# Anita Wreford

Anita Barbara Wreford is a New Zealand applied economist, and is a full professor at Lincoln University, specialising in climate change adaptation.

## Academic career

Wreford completed a Master of Applied Science degree in natural resource management at Massey University, supervised by John Holland and Terry Kelly. She then moved to Lincoln University where she completed a PhD titled The impact of international trade liberalisation on the emissions of agricultural greenhouse gases in 2006. Her supervisors were Caroline Saunders and Paul Dalziel. Wreford did postdoctoral research in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, including at the University of East Anglia's Tyndall Centre and Scotland's Rural College. Returning to New Zealand, Wreford was a senior economist at Scion, before joining the faculty at Lincoln University, rising to full professor in 2022.
Wreford works as part of the university's Agribusiness and Economic Research Unit. Her research focuses on climate change mitigation and adaptation. She is the leader of the Deep South Challenge's Impacts and Implications programme. She was lead author on two IPCC reports, the 2019 Special Report on Climate Change and Land and the Australasia chapter of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Wreford is on the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics editorial board. She has provided policy advice at local and national government level within New Zealand, and has also contributed to the UK's Committee on Climate Change and the Scottish government's ClimateXChange programme.

## Selected works

* W. Neil Adger; Suraje Dessai; Marisa Goulden; et al. (20 November 2008). "Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?". Climatic Change. 93 (3–4): 335–354. doi:10.1007/S10584-008-9520-Z. ISSN 0165-0009. Wikidata Q56836459.
* Anita Wreford; Dominic Moran; Neil Adger (17 June 2010). Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation. OECD. doi:10.1787/9789264086876-EN. ISBN 978-92-64-08686-9. Wikidata Q58112233.
* Ruth Dittrich; Anita Wreford; Dominic Moran (February 2016). "A survey of decision-making approaches for climate change adaptation: Are robust methods the way forward?". Ecological Economics. 122: 79–89. doi:10.1016/J.ECOLECON.2015.12.006. ISSN 0921-8009. Wikidata Q58112207.
* Anita Wreford; W. Neil Adger (November 2010). "Adaptation in agriculture: historic effects of heat waves and droughts on UK agriculture". International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. 8 (4): 278–289. doi:10.3763/IJAS.2010.0482. ISSN 1473-5903. Wikidata Q58056667.
* Marco Moriondo; Marco Bindi; Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz; et al. (27 March 2010). "Impact and adaptation opportunities for European agriculture in response to climatic change and variability". Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 15 (7): 657–679. doi:10.1007/S11027-010-9219-0. ISSN 1381-2386. Wikidata Q58112241.
* Lisa Sharma-Wallace; Sandra J. Velarde; Anita Wreford (26 May 2018). "Adaptive governance good practice: Show me the evidence!". Journal of Environmental Management. 222: 174–184. doi:10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2018.05.067. ISSN 0301-4797. PMID 29843090. Wikidata Q57122811.
* Felix Schenuit; Rebecca Colvin; Mathias Fridahl; et al. (4 March 2021). "Carbon Dioxide Removal Policy in the Making: Assessing Developments in 9 OECD Cases". Frontiers in Climate. 3. doi:10.3389/FCLIM.2021.638805. ISSN 2624-9553. Wikidata Q111136719.