PUBLICATION LIST
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Publications (Peer Reviewed Articles, Papers, and Reports)
2023
Alcántara-Ayala, I., Burton, I., Lavell, A., Oliver-Smith, A., Brenes, A., & Dickinson, T. (2023). Forensic investigations of disasters: Past achievements and new directions. Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 15(1), 1-11.
2022
Dickinson, T., & Burton, I. (2022). Disaster risk creation: The new vulnerability. In Why Vulnerability Still Matters (pp. 192-205). Routledge. London.
Dickinson, T., & Burton, I. (2022). Adaptation to Climate Change. In Parry, M., Rosenzweig, C., & De Mel, M. (Eds.) Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation (pp. 637-671). World Scientific.
Huq, S., Burton, I., and Anderson, S. (2022). Losses and Damages in a Climate Changed World. Climate Tribune: Loss and Damage 6(4), 5-7.
Huq, S., Burton, I., and Anderson, S. (2022). Losses and damages in a climate changed world https://www.dhakatribune.com/tribune-climate/2022/08/04/losses-and-damages-in-a-climate-changed-world
2021
Alcántara-Ayala, I., Burton, I., Lavell, A., Mansilla, E., Maskrey, A., Oliver-Smith, A., & Ramírez-Gómez, F. (2021). Root causes and policy dilemmas of the COVID-19 pandemic global disaster. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 52, 101892.
Dickinson, T., & Burton, I. (2021). The role of international governance to reduce maladaptive climate relocation (pp. 34-47 Chapter 3) In Ajibade, I. J., & Siders, A. R. (Eds.). Global Views on Climate Relocation and Social Justice: Navigating Retreat. Routledge. London.
2019
Burton, I. (2019). Reflections on Those Two Roads in a Yellow Wood: A Response to Ben Wisner's Essay on the Work of Robert W. Kates. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 61(3), 45-48.
Cutter, S.L., Platt, R.H., Burton, I., Mitchell, J.K., Reuss, M., Rubin, C.B., Wescoat Jr, J.L. & Richman, B.T. (2019). Reflections on Gilbert F. White: Scholar, Advocate, Friend. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 61(5), 4-21.
2017
Oliver-Smith, A., Alcántara-Ayala, I., Burton, I., & Lavell, A. (2017). The social construction of disaster risk: Seeking root causes. International journal of disaster risk reduction, 22, 469-474.
2016
Magnan, A.K., Schipper, E.L.F., Burkett, M., Bharwani, S., Burton, I., Eriksen, S., Gemenne, F., Schaar, J. & Ziervogel, G. (2016). Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 7(5), 646-665.
Oliver-Smith, A., Alcántara-Ayala, I., Burton, I., & Lavell, A. (2016). Forensic investigations of disasters (FORIN): A conceptual framework and guide to research. Beijing: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk.
2015
Burton, I. (2015). The forensic investigation of root causes and the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, (12), 1-2.
Burton, I. (2015). Practical adaptation: past, present and future. Palutikof, J.P., Boulter, S.L., Barnett, J., and D. Rissik (Ed). Applied studies in climate adaptation. 383-385.
Dickinson, T., & Burton, I. (2015). The disaster epidemic: research, diagnosis, and prescriptions. In Risk Governance (pp. 185-200). Springer, Dordrecht.
2014
Denton, F., Wilbanks, T.J., Abeysinghe, A.C., Burton, I., Gao, Q., Lemos, M.C., Masui, T., O’Brien, K.L. & Warner, K. (2014). Climate-resilient pathways: adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1101-1131.
Dickinson, T., & I. Burton. (2014). Palliative Climate Change Planning and its Consequences for Youth. Elder, J. (Ed.). The Challenges of Climate Change: Children in the front line. UNICEF Office of Research–Innocenti. UNICEF: Florence, Italy.
2013
Brooks, N., Anderson, S., Burton, I., Fisher, S., Rai, N., & Tellam, I. (2013). An operational framework for Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD). International Institute for Environment and Development. London.
Ebi, K. L., & Burton, I. (2013). Dangerous anthropogenic climate change from the perspective of adaptation. In Climate Change: International Law and Global Governance (pp. 713-738). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
Smith, J. B., Dickinson, T., & Donahue, J. D. (2013). Development and climate change adaptation funding: Coordination and integration. In International Climate Finance (pp. 72-89). Routledge.
2012
Burton, I., O.P. Dube, D. Campbell-Lendrum, I. Davis, R.J.T. Klein, J. Linnerooth-Bayer, A. Sanghi, & F. Toth. (2012). Managing the risks: international level and integration across scales. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA, pp. 393-435.
Eiser, J.R., Bostrom, A., Burton, I., Johnston, D.M., McClure, J., Paton, D., Van Der Pligt, J. & White, M.P. (2012). Risk interpretation and action: A conceptual framework for responses to natural hazards. International journal of disaster risk reduction, 1, 5-16.
2011
Bizikova, L, Burton, I, Crawfort-Boettcher, E., & T. Dickinson. (2011). Reviewing Experiences from Managing Atmospheric Pollution to Help Facilitate Responses to Climate Change. In A. El Nemr (Eds) Environmental Pollution and its Relation to Climate Change. National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries. Nova Publishers, Alexandria, Egypt.
Brooks, N., Anderson, S., Ayers, J., Burton, I., & Tellam, I. (2011). Tracking adaptation and measuring development. IIED Climate Change Working Paper No. 1. http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10031IIED.pdf
Burton, I. (2011). Adaptation to climate change: Context, status, and prospects. In J.D. Ford and L. Berrang Ford (Eds.), Climate change adaptation in developed nations (pp. 477-483). Springer, Dordrecht.
Dickinson, T., & Burton, I. (2011). Adaptation to climate change in Canada: A multi-level mosaic. In J.D. Ford and L. Berrang Ford (Eds.), Climate change adaptation in developed nations (pp. 103-117). Springer, Dordrecht.
Fankhauser, S., & Burton, I. (2011). Spending adaptation money wisely. Climate Policy, 11(3), 1037-1049.
Smith, J. B., Dickinson, T., Donahue, J. D., Burton, I., Haites, E., Klein, R. J., & Patwardhan, A. (2011). Development and climate change adaptation funding: coordination and integration. Climate Policy, 11(3), 987-1000.
2010
Burton, I. (2010). Forensic disaster investigations in depth: A new case study model. Environment, 52(5), 36-41.
2009
Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Warner, K., Bals, C., Höppe, P., Burton, I., Loster, T., & Haas, A. (2009). Insurance, developing countries and climate change. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice, 34(3), 381-400.
Pearson, D., & Burton, I. (2009). Adapting to Climate Change in Ontario: Towards the Design and Implementation of a Strategy and Action Plan. The Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation. Report to the Minister of the Environment. Government of Ontario, Toronto.
Warner, K., Loster, T., Zissener, M., Kreft, S., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Bals, C., Hoeppe, P., Gurenko, E., Burton, I., Haas, A. and M., Garschagen. (2009). Vulnerable countries and people: how disaster risk reduction & insurance can help manage the risks of climate change. United Nations University, Bonn, Germany.
Burton, I., & Dickinson, T. (2009). The potential for insurance to help the world’s poor adapt and thrive as the climate changes. In Brainard, L., Jones, A., & Purvis, N. (Eds.), Climate change and global poverty: A billion lives in the balance? Brookings Institution Press. pp 207-222.
Schipper, E. L. F., & Burton, I. (2009). Earthscan reader on adaptation to climate change. Earthscan. London, Sterling, VA.
2008
Burton, I. (2008). Gilbert White: progress in geography. Progress in Human Geography, 32(3), 448-450.
Burton, I. (2008). Beyond borders: the need for strategic global adaptation. Sustainable Development Opinion Policy Brief. December. International Institute for Environment and Development, London. http://pubs. iied.org/pdfs/17046IIED. pdf, 263-284.
Burton, I. (2008). Moving forward on adaptation. In Lemmen, D. S., Warren, F. J., Lacroix, J., and E., Bush (Eds). From impacts to adaptation: Canada in a changing climate 2007. Government of Canada, Ottawa. pp 425-440.
Bizikova, L., Neale, T. L., & Burton, I. (2008). Canadian communities' guidebook for adaptation to climate change: Including an approach to generate mitigation co-benefits in the context of sustainable development. Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Environment Canada.
