Laura Kuhl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1405564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Kuhl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuhl |
| SIGNATURE | KUHL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1379-9435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Power dynamics and the politics of climate finance
Climate finance is a critical component of climate policy implementation, but disparities in access reflect the broader power imbalances between the Global North and the Global South, and shape both the allocation of funds and the types of projects that receive support. This paper examines the politics of decision-making within the Green Climate Fund (GCF), revealing how structural power asymmetries, strategic negotiation, and ideological biases …
Energy equity, transitions, and futures
Energy equity remains a pressing issue in urban areas, particularly for marginalized communities like Boston's Latinx population. This study examines energy equity and futures through photovoice, a participatory method where participants document their lived experiences using photography. In collaboration with GreenRoots, a grassroots organization dedicated to environmental justice in Chelsea and East Boston, participants identified daily inequit…
Confronting Intrinsic Yield Variability
Global efforts aim to support the socio-ecological resilience of farms and farmers against environmental disturbances. Farmers growing many perennial crops also face inherent yield fluctuations, or alternate bearing (AB), which can synchronize across regional and national levels. Synchronous AB on a farm affects livelihoods directly but is often overlooked in resilience discussions. We conducted a socio-ecological study on farm-level AB in Coffea…
The liberal limits to transformation in the Green Climate Fund
International climate finance institutions increasingly articulate their goals as catalyzing transformation, but can these institutions bring about deep structural change when they reflect the same liberal logics that arguably created the challenges they are designed to address? In this analysis, we use a virtual ethnography of Green Climate Fund (GCF) board meetings. We ask: how does the GCF navigate the tensions between different conceptualizat…
Intrinsic yield fluctuations interact with environmental shocks to threaten the socio-ecological resilience of perennial crop systems
Fossil fuel interests in Puerto Rico
This study explores perceptions of fossil fuel interests and the role narratives of fossil fuel obstruction play in slowing down the renewable energy transition in Puerto Rico. We analyzed interviews conducted with 56 “energy actors” engaged in Puerto Rico's energy system about their visions of the system's future and perceptions of the influence of different actors in promoting change or reinforcing the status-quo. The analysis also examined the…
Mental models for inclusive, socially-just disaster planning
Local perspectives provide different insights into disaster planning and response as compared to those of experts. Eliciting them, however, can be challenging, particularly for marginalised groups whose viewpoints have historically been excluded from planning processes. Fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) provides a semi-quantitative approach to representing the collective understanding or 'mental models' of diverse individuals and communities. This st…
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways
Managed urban retreat
In response to narratives of the mass movement of people triggered by climate change, a number of “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in the Global South. Reviewing a case study from Mongla, a secondary city in southwestern Bangladesh, we argue that a “crisis narrative” unhelpfully informs current discourses of “climate migration”, and oversimplify complex realities, creating…
Locally led adaptation
Locally led adaptation (LLA) has recently gained importance against top-down planning practices that often exclude the lived realities and priorities of local communities and create injustices at the local level. The promise of LLA is that adaptation would be defined, prioritised, designed, monitored, and evaluated by local communities themselves, enabling a shift in power to local stakeholders, resulting in more effective adaptation intervention…
The evolution of transformational change in multilateral funds dedicated to financing adaptation to climate change
Transformational adaptation is increasingly viewed as necessary to prevent the worst offsets in development gains due to severe climate impacts. However, clarity regarding how to produce transformational adaptation in practice is lacking, creating problems for project design and implementation. This paper examines (1) how transformational adaptation has been defined by major funders of adaptation; (2) how the concept has influenced funding priori…
Engaging with climate adaptation in transition studies
Policy making under scarcity
Using environmental justice to inform disaster recovery
Addressing power and scale in resilience programming
