Diana Liverman

Adaptation Programs/Projects

• Environment and sustainable development: Focus on tradeoffs between climate response and the Sustainable Development Goals
• Earth Commission/Global Challenges Foundation: Governing transformation to a safe and just space for the earth system and humanity
• Gender in Climate Science

Employment Highlights

• Elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
• Earth Commissioner, Future Earth
• Review editor, IPCC 6^th Assessment, Working Group 2
• IPCC, Lead Author, Chapter 5 of Special Report on 1.5C
• Director, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona, 2010-2017
• Co-Chair, ICSU Transition Team for Future Earth, 2008-2013
• Director, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, 2003-2010
• Lead organizer, Climate Adaptation Futures, Second International Conference, Tucson, AZ, 2012
• Scientific Advisory Committee for the InterAmerican Institute for Global Change, 1995-2004
• Chair, NRC Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Committee, 1995-1999 (reports on Making Climate Forecasts Matter and People and Pixels)
• NOAA Global Change Advisory Panel, 1993-2000

Selected Publications

• Ben Stewart-Koster, Stuart E. Bunn, Pamela Green, Christopher Ndehedehe, Lauren S. Andersen, David I. Armstrong McKay, Xuemei Bai, Fabrice DeClerck, Kristie L. Ebi, Christopher Gordon, Joyeeta Gupta, Syezlin Hasan, Lisa Jacobson, Steven J. Lade, Diana Liverman, Sina Loriani, Awaz Mohamed, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, David Obura, Dahe Qin, Crelis Rammelt, Juan C. Rocha, Johan Rockström, Peter H. Verburg & Caroline Zimm. 2023. Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water. Nature Sustainability.
• Lauren Gifford, Diana Liverman, Joyeeta Gupta, and Lisa Jacobson. 2023. Governing for a safe and just future with science-based targets: opportunities and limitations. Climate and Development.
• Rockström, J., J. Gupta, D. Qin, S.J. Lade, J.F. Abrams, L.S. Andersen, D.I. Armstrong McKay, X. Bai, G Bala, S.E. Bunn, D Ciobanu, F DeClerck, K Ebi, L Gifford, C Gordon, S Hasan, N Kanie, T.M. Lenton, S Loriani, D.M. Liverman, A Mohamed, N Nakicenovic, D Obura, D Ospina, K Prodani, C Rammelt, B Sakschewski, J Scholtens, B Stewart-Koster, T Tharammal, D van Vuuren, P.H. Verburg, R Winkelmann, C Zim et al. 2023. Safe and just Earth system boundaries. Nature 619: 102-111.
• Gupta, J., Liverman, D., Prodani, K. et al. Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries. Nature Sustainability (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01064-1 
• Obura, D.O., DeClerck, F., Verburg, P.H., Gupta, J., Abrams, J.F., Bai, X., Bunn, S., Ebi, K.L., Gifford, L., Gordon, C., Jacobson, L., Lenton T., Liverman, D., Mohamed, A. Prodani K. Rocha J.C., Rockstron J., Sakschewski B., Stewart-Koster, B., van Vuuren, D., Winkelman R. and Zimm C. 2022. Achieving a nature-and people-positive future. One Earth.
• Rammelt, C.F., Gupta, J., Liverman, D., Scholtens, J., Ciobanu, D., Abrams, J.F., Bai, X., Gifford, L., Gordon, C., Hurlbert, M. Inoue, C.Y., et al. 2023. Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality. Nature Sustainability, 6:212-221.
• Liverman, D., vonHedemann, N., Nying’uro, P., Rummukainen, M., Stendahl, K., Gay-Antaki, M., Craig, M., Aguilar, L., Bynoe, P., Call, F. and Connors, S., 2022. Survey of gender bias in the IPCC. Nature, 602(7895), pp.30-32.
• Gadgil, A., Tomich, T.P., Agrawal, A., Allouche, J., Azevedo, I.M., Bakarr, M.I., Jannuzzi, G., Liverman, D., Malhi, Y., Polasky, S., Roy, J., Ürge-Vorsatz D., and Wang, Y. 2022. The Great Intergenerational Robbery: A Call for Concerted Action Against Environmental Crises. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 47: 1-4.
• Gupta, J., Liverman, D., Bai, X., Gordon, C., Hurlbert, M., Inoue, C.Y.A., Jacobson, L., Kanie, N., Lenton, T.M., Obura, D. and Otto, I.M., 2021. Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets? Earth System Governance, 10, p.100122.
• Gladstone, F., Liverman, D., Rodríguez, R. A. S., & Santos, A. E. M. 2021. NAFTA and environment after 25 years: A retrospective analysis of the US-Mexico border. Environmental Science & Policy, 119, 18-33.
• Eriksen, S., Schipper, E.L.F., Scoville-Simonds, M., Vincent, K., Adam, H.N., Brooks, N., Harding, B., Lenaerts, L., Liverman, D., Mills-Novoa, M. and Mosberg, M., 2021. Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance? World Development, 141, p.105383.