Katharine J Mach

Biographic Data

ID2087158
NAMEKatharine J Mach
GIVEN NAMESKatharine J
FAMILY NAMEMach
SIGNATUREMACH K J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Miami
ORCID0000-0002-5591-8148
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS116
WORKS AS AUTHOR40
WORKS AS EDITOR3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Dichotomy or continuum? A global review of the interaction between autonomous and planned adaptations

    Open AccessGina Maskell, Roopam Shukla et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Adaptation to climate change is often conceptualized as a dichotomy, with responses being either planned (formal and structured) or autonomous (organic and self-organized, often known as “everyday adaptation”). Recent literature on adaptation responses has highlighted the existence and importance of the interplay between autonomous and planned adaptation, but examination of this interaction has been limited to date. We use a global database of 16…

  • Interactions between indoor heat and energy affordability amplify household risks in hot-humid US climate zones

    Open AccessLynée L Turek‐Hankins, Lynée L Turek-Hankins et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

  • Navigating justice tensions in managed retreat

    Open AccessErica Rose Bower, A R Siders et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2025References: 17

  • Research priorities for climate mobility

    Open AccessNicholas Philip Simpson, Katharine J Mach et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

    The escalating impacts of climate change on the movement and immobility of people, coupled with false but influential narratives of mobility, highlight an urgent need for nuanced and synthetic research around climate mobility. Synthesis of evidence and gaps across the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report highlight a need to clarify the understanding of what conditions make human mobility an effective adaptation…

  • Defining “climatopia”

    Open AccessAlizé Carrère, K Broad et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

  • Housing amenity and affordability shape floodplain development

    Open AccessChristopher Samoray, Miyuki Hino et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2024References: 37

    Flood damage has severe and long-term repercussions for households and communities, and continued housing development in floodplains escalates damages over time. Policies and interventions to reduce damage depend on assumptions about housing stock and residents, but assessments of flood exposure to date largely focus on community-scale characteristics at a single point in time, masking potential within-community differences and their evolution th…

  • A global assessment of actors and their roles in climate change adaptation

    Open AccessJan Petzold, Tom Hawxwell et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2023

    An assessment of the global progress in climate change adaptation is urgently needed. Despite a rising awareness that adaptation should involve diverse societal actors and a shared sense of responsibility, little is known about the types of actors, such as state and non-state, and their roles in different types of adaptation responses as well as in different regions. Based on a large n -structured analysis of case studies, we show that, although …

  • Status of global coastal adaptation

    Open AccessAlexandre Magnan, Robert G Bell et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2023

  • A research agenda for the science of actionable knowledge

    Open AccessKripa Jagannathan, Geniffer Emmanuel et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2023

    Linking science with action affords a prime opportunity to leverage greater societal impact from research and increase the use of evidence in decision-making. Success in these areas depends critically upon processes of producing and mobilizing knowledge, as well as supporting and making decisions. For decades, scholars have idealized and described these social processes in different ways, resulting in numerous assumptions that now variously guide…

  • Modes of climate mobility under sea-level rise

    Open AccessNadia Seeteram, Nadia A Seeteram et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Exposure to sea-level rise (SLR) and flooding will make some areas uninhabitable, and the increased demand for housing in safer areas may cause displacement through economic pressures. Anticipating such direct and indirect impacts of SLR is important for equitable adaptation policies. Here we build upon recent advances in flood exposure modeling and social vulnerability assessment to demonstrate a framework for estimating the direct and indirect …

  • Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy

    Open AccessA C Pisor, Xavier Basurto et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2022

  • Functionality‐based life cycle assessment framework

    Open AccessLin Shi, Katharine J Mach et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2022

    Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely applied to assessing the environmental impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT) products throughout their lifetime. Building upon LCA methodology, this study proposes a user‐oriented, functionality‐based LCA (FLCA) framework that evaluates the environmental impact of multifunctional ICT products such as smartphones. Incorporating the quality function deployment and LCA literature, we …

  • Large and inequitable flood risks in Los Angeles, California

    Open AccessBrett F Sanders, Jochen E Schubert et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Enhancing the review process in global environmental assessments

    Open AccessJean Palutikof, Sarah Boulter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2022Cited by: 3References: 7

    External review is a fundamental component of Global Environmental Assessments, ensuring their processes are comprehensive, objective, open and transparent, and are perceived as such. Here, we focus on review of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports. The review process has received little scrutiny, although review comments and author responses are public. Here we analyse review documents from the Fourth and Fifth Ass…

