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2022
Dorkenoo, K., Scown, M., & Boyd, E. (2022). A critical review of disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change, WIREs Climate Change, e770, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.770
Pill, M. (2022). Towards a funding mechanism for loss and damage from climate change impacts, Climate Risk Management, 35, 100391, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100391
(2022). Loss and damage in the global stocktake, Climate Policy, 22:2, 175-183,https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.2023452
Scown, M.W., Chaffin, B.C., Triyanti, A., & Boyd, E. (2022). A harmonized country- level dataset to support the global stocktake regarding loss and damage from climate change, Geosci. Data J., 00, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.147
2021
Boyd, E., Chaffin, B.C., Dorkenoo, K., Jackson, G., Harrington, L., N’Guetta, A., Johansson, E.L., Nordlander, L., Paolo De Rosa, S., Raju, E., Scown, M., Soo, J., & Stuart-Smith, R. (2021). Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda, One Earth, 4:10, 1365-1370, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.015
Doelle, M., & Seck, S.L. (2021). Research Handbook on Climate Change Law and Loss & Damage / Edited by Meinhard Doelle, Sara L. Seck. Research Handbooks in Climate Law Ser. Web. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974028
(2021). Assessing losses and damages to ecosystem services: current state and opportunities for the Warsaw International Mechanism under the UNFCCC, Climate Policy, 21:7, 912-926,https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.1947177
Martyr-Koller, R., Thomas, A., Schleussner, C., Nauels, A., & Lissner, T. (2021). Loss and damage implications of sea-level rise on Small Island Developing States, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 245-259, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.05.001
McNamara, K.E., Westoby, R., & Chandra, A. (2021). Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.07.004
Mechler, R., & Deubelli, T.M. (2021). Finance for Loss and Damage: a comprehensive risk analytical approach,
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 185-196, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.012
Pill, M. (2021). Linking solidarity funds and philanthropic giving to finance loss and damage from climate change related slow-onset events, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 169-174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.003
Robinson, S., & Carlson, D. (2021). A just alternative to litigation: applying restorative justice to climate-related loss and damage, Third World Quarterly, 42:6, 1384-1395, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.014
Robinson, S., Khan, M., Roberts, J.T., Weikmans, R., & Ciplet, D. (2021). Financing loss and damage from slow onset events in developing countries, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 138-148, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.014
van der Geest, K & van den Berg, R. (2021) Slow-onset events: a review of the evidence from the IPCC Special Reports on Land, Oceans and Cryosphere, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 109-120, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.008
2020
Bettini, G., Gioli, G., & Felli, R. (2020). “Clouded skies: How digital technologies could reshape “Loss and Damage” from climate change”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, e650, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.650
Boda, C.S., Scown, M., Faran, T., Nastar, M., Dorkenoo, K., Chaffin, B., Boyd, E., 2020. Framing Loss and Damage from climate change as the failure of Sustainable Development. Clim. Dev. 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2020.1851640
Broberg, M. (2020). “State of Climate Law∵The Third Pillar of International Climate Change Law: Explaining ‘Loss and Damage’ after the Paris Agreement”, Climate Law, 10(2), 211-223, https://doi.org/10.1163/18786561-01002004
Broberg, M. (2020). “Interpreting the UNFCCC’s provisions on ‘mitigation’ and ‘adaptation’ in light of the Paris Agreement’s provision on ‘loss and damage’”, Climate Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2020.1745744
Calliari, E., Serdeczny, O., Vanhala, L., (2020). “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate”, Global Environmental Change, 64, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102133
Marke, A., Ramanand, S., & Akdag, K. D. (2020). “The Development of a Quasi-Loss and Damage Compensatory System for Developing Countries through Climate Litigation”, Carbon & Climate Law Review, 14(1), pp. 56-69, https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2020/1/8
Mechler, R., Singh, C., Ebi, K., Djalante, R., Thomas, A., James, R., … & Nalau, J. (2020). “Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy”, Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00807-9
Newell, P. & Taylor, O. (2020). “Fiddling while the planet burns? COP25 in perspective”, Globalizations, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1726127
Pill, M. (2020). “Planned Relocation from the Impacts of Climate Change in Small Island Developing States: The Intersection Between Adaptation and Loss and Damage”, In: Leal Filho W. (eds): Managing Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region. Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham, pp. 129-149, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40552-6_7
