Research Fellow
Risk, Integrated Research, Climate Change Impacts, Human Adaptation, Systems Methodology

Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 2608
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: Geraldine.Li@anu.edu.au

Geraldine Li completed a first class Honours Degree in Geophysics at Flinders University in 1994, a Masters of Environmental Studies at Adelaide University in 1998 and her PhD entitled Investigating Individual and Social Level Risk Adaptation in Human-Natural Systems in 2007.  She also worked as an environmental geophysicist on a multiple hazard mapping project of Pacific cities at the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission from 1999 to 2001.  In 2001 she moved to AusAID in the position of Environmental Analyst, where she managed the development of the Environmental Management System for Australia’s Aid Program.  Currently Geraldine is a research fellow at the Fenner School where she is managing a project that applies integrated ‘systems’ approaches to the assessment of climate change impacts on selected urban settlements in Australia.

Professional Activities

My research interests and activities include developing integrated systems approaches to risk, risk assessment, management and human adaptation.  My theoretical work on systems approaches to risk involves introducing the dynamical systems thinking or ‘integrative’ paradigm into complex, interlinked human social and environmental problems.  I first applied this approach in PhD research that focussed on risk perception, behaviour and adaptation associated with tropical cyclones in urban systems.  I am currently developing practical applications of this approach in the context of climate change impacts and adaptation responses also in urban systems.

I also supervise students at the honours level that are concerned with risk perception of climate change impacts from the context of this paradigm.

Selected Publications

Li, G. M., 2007. Approaching Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Urban Settlements., State of Australian Cities Conference, Adelaide, 28 - 30 November 2007.

Li, G. (forthcoming). Tropical Cyclone Risk Perceptions in Darwin, Australia: A Comparison of Different Residential Groups.  Natural Hazards (volume and edition tba).

Teakle, G., 2006.  Past, Present and Future: Processes of Human Adaptation to Tropical Cyclone Risk in Darwin, Australia, in the International Geographical Union Conference Proceedings (3-7 July 2006), Brisbane, Australia.

Teakle, G. and Biukoto, L., 2000. Building Damage Assessment in Suva following May 19 riot and civil unrest.  Hazards Assessment Unit, SOPAC Technical Report 315, Suva, Fiji.

Teakle, G. M. R., 1998. Incentives for Earthquake Hazard Mitigation: A Case Study from Northern California (USA), in Disaster Management: Crisis and Opportunity, Hazard Management and Disaster Preparedness in Australasia and the Pacific Region, Volume 1.  Proceedings of the Conference held at Cairns, 1-4 November 1998, eds D. King and L. Berry, Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.