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Dr Sophie Webber
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The University of Sydney
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Member of Sydney Environment Institute
Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
Member of the Charles Perkins Centre
Sophie is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney.
Sophie is a human geographer who conducts research about the political economies of climate change adaptation, finance, and development. Contributing to debates in economic geography and political ecology, Sophie studies the use of market and financial based tools in climate change policy, with a focus in Southeast Asia and the Pacific regions.
GEOS1002 Introduction to Geography
GEOS2121 Environmental and Natural Resource Management
GEOS3520 Urban Citizenship and Sustainability
Building Urban Resilience: Adaptation Economies in the Asia-Pacific, Webber S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
Repairing Australia's Climate Economies USYD FS SeedFund 23 Webber S and Bryant G, Sydney Environment Institute/Collaborative Grant
Wind Turbine Construction at the Ends of the Earth: Materials and Materialism in the Anthropocene, Webber S and Patchin P UCL-USyd Partnership Collaoration Award
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| The politics of assembling New South Wales' critical minerals workforce: a labour regimes approach | Rohini ANANT |
| Assembling Metabolic Flow: Waters and infrastructures in Jakarta Metropolitan Area | Wahyu Kusuma ASTUTI |
| Everyday Adaptation in the Informal Settlements of Suva, Fiji | Vosawale LESUMA |
| Perceptions and power in climate change adaptation action: Experiences of young people in Changchun China | Yinghan LYU |
| Urban transformation under state transformation: The spatial political economy of speculative real estate megaproject development in Greater Jakarta | Henrico SAERAN |
Publications
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Books
- Bryant, G., Webber, S. (2023). Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Agenda Publishing.
Book Chapters
- Webber, S., Kennedy, E. (2018). Climate change economies: denaturalising adaptation and hydrocarbon economisation. In Silja Klepp, Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez (Eds.), A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation Discourses, Policies and Practices, (pp. 77-96). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Journals
- Webber, S. (2023). For and against climate capitalism. Geographical Research. [More Information]
- Waters, E., Webber, S., Keele, S., Osborne, N., Rickards, L., O'Donnell, T. (2023). Reimagining climate change research and policy from the Australian adaptation impasse. Environmental Science and Policy, 142, 144-152. [More Information]
- Webber, S., Maalsen, S., Emmanuel, L. (2023). Tracking, calculating, watching: Governing and delay in the Jakarta Smart City. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31, 140-156. [More Information]
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2023
- Bryant, G., Webber, S. (2023). Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Agenda Publishing.
- Webber, S. (2023). For and against climate capitalism. Geographical Research. [More Information]
- Waters, E., Webber, S., Keele, S., Osborne, N., Rickards, L., O'Donnell, T. (2023). Reimagining climate change research and policy from the Australian adaptation impasse. Environmental Science and Policy, 142, 144-152. [More Information]
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2022
- Ariefiansyah, R., Webber, S. (2022). Creative farmers and climate service politics in Indonesian rice production. Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(5), 1037-1063. [More Information]
- Vaughan, A., Webber, S. (2022). Transitioning to renewable energy in Sydney: Relational and co-evolving energy geographies. Geographical Research, 60(2), 314-327. [More Information]
2021
- Tyagi, V., Webber, S. (2021). A rusting gold standard: Failures in an Indonesian RCT, and the implications for poverty reduction. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(5), 992-1011. [More Information]
- Findlater, K., Webber, S., Kandlikar, M., Donner, S. (2021). Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data. Nature Climate Change, 11(9), 731-737. [More Information]
- Bigger, P., Webber, S. (2021). Green Structural Adjustment in the World Bank's Resilient City. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(1), 36-51. [More Information]
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2019
- Betteridge, B., Webber, S. (2019). Everyday resilience, reworking, and resistance in North Jakarta’s kampungs. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2(4), 944-966. [More Information]
- Webber, S. (2019). Putting climate services in contexts: advancing multi-disciplinary understandings: introduction to the special issue. Climatic Change, 157(1), 1-8. [More Information]
2018
- Webber, S., Kennedy, E. (2018). Climate change economies: denaturalising adaptation and hydrocarbon economisation. In Silja Klepp, Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez (Eds.), A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation Discourses, Policies and Practices, (pp. 77-96). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
- Leitner, H., Sheppard, E., Webber, S., Colven, E. (2018). Globalizing urban resilience. Urban Geography, 39(8), 1276-1284. [More Information]
- Webber, S., Prouse, C. (2018). The New Gold Standard: The Rise of Randomized Control Trials and Experimental Development. Economic Geography, 94(2), 166-187. [More Information]
2017
- Webber, S. (2017). Circulating climate services: Commercializing science for climate change adaptation in Pacific Islands. Geoforum, 85, 82-91. [More Information]
- Webber, S., Donner, S. (2017). Climate service warnings: cautions about commercializing climate science for adaptation in the developing world. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 8(1), 1-8. [More Information]
- Li, M., Finlayson, B., Webber, M., Barnett, J., Webber, S., Rogers, S., Chen, Z., Wei, T., Chen, J., Wu, X., et al (2017). Estimating urban water demand under conditions of rapid growth: the case of Shanghai. Regional Environmental Change, 17(4), 1153-1161. [More Information]
2016
- Webber, S. (2016). Climate Change Adaptation as a Growing Development Priority: Towards Critical Adaptation Scholarship. Geography Compass, 10(10), 401-413. [More Information]
- Donner, S., Kandlikar, M., Webber, S. (2016). Measuring and tracking the flow of climate change adaptation aid to the developing world. Environmental Research Letters, 11(5), 1-9. [More Information]
2015
- Webber, S. (2015). Mobile Adaptation and Sticky Experiments: Circulating Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Climate Change Adaptation. Geographical Research, 53(1), 26-38. [More Information]
- Webber, S. (2015). Randomising Development: Geography, Economics and the Search for Scientific Rigour. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 106(1), 36-52. [More Information]
2014
- Donner, S., Webber, S. (2014). Obstacles to climate change adaptation decisions: A case study of sea-level rise and coastal protection measures in Kiribati. Sustainability Science, 9(3), 331-345. [More Information]
2013
- Webber, S. (2013). Performative vulnerability: Climate change adaptation policies and financing in Kiribati. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 45(11), 2717-2733. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2024
- Promises and Perils of Climate Buffer Infrastructures as Adaption: Case Studies from the Philippines, Peja P, See J, Opdyke A, Webber S, Seno-Alday S,
2023
- USYD FS SeedFund 23 Sophie, Webber S, Sydney Environment Institute/Collaborative Grant
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