Burton, I., Dickinson, T., & Howard, Y. (2008). Upscaling adaptation studies to inform policy at the global level. Integrated Assessment Journal, 8(2).
Ebi, K. L., & Burton, I. (2008). Identifying practical adaptation options: an approach to address climate change-related health risks. Environmental Science & Policy, 11(4), 359-369.
Van Aalst, M. K., Cannon, T., & Burton, I. (2008). Community level adaptation to climate change: The potential role of participatory community risk assessment. Global environmental change, 18(1), 165-179.
Yohe, G. W., Burton, I., Huq, S., & Rosegrant, M. (2008). Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia-climate change in the context of Asia: pro-poor adaptation, risk management and mitigation strategies. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC.
2007
Burton, I. (2007). Living with Nature's Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White by Robert E. Hinshaw. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, (97):4, 820-823.
Burton, I., & Ligeti (Eds). (2007). Cities preparing for Climate Change: A study of six urban regions. Clean Air Partnership, Toronto, Canada
Burton, I., Bizikova, L., Dickinson, T., & Howard, Y. (2007). Integrating adaptation into policy: upscaling evidence from local to global. In Integrating climate change actions into local development (pp. 371-376).
Burton, I., Dickinson, T., & Y. Howard. (2007). Upscaling adaptation studies to inform policy at the global level. No.2 GWSP Report Series: Issues in Global Water System Research.
Yohe, G., Burton, I., Huq, S., & Rosegrant, M. W. (2007). Climate change: Pro-poor adaptation, risk management, and mitigation strategies. Twenty twenty (2020) focus brief on the world's poor and hungry people/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
2006
Burton, I. (2006). Adapt and thrive: options for reducing the climate change adaptation deficit. Policy Options, (27):1 33-38.
Burton, I. (2006). A Bottom-up Accounting Approach to the Costs of Adaptation. A Note to the OECD GFSD on the Economic Benefits of Climate Change Policies Produced for the Global Forum on Sustainable Development on the Economic Benefits of Climate Change Policies 6-7 July 2006, Paris, France Session 4: Risk Management.
Burton, I. (2006). Climate change insurance. Tiempo: a Bulletin on Climate and Development, No. 58, p. 26.
Burton, I., Diringer, E., & Smith, J. (2006). Adaptation to climate change: international policy options. Arlington: Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Ebi, K. L., Smith, J. B., & Burton, I. (Eds.). (2006). Lessons learned and insights for adaptation policy. In Integration of public health with adaptation to climate change: lessons learned and new directions. CRC Press.
Ebi, K. L., Smith, J., Burton, I., & Scheraga, J. (2006). Some lessons learned from public health on the process of adaptation. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 11(3), 607-620.
Klein, R. J. T., Alam, M., Burton, I., Dougherty, W. W., Ebi, K. L., Fernandes, M., Huber-Lee, A., Rahman, A.A. & Swartz, C. (2006). Application of environmentally sound technologies for adaptation to climate change. Technical paper. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat. Bonn, Germany.
Yamin, F., Smith, J. B., & Burton, I. (2006). Perspectives on ‘dangerous anthropogenic interference’; or how to operationalize article 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. In H.J. Schellnhuber, W. Cramer, N. Nakicenovic, T. Wigley, and G. Yohe Eds., Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 81-91.
2005
Burton, I. (2005). Adapt and thrive: options for reducing the climate change adaptation deficit. Policy Options, 27.
Burton, I. (2005). Moving forward on adaptation: a big Challenger and many opportunities. In session workshop on adaptation. Bonn (Vol. 12).
Burton, I., & Lim, B. (2005). Achieving adequate adaptation in agriculture. Climatic change, 70(1), 191-200.
Haque, C. E., & Burton, I. (2005). Adaptation options strategies for hazards and vulnerability mitigation: an international perspective. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 10(3), 335-353.
Lim, B., Spanger-Siegfried, E., Burton, I., Malone, M., & Huq, S (2005). Adaptation Policy Frameworks for Climate Change: Developing Strategies, Policies and Measures. A Project by the UNDP and GEF. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Mirza, M., & I. Burton (2005). Using the Adaptation Policy Framework to Assess Climate Risks and Response Measures in South Asia: The Case of Floods and Droughts in Bangladesh and India. In M. Mirza, & Q. Ahmad, (Eds.), Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia. Leiden, Balkema Publishers.
Pielke Jr, R.A., Agrawala, S., Bouwer, L.M., Burton, I., Changnon, S., Glantz, M.H., Hooke, W.H., Klein, R.J., Kunkel, K., Mileti, D. & Sarewitz, D. (2005). Clarifying the attribution of recent disaster losses: a response to Epstein and McCarthy. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86(10), 1481-1483.
Smith, J., Burton, I., & Ebi, K. L. (2005). Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change. Taylor & Francis. London, UK.
2004
Burton, I. (2004). The Adaptation Deficit. Occasional paper. In Fenech, A., MacIver, D., Auld, H., Bing Rong, R., and Y. Yin (Eds). Building the Adaptive Capacity. Environment Canada. Adaptation and Impacts Research Group Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada. Toronto, ON.
Burton, I., & van Aalst, M. (2004). Vulnerability and adaptation in Bank work: progress and prospects. In Mathur, A., Burton, I., & van Aalst, M (Eds.), An adaptation mosaic: a sample of the emerging World Bank work in climate change adaptation, pp 41-52.
Burton, I., & May, E. (2004). The adaptation deficit in water resource management. IDS bulletin, 35(3), 31-37.
Burton, I., & Van Aalst, M. (2004). Look before you leap: a risk management approach for incorporating climate change adaptation into World Bank operations. World Bank Environment Department. No. 100, Climate Change Series. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.
Etkin, D., Haque, E., Bellisario, L., & Burton, I. (2004). An assessment of natural hazards and disasters in Canada: A report for decision-makers and practitioners. The Canadian Natural Hazards Assessment Project. Canada: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada and Environment Canada.
2003
Bergamo, G. J. J., Orlando, B., & Burton, I. (2003). Change: adaptation of water resources management to climate change. IUCN. Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Burton, I. (2003). “Do we have the adaptive capacity to develop and use the adaptive capacity to adapt?” In Smith, J., Klein, R., & S. Huq (Eds.), Climate change, adaptive capacity, and development. London: Imperial College Press, pp. 137-161.
Burton, I., Soussan, J., & Hammill, A. (2003). Livelihoods and climate change: Combining disaster risk reduction, natural resource management and climate change adaptation in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty. A Conceptual Framework Paper prepared by the Task Force on Climate Change, Vulnerable Communities, and Adaptation. Winnipeg, MB: International Institute for Sustainable Development
Dore, M. H., & Burton, I. (2003). Environmental degradation and remediation: Is economics part of the problem? Environmental monitoring and assessment, 86(1), 47-61.
2002
Burton, I., Huq, S., Lim, B., Pilifosova, O., & Schipper, E. L. (2002). From impacts assessment to adaptation priorities: the shaping of adaptation policy. Climate policy, 2(2-3), 145-159.
Burton, I. & M. van Aalst (2002). The Last Straw – Integrating Natural Disaster Mitigation with Environmental Management. Washington DC: The World Bank. 59 pp.
Soussan, J., & Burton, I. (2002). Adapt and thrive: Combining adaptation to climate change, disaster mitigation, and natural resources management in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty. In UNDP Expert Group Meeting, Integrating Disaster Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change Havana, Cuba.
2001
Burton, I. (2001). The intergovernmental panel on natural disasters (IPND). Global Environmental Change Part B: Environmental Hazards, 3(3), 139-141.
Dore, M. H., & Burton, I. (2001). The Costs of Adaptation to Climate Change in Canada: A stratified estimate by sectors and regions. Brock University, Climate Change Laboratory.
Kumar, A., Burton, I., & Etkin, D. (2001). Managing flood hazard and risk: report of an independent expert panel. Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness. Report prepared for Emergency Preparedness Canada and Environment Canada.
Smit, B., Pilifosova, O., Burton, I., Challenger, B., Huq, S., Klein, R. J. T., & Yohe, G. (2001). Chapter 18 Adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity. In J. J. McCarthy, O. Canziani, N. A. Leary, D. J. Dokken, & K. S. White (Eds.), Climate change 2001: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability—Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp. 877– 912). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Newton, J., & Burton, I. (2001). An exploration of potential directions for climate change policy in Northern Canada. Northern Review, (24).
