Professor Neil Adger FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2026
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Geography
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Summary
Neil Adger is a social scientist of the economic and social dynamics of climate change and sustainability. His work has been published across the social and natural sciences on adaptation to climate change, human security, political economy of the environment, and demography.
Neil was a founding member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia. He served as a senior author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment, and the Lancet Commission on Climate and Health.
He has been recognised for contribution to climate research through award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in climate change in 2020, awarded jointly with Karen O’Brien and Ian Burton, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Human Dimensions of Global Change Group of the Association of American Geographers. He is a Beijer Fellow at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in Stockholm and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He currently holds a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.