Ben Orlove
Columbia University
86 Papers
308 Citations
Ben Orlove is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Glacier. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 77 publications. Previous affiliations of Ben Orlove include University of California, Davis.
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Papers
Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review
Kimberley Anh Thomas,R. Dean Hardy,Heather Lazrus,Michael Mendez,Ben Orlove,Isabel Rivera-Collazo,J. Timmons Roberts,Marcy Rockman,Benjamin P. Warner,Robert Winthrop +9 more
TL;DR: The cases and synthesis presented here are organized around four key themes (resource access, governance, culture, and knowledge), which are approach from four social science fields (cultural anthropology, archaeology, human geography, and sociology).
Indigenous climate knowledge in southern Uganda: the multiple components of a dynamic regional system
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the social contexts in which this information is perceived, evaluated, discussed and applied, and consider the cultural frameworks that support the use of this information, leading farmers to participate as agents as well as consumers in programs that use modern climate science to plan for and adapt to climate variability and climate change.
Water Sustainability: Anthropological Approaches and Prospects
Ben Orlove,Steven C. Caton +1 more
TL;DR: Water has become an urgent theme in anthropology as the worldwide need to provide adequate supplies of clean water to all people becomes more challenging as discussed by the authors, and anthropologists contribute by seeing water not only as a resource, but also as a substance that connects many realms of social life.
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High mountain areas
Regine Hock,Golam Rasul,Carolina Adler,Bolivar Cáceres,Stephan Gruber,Yukiko Hirabayashi,Miriam Jackson,Andreas Kääb,Shichang Kang,Stanislav Kutuzov,Alexander M. Milner,Ulf Molau,Samuel Morin,Ben Orlove,Heidi Steltzer,Simon K. Allen,Lukas U. Arenson,Soumyadeep Baneerjee,Iestyn D. Barr,Roxana Borquez,Lee E. Brown,Bin Cao,Mark Carey,Graham Cogley,Andreas Fischlin,Alex de Sherbinin,Nicolas Eckert,Marten Geertsema,Marca Hagenstad,Martin Honsberg,Eran Hood,Matthias Huss,Elizabeth Jimenez Zamora,Sven Kotlarski,Pierre-Marie Lefeuvre,Juan Ignacio López Moreno,Jessica D. Lundquist,Graham McDowell,Scott Mills,Cuicui Mou,Santosh Nepal,Jeannette Noetzli,Elisa Palazzi,Nick Pepin,Christian Rixen,Maria Shahgedanova,S. McKenzie Skiles,Christian Vincent,Daniel Viviroli,Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer,Pasang Yangjee Sherpa,Nora Marie Weyer,Bert Wouters,Teppei J. Yasunari,Qinglong You,Yangjiang Zhang +55 more
- 24 Sep 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed new evidence on observed recent and projected changes in the mountain cryosphere as well as associated impacts, risks and adaptation measures related to natural and human systems.
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Understanding subjective well-being: perspectives from psychology and public health.
TL;DR: From the review of the empirical literature on SWB, it is found that the seven categories of determinants/correlates identified may potentially be used to improve the link between theory and empirical research, and that the overlap in the determinant/cor Relates as they relate to multiple theory categories may enable us to test theories in unison.