White, G. F., Kates, R. W., & Burton, I. (2001). Knowing better and losing even more: the use of knowledge in hazards management. Global Environmental Change Part B: Environmental Hazards, 3(3), 81-92.
2000
Apuuli, B., Wright, J., Elias, C., & Burton, I. (2000). Reconciling national and global priorities in adaptation to climate change: with an illustration from Uganda. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 61(1), 145-159.
Bruce, J. Burton, I., Martin, H., Mills, B., & L. Mortsch (2000). Water Sector: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change. Final Report prepared by Global Change Strategies International Inc. and Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada.
Burton, I. (2000). Adaptation to climate change: Advancing the agenda for collective global benefits. Bridges, 4(8), 9-12.
Burton, I. (2000). Book Review of Disaster by Design: a reassessment of natural hazards. Environment and Planning, 32(4): 755-758.
Burton, I. (2000). The Second Generation of Impact Studies: A Modest Proposal. In N. Mimura (Ed.), Climate Change Impacts and Responses: Proceedings of the Conference on National Assessment Results of Climate Change. Conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, 25-28 March 1998. Published in Japan: Japan Environment Agency and Overseas Environmental Cooperation Centre.
Burton, I., Bruce, J., Crabbé, P., Eyles, J., Krewski, D., & W. Leiss (2000). “Development of a Health Canada Policy Framework for the Management of Global Climate Change Issues.” Report prepared for Health Canada, 122 pp.
Burton, I. (2000). Adaptation to climate change and variability in the context of sustainable development. Climate Change and Development, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies & UNDP: New Haven and New York.
Burton, I. (2000). What are adaptation needs and how can they be met?” In Pichs, R., Swart, R., Leary, N., & Ormond, F (Eds). In Development, Sustainability and Equity:Proceedings of the Second IPCC Expert Meeting on DES, Havana, Cuba. Switzerland, IPCC.
Dore, M. H., & Burton, I. (2000). The Costs of Adaptation to Climate Change in Canada: A stratified estimate by sectors and regions. Brock University, Climate Change Laboratory.
Smit, B., Burton, I., Klein, R. J., & Wandel, J. (2000). An anatomy of adaptation to climate change and variability. In Societal adaptation to climate variability and change (pp. 223-251). Springer, Dordrecht.
1999
Bein, P., Burton, I., Chiotti, Q., Demeritt, D., Dore, M., Rothman, D., & M. Vandierendonck (1999). Costing Climate Change in Canada: Impacts and Adaptation. Prepared for IPCC Expert Meeting on Costing of Mitigation and Adaptation, Tokyo, June 1999.
Bruce, J. P., Burton, I., Egener, I. M., & Thelen, J. (1999). Municipal Risks Assessment: Investigation of the Potential Municipal Impacts and Adaptation Measures Envisioned as a Result of Climate Change. Report prepared for The National Secretariat on Climate Change Municipalities Table. Ottawa: GCSI - Global Change Strategies International Inc.
Bruce, J. P., Burton, I., & Egener, I. M. (1999). Disaster mitigation and preparedness in a changing climate. Toronto, Canada: Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.
Burton, I. (1999). From Mitigation to Adaptation: The Coming of Transformation of the Climate Change Issue. In R.E. Munn (Ed.), Emerging Environmental Issues in Ontario. Environmental Monograph No. 15, Report of a May 14, 1999 Workshop. Toronto: University of Toronto, Institute for Environmental Studies.
Burton, I., Kerry, M., Kalhok, S., & Vandierendonck, M. (1999). Report from the Adaptation Learning Experiment. Environment Canada and Emergency Preparedness Canada, Toronto.
Burton, I., & van Aalst, M. (1999). Come hell or high water-integrating climate change vulnerability and adaption into Bank work. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 60 pp.
Burton, I. (1999). Emerging Environmental Issues in Ontario. Environmental Monograph No. 15. Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto
Burton, I., Etkin, D., and D. Lauterbach (1999). Disasters and Development: El Niño Pleads Not Guilty: A Report on the Impacts of El Niño in 1997/98 and the Implications for Disaster Management. Report prepared for the Disaster Management Programme, United Nations Development Programme, Geneva.
Herbert, D., & I. Burton (1999). Climate Change. In Alexander, D., and Fairbridge, R. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Hingham, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 81-82.
Kerry, M., Kelk, G., Etkin, D., Burton, I., & Kalhok, S. (1999). Glazed over: Canada copes with the ice storm of 1998. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 41(1), 6-11.
Smit, B., Burton, I., Klein, R. J., & Street, R. (1999). The science of adaptation: a framework for assessment. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change, 4(3), 199-213.
1998
Burton, I. (1998). Adapting to climate change in the context of national economic planning and development. Africa's valuable assets: a reader in natural resource management. A Reader in Natural Resource Management. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, 195-222.
Burton, I. (1998). Climate adaptation policies for Canada? Policy Options, 19 (4), 6-10.
Burton, I. (1998). We Can, Must and Will Adapt, Adapting to Climate Change and Variability in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin, Mortsch, L.D., Quon, S., Craig, L., Mills B., and Wrenn B., eds. Proceedings of a Binational Symposium. May 13-15, 1997, Toronto, Ontario. Environmental Adaptation Research Group, Waterloo, pp. 78-86.
Burton, I., Smith, J. B., & Lenhart, S. (1998). Adaptation to climate change: theory and assessment. Handbook on methods for climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategies, 5(1), 5-20. in J. Feenstra, I. Burton, J. Smith, R. Tol (Eds.), Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies. Institute for Environment Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi.
Feenstra, J. F., Burton, I., Smith, J. B., & Tol, R. S. (1998). Handbook on methods for climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategies. Institute for Environment Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi
Rothman, D.S., D. Demeritt, Q. Chiotti, & I. Burton, (1998). Costing climate change: the economics of adaptations and residual impacts for Canada. In Mayer, N., & Avis, W (Eds). Canada Country Study: Climate Impacts and Adaptation, 8, 1-29. National cross-cutting issues volume.
1997
Burton, I. (1997). Vulnerability and adaptive response in the context of climate and climate change. Climatic change, 36(1), 185-196.
Burton, I., & Shepherd, M. (1997). Atmospheric Resource Management. Applied Climatology: Principles and Practice, 51.
1996
Burton, I. (1996). Atmospheric Hazards. Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather. Stephen H. Schneider ed. Simon and Schuster, New York.
Burton, I. (1996). The Evolution of Adaptation in Response to Climate Change. Proceedings of 14th International Congress of Biometeorology, September 1996, Ljubljanan, Slovenia, pp. 44-52.
Burton, I. (1996). The Growth of Adaptation Capacity: Practice and Policy. Adapting to Climate Change: An International Perspective. Smith, J.B., Bhatti, N., Gennady V., Menzhulin, R., Benioff, M., Campos, B., Rijsberman, J., Budayko, F., M.I., Dixon R.K., eds., Springer, New York pp. 54-67.
1995
Burton, I. (1995). Adaptation to Climate Change and Vulnerability: An Approach Through Empirical Research, Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Option Evaluation: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives. Proceedings from the Canada-China Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations. Yin, Y., Sanderson M., and Guangsheng R.. eds. Beijing, May 15-19, 1995.
Burton, I. (1995). Natural Environmental Hazards. Environmental Science and Engineering, In Heinke G.W., and Henry G., eds, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, Second edition, 1995, pp. 85-110.
Burton, I. (1995). Towards a Law of the Atmosphere: The Integration of Atmospheric Science and Policy. Paper presented at the Atmospheric Hazards Process, Awareness and Response Workshop September 20-22, 1995, Brisbane Australia.
Burton, I. (1995). The Atmosphere as a Resource Climate Variability and Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation. Proceedings of the Regional Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, September 11-15, 1995, Ivana Nemeová ed.
1994
Burton, I. (1994). Deconstructing adaptation... and reconstructing. Delta, 5(1), 14-15.
Herbert, D. and Burton, I. (1994). Estimated Costs of Adaptation to Canada's Current Climate and Trends Under Climate Change. Environment Canada, Environmental Adaptation Research Group, Downsview, ON,19 pp
1993
Burton, I., Kates, R.W., & White G.F. (1993). The Environment as Hazard, Second edition, Guilford Press, New York.
Burton, I. (1993). Climate Change and World Food Security. Paper presented to the Conference on Climate Change and World Food Society, NATO Advanced Research Workshop and Oxford Environment conference. University of Oxford, July 11-16, 1993.
