Nick Brooks

Independent climate change consultant and researcher.


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 Contact Details:

Email:
consultancy at nickbrooks.org
npjbrooks at gmail.com

Tel:
+44 2032 861 892 (office)
+44 7919 402 918 (mobile)

 


With a background in academic climate change science and adaptation-related work, I have been working as an independent consultant since 2005, while continuing my research in the field of human-environment interaction. I currently hold visiting academic positions at the Universities of Oxford and East Anglia.

CONSULTANCY

My  work focuses on climate change and international development, addressing topics including climate risk assessment, mainstreaming climate change into development work, monitoring and evaluation (particularly of adaptation success), and adaptation project design. A significant proportion of my work involves the delivery of training on these and other topics (e.g. mitigation and low carbon development, negotiations, climate science) to development organisations. Recent clients have included the African Development Bank,
the UK Department for International Development, the European Commission, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank.

I am currently migrating information on my consultancy work to a new website. My old consultancy pages can be found
here.

RESEARCH

Most of my research focuses on past episodes of "rapid and severe" climate change, and how human populations were affected by and responded to such changes. My particular focus is on the last period during which the global climate appears to have undergone a systematic reorganisation, associated with profound changes in regional climatic and environmental conditions, particularly in the northern hemisphere subtropics. This research combines the synthesis of existing palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data with fieldwork in North Africa that examines processes of environmental and cultural change during this period in present-day Western Sahara. One of the aims of my research is to use the study of past episodes of linked climatic and societal changes to inform our understanding of climate change and its potential impacts in the 21st century.

More details on my research can be found here.

Use the links to the left to find other resources, including my CV, publications, downloadable presentations and podcasts, and details of media work.


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