Scholars
Stacy-ann Robinson
Colby College
Based in
United States
North America
Dr Stacy-ann Robinson is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Colby College in the United States having held previous appointments at Yale University, Brown University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Robinson’s scholarship investigates the human, social and policy dimensions of climate change adaptation in small island developing states, with a special focus on climate justice, and adaptation finance, an area in which she is a Certified Expert. She was a Contributing Author to Chapter 15 (Small Islands) of Working Group II’s contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was released in February 2022. Her work has appeared in Nature, Nature Climate Change, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Climate Change, Climate Policy, and other leading journals.
Outside of academia, Dr Robinson has 15 years’ experience in the government, nonprofit, and private sectors, including time spent representing the government of Jamaica in the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) of the United Nations General Assembly and the International Seabed Authority.
Focus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Climate JusticePublications
Articles
Robinson S, Khan M, Roberts JT, Weikmans R, Ciplet D. 2021. “Financing loss and damage from slow onset events in developing countries,” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 2021;50:138-148.
Robinson S, Carlson D, Messer A, Maunus L, Bouton E, Roberts JT. 2021. “Climate compatible development in practice,” Development in Practice. 2021;0(0):1-11.
Robinson, S. 2021. ‘A just alternative to litigation: applying restorative justice to climate-related loss and damage,’ Third World Quarterly.
Beauregard, C.*, Carlson, D.*, Robinson, S., Cobb, C.* and Patton, M.*, 2021, ‘Climate justice and rights-based litigation in a post-Paris world’. Climate Policy.
Weikmans, R., Roberts, J. T., and Robinson, S. 2020, ‘What counts as climate finance? Define urgently’. Nature, 588(7837), 220.
Robinson, S. 2020, ‘A richness index for baselining climate change adaptations in SIDS’. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 8, 100065.
Lincoln Lenderking, H.*, Robinson, S. and Carlson, G. 2020, ‘Climate change and food security in Caribbean SIDS: Challenges and strategies’. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology.
Khan, M., Robinson, S., Weikmans, R., Ciplet, D. and Roberts, J. T. 2020, ‘Twenty-five years of adaptation finance through a climate justice lens’. Climatic Change, 261, 251-269.
Gilfillan, D., Robinson, S. and Barrowman, H. 2020, ‘Action research for enhancing inter-organisational coordination of climate change adaptation in the Pacific’. Challenges, 11(1), 8.
Robinson, S. 2020, ‘Climate change adaptation in SIDS: A systematic review of the literature pre and post the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report’. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Climate Change, 11(4), e653.
Holler, J., Bernier, Q.*, Roberts, J. T. and Robinson, S. 2020, ‘Transformational adaptation in Least Developed Countries: Does expanded stakeholder participation make a difference?’, Sustainability, 12, 1657.
Robinson, S. and Wren, C.* 2020, ‘Geographies of vulnerability: A research note on human system adaptations to climate change in the Caribbean’. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 120(1), 79-86.
Nguyen, C.* and Robinson, S. 2019, ‘Differential climate change impacts and adaptation responses in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles’. Caribbean Geography, 24, 1-23.
Robinson, S. 2019, ‘A commentary on national adaptation policy drivers: The case of SIDS’. Climatic Change, 154(3-4), 303-313.
Robinson, S. 2019, ‘Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in SIDS’, Climate and Development, 11(1), 47-59.
Robinson, S. 2018, ‘Climate change adaptation in SIDS: Insights and lessons from a meta-paradigmatic study’, Environmental Science & Policy, 85, 172-181.
Robinson, S. 2018, ‘Adapting to climate change at the national level in Caribbean SIDS’, Island Studies Journal, 13(1), 79-100.
Saxena, A., Qui, K.* and Robinson, S. 2018, ‘Knowledge, attitudes and practices of climate adaptation actors towards resilience and transformation in a 1.5C world’, Environmental Science & Policy, 80, 152-159.
Robinson, S. 2018, ‘Climate change adaptation limits in SIDS’. In W. Leal Filho and J. Nalau (Eds.), Limits to Adaptation, Springer, Cham.
Khan, M., Roberts, J. T., Huq, S., Hoffmeister, V.*, Mahmud, S., Twinomuhangi, R., Epitu, J. and Robinson, S. 2018, ‘Case studies: Bangladesh, Uganda, and Jamaica’. Chapter 5 in Khan, M., Roberts, J. T., Huq, S. and Hoffmeister, V., The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building, Routledge, London.
Khan, M., Roberts, J. T., Huq, S., Hoffmeister, V.*, Mahmud, S., Twinomuhangi, R. and Robinson, S. 2018, ‘Universities as the central hub of capacity building’. Chapter 7 in Khan, M., Roberts, J. T., Huq, S. and Hoffmeister, V., The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building, Routledge, London.
Khan, M., Roberts, J. T., Huq, S., Hoffmeister, V.*, and Robinson, S. 2018, ‘Capacity building and transparency under Paris’. Chapter 8 in Khan, M., Roberts, J. T., Huq, S. and Hoffmeister, V., The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building, Routledge, London.
Robinson, S. and Dornan, M. 2017, ‘International financing for climate change adaptation in SIDS’, Regional Environmental Change, 17(4), 1103–1115.
Robinson, S. and Gilfillan, D. 2017, ‘Regional organisations and climate change adaptation in SIDS’, Regional Environmental Change, 17(4), 989–1004.
Robinson, S. 2017, ‘Climate change adaptation trends in SIDS’, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 22(4), 669–691.
*Denotes student co-authors