1992
Burton, I. (1992). Adapt and thrive. Research and Service in Climate Adaptation. Canadian Climate Centre, Downsview, Ontario.
Burton, I. (1992) Evolving with Complexity: a perspective on Canadian Environmental Policy in 1991. The Annual Review of Canadian Studies. Vol 12: 74-89
Burton, I. (1992). Regions of resilience: an essay on global warming. The Regions and Global Warming: Impacts and Response Strategies, Schmandt, J., and Clarkson, J., eds. Oxford University Press, New York pp. 257-274.
Burton, I., & Cohen, S. J. (1992). Adapting to global warming: regional options. Canadian Climate Centre. In International Conference on Impacts of Climatic Variations and Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Regions (ICID).
Burton, I., & Herbert, D. (1992). A Canadian Perspective on Climate Change. Global Climate Change: Implications, Challenges and Mitigation Measures. Majumdar, S.K., Kalkstein, L.S., Yarnel, B., Miller, E.W., and Rosenfeld, L.M., eds. Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Easton Pennsylvania. pp. 529-528.
Mortsch, L., & Burton, I. (1992). Climate change in the Great Lakes basin: impacts, research priorities and policy issues. Climate Change on the Great Lakes Basin, 17.
1991
Burton, I. (1991). Climate change and the dinosaurs of today (No. WU/G--CE04174). In Wall, G. (eds) Symposium on the impacts of climatic change and variability on the Great Plains; Calgary (Canada). Waterloo, ON. p. 11-17
Burton, I. (1991) Why Climate Matters: A response to Jesse H Ausubel Draft for Discussion. Unpublished
Burton, I. (1991) Creating Options for Ourselves. Global Change conference program Proceedings Vol 2. Options for the future. Scient and Society. The Magazine for Canadian Student Pugwash (4)1, pp 21-22.
1990
Burton, I. (1990). Factors in urban stress. J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare, 17, 79.
Burton, I. (1990). Fifth Column Behaviour: Facts & Arguments. Globe and Mail Columns
1989
Burton, I. (1989). Natural environmental hazards. Environmental Science and Engineering, 86-113.
Burton, I. (1989). The General Agreement on the Global Environment. Development Journal of the Society for International Development, 2-3.
Burton, I., & Timmerman, P. (1989). Human dimensions of global change-a review of responsibilities and opportunities. International Social Science Journal, 41(3), 297-313.
1988
Burton, I. (1988). The Human Dimensions of Global Change: An international programme on human interactions with the earth. First meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the ICBP. Stockholm, Sweden, October 24-28, 1988. Summary of Remarks
Burton, I., & P., Timmerman. (1988). Reply to Stephen H. Schneider. Correspondence. Climatic Change 13, 225–227
1987
Burton, I. (1987). Report on reports: Our common future: The world commission on environment and development. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 29(5), 25-29.
1986
Burton, I., & Kates, R. W. (1986). The Great Climacteric. Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 2: Themes from the Work of Gilbert F. White, 2, 339. University of Chicago Press.
Kates, R. W., & Burton, I. (Eds.). (1986). Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White (Vol. 1). University of Chicago Press.
Kates, R. W., & Burton, I. (Eds.). (1986). Geography, resources and environment, volume 2: themes from the work of Gilbert F. White (Vol. 2). University of Chicago Press.
1985
Beanlands, G., Browns, M., Burton, I., Byer, P., Dooley, J. E., Dorney, R. S., MacLaren, V. W., & Whitney, J. B. (1985). Environmental impact assessment: The Canadian experience. University of Toronto Institute for Environmental Studies, Toronto.
Burton, 1985. Dimensions of a New Vulnerability. Paris. Draft. Not for quotation.
Burton, I. (1985). Urbanization and development. WCED archive collection; v. 7, doc. 66.
1984
Burton, I. (1984). The risks of offshore Drilling. Report two: safety offshore Eastern Canada (Vol. 2). The Commission.
Burton, I., & Pushchak, R. (1984). The status and prospects of risk assessment. Geoforum, 15(3), 463-475.
1983
Burton, I., Wilson, J., & Munn, R. E. (1983). Environmental impact assessment: National approaches and international needs. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 3(2), 133-150.
Burton, I., & Pushchak, R. (1983). Risk and prior compensation in siting low-level nuclear waste facilities: Dealing with the NIMBY syndrome. Plan Canada, 23(3), 68-79
Burton, I. (1983). The vulnerability of cities. Approaches to the study of the environmental implications of contemporary urbanization, 111-117.
Burton, I. (1983). Vulnerability and resilience in the evolution of cities: a methodological framework and research plan. Toronto: Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto.
Dooley, J., & Burton, I. (1983). Risk assessment for the transport of hazardous materials. Rogers, J. T., & Bates, D. V. (Eds). In Risk - A symposium on the assessment and perception of risk to human health in Canada. Proceedings. The Royal Society of Canada and The Science Council of Canada.
White, R., and I., Burton (Eds.). (1983). Approaches to the study of the environmental implications of contemporary urbanization (Vol. 22). United Nations Educational.
1982
Burton, I., McCullough, R. S. (1982). Living with risk: environmental risk management in Canada. Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto.
Whyte, A. V., & Burton, I. (1982). Perception of risk in Canada. In Living with risk. Environmental risk management in Canada. Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Toronto.
1981
Burton, I., Kates, R. W., & White, G. F. (1981). The future of hazard research: A reply to William I. Torry. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien, 25(3), 286-289.
Burton, I. (1981). Accelerator, Brake and Traffic Light: The Changing Roles of the Geosciences in Development. The Role of Geosciences in Development: Proceedings of the United Nations University- the Tokyo Geographical Society Joint Symposium, Tokyo, October 1981.
Burton, I., P. Victor, A. Whyte, M. Kliman, D. Powell, & D. Schmidt. (1981). Final report on the Mississauga Evacuation: a report to the Solicitor-General of Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor-General. Toronto Ontario, Ministry of the Solicitor General.
1980
Whyte, A.V. & Burton, I. (1980) Environmental Risk Assessment, SCOPE 15, Chechester, U.K,. John Wiley and Sons 157p.
1979
Burton, I. (1979). Policy directions for rural water supply in developing countries. AID Program Evaluation Discussion Paper No. 4. The Studies Division. Office of Evaluation. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination. U.S Agency for International Development. April 1979.
Burton, I. (1979). Social and behavioural responses to climatic change and variability: The role of perception and information. In Workshop on Environmental and Societal Consequences of CO2-induced Climate Change.
1978
Kates, R. W., & White, G. F. (1978). The environment as hazard. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jackson, E. L., & Burton, I. (1978). The process of human adjustment to earthquake risk. The Assessment and mitigation of earthquake risk, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris. 241-260.
1977
Whyte, A., & Burton, I. (1977). Water supply and community choice. In Feachem, M. McGarry and D. Mara, (Eds). Water, Waste and Health in Hot Climates. London, Wiley.
Burton, I. (1977). Safe Water for All. In Natural Resources Forum (Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 95-110). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Kasperson, R.E., Burton, I., Whyte, A., Hohenemser, C., Kates, R.W. & Guy, K. (1977). Risk and rare events: a three-nation study of disaster prevention in nuclear energy programmes 1974-77’, Ford Foundation Grant.
1976
Kasperson, R.E., I. Burton, K. Guy, A. Whyte, and J. Wood. 1976. Confronting nuclear hazards: British, Canadian and American approaches. Occasional Paper No. 2, 30 pp. Columbia, SC: Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina.
Jackson, E & Burton, I. (1976). The Process of human adjustment to earthquake risk. UNESCO Intergovernmental Conference on the Assessment and Mitigation of Earthquake Risk.
1975
Burton, I. (1975). Scientific and Public Assessment of Environmental Hazards.
1974
Burton, I. (1974). Technology Utilization in Water Resource Development and Management. Proceedings of the MIT Symposium on strategies for AID program in selected areas of science and technology. JP Ruina. Volume 4 Food Technology. Technology adaptation program.
Hewitt, K. and Burton, I. (1974), Ecological dimensions of environment hazards, in Human Ecology Frederick Sargent 11 (ed.), North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, pp. 253–283.
Burton, I. (1974). Domestic water supplies for rural peoples in the developing countries: the hope of technology. Human rights in health, 61-79.
