Professor Anita Wreford is an applied economist specialising in adaptation to climate change, with a particular focus on agriculture and the primary sector.

Anita has 19 years of research experience, across many areas of climate change adaptation, including economic evaluations of impacts and adaptation (focusing particularly on applying robust methods to deal with climate uncertainty); identifying and evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation options across sectors; risk assessment; community resilience to extreme weather events; and adaptation decision-making among various stakeholders. Currently based in the AERU at Lincoln University, Anita leads the Deep South National Science Challenge’s programme on Impacts and Implications. She is a lead author on two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports: A Special Report on Climate Change and Land (2019) and the forthcoming Australasia Chapter of the Sixth Assessment Report (2021). Anita works closely with policy makers both at a national level and local government (in the UK and New Zealand), providing advice and analysis for climate adaptation decisions and conducted work for the EU Commission and the OECD, the Scottish Government’s ClimateXChange programme, and the UK’s Committee on Climate Change.

Professor Anita Wreford: Lincoln University Research Profile

Contact

Phone: (03) 423 0376
Email: Anita.Wreford@lincoln.ac.nz