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Ian Burton

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Publications

56

Citations

8.6K

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33

Active since

1963

Affiliations

University of Toronto(Current)

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Environment and Climate Change Canada

International Institute for Environment and Development

University of Colorado Boulder

Ian Burton is an author at University of Toronto specializing in engineering, disaster risk reduction, and climate change.

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Publications per year

1963–2023

56

Publications

56

An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability

Barry Smith, Ian Burton, Richard J. T. Klein et al. · Climatic Change · 2000 · 1.3K citations

Community level adaptation to climate change: The potential role of participatory community risk assessment

Maarten van Aalst, Terry Cannon, Ian Burton · Global Environmental Change · 2008 · 759 citations

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Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “reasons for concern”

Joel B. Smith, Stephen H. Schneider, Michael Oppenheimer et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 590 citations

From impacts assessment to adaptation priorities: the shaping of adaptation policy

Ian Burton · Climate Policy · 2002 · 584 citations

Risk interpretation and action: A conceptual framework for responses to natural hazards

J. Richard Eiser, Ann Bostrom, Ian Burton et al. · International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 2012 · 572 citations · Full text

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