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Associate Professor Katherine Warner
Adjunct Associate Professor

Dr. Katherine (Kadi) Warner joined SRC in 2017 when she transitioned to the Sunshine Coast from the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington D.C. where she was the Regional Senior Expert for Environment and Climate Change. Seconded by WRI to the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, she was posted for over 4 years in the Netherlands embassy in Kampala, Uganda and in this role guided the successful integration of climate change into the Dutch development programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and served on the Ministry’s climate team for policies and programs. Since joining SRC Kadi has been providing technical assistance to development programs and research institutions on integrating climate change into strategies, programs, monitoring and evaluation. She is also engaged in providing support to biodiversity and community forestry initiatives on rights, gender and benefit sharing. Kadi is a recognized expert in natural resource management, with in-depth experience in community forestry and community based-natural resource, wetlands, integrated watershed management.

Qualifications

PhD (Ecological Anthropology), University of Hawaii; Certificate of Population Studies, Population Institute, East West Center; Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology), University of Hawaii.

Research areas
  • Sustainable livelihoods of households and communities

  • Climate change adaptation

  • Resilience and mitigation

  • Ecosystems and ecosystems services
  • Climate finance
Key Research Publications

Warner, K. 2020 Climate Justice: Who bears the burden and pays the price? Social Alternatives. 2020.

Shepherd, G. Warner, K., and Hogarth, N. 2020 Forests and Poverty: How has our understanding of the relationship been changed by experience? International Forestry Review. Vol.22. (S1).

Raintree, J and Warner, K. 2015 Agroforestry Pathways Revisited: Voices from the Past, in Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change, edited by Malcolm F. Cairn. Routledge.

Warner, K. 2000, ‘Forestry and Sustainable Livelihoods’, Unasylva, vol. 51, pp. 3-12.

Anderson, J, Warner, K, Russo, L & Qwist-Hoffmann, H 1999, ‘The challenges of extension for non-wood forest products’, Unasylva, vol. 50, pp. 54-57.

Contact Dr Kadi Warner via email kwarner@usc.edu.au.