Rose Cairns
Research Fellow (The Sussex Energy Group)

Selected publications

Article

Cairns, Rose, Onyango, Joel, Stirling, Andy and Johnstone, Phil (2022) Imagining urban transformation in Kenya. Environmental Science & Policy, 135. pp. 86-95. ISSN 1462-9011

Cairns, Rose, Hielscher, Sabine and Light, Ann (2020) Collaboration, creativity, conflict and chaos: doing interdisciplinary sustainability research. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4057

Cairns, Rose and Krzywoszynska, Anna (2016) Anatomy of a buzzword: the emergence of ‘the water-energy-food nexus’ in UK natural resource debates. Environmental Science and Policy, 64. pp. 164-170. ISSN 1462-9011

West, Simon, Cairns, Rose and Schultz, Lisen (2016) What constitutes a successful biodiversity corridor? A Q-study in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Biological Conservation, 198. pp. 183-192. ISSN 0006-3207

Cairns, Rose (2016) Climates of suspicion: ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy narratives and the international politics of geoengineering. Geographical Journal, 182 (1). pp. 70-84. ISSN 0016-7398

Cairns, Rose (2015) Public perceptions of geoengineering. Geonengineeringourclimate.com.

Cairns, Rose and Stirling, Andy (2014) ‘Maintaining planetary systems’ or ‘concentrating global power?’ High stakes in contending framings of climate geoengineering. Global Environmental Change, 28. pp. 25-38. ISSN 0959-3780

Cairns, Rose C (2014) Climate geoengineering: issues of path-dependence and socio-technical lock-in. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 5 (5). pp. 649-661. ISSN 1757-7780

Wilsdon, James and Cairns, Rose (2014) Navigating the nexus of food, energy, water and the environment. The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077

Cairns, Rose, Sallu, Susannah M and Goodman, Simon (2014) Questioning calls to consensus in conservation: a Q study of conservation discourses on Galápagos. Environmental Conservation, 41 (1). pp. 13-26. ISSN 0376-8929

Hoppe, Rob, Wesselink, Anna and Cairns, Rose (2013) Lost in the problem: the role of boundary organisations in the governance of climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 4 (4). pp. 283-300. ISSN 1757-7780

Cairns, Rose (2013) Optimists beware! Review of Hamilton’s Earthmasters [Review]Clive Hamilton (2013)Earthmasters: the dawn of the age of climate engineering. New Left Project [weblog article, 13 June 2013].

Cairns, Rose C (2012) Understanding science in conservation: A Q method approach on the galαpagos islands. Conservation and Society, 10 (3). pp. 217-231. ISSN 0972-4923

Reports and working papers

Cairns, Rose, Johnstone, Philip, Onyango, Joel and Stirling, Andrew (2021) Transforming Imaginations? Multiple dimensionalities and temporalities in transformations to sustainability. Working Paper. GOST project.

Cairns, Rose, Wilsdon, James and O'Donovan, Cian (2017) Sustainability in turbulent times: lessons from the Nexus Network for supporting transdisciplinary research. Project Report. ESRC Nexus Network, Brighton, UK.

Cairns, Rose (2014) Will solar radiation management enhance global security in a changing climate? Working Paper. SPRU.

Nightingale, Paul and Cairns, Rose (2014) The security implications of geoengineering:blame,imposed agreement and the security of critical infrastructure. Working Paper. University of Sussex.

Cairns, Rose (2014) Climates of suspicion: 'chemtrail' conspiracy narratives and the international politics of geoengineering. Working Paper. University of Oxford.

Cairns, Rose (2013) Examining framings of geoengineering using Q methodology. Working Paper. Climate Geoengineering Governance Project, Oxford.

Audio

Cairns, Rose and Gardiner, Stephen (2014) Geo-engineering: the quick tech fix for climate change. [Audio]

Cairns, Rose (2013) Podcast of BBC Radio 4 Frontiers programme on geoengineering. [Audio]