Coleen Vogel
NationalitySouth African
OccupationClimatologist
EmployerUniversity of the Witwatersrand
Known forBurtoni Award

Coleen Vogel is a South African climatologist involved in international work on climate change. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 2009 she was the third winner of the Burtoni Award for her work.

Life

Vogel trained as a climatologist. She worked for the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where she became a Distinguished Professor in their Global Change Institute.[1] She was the lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th assessment Report Working Group 2 Chapter on Africa, and she chaired the International Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Climate Change.[2]

In 2009 she was the third person chosen to receive the Burtoni Award.[3]

In 2022 she published a warning with Francois Engelbrecht, Alize le Roux and Aimee-Noel Mbiyozo to say that South Africa needs to be better prepared for climate change. This followed the KwaZulu-Natal floods that killed at least 435 people, 40,000 others were homeless and 4,000 homes were destroyed. They conceded that floods of this size have happened before but the difference now was that the floods were happening more frequently due to climate change.[4] She had previously argued after the 2021 heat wave for better preparations noting the need to keep good communication with the global north and that Africa and its universities needed to get more involved.[5]

Vogel is an acknowledged expert in South African Disaster Management being involved in creating green proposals and white papers and in assisting with the Disaster Management Act.[6] In 2022 she was the City of Johannesburg's lead for Adaptation and climate change.[1]

Selected publications

  • Eriksen, Siri; Schipper, E. Lisa F.; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Vincent, Katharine; Adam, Hans Nicolai; Brooks, Nick; Harding, Brian; Khatri, Dil; Lenaerts, Lutgart; Liverman, Diana; Mills-Novoa, Megan; Mosberg, Marianne; Movik, Synne; Muok, Benard; Nightingale, Andrea; Ojha, Hemant; Sygna, Linda; Taylor, Marcus; Vogel, Coleen; West, Jennifer Joy (1 May 2021). "Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?". World Development. 141: 105383. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105383. hdl:10852/85670. ISSN 0305-750X. S2CID 233539315.
  • Vogel, Coleen; Moser, Susanne C.; Kasperson, Roger E.; Dabelko, Geoffrey D. (August 2007). "Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships". Global Environmental Change. 17 (3–4): 349–364. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.05.002.

References

  1. 1 2 "Prof. Coleen Vogel". WIOMSA. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  2. ↑ South African researcher takes top climate change award Archived May 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, 30 June 2010
  3. ↑ "Richard Klein recognized for 'outstanding contributions' to adaptation science". SEI. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  4. ↑ Mbiyozo, Francois Engelbrecht, Alize le Roux, Coleen Vogel and Aimee-Noel (2022-05-12). "ISS TODAY: Poor climate adaptation, outdated infrastructure served as catalysts for KZN floods". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2022-12-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Climate change: Universities should lead research effort". University World News. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  6. ↑ "Coleen Vogel ─ Minding the Gap: Creating Coalitions for Sustainable Change | Watson Institute". Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
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