Irene Lorenzoni
Individual and institutional responses to energy issues and climate change, environmental policy and politics.
- School of Environmental Sciences
- University of East Anglia
- Norwich
- NR4 7TJ
- UK
- + 44 (0)
Email: i.lorenzoni“at“uea.ac.uk
As a lecturer within the School, my research focuses upon individual and institutional responses to energy issues and climate change, the role and methods of public participation in decision-making, environmental policy and politics. In particular, my recent work has explored scientific and behavioural understandings of risk and “dangerous” climate change, and individual barriers to engagement with climate change. Currently I am pursuing these interests through strands of collaborative research, including perceptions and conceptualisations of energy use and on future energy options as part of a recent Leverhulme Trust project (Understanding Risk: Climate Change and Energy Choices); and social, institutional and cognitive barriers to adaptation.
My work is published in a range of peer reviewed journals (see below), book chapters and edited books. I am also a contributing author to Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
I teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, on modules on environmental politics and policy making, environment and society, interdisciplinary social science, and science communication.
Selected Publications
Adger, W.N., Agrawala, S. and Mirza, M. (co-coordinating lead authors); Lorenzoni, I. (one of the contributing authors) et al. (2007) Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity. Chapter 17. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Bickerstaff, K., I. Lorenzoni, N. Pidgeon, W. Poortinga, P. Simmons, (in press) Reframing the nuclear debate in the UK: radioactive waste and climate change mitigation. Public Understanding of Science.
Carter, T.R., E.L. La Rovere, (co-coordinating lead authors); Lorenzoni, I. (one of the contributing authors) et al. (2001) Developing and Applying Scenarios. Chapter 3 (pp. 145-190) in: McCarthy, J.J., O.F. Canziani, N. A. Leary, D.J. Dokken, K. S. White, K.S. (eds.) Climate Change 2001. Impacts. Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, USA. ISBN 0-521-01500-6
Lorenzoni, I., A. Leiserowitz, M. Doria, W. Poortinga, N. Pidgeon, (2006) Cross-national comparisons of image associations with ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’ among laypeople in the United States of America and Great Britain. Journal of Risk Research, 9(3), 265-281. doi 10.1080/3658
Lorenzoni, I., M. Jones, J. Turnpenny, (2006) Climate change, human genetics and post-normality in the UK. Futures, 39, 65-82, doi:10.1016/j.futures.2006.03.005
Lorenzoni, I., S. Nicholson-Cole, L. Whitmarsh, (2007) Barriers perceived to engaging with climate change among the UK public and their policy implications. Global Environmental Change, 17: 445-459. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.01.004
Lorenzoni, I., N. Pidgeon, (2006) Public views on climate change: European and USA perspectives. Climatic Change, 77(1-2), 73-95. doi: 10.1007/s10584-006-9072-z
Lorenzoni, I., N. Pidgeon, R. O’Connor, (2005) Dangerous Climate Change: the role for risk research. Risk Analysis, 25(6), 1387-1398. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00686.x
Lowe, T., I. Lorenzoni, (2007) Danger is All Around: Eliciting Expert Perceptions for Managing Climate Change through a Mental Models Approach. Global Environmental Change, 17(1), 131-146. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.05.001
Martens, P., I. Lorenzoni, B. Menne, (2006) Implications of the SRES scenarios for human health in Europe. Chapter 11 (pp. 395-407) in Menne, B. and K.L. Ebi (eds.) Climate change and adaptation strategies for human health; Darmstadt: Springer Steinkopff and WHO. ISBN 3-7985-1591-3