Amanda H Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5226245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda H Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda H |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2990-1016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Climate Change and the Reconfiguration of Arctic Access
The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth, with surface air temperatures increasing at a rate nearly four times the global average. 1 This amplification of global change has been reshaping the Arctic for decades, altering sea ice extent and thickness, snow regimes, permafrost stability, and hydrological systems. Against this backdrop, a persistent narrative has taken hold that the diminishing cryosphere 2 is setting the table fo…
Economic Viability and Emissions of Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure in a Changing Arctic
As Arctic open water increases, shipping activity to and from mid- and western Russian Arctic ports to points south has notably increased. A number of Arctic municipalities hope increased vessel traffic will create opportunities to become a major transshipment hub. However, even with more traffic passing these ports, it might still be economically cheaper to offload cargo at a more southern port, which may also result in lower emissions. Ultimate…
Changes in sea ice travel conditions in Uummannaq Fjord, Greenland (1985–2019) assessed through remote sensing and transportation accessibility modeling
Shorefast sea ice provides an important platform for winter and spring travel between coastal Arctic communities unconnected by road networks. In the past two decades, local Arctic residents have reported thinning and earlier breakup of shorefast ice. Despite these assertions, however, there are few quantitative assessments of how these changes have impacted travel on sea ice. In this study, we use high-resolution satellite remote sensing and tra…
Can the sustainable development goals harness the means and the manner of transformation
The 17 sustainable development goals and their 169 targets comprise a comprehensive list of prerequisites for human and planetary well-being, but they also implicitly invoke many of the very trade-offs, synergies, and parallelisms that drive global crises. Decision-makers are familiar with these internal conflicts, and there is no shortage of frameworks, blueprints, and roadmaps to accelerate sustainability. However, thus far, inevitable trade-of…
Coldest Canadian Arctic communities face greatest reductions in shorefast sea ice
Shape of a water crisis
The interruption of essential water services in Cape Town, foreshadowed as ‘Day Zero,’ is one of several recent examples of urban water scarcity connected to the language of urgent climate change. Johannesburg, with its larger and growing population and deeply enmeshed water and power infrastructures, is currently regarded as one drought away from disaster. As a result, the lessons to be learned from Cape Town are under active debate in South Afr…
Precipitation Drivers of Cropping Frequency in the Brazilian Cerrado
The Amazon basin has been subjected to unprecedented rates of land-use change over the past several decades, primarily as a result of the expansion of agriculture. Enhanced rain forest conservation efforts toward the end of the twentieth century slowed deforestation of the Amazon but, in turn, increased demand for land repurposing in the adjacent Cerrado (savanna) region, where conservation regulations are less strict. To maintain or increase yie…
Narrative matters for sustainability
Arctic ice edge narratives
The Arctic ice edge centres deliberations over the region's futures, either as an explicit policy and research problem, or as an implicit control on innovations. This exploratory paper proposes a narrative approach to examine ontological security, identifying a common epistemic structure in multiple ways of knowing the ice edge, and of devising associated policy. These epistemic narratives weave discourse (ideas, concepts and knowledge) and scale…
Weather, Climate, and Society Eliminates Author Charges
Adaptive governance in water reform discourses of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
Scaling the Anthropocene
The Contributions of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge to Arctic Observing Networks
Community-based monitoring (CBM) in the Arctic is gaining increasing support from a wide range of interested parties, including community members, scientists, government agencies, and funders. Through CBM initiatives, Arctic residents conduct or are involved in ongoing observing and monitoring activities. Arctic Indigenous peoples have been observing the environment for millennia, and CBM often incorporates traditional knowledge, which may be use…
All Strings Attached
Human geography has driven substantive improvements in methodologies and applications ofGeographicInformationSystems (GISs), yetIndigenous groups continue to experience erasure in geographic representations.GISontologies comprise categorised labels that represent lived contexts, and these ontologies are determined through the shared worldviews of those labelling spatial phenomena for entry intoGISdatabases. AlthoughWestern ontologies and spatial …
The role of the Yorta Yorta people in clarifying the common interest in sustainable management of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
What is the Goal? Framing the Climate Change Adaptation Question through a Problem-Oriented Approach
A problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach was employed at Alpine Shire, in northeast Victoria, Australia, to explore its tourism sector’s contextual vulnerability and adaptability to stressors that include but are not limited to climatic change. Using a policy sciences approach, the objective was to identify factors that influence existing vulnerabilities and that might consequently act as barriers to effective adaptation. To do this, a p…
Learning from Climate Variability
Adaptive governance is a pattern that began to emerge from conflicts over natural resources in the American West a few decades ago. This was a pragmatic response to the emerging evidence that effective control was dispersed among multiple authorities and interest groups, that efficiency was only one of the many goals to be reconciled in policy decision processes, and that science itself was politically contested. Climate change as a policy proble…
Climate change adaptation in the Alpine Shire of Australia
Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions
Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming
A major challenge in predicting Earth's future climate state is to understand feedbacks that alter greenhouse-gas forcing. Here we synthesize field data from arctic Alaska, showing that terrestrial changes in summer albedo contribute substantially to recent high-latitude warming trends. Pronounced terrestrial summer warming in arctic Alaska correlates with a lengthening of the snow-free season that has increased atmospheric heating locally by abo…
An Arctic Disaster and its Policy Implications
The purpose of the research reported here is to help the community in Barrow, Alaska, clarify its vulnerability to extreme weather events, and devise better-informed policies for reducing that vulnerability and adapting to climate variability and change. We examine the worst disaster on record there - a storm that struck on 3 October 1963 - from different disciplinary perspectives and in the context of other severe storms. The major policy respon…
Narrative matters for sustainability
Scaling the Anthropocene
Arctic ice edge narratives
The Arctic ice edge centres deliberations over the region's futures, either as an explicit policy and research problem, or as an implicit control on innovations. This exploratory paper proposes a narrative approach to examine ontological security, identifying a common epistemic structure in multiple ways of knowing the ice edge, and of devising associated policy. These epistemic narratives weave discourse (ideas, concepts and knowledge) and scale…
All Strings Attached
Human geography has driven substantive improvements in methodologies and applications ofGeographicInformationSystems (GISs), yetIndigenous groups continue to experience erasure in geographic representations.GISontologies comprise categorised labels that represent lived contexts, and these ontologies are determined through the shared worldviews of those labelling spatial phenomena for entry intoGISdatabases. AlthoughWestern ontologies and spatial …
The role of the Yorta Yorta people in clarifying the common interest in sustainable management of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
Climate change adaptation in the Alpine Shire of Australia
Adaptive governance in water reform discourses of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
Can the sustainable development goals harness the means and the manner of transformation
The 17 sustainable development goals and their 169 targets comprise a comprehensive list of prerequisites for human and planetary well-being, but they also implicitly invoke many of the very trade-offs, synergies, and parallelisms that drive global crises. Decision-makers are familiar with these internal conflicts, and there is no shortage of frameworks, blueprints, and roadmaps to accelerate sustainability. However, thus far, inevitable trade-of…
An Arctic Disaster and its Policy Implications
The purpose of the research reported here is to help the community in Barrow, Alaska, clarify its vulnerability to extreme weather events, and devise better-informed policies for reducing that vulnerability and adapting to climate variability and change. We examine the worst disaster on record there - a storm that struck on 3 October 1963 - from different disciplinary perspectives and in the context of other severe storms. The major policy respon…
Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions
Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming
A major challenge in predicting Earth's future climate state is to understand feedbacks that alter greenhouse-gas forcing. Here we synthesize field data from arctic Alaska, showing that terrestrial changes in summer albedo contribute substantially to recent high-latitude warming trends. Pronounced terrestrial summer warming in arctic Alaska correlates with a lengthening of the snow-free season that has increased atmospheric heating locally by abo…
Climate change adaptation in the Alpine Shire of Australia
Learning from Climate Variability
Adaptive governance is a pattern that began to emerge from conflicts over natural resources in the American West a few decades ago. This was a pragmatic response to the emerging evidence that effective control was dispersed among multiple authorities and interest groups, that efficiency was only one of the many goals to be reconciled in policy decision processes, and that science itself was politically contested. Climate change as a policy proble…
What is the Goal? Framing the Climate Change Adaptation Question through a Problem-Oriented Approach
A problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach was employed at Alpine Shire, in northeast Victoria, Australia, to explore its tourism sector’s contextual vulnerability and adaptability to stressors that include but are not limited to climatic change. Using a policy sciences approach, the objective was to identify factors that influence existing vulnerabilities and that might consequently act as barriers to effective adaptation. To do this, a p…
The role of the Yorta Yorta people in clarifying the common interest in sustainable management of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
All Strings Attached
Human geography has driven substantive improvements in methodologies and applications ofGeographicInformationSystems (GISs), yetIndigenous groups continue to experience erasure in geographic representations.GISontologies comprise categorised labels that represent lived contexts, and these ontologies are determined through the shared worldviews of those labelling spatial phenomena for entry intoGISdatabases. AlthoughWestern ontologies and spatial …
The Contributions of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge to Arctic Observing Networks
Community-based monitoring (CBM) in the Arctic is gaining increasing support from a wide range of interested parties, including community members, scientists, government agencies, and funders. Through CBM initiatives, Arctic residents conduct or are involved in ongoing observing and monitoring activities. Arctic Indigenous peoples have been observing the environment for millennia, and CBM often incorporates traditional knowledge, which may be use…
Weather, Climate, and Society Eliminates Author Charges
Adaptive governance in water reform discourses of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
Scaling the Anthropocene
Precipitation Drivers of Cropping Frequency in the Brazilian Cerrado
The Amazon basin has been subjected to unprecedented rates of land-use change over the past several decades, primarily as a result of the expansion of agriculture. Enhanced rain forest conservation efforts toward the end of the twentieth century slowed deforestation of the Amazon but, in turn, increased demand for land repurposing in the adjacent Cerrado (savanna) region, where conservation regulations are less strict. To maintain or increase yie…
Narrative matters for sustainability
Arctic ice edge narratives
The Arctic ice edge centres deliberations over the region's futures, either as an explicit policy and research problem, or as an implicit control on innovations. This exploratory paper proposes a narrative approach to examine ontological security, identifying a common epistemic structure in multiple ways of knowing the ice edge, and of devising associated policy. These epistemic narratives weave discourse (ideas, concepts and knowledge) and scale…
Coldest Canadian Arctic communities face greatest reductions in shorefast sea ice
Shape of a water crisis
The interruption of essential water services in Cape Town, foreshadowed as ‘Day Zero,’ is one of several recent examples of urban water scarcity connected to the language of urgent climate change. Johannesburg, with its larger and growing population and deeply enmeshed water and power infrastructures, is currently regarded as one drought away from disaster. As a result, the lessons to be learned from Cape Town are under active debate in South Afr…
Changes in sea ice travel conditions in Uummannaq Fjord, Greenland (1985–2019) assessed through remote sensing and transportation accessibility modeling
Shorefast sea ice provides an important platform for winter and spring travel between coastal Arctic communities unconnected by road networks. In the past two decades, local Arctic residents have reported thinning and earlier breakup of shorefast ice. Despite these assertions, however, there are few quantitative assessments of how these changes have impacted travel on sea ice. In this study, we use high-resolution satellite remote sensing and tra…
Can the sustainable development goals harness the means and the manner of transformation
The 17 sustainable development goals and their 169 targets comprise a comprehensive list of prerequisites for human and planetary well-being, but they also implicitly invoke many of the very trade-offs, synergies, and parallelisms that drive global crises. Decision-makers are familiar with these internal conflicts, and there is no shortage of frameworks, blueprints, and roadmaps to accelerate sustainability. However, thus far, inevitable trade-of…
Economic Viability and Emissions of Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure in a Changing Arctic
As Arctic open water increases, shipping activity to and from mid- and western Russian Arctic ports to points south has notably increased. A number of Arctic municipalities hope increased vessel traffic will create opportunities to become a major transshipment hub. However, even with more traffic passing these ports, it might still be economically cheaper to offload cargo at a more southern port, which may also result in lower emissions. Ultimate…
Climate Change and the Reconfiguration of Arctic Access
The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth, with surface air temperatures increasing at a rate nearly four times the global average. 1 This amplification of global change has been reshaping the Arctic for decades, altering sea ice extent and thickness, snow regimes, permafrost stability, and hydrological systems. Against this backdrop, a persistent narrative has taken hold that the diminishing cryosphere 2 is setting the table fo…
Geography (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Environmental Science (10 works) · Climate change (9 works) · Arctic (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works)