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Jennifer is a senior social scientist at CICERO, with 15 years of interdisciplinary research experience working at the intersection between climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, natural resource management and international development.

Her formal training (Master, PhD) is in international environment and development studies, with a focus on smallholder agriculture and seed-based humanitarian interventions in East Africa, but she has also worked extensively on local climate vulnerability, adaptation and transformation processes in coastal areas of Norway, has conducted field research in rural India and China, and is involved in several EU projects and initiatives aimed at enhancing social science contributions to climate services research and innovation. Her current research aims at understanding the potentials and limitations for societal transformation at the local level and enhancing the practical relevance and impact of climate information and services for various stakeholders. She co-leads the “Local Solutions” research group at CICERO, and is a co-initiator and co-leader of an Action Group within the European Joint Programming Initiative "Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe" (JPI Climate) that aims to enhance the societal relevance of climate research within and beyond Europe. She is also is an Expert Team Member of the WMO Commission for Climatology Focus Area 4 "Capacity Development for Climate Services”.

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Jennifer's projects:

Global Framework for Climate Services Adaptation Programme in Africa

SIS Future Africa

Climate services at CICERO

Projects

Climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in Tanzania CICERO's role was to carry out studies of adaptation to climate change among smallholders in selected local communities in Tanzania, and combine the findings with results from modeling of farming systems and modeling of the agricultural sector in the country.
TRANSFORM The TRANSFORM project explores how Norwegian municipalities can contribute to transformation to a low-emission society.
CoCliME: Co-development of CLimate services for adaptation to changing Marine Ecosystems European coastal ecosystems are changing as a result of interactions between a number of drivers including overfishing, pollution, and climate change. Changes in marine ecosystems will impact on human health, food safety and the future sustainability of sectors including aquaculture, fisheries and tourism.
ACRoBEAR – high-latitude risk of wildfire and disease The ACRoBEAR (Arctic Community Resilience to Boreal Environmental Change: Assessing Risks from fire and disease) project will quantify changing risk of boreal forest fire and natural-focal disease for local communities in high northern latitudes under changing environmental and climatic conditions.

Publications and outreach at CICERO

Gå til: Journal article Report/dissertation Part of a book/report Conference lecture and academic presentation

Journal article

2017

Jennifer Joy West, Ruth Haug, 2017 The vulnerability and resilience of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in Tanzania Journal of Eastern African Studies, EN
Jennifer Joy West, Ruth Haug, 2017 Polarised narratives and complex realities in Tanzania’s Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor Development in Practice, EN

2011

E.Carina H. Keskitalo, Halvor Dannevig, Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jennifer Joy West, Åsa Gerger Swartling, 2011 Adaptive capacity determinants in developed states: examples from the Nordic countries and Russia Regional Environmental Change, EN

2010

Jennifer Joy West, Grete K. Hovelsrud, 2010 Cross-scale Adaptation Challenges in the Coastal Fisheries: Findings from Lebesby, Northern Norway Arctic, Arctic Institute of North America, EN
Carina Keskitalo, Halvor Dannevig, Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jennifer Joy West, Åsa Gerger Swartling, 2010 Adaptive capacity determinants in developed states: examples from the Nordic countries and Russia Regional Environmental Change, EN
J. David Tàbara, Xingang Dai, Gensuo Jia, Darryn McEvoy, Henry Neufeldt, Anna Serra, Saskia Werners, Jennifer Joy West, 2010 The Climate Learning Ladder. A Pragmatic Procedure to Support Climate Adaptation Environmental Policy and Governance, European Research Press, EN

2004

Karen O'Brien, Robin Leichenko, Ulka Kelkar, Henry Venema, Guro Aandahl, Heather Tompkins, Akram Javed, Suruchi Bhadwal, Stephen Barg, Lynn P. Nygaard, Jennifer Joy West, 2004 Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors: Climate change and globalization in India Global Environmental Change, EN

Report/dissertation

Part of a book/report

2017

Hans Asbjørn Aaheim, Jennifer Joy West, Anton Orlov, 2017 National and local perspectives on Adaptation Strategies in Tanzania's Agricultural sector EN

2015

Jennifer Joy West, 2015 Can linking small- and large-scale farmers enhance adaptive capacity? Evidence from Tanzania’s Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor EN
Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jennifer Joy West, Halvor Dannevig, 2015 Exploring Vulnerability and Adaptation Narratives among Fishers, Farmers, and Municipal Planners in Northern Norway EN

2013

Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jennifer Joy West, Halvor Dannevig, 2013 Fisheries, resource management and climate change: Local perspectives of change in coastal communities in Northern Norway EN

2010

Grete K. Hovelsrud, Halvor Dannevig, Jennifer Joy West, Helene Amundsen, 2010 Adaptation in Fisheries and Municipalities: Three Communities in Northern Norway EN
Saskia Werners, J. David Tàbara, Henry Neufeldt, Darryn McEvoy, Xingang Dai, Zsuzsanna Flachner, Jennifer Joy West, Francesc Cots, Giacomo Trombi, Nicola Lugeri, Piotr Matczak, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, 2010 Mainstreaming Adaptation in Regional Land Use and Water Management EN