Thomas, A., Serdeczny, O. & Pringle, P. (2020). “Loss and damage research for the global stocktake”, Nat. Clim. Chang, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0807-z
Toussaint, P. (2020). “Loss and damage and climate litigation: The case for greater interlinkage”, Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12335
van der Geest, K., Warner, K., 2020. Loss and damage in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (Working Group II): a text-mining analysis. Clim. Policy 20, 729–742. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2019.1704678
2019
Calliari, E., Surminski, S., & Mysiak, J. (2019). “The Politics of (and Behind) the UNFCCC’s Loss and Damage Mechanism”, Springer, Cham, pp. 155–178, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72026-5_6
McNamara, K. E., & Jackson, G. (2019). “Loss and damage: A review of the literature and directions for future research”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(2), e564. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.564
Mechler, R., Calliari, E., Bouwer, L. M., Schinko, T., Surminski, S., Linnerooth-Bayer et al. (2019). “Science for Loss and Damage. Findings and Propositions”, Springer, Cham, pp. 3–37, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72026-5_1
Pekkarinen, V., Toussaint, P., & van Asselt, H. (2019). “Loss and Damage after Paris: Moving Beyond Rhetoric”, Carbon & Climate Law Review, 13(1), pp. 31–49, https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2019/1/6
Roberts, E., & Pelling, M. (2019). “Loss and damage: An opportunity for transformation?”, Climate Policy, pp. 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2019.1680336
Setzer, J., & Vanhala, L. C. (2019). “Climate change litigation: A review of research on courts and litigants in climate governance”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(3), pp. 1–19, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.580
Tschakert, P., Ellis, N.R., Anderson, C., Kelly, A., & Obeng, J. (2019). “One Thousand Ways to Experience Loss: A Systematic Analysis of Climate-Related Intangible Harm from around the World”, Global Environmental Change, 55, pp. 58–72, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.11.006
Wewerinke-Singh, M., & Salili, D. H. (2019). Between Negotiations And Litigation: Vanuatu’s Perspective On Loss and Damage From Climate Change, Climate Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2019.1623166
2018
Benjamin, L., Thomas, A., & Haynes, R. (2018). “An ‘Islands’ COP’? Loss and Damage at COP23”, Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 27(3), pp. 332-340, https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12255
Emmerling, J. (2018). “Sharing of Climate Risks across World Regions.” Climate Change Economics, 9, 9(3),1850007, https://doi.org/10.1142/s2010007818500070
Gsottbauer, E., Gampfer, R., Bernold, E. & Delas, A.M., (2018). “Broadening the Scope of Loss and Damage to Legal Liability: An Experiment.” Climate Policy, 18(5), pp. 600-611, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2017.1317628.
Leal Filho, W. & Johanna Nalau. (2018). “Limits to Climate Change Adaptation”, edited by Walter Leal Filho and Johanna Nalau. Climate Change Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64599-5
Gewirtzman, J., Natson, S., Richards, J.-A., Hoffmeister, V., Durand, A., Weikmans, R. et al.. (2018). “Financing loss and damage: reviewing options under the Warsaw International Mechanism”, Climate Policy, 18(8), pp. 1076–1086, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1450724
McNamara, K. E., Bronen, R., Fernando, N., & Klepp, S. (2018). “The Complex Decision-Making of Climate-Induced Relocation: Adaptation and Loss and Damage”, Climate Policy, 18(1), pp. 111-117, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2016.1248886.
Roberts, E., & Pelling, M. (2018). “Climate change-related loss and damage: translating the global policy agenda for national policy processes”, Climate and Development, 10(1), pp. 4–17, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2016.1184608
Serdeczny, O.M., Bauer, S., & Huq, S. (2018), “Non-Economic Losses from Climate Change: Opportunities for Policy-Oriented Research”, Climate and Development, 10(2), pp. 97–101, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2017.1372268
Thomas, A., & Benjamin, L. (2018), “Management of loss and damage in small island developing states: implications for a 1.5 °C or warmer world”, Regional Environmental Change, 18(8), pp. 2369-2378, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1184-7
Toussaint, P. (2018). “Voices unheard – affected communities and the climate negotiations on loss and damage”. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3(5–6), pp. 765–784, https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2018.1597640
2017
Boyd, E., James, R.A., Jones, R.G., Young, H.R., & Otto, F. (2017). “A Typology of Loss and Damage Perspectives.” Nature Climate Change, 7, pp. 723–729, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3389
Geest, K. Van Der, & Schindler, M. (2017). “Handbook for Assessing Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Communities.” Bonn. Available at: http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:6032/Online_No_21_Handbook_180430.pdf
Lees, E. (2017). “Responsibility and Liability for Climate Loss and Damage after Paris.” Climate Policy, 17(1), pp. 59–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2016.1197095
Lyster, R. (2017). “Climate Justice, Adaptation and the Paris Agreement: A Recipe for Disasters?”, Environmental Politics, 26(3), pp. 438-458, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1287626.
