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Thomas Tanner - Research Fellow

Climate Change
T: +44 (0)1273 915766
E: t.tanner@ids.ac.uk

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Administrator:
Nadine Beard

Thematic Expertise:
Aid; Children and Youth; Climate Change; Climate Change Knowledge and Learning; Climate Change Vulnerability and Resilience; Low-carbon Development; COP18; Environment; Governance; Livelihoods; Participatory methodologies; Politics and Power; Poverty.

Tom is a social scientist specialising in the policy and practice of adaptation to climate change, particularly in linking approaches to development, disasters and climate change.

His research interests include climate risk management, child-centred development, social protection, knowledge management, organisational change, and linking science with policy processes.

Children in a Changing Climate
IDS is working with leading research and development organisations to secure children and your people a voice in preventing and adapting to climate change – from their communities to the UN.

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Learning Hub
A place for DFID staff to connect with and learn from fellow country office staff, DFID specialist advisers and technical experts as a basis for creating applied knowledge for dealing with the complexities of climate change in the development arena.

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Linking African Researchers with Adaptation Policy Spaces
This project aims to increase the ability of CCAA programme partners in East Africa to understand climate change adaptation policy processes at local and national scales.

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Understanding the Political Economy of Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Development
Despite the impasse at Copenhagen conference of the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), significant sums of money will be made available under a post-Kyoto framework for climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. This project focuses on two global program initiatives, namely the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR), administered by the World Bank through the Climate Investment Funds, and the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).

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Climate Change and Development

 (forthcoming)
Tanner, T.M. and Horn-Phathanothai, D.L.

Planning Exceptionalism? The Political Economy of Climate Resilient Development in Bangladesh

 (forthcoming)
Alam, K., Tanner, T., Rashid, A.K.M.M., Ullah, S., Shamsuddoha, M., Sultana, M., Huq, M. J. and Kabir, S. S.

Learning to Tackle Climate Change: Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Sharing and Co-Production in Highly Dispersed Development Organisations

 Knowledge Management for Development (forthcoming)
Tanner, T., Jackson, C., Seballos, F. and Clark, J.

Empowering Youth and Strengthening Resilience: Child-Centred Participatory Video as a Tool for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

 Children's Geographies (forthcoming)
Haynes, K. and Tanner, T.

Social Justice and Low Carbon Development: Key Issues

 Low Carbon Development: Key Issues (2013)
Tanner, T. and Harvey, B.L.

Addressing Water Security in China: Screening for Climate Impacts and Adaptation Responses

 Climate Adaptation Futures (2013)
Xia, J., Tanner, T. and Holman, L.

Promoting Resilient Livelihoods through Adaptive Social Protection: Lessons from 124 Programmes in South Asia

 Development Policy Review (2013)
Davies, M., Bene, C., Arnall, A., Tanner, T., Newsham, A.J., and Coirolo, C.

Youth, Gender and Climate Change: moving from impacts to agency

 Adolescent Girls, Cornerstone of Society: Building Evidence and Policies for Inclusive Societies (2013)
Tanner, T.

Characterising Resilience: Unpacking the Concept for Tackling Climate Change and Development

 Climate and Development 5.1 (2013)
Bahadur, A., Ibrahim, M. and Tanner, T.

Learning to Tackle Climate Change

 (2012)
Tanner, T.M., Lockwood, M. and Seballos, F.

Children, Climate Change and Disasters

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 23 (2012)
Tanner, T. and Seballos, F.

Action Research with Children: Lessons from Tackling Disasters and Climate Change

 In 'Action Research for Development and Social Change' (2012)
Burns, D.

Participatory Action Research and Children: Lessons from Disaster Management and Climate Change Adaptation

 In 'Action Research for Development and Social Change' (2012)
Burns, D.

Sharing Climate Adaptation Tools: Improving Decision-Making for development

 (2012)
Tanner, T.M. and Guenther, B.

Transformation: Theory and Practice in Climate Change and Development

 (2012)
Bahadur, A.V., and Tanner, T.M.

The Global Political Economy of REDD+ Engaging Social Dimensions in the Emerging Green Economy

 (2011)
Hiraldo, R. and Tanner, T.

The Political Economy of Climate Change and Development

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 20 (2011)
Tanner, T.

Planning exceptionalism? Political Economy of Climate Resilient Development in Bangladesh

 (2011)
Khurshid Alam, Md. Shamsuddoha, Thomas Tanner, Moshahida Sultana, Muhammad Jahedul Huq and Sumaiya S Kabir

Harmonising Climate Risk Management: Adaptation Screening and Assessment Tools for Development Co-operation

 OECD Environment Working Paper 36 (2011)
Hammill, A. and Tanner, T.

Children and Disasters: Understanding Impact and Enabling Agency

 Children in a Changing Climate (2011)
Seballos, F., Tanner, T., Tarazona M. and Gallegos, J.
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