Alice McClure
Research StaffAlice works broadly across fields of climate risk and adaptation including on topics of inter alia learning, knowledge co-production, transformative adaptation, equity and climate resilient development. She is particularly interested in human experiences of climate and weather, and how these interact with other experiences of identity, place, space etc. She is curious about methods and processes that bring diverse, lived experiences of climate risk in conversation with scientific climate information and other types of evidence, and that acknowledge the different assumptions and needs across people. Alice’s work is rooted in transdisciplinary praxis. She aims to contribute to a growing body of knowledge relevant to transdisciplinarity that focuses on (and is generated in) African contexts. Alice is currently finishing a thesis that explores transdisciplinary learning for navigating complex African urban climate risks using expansive learning theory, which centers transformative agency of participants.
Personal SitePublications
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Pasquini L, Taylor A, McClure A, Martel P, Pretorius L, Mubaya C P, Mamombe R,  (2024) Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban
Environmental Science and Policy
doi:dc088426-4fca-46aa-a494-2cf59c5a68e7
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Alice McClure, Gina Ziervogel, Zarina Patel,  (2024) Expansive learning of climate scientists towards transdisciplinarity
Climate Risk Management
doi:10.1016/j.crm.2024.100642
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Lorena Pasquini, Anna Taylor, Alice McClure, Patrick Martel, Lulu Pretorius, Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya, Rudo Mamombe,  (2024) Pathways to transformative adaptation in southern African cities: A criteria-based assessment in Harare and Durban
Environmental Science & Policy
doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103784
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Alice McClure,  (2023) Enablers of transdisciplinary collaboration for researchers working on climate risks in African cities
Sustainability Science
doi:10.1007/s11625-023-01426-w
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Alice McClure, Zarina Patel, Gina Ziervogel, Joanne Hardman,  (2023) Exploring the role of transdisciplinary learning for navigating climate risks in African cities: The case of Lusaka, Zambia
Environmental Science & Policy
doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103571
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Sheona Shackleton, Anna Taylor, Louise Gammage, Lindsey Gillson, Nadia Sitas, Nadine Methner, Shayan Barmand, Jessica Thorn, Alice McClure, Leigh Cobban, Astrid Jarre, Oghenekaro Nelson Odume,  (2023) Fostering transdisciplinary research for equitable and sustainable development pathways across Africa: what changes are needed?
Ecosystems and People
doi:10.1080/26395916.2022.2164798
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(2022) Power dynamics in transdisciplinary research for sustainable urban transitions
Environmental Science & Policy
doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2022.02.001
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Anna Taylor, Lulu Pretorius, Alice McClure, Kornelia N. Iipinge, Brenda Mwalukanga, Rudo Mamombe,  (2021) Embedded researchers as transdisciplinary boundary spanners strengthening urban climate resilience
Environmental Science & Policy
doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.002
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(2021) Facilitating Urban Sustainability through Transdisciplinary (TD) Research: Lessons from Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
Sustainability
doi:10.3390/su13116205
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(2021) Understanding and supporting climate-sensitive decision processes in southern African cities
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.006
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(2021) Co-production: Learning from Contexts
Climate Risk in Africa: Adaptation and Resilience
doi:978-3-030-61160-6
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Burnet Mkandawire, Bernard Thole, Dereck Mamiwa, Tawina Mlowa, Alice McClure, Jessica Kavonic, Christopher Jack,  (2021) Application of Systems-Approach in Modelling Complex City-Scale Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-Production Process and Learning Patterns for Climate Resilience
Systems
doi:10.3390/systems9010007
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(2020) Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production
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doi:10.24948/2020.01
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(2019) Towards resilient African cities: Shared challenges and opportunities towards the retention and maintenance of ecological infrastructure
Global Sustainability
doi:10.1017/sus.2019.16
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McClure A, Daron J, Bharwani S, Jones R, Grobusch LC, Kavonic J, Janes T, Zhang M, Hill E, Mzime M,  () Principles for co-producing climate services: Practical insights from FRACTAL
Climate Services
doi:505df6c0-63c8-495b-9779-58f542130c37
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Taylor A, Methner N, Barkai K, McClure A, Jack C, New M, Ziervogel G,  () Operationalising climate-resilient development pathways in the Global South
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
doi:6740fbe1-32a1-400c-b09a-862121463039
Posts by amcclure
- What do we mean by urban climate justice?, 04 Nov 2022 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage and Uncategorized
- Cities and climate: what’s our next step?, 09 Mar 2018 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage
- A blog about not knowing, 10 Nov 2017 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage and Uncategorized
- The sociable scientist, 02 Apr 2017 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage and Uncategorized
- The Thirst: It calls for a lifestyle change, 15 Mar 2017 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage and Uncategorized
- Culturing (some form of) a growth mindset for learning in FRACTAL, 02 Feb 2017 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage
- FRACTAL’s embedded researcher in Lusaka tells us why she’s excited about the project, 23 Sep 2016 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage
- FRACTAL’s first learning lab: the moment we’ve all been waiting for…, 12 Sep 2016 in Climate Services and CSAG Blog and Frontpage
- Ramblings of a recovering positivist, 08 Aug 2016 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage