Michelle A North

Biographic Data

ID6721228
NAMEMichelle A North
GIVEN NAMESMichelle A
FAMILY NAMENorth
SIGNATURENORTH M A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
ORCID0000-0001-8794-4458
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Climate change and food production in Africa

    Open AccessWalter Leal Filho, Edmond Totin et al.ARTICLEClimate and Development2026

    Climate change introduces new uncertainties and complexities to already stressed and precarious agricultural systems in Africa. While extreme climate events, such as droughts and flood, dominate the headlines, gradual shifts in climate conditions, such as rising temperatures and changes in rainfall severely affect crop and livestock production in many African countries. We analyze records from two databases to identify how those shifts affect Afr…

  • How are African livestock farmers responding to climate variability and change? A systematic review

    Open AccessMichelle A North, Nina Hunter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Livestock underpin livelihoods and food security in Africa, using marginal lands to produce high-quality protein for the household or as a source of income. For mixed farmers, livestock provide draught power, manure for fields, and buffer variations in crop productivity. Livestock also hold cultural significance. However, African livestock farmers are especially vulnerable to climate hazards, and attempt to reduce impacts in different ways, with …

  • Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change

    Open AccessColin J Carlson, Dann Mitchell et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2025

    Over the last decade, attribution science has shown that climate change is responsible for substantial death, disability and illness. However, health impact attribution studies have focused disproportionately on populations in high-income countries, and have mostly quantified the health outcomes of heat and extreme weather. A clearer picture of the global burden of climate change could encourage policymakers to treat the climate crisis like a pub…

  • Global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change

    Open AccessMichelle A North, James Franke et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Cattle farming is a major source of global food production and livelihoods that is being impacted by climate change. However, despite numerous studies reporting local-scale heat impacts, quantifying the global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change remains challenging. We conducted a global synthesis of documented heat stress for cattle using 164 records to identify temperature-humidity conditions associated with decreased production a…

  • Feasibility assessment of climate change adaptation options across Africa

    Open AccessP A Williams, Nicholas Philip Simpson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Considering the feasibility and effectiveness of adaptation options is essential for guiding responses to climate change that reduce risk. Here, we assessed the feasibility of adaptation options for the African context. Using the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative, a stocktake of adaptation-related responses to climate change from the peer-reviewed literature in 2013–2020, we found 827 records of adaptation actions in Africa. We categorised and…

  • Tracing primary sources of funding for, and patterns of authorship in, climate change research in Africa

    Open AccessMichelle A North, Warwick W Hastie et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2021Cited by: 2References: 8

  • The marginalisation of voice in the fight against climate change

    Open AccessNina Hunter, N B Hunter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2021Cited by: 3References: 2

  • A systematic map of responses to climate impacts in urban Africa

    Open AccessNina Hunter, Michelle A North et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Over time African cities and their residents have responded to climate impacts in increasingly creative ways, based on local knowledge and available resources. Overviews of adaptation policy, plans and actions have largely been lacking for Africa, particularly at the local, city level. We applied a systematic map to assess what the human responses to climate impacts are in African cities, noting the climate drivers of these actions, the range of …