Benjamin S. Orlove
Environmental Science and Policy,
University of California at Davis

bsorlove@ucdavis.edu website
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Areas of Focus
Anthropology, Participatory Processes, Perceptions of Climate, Arctic and Alpine, North America, Africa/Middle East

Biography
Dr. Orlove received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. He is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, and is an adjunct senior research scientist with Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI).

Over the past dozen years or so, Orlove has conducted field research in the Andes, Africa and Australia. His book Lines in the Water, about the people an cultural practices found around Lake Titicaca, was published by University of California Press in 2002. He is the coeditor (with Sarah Strauss) of Weather, Climate, Culture (Berg, 2003), on the anthropology of weather.

CRED Projects
» Making Sense of Forecasts: the Role of Group Discussion in Understanding Climate Information

» Decision Making under the Impact of Glacial Retreat among Residents of Vulnerable Zones: Perception of and Response to Climate Change



Last Updated: January 16, 2007