Profile

Kate’s work for the UKCIP focuses on adaptation to climate change in organisations. Previously she spent 6 years with the Stockholm Environment Institute where she worked on adaptation in the EU context (in the ADAM project), was a lead author on a technical paper for the United Nations Development Programme’s Adaptation Policy Framework on Stakeholder Engagement in the Adaptation Process, managed a 2-year project investigating the social implications of catastrophic sea-level rise in the Thames Estuary, has undertaken a project for the Northmoor Trust, Landscape Evolution Centre gathering stakeholder opinion on the landscape of South Oxfordshire in 2080 and run training for the Red Cross in Sri Lanka on participatory vulnerability and capacity assessments. Kate has been an active member of the Local Agenda 21 team of Oxford City Council, through which she was trained in the facilitation and design of inclusive meetings and events. She has recently completed a post-graduate diploma in ’Change Agent Skills and Strategies’ at Surrey University.

Previous jobs have included working as a scientific adviser for a group of environmental lawyers in Bangladesh, setting up an environmental resource centre, running a summer programme in Budapest on Environment and Policy for mid-term professionals from Eastern and Central Europe and researching the best way to minimise ‘gross solid’ pollution from the sewers of Sheffield.

Publications

• McEvoy, D., Cots, F., Lonsdale, K., Tàbara, J.D., and Werners, S. (2010) Adapting to water scarcity in a changing climate: the role of institutions in transboundary settings. Chapter 9 in, de Jong, W., Snelder, D. and N. Ishikawa (eds.) Transborder governance of forests, rivers and seas, Earthscan, pp. 135-148.
• Lonsdale, K. et al. (2010) Climate policy and inter-linkages between adaptation and mitigation. Chapter 1 in, Hulme, M. and Neufeldt, H. (eds.) Making Climate Change Work For Us: European perspectives on adaptation and mitigation strategies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521119412 (0521119413). pp. 3-30.
• Lonsdale, K. et al. (2010) Learning to adapt: re-framing climate change adaptation. Chapter 5 in, Hulme, M. and Neufeldt, H. (eds.) Making Climate Change Work For Us: European perspectives on adaptation and mitigation strategies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521119412 (0521119413). pp.113-134.