Mayer, B. (2017). “Migration in the Unfccc Workstream on Loss and Damage: An Assessment of Alternative Framings and Conceivable Responses”, Transnational Environmental Law, 6(1), pp. 107-29, https://doi.org/10.1017/s2047102516000078.
Page, E. A., & Heyward, C. (2017). “Compensating for Climate Change Loss and Damage.”, Political Studies, 65(2), pp. 356-372, https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321716647401.
Parker, H.R., Boyd, E., Cornforth, R.J., James, R., Otto,F., & Allen, M. (2017). “Stakeholder Perceptions of Event Attribution in the Loss and Damage Debate.” Climate Policy, 17(4), pp. 533–550, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2015.1124750
2016
Adelman, S. (2016). “Climate Justice, Loss and Damage and Compensation for Small Island Developing States”, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 7(1), pp. 32–53, https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2016.01.02
Barnett, J., Tschakert, P., Head, L., and Adger, W.N. (2016). “A Science of Loss.” Nature Climate Change, 6(11), pp. 976–978, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3140
Calliari, E. (2016). “Loss and damage: a critical discourse analysis of Parties’ positions in climate change negotiations”, Journal of Risk Research, pp. 1–23, https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2016.1240706
Geest, Kees Van Der, and Markus Schindler. (2016). “Brief Communication: Loss and Damage from a Catastrophic Landslide in Nepal.” Hazards Earth Syst. Sci, 16, pp. 2347–50, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2347-2016
Mace, M. J., & Verheyen, R. (2016). “Loss , Damage and Responsibility after COP21 : All Options Open for the Paris Agreement”, Review of European Community & International Environmental Law, 25, pp. 197–214, https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12172
Mechler, R., & Schinko, T. (2016). “Identifying the policy space for climate loss and damage”, Science, 354(6310), 290 LP-292, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aag2514
Ohdedar, B. (2016). “Loss and Damage from the Impacts of Climate Change: A Framework for Implementation.” Nordic Journal of International Law, 85 (1), pp. 1–36, https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-08501001
Vanhala, L., & Hestbaek, C. (2016). “Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in UNFCCC Negotiations”, Global Environmental Politics, 16(4), pp. 111–129, https://doi.org/10.1162/GLEP_a_00379
2015
Geest, K. Van Der, & Warner, K. (2015). “Editorial: Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Emerging Perspectives.” International Journal of Global Warming 8 (2),pp. 133–140, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2015.071964
Roberts, E., & Andrei, S. (2015). “The rising tide: migration as a response to loss and Damage from sea level rise in vulnerable communities”, International Journal of Global Warming, 8(2), pp. 258-273, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2015.071965
Roberts, E., Andrei, S., Huq, S., & Flint, L. (2015). “Resilience Synergies in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.” Nature Climate Change, 5(12), pp.1024–25. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2776
Verheyen, R. (2015). “Loss and damage due to climate change : attribution and causation – where climate science and law meet”, International Journal of Global Warming, 8(2), pp. 158–169. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2015.071968
Wallimann-Helmer, I. (2015). “Justice for climate loss and damage”, Climatic Change, 133(3), pp. 469–480, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1483-2
2014
James, R., Otto, F., Parker, H., Boyd, E., Cornforth, R., Mitchell, D. & Allen, M. (2014). “Characterizing Loss and Damage from Climate Change”, Nature Climate Change 4 (11), pp. 938–939, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2411
Mayer, B. (2014). “Whose ‘Loss and Damage’? In Defence of the Agency of Beneficiary States.” Climate Law 4 (3–4), pp. 267–300, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2493643
2013
Huq, S., Roberts, E., & Fenton, A. (2013). “Loss and damage”, Nature Climate Change, 3, 947, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2026