Burtoni Award

The Burtoni Award was created in 2003 by a group of leading experts and policy makers in the field of climate change. Its purpose is to recognize outstanding contributions to the science of adaptation to climate change. The award is currently named after the first recipient of the award, Ian Burton, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto and a pioneer in the field of adaptation to climate change and extreme events and disasters. Ian has contributed to three Assessment Reports of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the recent Special Report on Extremes (SREX).

Subsequent recipients of the Burtoni Award are:

Short biographies of the awardees follow:

Roger Jones is Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Research, Victoria University Australia. He was a Coordinating Lead Author in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and has the same role in the Fifth Assessment Report. The Burtoni was awarded in recognition of his innovations in research methods for assessing adaptation to climate change, particularly in the application of risk management to adaptation.

Saleemul Huq is a currently Convening Lead Author in the ongoing IPCC 5th Assessment Report. Dr Huq is a Senior Fellow with the International Institute for Environment and Development in London and Director of ICCCD (International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received the award for his work linking adaptation and development, his research on decision making and his efforts to build capacity.[1] It was awarded during a three-day workshop on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change in Dhaka.[2]

Coleen Vogel is an Independent Consultant and previously Professor of Sustainability at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She was Lead Author for the IPCC 4th assessment Report Working Group 2 Chapter on Africa, and she chaired the International Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Climate Change.[3]

Karen O'Brien is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is currently Lead Author of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report for Working Group II (Chapter 20: Climate-resilient pathways: adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development). She was a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) in Chapter 8 'Towards a Resilient and Sustainable Future'. She was Chair of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) project of the IHDP from 2005-2010.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.iisd.ca/ymb/sdban/html/ymbvol135num1e.html
  2. ↑ Press release: http://www.iied.org/mediaroom/releases/070228Saleem.html
  3. ↑ South African researcher takes top climate change award National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, 30 June 2010