Elizabeth L. Malone

Elizabeth Malone likes to work at the intersection of human societies and their environments. The intersection that especially fascinates her is climate change, with its political, social, economic, technological, and physical world dimensions. The multi-dimensional nature of the issue, she believes, opens up the potential for addressing many problems at once, even though tradeoffs will be needed. Malone co-edited, with Steve Rayner, a four-volume assessment of social science research relevant to climate change, called "Human Choice & Climate Change." In the past decade, she has helped to develop methods to assess vulnerability and resilience to climate change and to structure frameworks for adaptation policy.