Listed below are all my publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, working papers, briefings and guidance, and research reports in the public domain.
Clarke, J., Haour, A., Morel, H., Forster, J., Orlove, B., Holtorf, C., Hutcheson, A., Aryee Adinorkour, V., Brunnschweiler, C., Brooks, N., Wade, S., Wellington, N-A., Appeaning Addo, K. and Simpson, N. 2025. Curating transformation can strengthen adaptation and minimize losses and damages. npj Climate Action 4, Article number 4 (open access): https://doi-org.uea.idm.oclc.org/10.1038/s44168-025-00210-z.
Taylor, M., Eriksen, S., Vincent, K., Scoville-Simonds, M., Brooks, N. and Schipper, E. L. F. 2025. Integrating power, justice and reflexivity into transformative climate change adaptation. Global Environmental Change 91: 102981 (open access): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.102981.
Beauchamp, E., Leiter, T., Pringle, P., Brooks, N., Masud, S., & Guerdat, P. 2024. Toolkit for monitoring, evaluation, and learning for National Adaptation Plan processes. NAP Global Network & Adaptation Committee. International Institute for Sustainable Development. (download from NAP Global Network).
Beauchamp, E., Marsac, C., Brooks, N., D’Errico, S. and Benson, N. 2022. From what works to what will work. Integrating climate risks into sustainable development evaluation — a practical guide. IIED, London. (download from IIED).
Brooks, N., Opitz-Stapleton, S., Daoust, G., Jobbins, G. and Mayhew, L. 2022. Rethinking climate-security narratives: integrating systemic disaster risk management in development. Advisory Report, October 2022. ODI, GIZ. (pdf)
Holmes, S., Brooks, N., Daoust, G., Osborne, R., Griffith, H., Waterson, A., Fox, C., Buonomo, E. and Jones, R. 2022. Climate risk report for the Sahel region. Met Office, ODI, FCDO. (pdf)
Singh, C., Brooks, N. and Neufeldt, H. 2022. Chapter 5: Effectiveness of adaptation, in: United Nations Environment Programme. Adaptation Gap Report 2022. Nairobi.
Taylor, M., Eriksen, S., Vincent, K., Brooks, N., Scoville-Simonds, M. and Schipper, E. L. F. 2022. Putting ‘vulnerable groups’ at the centre of adaptation interventions by promoting transformative adaptation as a learning process. Report submitted to the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, April 2022. NMBU Sustainability Series No.1 (download from NMBU).
Venable, L., Brooks, N. and Vincent, K. 2022. Lessons for measuring resilience from the BRACC programme, NIRAS and Kulima, February 2022 (download from Kulima).
Eriksen, S., Schipper, E. L. F., Scoville-Simonds, M., Vincent, K., Adam, H. N., Brooks, N., Harding, B., Khatri, D., Lenaerts, L., Liverman, D., Mills-Novoa, M., Mosberg, M., Movik, S., Muok, B., Nightingale, A., Ojha, H., Sygna, L., Taylor, M., Vogel, C. and West, J. J. 2021. Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: help, hindrance or irrelevance? World Development 141: 105383 (link)
Leiter, T., Brooks, N., Hunt, A. and Schipper, L. 2021. Chapter 5: Global progress on adaptation implementation, in: United Nations Environment Programme. Adaptation Gap Report 2021. Nairobi.
Brooks, N. 2020 Shifting Norms and Values for Transitions to Net-Zero. Working Paper, Climate-KIC (link) (pdf)
Brooks, N. 2020 Shifting Norms and Values for Transitions to Net-Zero. Insight Briefing, Climate-KIC (link) (pdf)
Brooks, N., Clarke, J., Wambui Ngaruiya, G. and Wangui, E. 2020 African Heritage in a Changing Climate. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 55 (3): 297-328 (link)
Brooks, N., Anderson, S., Aragon, I. et al. 2019. Framing and Tracking 21st Century Climate Adaptation: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Paris, the SDGs and Beyond. IIED Technical Paper. IIED, London (link)
Clarke, J. and Brooks, N. (eds.) 2018. The Archaeology of Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009, Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK, 256p. ISBN: 9781782971726 (link)
, N. 2017. Drivers of climate risk in African agriculture, Climate and Development, 9:5, 383-398, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2016.1167659 (pdf)
Gerlitz, J-Y., Macchi, M., Brooks, N., Pandey, R., Banerjee, S. and Jha, S. K. 2017. The Multidimensional Livelihood Vulnerability Index – an instrument to measure livelihood vulnerability to change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, Climate and Development 9: 124-140, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2016.1145099 (pdf)
Brooks, N. 2017. Adaptation and Resilience Learning from the Kenya StARCK+ Programme. DAI/UKAid (pdf)
