Benjamin L Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3708329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin L Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin L |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7966-2386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Road to Justice40
Background: Environmental justice policies have grown in prominence over the past several decades. However, few studies have sought to characterize the perceptions of organizers and policymakers across U.S. cities engaged in implementing contemporary environmental justice policies and investments. Methods: We conducted 19 in-depth interviews with municipal policymakers and organizers to understand how communities experience and understand the roo…
Science Policy to Advance a Climate Change and Health Research Agenda in the United States
Climate change is thought to be one of the greatest public health threats of the 21st century and there has been a tremendous growth in the published literature describing the health implications of climate change over the last decade. Yet, there remain several critical knowledge gaps in this field. Closing these gaps is crucial to developing effective interventions to minimize the health risks from climate change. In this commentary, we discuss …
Economic losses from extreme weather in the U.S. Gulf Coast region
Worldwide economic losses from extreme weather events (EWE) have increased over recent decades, with significant geographic heterogeneity in damages. The IPCC defines the risk from EWE as a function of the climate hazard, socioeconomic exposure, and vulnerability. Although these three drivers vary at fine spatial scales, spatial variability largely has been overlooked in assessments of the drivers of economic loss from EWE. Using cluster analysis…
Applying the Knowledge Product Evaluation (KnoPE) Framework to two urban resilience cases in the United States
The social structure of climate change research and practitioner engagement
Climate vulnerability mapping
Maps synthesizing climate, biophysical and socioeconomic data have become part of the standard tool‐kit for communicating the risks of climate change to society. Vulnerability maps are used to direct attention to geographic areas where impacts on society are expected to be greatest and that may therefore require adaptation interventions. Under the Green Climate Fund and other bilateral climate adaptation funding mechanisms, donors are investing b…
Shift in seasonal climate patterns likely to impact residential energy consumption in the United States
We develop a highly-resolved ensemble of climate simulations and empirical relationships between weather and household energy consumption to provide one of the most detailed estimates to date for potential climate-driven changes in the United States residential energy demand under the highest greenhouse gas emissions pathway. Our results indicate that more intense and prolonged warm conditions will drive an increase in electricity demand while a …
Identifying climate service production constraints to adaptation decision-making in Sweden
Adaptation opportunities and constraints in coupled systems
How are coastal households responding to climate change
Scale and the representation of human agency in the modeling of agroecosystems
Toward reflexive climate adaptation research
Is adaptation a local responsibility
Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for sub-national impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability studies
Reframing water
Water fulfills multiple functions and is instilled with numerous meanings: it is concurrently an economic input, an aesthetic reference, a religious symbol, a public good, a fundamental resource for public health, and a biophysical need for humans and ecosystems. Hence, water has multiple ontologies embedded within diverse social, cultural, spiritual, and political domains. For this paper, we reviewed 78 pieces of water legislation across the Eur…
Perceptions of Risk among Households in Two Australian Coastal Communities
There is limited knowledge of risk perceptions in coastal communities despite their vulnerability to a range of risks including the impacts of climate change. A survey of 400 households in two Australian coastal communities, combined with semi-structured interviews, provides insight into household perceptions of the relative importance of climatic and non-climatic risks and the subsequent risk priorities that may inform household adaptive action.…
Improving the usability of integrated assessment for adaptation practice
Toward a new conceptualization of household adaptive capacity to climate change
Elrick-Barr, C. E., B. L. Preston, D. C. Thomsen, and T. F. Smith. 2014. Toward a new conceptualization of household adaptive capacity to climate change: applying a risk governance lens. Ecology and Society 19(4): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06745-190412
Limits to adaptation to climate change
Local path dependence of U.S. socioeconomic exposure to climate extremes and the vulnerability commitment
Climate adaptation planning in practice
Putting vulnerability to climate change on the map
Adaptation and risk management
Adaptation assessment methods are compatible with the international risk management standard ISO:31000. Risk management approaches are increasingly being recommended for adaptation assessments at both national and local levels. Two orientations to assessments can commonly be identified: top‐down and bottom‐up, and prescriptive and diagnostic. Combinations of these orientations favor different types of assessments. The choice of orientation can be…
Climate change and the new world economy
Screening Climatic and Non-Climatic Risks to Australian Catchments
Emerging and future climatic change across the Australian continent has been identified as a significant threat to the successful sustainable management of the nation's water resources. However, the impacts of climate change must be viewed within the context of past, present and future climatic variability and human agency. A qualitative screening-level risk assessment was undertaken for Australia's 325 surface water management areas by aggregati…
Is adaptation a local responsibility
Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for sub-national impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability studies
Local path dependence of U.S. socioeconomic exposure to climate extremes and the vulnerability commitment
Reframing water
Water fulfills multiple functions and is instilled with numerous meanings: it is concurrently an economic input, an aesthetic reference, a religious symbol, a public good, a fundamental resource for public health, and a biophysical need for humans and ecosystems. Hence, water has multiple ontologies embedded within diverse social, cultural, spiritual, and political domains. For this paper, we reviewed 78 pieces of water legislation across the Eur…
Adaptation and risk management
Adaptation assessment methods are compatible with the international risk management standard ISO:31000. Risk management approaches are increasingly being recommended for adaptation assessments at both national and local levels. Two orientations to assessments can commonly be identified: top‐down and bottom‐up, and prescriptive and diagnostic. Combinations of these orientations favor different types of assessments. The choice of orientation can be…
The social structure of climate change research and practitioner engagement
Perceptions of Risk among Households in Two Australian Coastal Communities