Resilience has recently emerged as a conceptual and operational buzzword spanning every facet of the international development agenda. The rise of resilience provides renewed opportunities for geographers to critically engage with the policy sphere and shape ongoing discourse over the nature of resilience programming. Yet, while aspects of the political economy of resilience have long been acknowledged in both academic and practitioner literature…
An analysis of UNFCCC-financed coastal adaptation projects
Coastal regions of developing countries are highly vulnerable to climate impacts. Climate change is projected to increase sea level rise, coastal storm events, and natural resource scarcity, impacting coastal ecosystems and societies. These climate impacts intersect with other anthropogenic stressors contributing to the degradation of coastal habitats and ecosystems (driven by, among other things, development, encroachment and pollution), increas…
Potential contributions of market-systems development initiatives for building climate resilience
Smallholder Agriculture and Climate Change
Hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people directly depend on smallholder farming systems. These people now face a changing climate and associated societal responses. We use mapping and a literature review to juxtapose the climate fate of smallholder systems with that of other agricultural systems and population groups. Limited direct evidence contrasts climate impact risk in smallholder agricultural systems versus other farming systems, …
Locally led adaptation
Locally led adaptation (LLA) has recently gained importance against top-down planning practices that often exclude the lived realities and priorities of local communities and create injustices at the local level. The promise of LLA is that adaptation would be defined, prioritised, designed, monitored, and evaluated by local communities themselves, enabling a shift in power to local stakeholders, resulting in more effective adaptation intervention…
Using environmental justice to inform disaster recovery
Potential contributions of market-systems development initiatives for building climate resilience
Addressing power and scale in resilience programming
Resilience has recently emerged as a conceptual and operational buzzword spanning every facet of the international development agenda. The rise of resilience provides renewed opportunities for geographers to critically engage with the policy sphere and shape ongoing discourse over the nature of resilience programming. Yet, while aspects of the political economy of resilience have long been acknowledged in both academic and practitioner literature…
An analysis of UNFCCC-financed coastal adaptation projects
Coastal regions of developing countries are highly vulnerable to climate impacts. Climate change is projected to increase sea level rise, coastal storm events, and natural resource scarcity, impacting coastal ecosystems and societies. These climate impacts intersect with other anthropogenic stressors contributing to the degradation of coastal habitats and ecosystems (driven by, among other things, development, encroachment and pollution), increas…
Managed urban retreat
In response to narratives of the mass movement of people triggered by climate change, a number of “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in the Global South. Reviewing a case study from Mongla, a secondary city in southwestern Bangladesh, we argue that a “crisis narrative” unhelpfully informs current discourses of “climate migration”, and oversimplify complex realities, creating…
Fossil fuel interests in Puerto Rico
This study explores perceptions of fossil fuel interests and the role narratives of fossil fuel obstruction play in slowing down the renewable energy transition in Puerto Rico. We analyzed interviews conducted with 56 “energy actors” engaged in Puerto Rico's energy system about their visions of the system's future and perceptions of the influence of different actors in promoting change or reinforcing the status-quo. The analysis also examined the…
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways
Smallholder Agriculture and Climate Change
Hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people directly depend on smallholder farming systems. These people now face a changing climate and associated societal responses. We use mapping and a literature review to juxtapose the climate fate of smallholder systems with that of other agricultural systems and population groups. Limited direct evidence contrasts climate impact risk in smallholder agricultural systems versus other farming systems, …
Potential contributions of market-systems development initiatives for building climate resilience
An analysis of UNFCCC-financed coastal adaptation projects
Coastal regions of developing countries are highly vulnerable to climate impacts. Climate change is projected to increase sea level rise, coastal storm events, and natural resource scarcity, impacting coastal ecosystems and societies. These climate impacts intersect with other anthropogenic stressors contributing to the degradation of coastal habitats and ecosystems (driven by, among other things, development, encroachment and pollution), increas…
Addressing power and scale in resilience programming
