1. Diana Liverman is particularly concerned with adaptation interventions that address climate change, what makes them successful, and when they create or reinforce inequality.
28 Facts About Diana Liverman
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In 2010, Diana Liverman received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, for "encouraging, developing and promoting understanding of the human dimensions of climate change".
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Diana Liverman was one of 19 scientists worldwide elected to the Earth Commission in 2019.
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In 2020, Diana Liverman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Diana Liverman was born in Accra, Ghana to British parents and grew up in the UK.
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Diana Liverman worked with Steve Schneider from 1982 to 1985, receiving her Ph.
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Diana Liverman's dissertation was The use of a simulation model in assessing the impacts of climate on the world food system, with advisors Werner Terjung and Stephen Schneider.
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Diana Liverman taught geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was affiliated with the Institute for Environmental Studies from 1984 to 1990.
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Diana Liverman taught at Penn State University from 1990 to 1996 where she was the associate director of the Earth System Science Center directed by Eric Barron.
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Diana Liverman moved to the University of Arizona in 1996 to become Director of Latin American Studies, retiring in 2022.
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In 2009 Diana Liverman returned to the University of Arizona as co-director of the Institute of the Environment with Jonathan Overpeck.
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Diana Liverman was a co-editor of the journal Annual Review of Environment and Resources from 2009 to 2015.
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Diana Liverman has served on several national and international committees including the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change and the NAS Committee on America's Climate Choices.
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Diana Liverman chaired the scientific advisory committee of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research and the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems program.
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Diana Liverman was a member of the scientific steering committee of the Earth System Governance Project.
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Diana Liverman co-chaired a transition team to create a new international research initiative, Future Earth, for an Alliance of international organizations that include ICSU, UNEP, and UNESCO.
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Diana Liverman was one of the scientists who "contributed substantially" to IPCC reports that led to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC in 2007.
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Diana Liverman has reported on gender bias in the IPCC.
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Diana Liverman serves on the board of a number of organizations including cultural and creative sustainability experts Julie's Bicycle.
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Diana Liverman has made many contributions to understanding of the human dimensions of global environmental change.
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Diana Liverman has a particular interest in the political ecology of environmental management in the Americas, especially in Mexico.
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Diana Liverman worked on the human impacts of drought as early as the 1980s, and the impacts of climate change on food systems using early climate modelling techniques and crop simulation models.
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Diana Liverman has examined the effects of neoliberalism on Latin American society and environmental regimes along the US-Mexico border.
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Diana Liverman is a co-author of influential papers on planetary boundaries and Earth system governance.
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Diana Liverman has led several major collaborative research projects, funded mainly by US and European agencies.
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Internationally, Diana Liverman has raised awareness of the importance of the social sciences in understanding impacts of environmental change.
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The Royal Geographical Society credits Diana Liverman with "promoting the idea that climate impacts depend as much on vulnerability as the physical climate change, and especially showing how changing socioeconomic and political conditions have shifted the patterns of climate vulnerability".
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Diana Liverman has carried out some of the earliest academic analyses of adaptation and mitigation, examined connections between the global north and global south, and investigated the challenges of sustainable development in a changing world.