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 Karen O'Brien is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway and chair of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) project. Karen has been involved in research on climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation for almost twenty years. She is particularly interested in the relationship between globalization and climate change, as well as in issues related to equity and human security. Her current research focuses on adaptation as a social process, and on the limits to adaptation as a response to climate change. She is a member of the Norwegian Global Change Committee, and a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report for Working Group II chapter on adaptation. She is currently finishing a book on Double Exposure: Human Security in an Era of Global Environmental Change and Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2007). Over the last two years she has participated in two international “climate-art” events hosted by the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. These events seek to create links between scientific and artistic communities, and to explore how the arts can engage society in understanding and responding to climate change.
Interview with Karen O'Brian
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