Brooks N. 2017. Transformational Adaptation: Concepts, Examples, and their relevance to Agriculture, in Eastern and Southern Africa. Discussion paper for DFID/FCDO Vuna programme (pdf)
Clarke, J., Brooks, N., Banning, E. B., Miryam Bar-Matthews, M., Campbell, S., Clare, L., Cremaschi, M., di Lernia, S., Drake, N., Gallinaro, M., Manning, S., Nicoll, K., Philip, G., Rosen, S., Schoop, U-D., Tafuri, M. A., Weninger, B. and Zerboni, A. 2016. Climatic Changes and Social Transformations in the Near East and North Africa During the ‘Long’ 4th millennium BC: A Comparative Study of Environmental and Archaeological Evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews 136: 96-121. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.003 (pdf)
Karani, I., Brooks, N. and Fisher, S. 2015. Tracking Adaptation Measuring Development: a manual for local planning, IIED, London. ISBN: 978-1-78431-174-2 (link) (pdf)
Rai, N., Brooks, N., Ponlok, T., Baroda, N. and Nash, E. 2015. National M&E framework for climate change: Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) in Cambodia. IIED, London. ISBN: 9781784311452 (link)
Rai, N., Brooks, N., Fisher, S. and Nash, E. 2015. Tracking Adaptation Measuring Development: a manual for national governments, IIED, London. ISBN: 978-1-78431-187-2 (link) (pdf)
Gerlitz, J-Y., Banerjee, S., Brooks, N., Hunzai, K. and Macchi, M. 2015. An Approach to Measure Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. In: Filho, W. L. Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, Springer (link) (pdf)
Brooks, N. and Fisher, S. 2014. Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development: A Step-by-Step Guide, IIED Technical Report, December 2014 (link) (pdf)
Brooks, N. 2014. Using wellbeing indicators and climate information to assess adaptation effectiveness, IIED Briefing, December 2014 (link) (pdf)
Brooks, N. 2014. Indicators for the monitoring and evaluation of adaptation. IIED Briefing, IIED, London, December 2014 (link) (pdf)
Brooks, N., Anderson, S., Burton, I., Fisher, S., Rai, N. and Tellam, I., 2013. An operational framework for Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD). IIED Climate Change Working Paper No. 5 (link) (pdf)
Brooks, N. 2013. Beyond collapse: climate change and causality during the Middle Holocene Climatic Transition, 6400-5000 years before present (BP). Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography 112(2): 93-104 (link) (pdf)
Sejersen, F., Hastrup, K., Brooks, N., Widgren, M., Vang Rasmussen, L. and Borg Rasmussen, M. 2012. Environmental history and the understanding of causal relations.
Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography 112(2): 203-205 (link) (pdf)
Goulden, M. C., Few, R., Abebe, L., Brooks, N., Daoud, M., Konaté, M. K., Sarney, E., Smith, D., Umoh, B., Vernon, P., Weiner, J., Yamba, B. 2011. Climate change, water and conflict in the Niger River Basin, International Alert, Washington DC and London (link) (pdf)
Brooks, N., Anderson, S., Ayers, J., Burton, I. and Tellam, I. 2011. Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development. IIED Working Paper No. 1, November 2011. IIED, London/Edinburgh (link) (pdf)
Brimblecombe, P., Bonazza, A., Brooks, N., Sampedro, N., Harris, I. and Sabbioni, C. 2011. Impact of climate change on earthen buildings. Terra 2008: The 10th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage, Getty Publications (link)
Brooks, N. 2010. Human responses to climatically-driven landscape change and resource scarcity: Learning from the past and planning for the future. In I. P. Martini and W. Chesworth (eds.) Landscapes and Societies: Selected Cases, pp. 43-66. Springer, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York, 478 pp (link) (pdf)
Heyd, T. and Brooks, N. (eds.) 2010. Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change. Special issue of Human Ecology Review, Volume 17, Number 2, Winter 2010 (link)
Brooks, N. 2009. Review of The recurring Dark Ages: ecological stress, climate changes, and system transformation, by Sing C. Chew, Journal of Risk Research 12: 115-119, https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669870802187709 (pdf)
Brooks, N., Brown, K. and Grist, N. 2009. Development Futures in the Context of Climate Change: challenging the present and learning from the past. Development Policy Review 27, 741-765 (link) (pdf)
Frankel-Reed, J. Brooks, N., Kurukulasuriya, P. and Lim, B. 2009. A Framework for Evaluating Adaptation to Climate Change. In R. Van Den Berg and O N. Feinstein (eds.) Evaluating Climate Change and Development. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey (link)
