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Acharya, Amitangshu; Wong, Liliane; De Waal, Edmund; Campbell, Hugh; Fluker, Roderick; Repair Shop; Karami, Sepideh; Alday, Iñaki; Vinsel, Lee; Millington, Nate; Geraki, Palmyra; Mirra, Hendl; Karachi Urban Lab; Kounkuey Design Initiative and Fraser, Arabella (2024). Field Notes on Repair: 6. Places.

Anwar, Nausheen H.; Fraser, Arabella; Mulligan, Joe; Anjum, Gulnaz; Riaz, Nirmal; Saleem, Muhammad Arsam; Sameer, Duaa; Barake, Bosibori; K'Oyoo, Allan Ouko and Wandera, Christine (2024). The 24-Hour Risk City: A Framework for Thinking About Building Infrastructures of Climate Repair in Nairobi and Karachi. In IDS Working Paper 612 Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK.

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Anwar, Nausheen H.; Fraser, Arabella; Mulligan, Joe; Anjum, Gulnaz and Wakhungu, Mathews (2024). Just and Resilient Infrastructures in Pakistan and Kenya. In IDS Policy Briefing 215 Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK.

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Rusca, Maria; Sverdlik, Aalice; Amitangshu, Acharya; Basel, Britt; Boyd, Eemily; Comelli, Thaisa; Dodman, David; Fraser, Arabella; Matthew Harris, Dylan; Lindersson, Sara; Mazzoleni, Maurizio; Forh Mbah, Marcellus; Mitlin, Diana; Ogra, Anshu; Pelling, Mark; Raffetti, Elena; Sultana, Farhana; Thompson, Erica; Tozzi, Arianna; Zwarteveen, Margreet and Messori, Gabriele (2024). Plural climate storylines to foster just urban futures. Nature Cities, 1 pp. 732–740.

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Fraser, Arabella (2023). Reflections from PEARL for an era of systemic risks, uncertain futures and complex governance. Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 15(1), article no. a1485.

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Borie, Maud and Fraser, Arabella (2023). The politics of expertise in building back better: Contrasting the coproduction of reconstruction post-Irma in the Dutch and French Caribbean. Geoforum, 145, article no. 103813.

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Grafe, Fritz-Julius; Forino, Giuseppe; Fraser, Arabella; Hilbrandt, Hanna and Morris, John Hogan (2023). Understanding the functioning of urban climate finance through topologies of reach. City (Early access).

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Fraser, Arabella (2022). A just recovery from COVID-19: young people from eight African cities speak out. International Institute for Environmental Development.

Fraser, Arabella (2022). Bridging the urban adaptation finance gap. International Institute for Environmental Development.

López Meneses, Duvan H.; Fraser, Arabella and Cañadas, Sonia Hita (2022). Voices of Arraigo: Redefining relocation for landslide-affected communities in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia. In: Ajibade, Idowu Jola and Siders, A. R. eds. Global Views on Climate Relocation and Social Justice. Routledge Studies in Environmental Migration, Displacement and Resettlement. London: Routledge, pp. 127–141.

McDermott, Ronan; Fraser, Arabella; Ensor, Jonathan and Seddighi, Hamed (2022). The role of forensic investigation in systemic risk enquiry: Reflections from case studies of disasters in Istanbul, Kathmandu, Nairobi, and Quito. Progress in Disaster Science, 16, article no. 100262.

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Forino, Giuseppe; Fraser, Arabella and Tandarić, Neven (2022). Towards adaptive and transformative finance for urban areas? A framework to analyse the responsiveness of adaptation finance to urban challenges in the global South. Environment and Urbanization, 35(1) pp. 200–219.

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Fraser, Arabella (2021). Realising resilience: How do we make COP26 deliver for adaptation in fragile urban environments? The Geog Blog, University of Nottingham.

Fraser, Arabella (2021). Addressing the 24 hour cycle of urban risk: Gendered perspectives on non-conflict violence and climate change impacts on cities. Building Resilience in Fragile Urban Environments, Global Challenges Research Fund.

Fraser, Arabella (2021). Arraigo: Redefining Relocation for Landslide-Affected Communities in Bogota, Colombia. Building Resilience in Fragile Urban Environments, Global Challenges Research Fund.

Crowley, Frances and Fraser, Arabella (2021). Violence-climate change interactions in cities: A Resource Guide. Climate Change and Urban Violence Network.

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Fraser, Arabella (2021). COP26 Policy Brief: How do we make COP26 deliver for adaption in fragile urban environments? Investigating how non-conflict violence risks and climate change risks overlap in cities, and what this means for adaptation. Institute for Policy and Enagement, University of Nottingham.

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Pelling, Mark; Chow, Winston T. L.; Chu, Eric; Dawson, Richard; Dodman, David; Fraser, Arabella; Hayward, Bronwyn; Khirfan, Luna; McPhearson, Timon; Prakash, Anjal and Ziervogel, Gina (2021). A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience. Climate and Development, 14(7) pp. 617–624.

