Current Research Interests
Colin is currently examining ways to blend quantitative and qualitative methods
for the study of social and ecological vulnerability to environmental changes in
two regions, the Arctic and the U.S. Great Plains. This research requires the
blending of statistical techniques (such as empirical downscaling and spatial
econometrics) with insight gained from qualitative methods (such as interviews
and participant observation). Colin is affiliated with the HERO
project.
Selected Publications
Hill, T. and C. Polsky. 2007. Development and drought in suburbia: A mixed methods rapid assessment of vulnerability to drought in rainy Massachusetts. Global Environmental Change Part B: Environmental Hazards 7: 291-301.
Polsky, C., R. Neff and B. Yarnal. 2007. Building comparable global change vulnerability assessments: The vulnerability scoping diagram. Global Environmental Change 17: 472-485.
Polsky, C. and D. Cash. 2005. Reducing vulnerability to the effects of global change: Drought management in a multi-scale, multi-stressor world. In Drought and water crises: Science, technology, and management issues, ed. D. Wilhite, 215-245. Amsterdam: Marcel Drekker.
Schröter, D., C. Polsky and A. Patt. 2005. Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change: An eight-step approach. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 10 no. 4: 573-595.
Polsky, C., 2004. Putting space and time in Ricardian climate change impact studies: The case of agriculture in the U.S. Great Plains. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 no. 3: 549-564.
Turner, B.L., R.E. Kasperson, P. Matson, J.J. McCarthy, R.W. Corell, L. Christensen, N. Eckley, J.X. Kasperson, A. Luers, M.L. Martello, C. Polsky, A. Pulsipher and A. Schiller 2003. A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences 100 no. 14: 8074-8079.
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