Burton, I., & Lee, T. R. (1974). Water supply and economic development: the scale and timing of investment. Metropolitan growth. L. Jakob-son and V. Prakash. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 177.
Burton, I., Kates, R. W., & Kirkby, A. (1974). Interdisciplinary Environmental Approaches, Theory by Discipline: Geography. Natural Resources Journal, 14.
Burton, I., Billingsley, D., Blacksell, M., Chapman, V., Kirkby, A. V., Foster, L., & Wall, G. (1974). Public Response to a Successful Air Pollution Control Program. Climatic Resources, London, David and Charles.
Visvader, H., & Burton, I. (1974). Natural hazards and hazard policy in Canada and the United States. Natural Hazards: Local, National, Global, 219-31.
1973
Auliciems, A., & Burton, I. (1973). Trends in smoke concentrations before and after the Clean Air Act of 1956. Atmospheric Environment (1967), 7(11), 1063-1070.
Burton, I. 1973. Issues in the design of social research for the management of atmospheric resources. Modifying the Weather: A Social Assessment: WRD Sewell et al. Western Geographical Series, Volume 9, Dep. of Geography, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 349 pp., Can. $4.00.
Burton, I., (1973). Water Management and the Environment OECD. Paris
Lowenthal, D., Burton, I., Cooley, R., & Mikesell, M. (1973). Report of the AAG task force on environmental quality. The Professional Geographer, 25(1), 39-47.
1972
Barker, M., & Burton, I., (1972). Some Potential Contributions of Behavioural research into atmospheric resources management. NCAR Symposium on Human Interactions with the Atmosphere. October 4-6, 1972. Boulder Colorado.
Burton, I. (1972). Cultural and personality variables in the perception of natural hazards.
Burton, I., (1972) Review of The Natural Landscapes of Canada. A Study in Regional Earth Science. By Brian J Bird. Toronto, Wiley Publishers of Canada Limited.
Burton, I. (1972) Review of Crisis: Readings in Environmental Issues and Strategies. Edited by Irving, R. M., & Priddle, G. B. (1971). Macmillan of Canada; New York: St. Martin's Press. In Canadian Geographical journal. Volume LXXXIV No. 2. February 1972. Published by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Burton, I. (1972). Introduction. Commission on Man and Environment. Papers on Selected Social Aspects of Air Pollution in the United Kingdom.
Burton, I. Editor (1972). International Geographical Union 22nd International Geographical Congress Commission on Management and Environment. Meeting July 24 – 30 1972. 176p.
Burton, I., & L., Foster. (1972). A National Perspective. United Kingdom Air Pollution Study.
Burton, I., & May, L. (1972). An ecological approach to landslide hazard in the Ottawa, St. Lawrence and Sequeray Valley Region, Rev. Geogr, 199-202.
1971
Burton, I. (1971). Review of Public Parks on Private Land in England and Wales by Warren Johnson. Baltimore and London. The Johns Hopkins Press. 136p.
Hewitt, K., & Burton, I. (1971). Hazardousness of a place: a regional ecology of damaging events. Toronto: University of Toronto, Department of Geography. University of Toronto Press. Toronto and Buffalo.
Sewell, W. D., & Burton, I. (Eds.). (1971). Perceptions and Attitudes in Resources Management: Selected Proceedings of a Symposium... Department of Energy, Mines & Resources.
1970
Auliciems, A., & Burton, I. (1970). Perception and awareness of air pollution in Toronto (Working Paper No. 13). Natural Hazard Research.
Burton, I., (1970). The Management of the Total Environment: Notes on the Pollution Problem.
Burton, I., 1970). Popullution or Notes on the Coming Spaceship Society.
Burton, I (1970) Disaster in the Age of Aquarius. April-May 1970.
Golant, S., & Burton, I. (1970). A semantic differential experiment in the interpretation and grouping of environmental hazards. Geographical Analysis, 2(2), 120-134.
1969
Burton, I. (1969). Methods of Measuring Urban and Rural Flood Losses UN Interregional seminar on flood damage prevention measures and management. Tbilisi, USSR 25-Sept 15-Oct 1969.
Burton, I. (1969). Technology and the natural environment. Draft For the Woodsworth Foundation, Annual Conference June 24 and 25 1969. The technologies society. Jan 24 25
Burton, I. (1969). Draft Statement on National Advisory Committee on Geographical Research Dec 222 1969
Burton, I. (1969). Review of design with nature. The Natural History Press for the American Museum of Natural History. Written by Ian L McHarg. Garden City NY 1969.
Burton, I., Kates, R. W., & Snead, R. E. (1969). The Human Ecology of Coastal Flood Hazard in Megalopolis. Thornhwaite (CW) Associates Elmer NJ Lab of Climatology. Chapter 5. Natural Resource Planning: Theory and Practice. RESEARCH PAPER No 115.
Barker, M., & Burton, I. (1969). Differential response to stress in natural and social environments: An application of a modified Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Test. University of Toronto, Natural Hazard Research.
Golant, S. M., & Burton, I. (1969). Avoidance-response to the Risk Environment. Department of Geography, University of Toronto.
Golant, S. M., & Burton, I. (1969). The meaning of a hazard-application of the semantic differential. Natural Hazard Research.
1968
Burton, I., Kates, R. W., & White, G. F. (1968). The human ecology of extreme geophysical events. Natural Hazard Working Paper No 1.
Burton, I. (1968). Future Environments of North America (being the record of a Conference Convened by the Conservation Foundation in April, 1965, at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia).
Burton, I. (1968). The quality of the environment: a review. Geographical Review, 472-481.
Burton, I. (1968). Review of Environmental Perception and Behavior, by D. LOWENTHAL. Natural Resources Journal, 8(3), 549–552.
Burton, I. (1968). Foreign Aid – telling it like it is. Review of Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations. Written by Gunnar Myrdal, Pantheon. The Canadian Forum. June 1968, 50-51.
Burton I. (1968). Review Pollution and Our Environment.
1967
Burton, I. & T Lee. (1967). Community water supplies and economic development: The Scale and Timing of Investment. World Health Organization. Interregional seminar on integration of community water supplies into planning of economic development. Geneva 19-28 September 1967.
Sewell, D. & I Burton. (1967). Compensation for Flood Losses in Manitoba.
Sewell, D., & Burton, I. (1967). Recent innovations in resource development policy. Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 11(4), 327-340.
1966
Lee, T. & I Burton. (1966). Future water supply for Indian cities. The deccan geographer. 129-143.
Burton, I. (1966). Planning needs abroad and planning developments in the United States, viewed from the perspective of natural resources planning.
Burton, I. (1966). Pollution a conference is not a crisis. The Canadian forum. Toronto, Ontario, December 1966. 46th year of issue.
Burton, I. (1966). Towards more rational decision making in India’s Water Resource Development. Reprinted from Indian Journal of Power and River Valley Development. June 1966.
1965
Burton, I., and R.W. Kates (eds.) (1965). Readings in Resource Management and Conservation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Burton, I. (1965). Towards the Development of a Comprehensive Programme for Flood Damage Reduction. Reprinted from Indian Journal of Power and River Valley Development. April 1965.
Burton, I. (1965). River Basin Development in India. . Reprinted from Indian Journal of Power and River Valley Development. December 1965.
Burton, I. (1965). Flood-damage reduction in Canada. Department of Mines and Technical Surveys. Geographical Branch.
Bengal, W., & Organisation, C. M. P. (1965). Regional Planning for West Bengal: A Statement of Needs, Prospects and Strategy. West Bengal, Calcutta Metropolitan Planning Organisation.
Burton, I. (1965). Report to the Ford Foundation on Reconnaissance Visit to the Brahmaputra Valley, November 15-20th 1965.
Burton, I. (1965). Investment Choices in Public Resource Development. The Prospect of Change: Proposals for Canada's Future, ed. by Abraham Rotstem Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 19651, 149-73.
1964
Burton, I., & Kates, R. W. (1964). The floodplain and the seashore: A comparative analysis of hazard-zone occupance. Geographical review, 54(3), 366-385.
Burton, I., & Kates, R. W. (1964). Canadian Resources and American Requirements. Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique, 30(2), 265-269.
Burton, I., & Kates, R. W. (1964). Slaying the Malthusian dragon: a review. Economic Geography, 40(1), 82-89.
1963
Burton, I., & Kates, R. W. (1963). The perception of natural hazards in resource management. Natural Resources Journal III (3), 412–441.