There is limited knowledge of risk perceptions in coastal communities despite their vulnerability to a range of risks including the impacts of climate change. A survey of 400 households in two Australian coastal communities, combined with semi-structured interviews, provides insight into household perceptions of the relative importance of climatic and non-climatic risks and the subsequent risk priorities that may inform household adaptive action.…
Climate change and the new world economy
Identifying climate service production constraints to adaptation decision-making in Sweden
Toward reflexive climate adaptation research
Limits to adaptation to climate change
Adaptation opportunities and constraints in coupled systems
Toward a new conceptualization of household adaptive capacity to climate change
Elrick-Barr, C. E., B. L. Preston, D. C. Thomsen, and T. F. Smith. 2014. Toward a new conceptualization of household adaptive capacity to climate change: applying a risk governance lens. Ecology and Society 19(4): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06745-190412
Screening Climatic and Non-Climatic Risks to Australian Catchments
Emerging and future climatic change across the Australian continent has been identified as a significant threat to the successful sustainable management of the nation's water resources. However, the impacts of climate change must be viewed within the context of past, present and future climatic variability and human agency. A qualitative screening-level risk assessment was undertaken for Australia's 325 surface water management areas by aggregati…
How are coastal households responding to climate change
Scale and the representation of human agency in the modeling of agroecosystems
Climate change and the new world economy
Screening Climatic and Non-Climatic Risks to Australian Catchments
Emerging and future climatic change across the Australian continent has been identified as a significant threat to the successful sustainable management of the nation's water resources. However, the impacts of climate change must be viewed within the context of past, present and future climatic variability and human agency. A qualitative screening-level risk assessment was undertaken for Australia's 325 surface water management areas by aggregati…
Climate adaptation planning in practice
Putting vulnerability to climate change on the map
Adaptation and risk management
Adaptation assessment methods are compatible with the international risk management standard ISO:31000. Risk management approaches are increasingly being recommended for adaptation assessments at both national and local levels. Two orientations to assessments can commonly be identified: top‐down and bottom‐up, and prescriptive and diagnostic. Combinations of these orientations favor different types of assessments. The choice of orientation can be…
Limits to adaptation to climate change
Local path dependence of U.S. socioeconomic exposure to climate extremes and the vulnerability commitment
Improving the usability of integrated assessment for adaptation practice
Toward a new conceptualization of household adaptive capacity to climate change
Elrick-Barr, C. E., B. L. Preston, D. C. Thomsen, and T. F. Smith. 2014. Toward a new conceptualization of household adaptive capacity to climate change: applying a risk governance lens. Ecology and Society 19(4): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06745-190412
Scale and the representation of human agency in the modeling of agroecosystems
Toward reflexive climate adaptation research
Is adaptation a local responsibility
Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for sub-national impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability studies
Reframing water
Water fulfills multiple functions and is instilled with numerous meanings: it is concurrently an economic input, an aesthetic reference, a religious symbol, a public good, a fundamental resource for public health, and a biophysical need for humans and ecosystems. Hence, water has multiple ontologies embedded within diverse social, cultural, spiritual, and political domains. For this paper, we reviewed 78 pieces of water legislation across the Eur…
Perceptions of Risk among Households in Two Australian Coastal Communities
There is limited knowledge of risk perceptions in coastal communities despite their vulnerability to a range of risks including the impacts of climate change. A survey of 400 households in two Australian coastal communities, combined with semi-structured interviews, provides insight into household perceptions of the relative importance of climatic and non-climatic risks and the subsequent risk priorities that may inform household adaptive action.…
How are coastal households responding to climate change
Adaptation opportunities and constraints in coupled systems
Climate vulnerability mapping
Maps synthesizing climate, biophysical and socioeconomic data have become part of the standard tool‐kit for communicating the risks of climate change to society. Vulnerability maps are used to direct attention to geographic areas where impacts on society are expected to be greatest and that may therefore require adaptation interventions. Under the Green Climate Fund and other bilateral climate adaptation funding mechanisms, donors are investing b…
Shift in seasonal climate patterns likely to impact residential energy consumption in the United States
We develop a highly-resolved ensemble of climate simulations and empirical relationships between weather and household energy consumption to provide one of the most detailed estimates to date for potential climate-driven changes in the United States residential energy demand under the highest greenhouse gas emissions pathway. Our results indicate that more intense and prolonged warm conditions will drive an increase in electricity demand while a …
Identifying climate service production constraints to adaptation decision-making in Sweden
Economic losses from extreme weather in the U.S. Gulf Coast region
Worldwide economic losses from extreme weather events (EWE) have increased over recent decades, with significant geographic heterogeneity in damages. The IPCC defines the risk from EWE as a function of the climate hazard, socioeconomic exposure, and vulnerability. Although these three drivers vary at fine spatial scales, spatial variability largely has been overlooked in assessments of the drivers of economic loss from EWE. Using cluster analysis…
Applying the Knowledge Product Evaluation (KnoPE) Framework to two urban resilience cases in the United States
The social structure of climate change research and practitioner engagement
Science Policy to Advance a Climate Change and Health Research Agenda in the United States
Climate change is thought to be one of the greatest public health threats of the 21st century and there has been a tremendous growth in the published literature describing the health implications of climate change over the last decade. Yet, there remain several critical knowledge gaps in this field. Closing these gaps is crucial to developing effective interventions to minimize the health risks from climate change. In this commentary, we discuss …
The Road to Justice40
Background: Environmental justice policies have grown in prominence over the past several decades. However, few studies have sought to characterize the perceptions of organizers and policymakers across U.S. cities engaged in implementing contemporary environmental justice policies and investments. Methods: We conducted 19 in-depth interviews with municipal policymakers and organizers to understand how communities experience and understand the roo…
Climate change (18 works) · Environmental resource management (15 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Economics (12 works) · Environmental Science (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (10 works) · Political science (10 works)