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Bio
Mickey has been a Senior Scientist since 1983. He has been writing climate-related editorials for many years, first for Boulder's Daily Camera, and now for his own blog Fragile Ecologies. He is interested in how climate affects society and how society affects climate, and especially how climate anomalies and human activities interact to affect quality of life issues.
He has edited several books and is the author of numerous articles on issues related to climate, environment, and policy. He organizes multidisciplinary, multinational workshops on climate-related issues.
Read a recent interview with Mickey in The Himalayan Times.
Research
Research interests: African drought; the Aral Sea basin; desertification; food production problems and prospects; societal impacts of climate anomalies related to El Niño events and the use of El Niño-related teleconnections to forecast these impacts; developing methods of forecasting possible societal responses to the regional impacts of climate change; and the use of climate-related information for economic development.
Publications
For additional publications, see Mickey's ResearchGate profile.
Reviewing the Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) to Enhance Societal Readiness for El Nino's Impacts
Publication Date: 2020-05-18
Type: Journal Article
Local responses to disasters: recent lessons from zero-order responders
Publication Date: 2019-02-04
Type: Journal Article
Preparedness for slow-onset environmental disasters: Drawing lessons from three decades of El Nino impacts
Publication Date: 2018-11-01
Type: Journal Article
El Nino and the Koppen-Geiger Classification: A Prototype Concept and Methodology for Mapping Impacts in Central America and the Circum-Caribbean
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
Type: Journal Article
What Does It Mean to Be El Nino Ready?
Publication Date: 2018-03-01
Type: Journal Article
IMPROVISATION in the Time of Disaster
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Type: Journal Article
Analyzing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Type: Journal Article
Working with a changing climate, not against it: Hydro-meteorological disaster risk reduction: A survey of lessons learned for resilient adaptation to a changing climate
Type: Book
Reexamining El Nino and Cholera in Peru: A Climate Affairs Approach
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Type: Journal Article
Thoughts on Dealing with Climate Change ... As if the Future Matters
Publication Date: 2013-03-01
Type: Journal Article
Risk Zones: Comparative Lesson Drawing and Policy Learning from Flood Insurance Programs
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Type: Journal Article
The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia
Type: Book
Usable Thoughts Climate, Water and Weather in the Twenty-first Century
Type: Book
Using a Spare Time University for Climate Change Education
Type: Chapter
Teleconnections Linking Worldwide Climate Anomalies
Type: Book
Climate Change and Small Pelagic Fish Foreword
Type: Chapter
Heads up! Early warning systems for climate-, water- and weather-related hazards
Type: Book
An essay on the interactions between climate and society
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Type: Journal Article
Sea level change and the coastal urban flooding
Type: Chapter
Aral Sea basin: A sea dies, a sea also rises
Publication Date: 2007-06-01
Type: Journal Article
ENSO as an integrating concept in Earth science
Publication Date: 2006-12-15
Type: Journal Article
Clarifying the attribution of recent disaster losses. A response to Epstein and McCarthy
Pielke RA; Agrawala S; Bouwer LM; Burton I; Changnon S; Glantz MH; Hooke WH; Klein RJT; Kunkel K; Mileti D...
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- Mileti D
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
Type: Journal Article
State making and environmental cooperation: Linking domestic and international politics in Central Asia
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Type: Journal Article
Zimbabwe's food crisis
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Type: Journal Article
Effective and equitable dissemination of seasonal-to-interannual climate forecasts: Policy implications from the Peruvian fishery during El Nino 1997-98
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Type: Journal Article