Burton, I. (1963). The quantitative revolution and theoretical geography 1. Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 7(4), 151-162.
Burton, I., (1963). Review of The state university and democracy written by Allan Nevins. Queens Quarterly
Burton, I. (1963). A restatement of the dispersed city hypothesis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 53(3), 285-289.
Burton, I., (1963). Review of Comparison in Resources Management. Edited by Henry Jarrett. In Economic Geography.
Burton, I., (1963). Review of Regional and Resource Planning in Canada edited by Ralph Krueger. Published in Economic Geography.
Burton, I. (1963). Aspects of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Canada. Unpublished.
1962
Burton, I. (1962). Types of agricultural occupance of flood plains in the United States. University of Chicago. Department of Geography. Chicago Illinois.
Burton, I. (1962). Reviews of Flood Plain Studies. Plan Canada, vol. 3, no. 2, Sept. pp.103-105.
Burton, I. (1962). Changes in Occupancy of Flood Plains: in Proceedings of the Fourth Regional Technical Conference on Water Resources Development, Bangkok, p. 155. United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, Flood Control Series no. 19. 1962.
Burton, I. (1962). Review of Alluvial Empire, Volume 1: A Study of State and Local Efforts toward Land Development in the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River. Geographical Review. Excerpt from Vol 52 no 4 1962 pp 622-623. Published by the American Geographical Society of New York.
1961
Burton, I. (1961). Education in the Human Use of Flood Plains. Journal of Geography, 60(8), 362-371.
Burton, I. (1961). Some aspects of flood loss reduction in England and Wales. Papers on flood problems, University of Chicago, Department of Geography, Research Paper, 70, 161-85.
Burton, I. (1961). Invasion and escape on the Little Calumet. Papers on Flood Problems, GF White, ed., University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research Paper, (70).
Burton, I., 1961. Preliminary Steps towards a classification of flood plains in the United States.
1959
Burton, I. (1959). Retail trade in a dispersed city. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, 52, 145-50.
2022
Huq, S., Burton, I., and Anderson, S. (2022). Losses and damages in a climate changed world
2021
2019
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
Brooks, N., Anderson, S., Ayers, J., Burton, I., & Tellam, I. (2011). Tracking adaptation and measuring development. IIED Climate Change Working Paper No. 1. http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10031IIED.pdf
2009
2008
Burton, I. (2008). Gilbert White: progress in geography. Progress in Human Geography, 32(3), 448-450.
2006
2005
Mirza, M., & I. Burton (2005). Using the Adaptation Policy Framework to Assess Climate Risks and Response Measures in South Asia: The Case of Floods and Droughts in Bangladesh and India. In M. Mirza, & Q. Ahmad, (Eds.), Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia. Leiden, Balkema Publishers.
2004
Burton, I., & van Aalst, M. (2004). Vulnerability and adaptation in Bank work: progress and prospects. In Mathur, A., Burton, I., & van Aalst, M (Eds.), An adaptation mosaic: a sample of the emerging World Bank work in climate change adaptation, pp 41-52.
Burton, I., & May, E. (2004). The adaptation deficit in water resource management. IDS bulletin, 35(3), 31-37.
2003
Burton, I. (2003). “Do we have the adaptive capacity to develop and use the adaptive capacity to adapt?” In Smith, J., Klein, R., & S. Huq (Eds.), Climate change, adaptive capacity, and development. London: Imperial College Press, pp. 137-161.
2002
2001
2000
Burton, I. (2000). Adaptation to climate change: Advancing the agenda for collective global benefits. Bridges, 4(8), 9-12.
Burton, I. (2000). The Second Generation of Impact Studies: A Modest Proposal. In N. Mimura (Ed.), Climate Change Impacts and Responses: Proceedings of the Conference on National Assessment Results of Climate Change. Conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, 25-28 March 1998. Published in Japan: Japan Environment Agency and Overseas Environmental Cooperation Centre.
Burton, I. (2000). Adaptation to climate change and variability in the context of sustainable development. Climate Change and Development, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies & UNDP: New Haven and New York.
Burton, I. (2000). What are adaptation needs and how can they be met?” In Pichs, R., Swart, R., Leary, N., & Ormond, F (Eds). In Development, Sustainability and Equity:Proceedings of the Second IPCC Expert Meeting on DES, Havana, Cuba. Switzerland, IPCC.
Dore, M. H., & Burton, I. (2000). The Costs of Adaptation to Climate Change in Canada: A stratified estimate by sectors and regions. Brock University, Climate Change Laboratory.
Smit, B., Burton, I., Klein, R. J., & Wandel, J. (2000). An anatomy of adaptation to climate change and variability. In Societal adaptation to climate variability and change (pp. 223-251). Springer, Dordrecht.
1999
Bein, P., Burton, I., Chiotti, Q., Demeritt, D., Dore, M., Rothman, D., & M. Vandierendonck (1999). Costing Climate Change in Canada: Impacts and Adaptation. Prepared for IPCC Expert Meeting on Costing of Mitigation and Adaptation, Tokyo, June 1999.
Bruce, J. P., Burton, I., Egener, I. M., & Thelen, J. (1999). Municipal Risks Assessment: Investigation of the Potential Municipal Impacts and Adaptation Measures Envisioned as a Result of Climate Change. Report prepared for The National Secretariat on Climate Change Municipalities Table. Ottawa: GCSI - Global Change Strategies International Inc.
Bruce, J. P., Burton, I., & Egener, I. M. (1999). Disaster mitigation and preparedness in a changing climate. Toronto, Canada: Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.
Burton, I. (1999). From Mitigation to Adaptation: The Coming of Transformation of the Climate Change Issue. In R.E. Munn (Ed.), Emerging Environmental Issues in Ontario. Environmental Monograph No. 15, Report of a May 14, 1999 Workshop. Toronto: University of Toronto, Institute for Environmental Studies.
Burton, I., Kerry, M., Kalhok, S., & Vandierendonck, M. (1999). Report from the Adaptation Learning Experiment. Environment Canada and Emergency Preparedness Canada, Toronto.
Burton, I., & van Aalst, M. (1999). Come hell or high water-integrating climate change vulnerability and adaption into Bank work. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 60 pp.
Burton, I. (1999). Emerging Environmental Issues in Ontario. Environmental Monograph No. 15. Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto
Burton, I., Etkin, D., and D. Lauterbach (1999). Disasters and Development: El Niño Pleads Not Guilty: A Report on the Impacts of El Niño in 1997/98 and the Implications for Disaster Management. Report prepared for the Disaster Management Programme, United Nations Development Programme, Geneva.
Herbert, D., & I. Burton (1999). Climate Change. In Alexander, D., and Fairbridge, R. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Hingham, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 81-82.
Smit, B., Burton, I., Klein, R. J., & Street, R. (1999). The science of adaptation: a framework for assessment. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change, 4(3), 199-213.
1998
Burton, I. (1998). Adapting to climate change in the context of national economic planning and development. Africa's valuable assets: a reader in natural resource management. A Reader in Natural Resource Management. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, 195-222.
Burton, I. (1998). Climate adaptation policies for Canada? Policy Options, 19 (4), 6-10.
Burton, I. (1998). We Can, Must and Will Adapt, Adapting to Climate Change and Variability in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin, Mortsch, L.D., Quon, S., Craig, L., Mills B., and Wrenn B., eds. Proceedings of a Binational Symposium. May 13-15, 1997, Toronto, Ontario. Environmental Adaptation Research Group, Waterloo, pp. 78-86.
Burton, I., Smith, J. B., & Lenhart, S. (1998). Adaptation to climate change: theory and assessment. Handbook on methods for climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategies, 5(1), 5-20. in J. Feenstra, I. Burton, J. Smith, R. Tol (Eds.), Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies. Institute for Environment Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi.
Feenstra, J. F., Burton, I., Smith, J. B., & Tol, R. S. (1998). Handbook on methods for climate change impact assessment and adaptation strategies. Institute for Environment Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi
Rothman, D.S., D. Demeritt, Q. Chiotti, & I. Burton, (1998). Costing climate change: the economics of adaptations and residual impacts for Canada. In Mayer, N., & Avis, W (Eds). Canada Country Study: Climate Impacts and Adaptation, 8, 1-29. National cross-cutting issues volume.
1997
Burton, I. (1997). Vulnerability and adaptive response in the context of climate and climate change. Climatic change, 36(1), 185-196.
