hedger, M., Polack, E., Ahmed, A. and Hall, N. (2010) 'Climate Smart Disaster Risk Managment' , Brighton: IDS
- Hedger, M., Sharma, V. (2010) 'Moving forward on climate change planning - Lessons from Orissa', CDKN Policy Brief , IDS
- Christoplos, I., Anderson, S., Arnold, M., Galaz, V., Hedger, M., Klein, R. and Le Goulven, K. (2009) 'The Human Dimension of Climate Adaptation' , Commission on Climate Change and Development
- Griffith-Jones, S., Hedger, M. and Stokes, L. (2009) 'The role of private investment in increasing climate friendly technologies in developing countries'
- Peskett, L., Grist, N., Hedger, M., Lennartz-Walker, T. and Scholz, I. (2009) 'Climate change challenges for European Development Co-operation'
- Hedger, M., Mitchell, T., Leavy, J., Greeley, M. and Horrocks, L. (2009) 'Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation from a Development Perspective' in Feinstein, O. and van den Berg, R. (eds), Evaluating Climate Change and Development, Edison: Transaction Publishers
- Hedger, M. and Tanner, T. (2009) 'Does Climate Change Alter the Agenda for the Bottom Billion?', IDS In Focus 3.4, Brighton: IDS
- Hedger, M. M, T Mitchell, J Leavy. L Horrocks and M Greeley (2009) 'Evaluation of climate change adaptation from a development perspective', World Bank Series on Development 8:241-264
- Hedger, M. and Cacouris, J. (2008) 'Separate Streams? Adapting water resources management to climate change' , Tearfund
- Hedger, M., Greeley, M. and Leavy, J. (2008) 'Evaluating climate change: pro-poor perspectives', IDS Bulletin 39.4:75-80, Brighton: IDS
- Hedger, M., Horrocks, L., Mitchell, T., Leavy, J. and Greeley, M. (2008) 'Evaluation of climate change adaptation from a development perspective'