Resilience has recently emerged as a conceptual and operational buzzword spanning every facet of the international development agenda. The rise of resilience provides renewed opportunities for geographers to critically engage with the policy sphere and shape ongoing discourse over the nature of resilience programming. Yet, while aspects of the political economy of resilience have long been acknowledged in both academic and practitioner literature…
The evolution of transformational change in multilateral funds dedicated to financing adaptation to climate change
Transformational adaptation is increasingly viewed as necessary to prevent the worst offsets in development gains due to severe climate impacts. However, clarity regarding how to produce transformational adaptation in practice is lacking, creating problems for project design and implementation. This paper examines (1) how transformational adaptation has been defined by major funders of adaptation; (2) how the concept has influenced funding priori…
Engaging with climate adaptation in transition studies
Policy making under scarcity
Using environmental justice to inform disaster recovery
Opportunities for nature-based solutions to contribute to climate-resilient development pathways
Managed urban retreat
In response to narratives of the mass movement of people triggered by climate change, a number of “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in the Global South. Reviewing a case study from Mongla, a secondary city in southwestern Bangladesh, we argue that a “crisis narrative” unhelpfully informs current discourses of “climate migration”, and oversimplify complex realities, creating…
Locally led adaptation
Locally led adaptation (LLA) has recently gained importance against top-down planning practices that often exclude the lived realities and priorities of local communities and create injustices at the local level. The promise of LLA is that adaptation would be defined, prioritised, designed, monitored, and evaluated by local communities themselves, enabling a shift in power to local stakeholders, resulting in more effective adaptation intervention…
The liberal limits to transformation in the Green Climate Fund
International climate finance institutions increasingly articulate their goals as catalyzing transformation, but can these institutions bring about deep structural change when they reflect the same liberal logics that arguably created the challenges they are designed to address? In this analysis, we use a virtual ethnography of Green Climate Fund (GCF) board meetings. We ask: how does the GCF navigate the tensions between different conceptualizat…
Intrinsic yield fluctuations interact with environmental shocks to threaten the socio-ecological resilience of perennial crop systems
Fossil fuel interests in Puerto Rico
This study explores perceptions of fossil fuel interests and the role narratives of fossil fuel obstruction play in slowing down the renewable energy transition in Puerto Rico. We analyzed interviews conducted with 56 “energy actors” engaged in Puerto Rico's energy system about their visions of the system's future and perceptions of the influence of different actors in promoting change or reinforcing the status-quo. The analysis also examined the…
Mental models for inclusive, socially-just disaster planning
Local perspectives provide different insights into disaster planning and response as compared to those of experts. Eliciting them, however, can be challenging, particularly for marginalised groups whose viewpoints have historically been excluded from planning processes. Fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) provides a semi-quantitative approach to representing the collective understanding or 'mental models' of diverse individuals and communities. This st…
Energy equity, transitions, and futures
Energy equity remains a pressing issue in urban areas, particularly for marginalized communities like Boston's Latinx population. This study examines energy equity and futures through photovoice, a participatory method where participants document their lived experiences using photography. In collaboration with GreenRoots, a grassroots organization dedicated to environmental justice in Chelsea and East Boston, participants identified daily inequit…
Confronting Intrinsic Yield Variability
Global efforts aim to support the socio-ecological resilience of farms and farmers against environmental disturbances. Farmers growing many perennial crops also face inherent yield fluctuations, or alternate bearing (AB), which can synchronize across regional and national levels. Synchronous AB on a farm affects livelihoods directly but is often overlooked in resilience discussions. We conducted a socio-ecological study on farm-level AB in Coffea…
Power dynamics and the politics of climate finance
Climate finance is a critical component of climate policy implementation, but disparities in access reflect the broader power imbalances between the Global North and the Global South, and shape both the allocation of funds and the types of projects that receive support. This paper examines the politics of decision-making within the Green Climate Fund (GCF), revealing how structural power asymmetries, strategic negotiation, and ideological biases …
Political science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (8 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works)