Burton, I., & Shepherd, M. (1997). Atmospheric Resource Management. Applied Climatology: Principles and Practice, 51.
1996
Burton, I. (1996). Atmospheric Hazards. Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather. Stephen H. Schneider ed. Simon and Schuster, New York.
Burton, I. (1996). The Evolution of Adaptation in Response to Climate Change. Proceedings of 14th International Congress of Biometeorology, September 1996, Ljubljanan, Slovenia, pp. 44-52.
Burton, I. (1996). The Growth of Adaptation Capacity: Practice and Policy. Adapting to Climate Change: An International Perspective. Smith, J.B., Bhatti, N., Gennady V., Menzhulin, R., Benioff, M., Campos, B., Rijsberman, J., Budayko, F., M.I., Dixon R.K., eds., Springer, New York pp. 54-67.
1995
Burton, I. (1995). Adaptation to Climate Change and Vulnerability: An Approach Through Empirical Research, Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Option Evaluation: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives. Proceedings from the Canada-China Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations. Yin, Y., Sanderson M., and Guangsheng R.. eds. Beijing, May 15-19, 1995.
Burton, I. (1995). Natural Environmental Hazards. Environmental Science and Engineering, In Heinke G.W., and Henry G., eds, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, Second edition, 1995, pp. 85-110.
Burton, I. (1995). Towards a Law of the Atmosphere: The Integration of Atmospheric Science and Policy. Paper presented at the Atmospheric Hazards Process, Awareness and Response Workshop September 20-22, 1995, Brisbane Australia.
Burton, I. (1995). The Atmosphere as a Resource Climate Variability and Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation. Proceedings of the Regional Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, September 11-15, 1995, Ivana Nemeová ed.
1994
Burton, I. (1994). Deconstructing adaptation... and reconstructing. Delta, 5(1), 14-15.
Herbert, D. and Burton, I. (1994). Estimated Costs of Adaptation to Canada's Current Climate and Trends Under Climate Change. Environment Canada, Environmental Adaptation Research Group, Downsview, ON,19 pp
1993
Burton, I., Kates, R.W., & White G.F. (1993). The Environment as Hazard, Second edition, Guilford Press, New York.
Burton, I. (1993). Climate Change and World Food Security. Paper presented to the Conference on Climate Change and World Food Society, NATO Advanced Research Workshop and Oxford Environment conference. University of Oxford, July 11-16, 1993.
1992
Burton, I. (1992). Adapt and thrive. Research and Service in Climate Adaptation. Canadian Climate Centre, Downsview, Ontario.
Burton, I. (1992) Evolving with Complexity: a perspective on Canadian Environmental Policy in 1991. The Annual Review of Canadian Studies. Vol 12: 74-89
Burton, I. (1992). Regions of resilience: an essay on global warming. The Regions and Global Warming: Impacts and Response Strategies, Schmandt, J., and Clarkson, J., eds. Oxford University Press, New York pp. 257-274.
Burton, I., & Cohen, S. J. (1992). Adapting to global warming: regional options. Canadian Climate Centre. In International Conference on Impacts of Climatic Variations and Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Regions (ICID).
Burton, I., & Herbert, D. (1992). A Canadian Perspective on Climate Change. Global Climate Change: Implications, Challenges and Mitigation Measures. Majumdar, S.K., Kalkstein, L.S., Yarnel, B., Miller, E.W., and Rosenfeld, L.M., eds. Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Easton Pennsylvania. pp. 529-528.
Mortsch, L., & Burton, I. (1992). Climate change in the Great Lakes basin: impacts, research priorities and policy issues. Climate Change on the Great Lakes Basin, 17.
1991
Burton, I. (1991). Climate change and the dinosaurs of today (No. WU/G--CE04174). In Wall, G. (eds) Symposium on the impacts of climatic change and variability on the Great Plains; Calgary (Canada). Waterloo, ON. p. 11-17
Burton, I. (1991) Why Climate Matters: A response to Jesse H Ausubel Draft for Discussion. Unpublished
Burton, I. (1991) Creating Options for Ourselves. Global Change conference program Proceedings Vol 2. Options for the future. Scient and Society. The Magazine for Canadian Student Pugwash (4)1, pp 21-22.
1990
Burton, I. (1990). Factors in urban stress. J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare, 17, 79.
Burton, I. (1990). Fifth Column Behaviour: Facts & Arguments. Globe and Mail Columns
1989
Burton, I. (1989). Natural environmental hazards. Environmental Science and Engineering, 86-113.
Burton, I. (1989). The General Agreement on the Global Environment. Development Journal of the Society for International Development, 2-3.
Burton, I., & Timmerman, P. (1989). Human dimensions of global change-a review of responsibilities and opportunities. International Social Science Journal, 41(3), 297-313.
1988
Burton, I. (1988). The Human Dimensions of Global Change: An international programme on human interactions with the earth. First meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the ICBP. Stockholm, Sweden, October 24-28, 1988. Summary of Remarks
Burton, I., & P., Timmerman. (1988). Reply to Stephen H. Schneider. Correspondence. Climatic Change 13, 225–227
1987
Burton, I. (1987). Report on reports: Our common future: The world commission on environment and development. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 29(5), 25-29.
1986
Burton, I., & Kates, R. W. (1986). The Great Climacteric. Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 2: Themes from the Work of Gilbert F. White, 2, 339. University of Chicago Press.
Kates, R. W., & Burton, I. (Eds.). (1986). Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White (Vol. 1). University of Chicago Press.
Kates, R. W., & Burton, I. (Eds.). (1986). Geography, resources and environment, volume 2: themes from the work of Gilbert F. White (Vol. 2). University of Chicago Press.
1985
Beanlands, G., Browns, M., Burton, I., Byer, P., Dooley, J. E., Dorney, R. S., MacLaren, V. W., & Whitney, J. B. (1985). Environmental impact assessment: The Canadian experience. University of Toronto Institute for Environmental Studies, Toronto.
Burton, 1985. Dimensions of a New Vulnerability. Paris. Draft. Not for quotation.
Burton, I. (1985). Urbanization and development. WCED archive collection; v. 7, doc. 66.
1984
Burton, I. (1984). The risks of offshore Drilling. Report two: safety offshore Eastern Canada (Vol. 2). The Commission.
Burton, I., & Pushchak, R. (1984). The status and prospects of risk assessment. Geoforum, 15(3), 463-475.
1983
Burton, I., Wilson, J., & Munn, R. E. (1983). Environmental impact assessment: National approaches and international needs. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 3(2), 133-150.
Burton, I., & Pushchak, R. (1983). Risk and prior compensation in siting low-level nuclear waste facilities: Dealing with the NIMBY syndrome. Plan Canada, 23(3), 68-79
Burton, I. (1983). The vulnerability of cities. Approaches to the study of the environmental implications of contemporary urbanization, 111-117.
Burton, I. (1983). Vulnerability and resilience in the evolution of cities: a methodological framework and research plan. Toronto: Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto.
Dooley, J., & Burton, I. (1983). Risk assessment for the transport of hazardous materials. Rogers, J. T., & Bates, D. V. (Eds). In Risk - A symposium on the assessment and perception of risk to human health in Canada. Proceedings. The Royal Society of Canada and The Science Council of Canada.
White, R., and I., Burton (Eds.). (1983). Approaches to the study of the environmental implications of contemporary urbanization (Vol. 22). United Nations Educational.
1982
Burton, I., McCullough, R. S. (1982). Living with risk: environmental risk management in Canada. Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto.
Whyte, A. V., & Burton, I. (1982). Perception of risk in Canada. In Living with risk. Environmental risk management in Canada. Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Toronto.
1981
Burton, I., Kates, R. W., & White, G. F. (1981). The future of hazard research: A reply to William I. Torry. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien, 25(3), 286-289.
Burton, I. (1981). Accelerator, Brake and Traffic Light: The Changing Roles of the Geosciences in Development. The Role of Geosciences in Development: Proceedings of the United Nations University- the Tokyo Geographical Society Joint Symposium, Tokyo, October 1981.
Burton, I., P. Victor, A. Whyte, M. Kliman, D. Powell, & D. Schmidt. (1981). Final report on the Mississauga Evacuation: a report to the Solicitor-General of Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor-General. Toronto Ontario, Ministry of the Solicitor General.