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Schipper, E. Lisa F.; Ensor, Jonathan; Mukherji, Aditi; Mirzabaev, Alisher; Fraser, Arabella; Harvey, Blane; Totin, Edmond; Garschagen, Matthias; Pathak, Minal; Antwi-Agyei, Philip; Tanner, Thomas and Shawoo, Zoha (2021). Equity in climate scholarship: a manifesto for action. Climate and Development, 13(10) pp. 853–856.

Anjum, Gulnaz and Fraser, Arabella (2021). Vulnerabilities associated with slow-onset events (SoEs) of climate change: multi-level analysis in the context of Pakistan. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50 pp. 54–63.

Byskov, Morten Fibieger; Hyams, Keith; Satyal, Poshendra; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Benjamin, Lisa; Blackburn, Sophie; Borie, Maud; Caney, Simon; Chu, Eric; Edwards, Gareth; Fourie, Kristel; Fraser, Arabella; Heyward, Clare; Jeans, Helen; McQuistan, Colin; Paavola, Jouni; Page, Ed; Pelling, Mark; Priest, Sally; Swiderska, Krystyna; Tarazona, Marcela; Thornton, Thomas; Twigg, John and Venn, Alice (2021). An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change. Climate and Development, 13(1) pp. 1–9.

Collodi, Jason; Pelling, Mark; Fraser, Arabella; Borie, Maud and Vicenz, Simone (2021). How do you build back better so no one is left behind? Lessons from Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, following Hurricane Irma. Disasters, 45(1) pp. 202–223.

Fraser, Arabella (2021). La política del conocimiento y la producción de vulnerabilidad en los asentamientos urbanos informales. In: Acevedo, Paloma; Poskus, Mariana; Vera, Felipe and Zambrano-Barragán, Patricio eds. Informando lo informal: estrategias para generar información en asentamientos precarios. Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo | Inter American Development Bank, pp. 178–195.

Fraser, Arabella; Anjum, Gulnaz; Bukachi, Vera; Eltinay, Nuha and Kraudie, Amilcar (2020). Urbanisation and Climate Security: Towards Integrated Approaches for Cities. Planetary Security Initiative Policy Brief, Clingendael Institute.

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Fraser, Arabella; Pelling, Mark; Scolobig, Anna and Mavrogenis, Stavros (2020). Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts. Global Environmental Change, 63, article no. 102102.

Pelling, Mark; Leck, Hayley; Pasquini, Lorena; Ajibade, Idowu; Osuteye, Emanuel; Parnell, Susan; Lwasa, Shuaib; Johnson, Cassidy; Fraser, Arabella; Barcena, Alejandro and Boubacar, Soumana (2018). Africa’s urban adaptation transition under a 1.5° climate. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 31 pp. 10–15.

Fraser, Arabella (2018). Informality in the New Urban Agenda: From the Aspirational Policies of Inclusion to the Politics of Constructive Engagement. Planning Theory and Practice, 19(1) pp. 124–126.

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Fraser, Arabella (2017). The Missing Politics of Urban Vulnerability: The State and the Co-production of Climate Risk. Environment and Planning A, 49(12) pp. 2835–2852.

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Fraser, Arabella; Leck, Hayley; Parnell, Susan; Pelling, Mark; Brown, Donald and Lwasa, Shuaib (2017). Meeting the challenge of risk-sensitive and resilient urban development in sub-Saharan Africa: Directions for future research and practice. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 26 pp. 106–109.

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Fraser, Arabella; Leck, Hayley; Parnell, Sue and Pelling, Mark (2017). Africa’s Urban Risk and Resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 26 pp. 1–6.

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Fraser, Arabella and Kirbyshire, Amy (2017). Supporting governance for climate resilience: working with political institutions. Overseas Development Institute, Working Paper 517.

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Fraser, Arabella; Paterson, Shona and Pelling, Mark (2016). Developing Frameworks to Understand Disaster Causation: From Forensic Disaster Investigation to Risk Root Cause Analysis. Journal of Extreme Events, 3(2), article no. 1650008.

Fraser, Arabella (2016). The politics of knowledge and the production of vulnerability in informal, urban settlements: learning from Bogota, Colombia. In: Roy, Manoj; Cawood, Sally; Hordijk, Michaela and Hulme, David eds. Urban Poverty and Climate Change: Life in the Slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research. Routledge, pp. 221–237.

Fraser, Arabella; Pelling, Mark and Solecki, Bill (2016). Understanding Risk in the Context of Urban Development: Definitions, Concepts and Pathways. In: Bartlett, Sheridan and Satterthwaite, David eds. Cities on a Finite Planet: Towards transformative responses to climate change. Routledge, pp. 17–40.

Fraser, Arabella (2015). Rethinking Urban Risk And Adaptation: The Politics Of Vulnerability In Informal Urban Settlements. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis London School of Economics and Political Science.

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