Brooks, N., Clarke, J., Garfi, S. and Pirie, A. 2009. The archaeology of Western Sahara: results of environmental and archaeological reconnaissance. Antiquity 83: 1-17 (link) (pdf)
Heyd, T. and Brooks, N. 2009. Exploring cultural dimensions to climate change. In W.N. Adger, I. Lorenzoni and K. O’Brien (eds.) Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values and Governance, pp. 269-282. Cambridge University Press (link) (pdf)
Risse, N. and Brooks, N. 2008. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Adaptation to Climate Change. DAC Network on Environment and Development Cooperation. OECD (link) (pdf)
Contributing author to: Boko, M., I. Niang, A. Nyong, C. et al., 2007: Africa. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 433-467 (link)
Brooks, N. 2007. Review of Aghram Nadharif: The Barkat Oasis (Sha ‘Abiya of Ghat, Libyan Sahara) in Garamantian Times (The Archaeology of Libyan Sahara Volume 2; Arid Zone Archaeology Monograph 5), M. Liverani (ed.), Antiquity 81: 1114-1115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00096356
Brooks, N. 2006. Cultural responses to aridity and increased social complexity in the Middle Holocene. Quaternary International 151, 29-49 (link) (pdf)
Brooks, N. 2006. Climate change, drought and pastoralism in the Sahel. Discussion note for the World Initiative on Sustainable Pastoralism, IUCN (pdf)
Brooks, N., Clarke, J., Crisp, J., Crivellaro, F., Jousse, H., Markiewicz, E., Nichol, M., Raffin, M., Robinson, R., Wasse, A. and Winton, V. 2006. Funerary sites in the “Free Zone”: Report on the second and third seasons of fieldwork of the Western Sahara Project. Sahara 17, 73-94 (pdf)
Brooks, N. 2005. Cultural heritage and conflict: The threatened archaeology of Western Sahara. The Journal of North African Studies 304, 413-439 (pdf)
Brooks, N., Adger, W. N. and Kelly, M. 2005. The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation. In Adger, W. N., Arnell, N. and Tompkins, E. L. (Eds.) Global Environmental Change Part A 15, 151-162 Download pdf.
Brooks, N. and Adger, W. N. 2005. Assessing and enhancing adaptive capacity. In B. Lim and E. Spanger-Siegfried (Eds.) Adaptation Policy Frameworks for Climate Change: Developing Strategies, Policies and Measures, pp 165-181. UNDP-GEF. Cambridge University Press (link).
Brooks, N., Di Lernia, S., Drake, N. Chiapello, I., Legrand, M., Moulin, C. and Prospero, J. 2005. The environment-society nexus in the Sahara from prehistoric times to the present day. The Journal of North African Studies 304, 253-292 (pdf)
Jickells, T. D., An Z. S., Andersen, K. K., Baker, A. R., Bergametti, G., Brooks, N., Cao J.J., Boyd, P. W., Duce, R. A., Hunter, K. A., Kawahata, H., Kubilay, N., La Roche, J., Liss, P. S., Mahowald, N., Prospero, J. M., Ridgwell, A. J., Tegen, I. Torres, R. 2005. Global Iron Connections: Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry and Climate. Science 307, 67-71 (pdf)
Brooks, N. 2004. Drought in the African Sahel: long-term perspectives and future prospects. Tyndall Working Paper No. 61 (pdf)
Brooks, N. 2003. Vulnerability, risk and adaptation: A conceptual framework. Tyndall Centre Working Paper No. 38 (pdf)
White, K., Brooks, N., Drake, N., Charlton, M. and MacLaren, S. 2003. Monitoring vegetation change in desert oases by remote sensing; a case study in the Libyan Fazzan, Libyan Studies 34, 153-166
Brooks, N., Di Lernia, S., Drake, N., Raffin, M. and Savage, T. 2003. The geoarchaeology of Western Sahara: Preliminary results of the first Anglo-Italian expedition in the “free zone”. Sahara 14: 63-80 (pdf)
Brooks, N., Drake, N., MacLaren, S. and White, K. H. 2003. Studies in Geography, Geomorphology, Environment and Climate. In D. J. Mattingly (Ed.) The Archaeology of Fazzan: Volume 1, Synthesis, pp 37-74. Department of Antiquities, Tripoli, and Society for Libyan Studies, London
Adger, N. and Brooks, N. 2002. Does global environmental change cause vulnerability to natural disaster? In M. Pelling (Ed.) Natural Disasters and Development in a Globalizing World, pp 19-42. Routledge, London
Mattingly, D. J., Brooks, N., Cole, F., Dore, J., Drake, N., Leone, A., Hay, S., McLaren, S., Newson, P., Parton, H., Pelling, R., Preston, J., Reynolds, T., Schrufer-Kolb, I., Thomas, D., Tindall, A., Townsend, A. and White, K. 2001. The Fezzan Project: preiliminary report on the fifth season of work, Libyan Studies 32: 133-153
Brooks, N. and Legrand, M. 2000. Dust variability over northern Africa and rainfall in the Sahel. In S. McLaren and D. Kniveton (Eds.) Linking Climate Change to Land Surface Change, pp 1-25, Dordrecht, Kluwer (pdf)
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