1980
Whyte, A.V. & Burton, I. (1980) Environmental Risk Assessment, SCOPE 15,
Chechester, U.K,. John Wiley and Sons 157p.
1979
Burton, I. (1979). Policy directions for rural water supply in developing countries. AID Program Evaluation Discussion Paper No. 4. The Studies Division. Office of Evaluation. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination. U.S Agency for International Development. April 1979.
Burton, I. (1979). Social and behavioural responses to climatic change and variability: The role of perception and information. In Workshop on Environmental and Societal Consequences of CO2-induced Climate Change.
1978
Kates, R. W., & White, G. F. (1978). The environment as hazard. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jackson, E. L., & Burton, I. (1978). The process of human adjustment to earthquake risk. The Assessment and mitigation of earthquake risk, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris. 241-260.
1977
Whyte, A., & Burton, I. (1977). Water supply and community choice. In Feachem, M. McGarry and D. Mara, (Eds). Water, Waste and Health in Hot Climates. London, Wiley.
Burton, I. (1977). Safe Water for All. In Natural Resources Forum (Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 95-110). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Kasperson, R.E., Burton, I., Whyte, A., Hohenemser, C., Kates, R.W. & Guy, K. (1977). Risk and rare events: a three-nation study of disaster prevention in nuclear energy programmes 1974-77’, Ford Foundation Grant.
1976
Kasperson, R.E., I. Burton, K. Guy, A. Whyte, and J. Wood. 1976. Confronting nuclear hazards: British, Canadian and American approaches. Occasional Paper No. 2, 30 pp. Columbia, SC: Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina.
Jackson, E & Burton, I. (1976). The Process of human adjustment to earthquake risk. UNESCO Intergovernmental Conference on the Assessment and Mitigation of Earthquake Risk.
1975
Burton, I. (1975). Scientific and Public Assessment of Environmental Hazards.
1974
Burton, I. (1974). Technology Utilization in Water Resource Development and Management. Proceedings of the MIT Symposium on strategies for AID program in selected areas of science and technology. JP Ruina. Volume 4 Food Technology. Technology adaptation program.
Hewitt, K. and Burton, I. (1974), Ecological dimensions of environment hazards, in Human Ecology Frederick Sargent 11 (ed.), North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, pp. 253–283.
Burton, I. (1974). Domestic water supplies for rural peoples in the developing countries: the hope of technology. Human rights in health, 61-79.
Burton, I., & Lee, T. R. (1974). Water supply and economic development: the scale and timing of investment. Metropolitan growth. L. Jakob-son and V. Prakash. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 177.
Burton, I., Kates, R. W., & Kirkby, A. (1974). Interdisciplinary Environmental Approaches, Theory by Discipline: Geography. Natural Resources Journal, 14.
Burton, I., Billingsley, D., Blacksell, M., Chapman, V., Kirkby, A. V., Foster, L., & Wall, G. (1974). Public Response to a Successful Air Pollution Control Program. Climatic Resources, London, David and Charles.
Visvader, H., & Burton, I. (1974). Natural hazards and hazard policy in Canada and the United States. Natural Hazards: Local, National, Global, 219-31.
1973
Auliciems, A., & Burton, I. (1973). Trends in smoke concentrations before and after the Clean Air Act of 1956. Atmospheric Environment (1967), 7(11), 1063-1070.
Burton, I. 1973. Issues in the design of social research for the management of atmospheric resources. Modifying the Weather: A Social Assessment: WRD Sewell et al. Western Geographical Series, Volume 9, Dep. of Geography, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 349 pp., Can. $4.00.
Burton, I., (1973). Water Management and the Environment OECD. Paris
Lowenthal, D., Burton, I., Cooley, R., & Mikesell, M. (1973). Report of the AAG task force on environmental quality. The Professional Geographer, 25(1), 39-47.
1972
Barker, M., & Burton, I., (1972). Some Potential Contributions of Behavioural research into atmospheric resources management. NCAR Symposium on Human Interactions with the Atmosphere. October 4-6, 1972. Boulder Colorado.
Burton, I. (1972). Cultural and personality variables in the perception of natural hazards.
Burton, I., (1972) Review of The Natural Landscapes of Canada. A Study in Regional Earth Science. By Brian J Bird. Toronto, Wiley Publishers of Canada Limited.
Burton, I. (1972) Review of Crisis: Readings in Environmental Issues and Strategies. Edited by Irving, R. M., & Priddle, G. B. (1971). Macmillan of Canada; New York: St. Martin's Press. In Canadian Geographical journal. Volume LXXXIV No. 2. February 1972. Published by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Burton, I. (1972). Introduction. Commission on Man and Environment. Papers on Selected Social Aspects of Air Pollution in the United Kingdom.
Burton, I. Editor (1972). International Geographical Union 22nd International Geographical Congress Commission on Management and Environment. Meeting July 24 – 30 1972. 176p.
Burton, I., & L., Foster. (1972). A National Perspective. United Kingdom Air Pollution Study.
Burton, I., & May, L. (1972). An ecological approach to landslide hazard in the Ottawa, St. Lawrence and Sequeray Valley Region, Rev. Geogr, 199-202.
1971
Burton, I. (1971). Review of Public Parks on Private Land in England and Wales by Warren Johnson. Baltimore and London. The Johns Hopkins Press. 136p.
Hewitt, K., & Burton, I. (1971). Hazardousness of a place: a regional ecology of damaging events. Toronto: University of Toronto, Department of Geography. University of Toronto Press. Toronto and Buffalo.
Sewell, W. D., & Burton, I. (Eds.). (1971). Perceptions and Attitudes in Resources Management: Selected Proceedings of a Symposium... Department of Energy, Mines & Resources.
1970
Auliciems, A., & Burton, I. (1970). Perception and awareness of air pollution in Toronto (Working Paper No. 13). Natural Hazard Research.
Burton, I., (1970). The Management of the Total Environment: Notes on the Pollution Problem.
Burton, I., 1970). Popullution or Notes on the Coming Spaceship Society.
Burton, I (1970) Disaster in the Age of Aquarius. April-May 1970.
Golant, S., & Burton, I. (1970). A semantic differential experiment in the interpretation and grouping of environmental hazards. Geographical Analysis, 2(2), 120-134.
1969
Burton, I. (1969). Methods of Measuring Urban and Rural Flood Losses UN Interregional seminar on flood damage prevention measures and management. Tbilisi, USSR 25-Sept 15-Oct 1969.
Burton, I. (1969). Technology and the natural environment. Draft For the Woodsworth Foundation, Annual Conference June 24 and 25 1969. The technologies society. Jan 24 25
Burton, I. (1969). Draft Statement on National Advisory Committee on Geographical Research Dec 222 1969
1968
Burton, I., Kates, R. W., & White, G. F. (1968). The human ecology of extreme geophysical events. Natural Hazard Working Paper No 1.
Burton, I. (1968). The quality of the environment: a review. Geographical Review, 472-481.
Burton I. (1968). Review Pollution and Our Environment.
Sewell, D. & I Burton. (1967). Compensation for Flood Losses in Manitoba.
1966
Lee, T. & I Burton. (1966). Future water supply for Indian cities. The deccan geographer. 129-143.
1965
Burton, I., and R.W. Kates (eds.) (1965). Readings in Resource Management and Conservation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bengal, W., & Organisation, C. M. P. (1965). Regional Planning for West Bengal: A Statement of Needs, Prospects and Strategy. West Bengal, Calcutta Metropolitan Planning Organisation.
1963
Burton, I. (1963). Aspects of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Canada. Unpublished.
1962
Burton, I. (1962). Reviews of Flood Plain Studies. Plan Canada, vol. 3, no. 2, Sept. pp.103-105.
Burton, I. (1962). Changes in Occupancy of Flood Plains: in Proceedings of the Fourth Regional Technical Conference on Water Resources Development, Bangkok, p. 155. United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, Flood Control Series no. 19. 1962.
1961
Burton, I. (1961). Education in the Human Use of Flood Plains. Journal of Geography, 60(8), 362-371.
Burton, I. (1961). Some aspects of flood loss reduction in England and Wales. Papers on flood problems, University of Chicago, Department of Geography, Research Paper, 70, 161-85.
Burton, I. (1961). Invasion and escape on the Little Calumet. Papers on Flood Problems, GF White, ed., University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research Paper, (70).
Burton, I., 1961. Preliminary Steps towards a classification of flood plains in the United States.
1959