  • News media coverage of Covid-19 public health and policy information

    Open AccessKatharine J Mach, Raúl Salas Reyes et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2021

    During a pandemic, news media play a crucial role in communicating public health and policy information. Traditional newspaper coverage is important amidst increasing disinformation, yet uncertainties make covering health risks and efforts to limit transmission difficult. This study assesses print and online newspaper coverage of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 for March 2020, when the global pandemic was declared, through August 2020 in three c…

  • A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change

    Open AccessLea Berrang-Ford, A R Siders et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2021

  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

    Open AccessNicholas Philip Simpson, Katharine J Mach et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

    Real-world experience underscores the complexity of interactions among multiple drivers of climate change risk and of how multiple risks compound or cascade. However, a holistic framework for assessing such complex climate change risks has not yet been achieved. Clarity is needed regarding the interactions that generate risk, including the role of adaptation and mitigation responses. In this perspective, we present a framework for three categorie…

  • Equity in human adaptation-related responses

    Open AccessMalcolm Araos, Kripa Jagannathan et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Promoting equity in retreat through voluntary property buyout programs

    Open AccessCaroline M Kraan, Miyuki Hino et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Studies…2021Cited by: 2References: 16

    Voluntary property buyouts have been the most prevalent form of managed retreat in the USA to date. Tens of thousands of households have sold their flood-prone homes to the government, and after the structures are demolished, the land becomes open space. Concerns have been raised about the equity of buyout processes and outcomes, spanning distributive, procedural, and interactional dimensions of social justice. In this policy analysis, we first p…

  • The role of international organizations in equitable and just planned relocation

    Open AccessGabriela Nagle Alverio, Sara H Hoagland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Studies…2021References: 15

    Since 2010, States party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have recognized planned relocation as a viable adaptation to climate change. Planned relocation has been attempted in many communities globally and has raised serious issues of equity in some cases. Implementation driven by principles of equity is crucial in ensuring successful planned relocations that decrease loss and damage. In this Policy Analysis, we put fo…

  • Climate mobility and the pandemic

    Katharine J Mach, Xavier Cortada et al.ARTICLEWorld Art2021References: 4

    Societies were underprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic. This is also the case for climate change. Art may have a greater role to play in advancing societal resilience across these different categories of shocks and risks. In this Intervention, we deploy and evaluate art as a social practice supporting societal responses to sea level rise and its impacts. Our evaluation is focused on the ways in which the open-ended, deliberately unusual juxtaposi…

  • Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor

    Open AccessWalter Leal Filho, L C Stringer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2021Cited by: 11References: 10

    Climate Resilient Trajectories are routes to development progress that take into account aspects of climate change adaptation and mitigation in a sustainability context, offering a way to explicitly consider impacts of development and climate change choices on different sectors, scales, and socio-economic effects. Due to their scope and relevance, Climate Resilient Trajectories are of great interest to climate scientists, governments and the priv…

  • A “precariously unprepared” Pentagon? Climate security beliefs and decision-making in the U.S. military

    Open AccessM Burnett, Katharine J MachARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 11References: 16

    Increasing evidence suggests that climate change poses direct and indirect threats to national and human security. However, the degree to which such knowledge of the risks informs decision-making remains poorly understood for key security communities, including the U.S. Department of Defense. Here, through document analysis and interviews with climate security researchers and practitioners from the U.S. military community, we evaluate perceptions…

  • Science-policy dimensions of research on climate change and conflict

    Open AccessKatharine J Mach, Caroline M KraanARTICLEJournal of Peace Research2021Cited by: 4References: 47

    A large body of research now indicates that climate likely matters for conflict. This climate-conflict scholarship, however, has involved divergent findings, sometimes strident disagreement, and resulting limits to the usability of the scholarship for policymakers and practitioners. This viewpoint essay draws from recent expert assessments of climate-conflict linkages to position the research field among climate change research and assessment mor…

  • From fAIrplay to climate wars

    Open AccessLaura M Pereira, Laura Pereira et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021Cited by: 3

    Pereira, L. M., D. R. Morrow, V. Aquila, B. Beckage, S. Beckbesinger, L. Beukes, H. J. Buck, C. J. Carlson, O. Geden, A. P. Jones, D. P. Keller, K. J. Mach, M. Mashigo, J. B. Moreno-Cruz, D. Visioni, S. Nicholson, and C. H. Trisos. 2021. From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative. Ecology and Society 26(4):30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12856-260430