Dr Elise Remling

Associate Senior Researcher

Dr Elise Remling

Dr Elise Remling is an Associate Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her work focuses on how climate and environmental change impact on human security, and on how international organizations are thinking about and responding to climate-related security risks. Elise has a background in both academic and policy-oriented research in the field of climate change and sustainable development with expertise on the social implications of climate change. Her research has centred particularly on the process of adaptation to climate change at different levels of governance.

Elise received her PhD in Environmental Sciences from Södertörn University, Sweden, in 2019. In her dissertation she looked at how climate adaptation is conceptualized and defined in policy and practice, and with what political effects. Her work has been published in high impact academic journals, including in Climate Policy, Environmental Politics, Climate and Development and Regional Environmental Change. Elise is a research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project.

Regional expertise

Global; European Union; Germany; Small Island States, specifically Fiji; Kenya

CONTACT Dr Elise Remling

Languages

German, English, Spanish

Education

PhD in Environmental Sciences, Södertörn University, Sweden

MSc in Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany

BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Geography, University of Münster, Germany

SIPRI COMMENTARY

The new EU peace mediation strategy: A step in the right direction on climate issues (Expert comment, December 2020 )
The European Green Deal: A chance to promote a people-centred take on climate security (Topical backgrounder, June 2020 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Meijer, K. and Remling, E., Enhancing the Conflict Sensitivity of National Adaptation Plans (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2023)
Black, R. et al., Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2022)
Dabelko, G. D., et al., Navigating a Just and Peaceful Transition: Environment of Peace (Part 3) (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
Bunse, S. et al, Mapping European Union Member States’ Responses to Climate-related Security Risks (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2022)
Bunse, S. et al, Advancing European Union Action to Address Climate-related Security Risks (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2022)
Climate-related Security Risks in the 2020 Updated Nationally Determined Contributions (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2021)
A Reassessment of the European Union’s Response to Climate-related Security Risks (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2021)

External publications

Remling, E. and Meijer, K., Conflict considerations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Plans, Climate and Development (2024)
Remling, E., Migration as climate adaptation? Exploring discourses amongst development actors in the Pacific Island Region, Regional Environmental Change, 20(3), (2020)
Remling, E., Depoliticizing Adaptation: A Critical Analysis of EU Climate Adaptation Policy, Environmental Politics, 28(3), 477-497 (2018)
Atteridge, A. and E. Remling, Is adaptation reducing vulnerability or redistributing it?, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 9(e500), (2018)
Remling, E., Logics, assumptions and genre chains: a framework for poststructuralist policy analysis, Critical Discourse Studies, 15(1), 1-18 (2017)
Remling, E. and Veitayaki, J., Community-based action in Fiji’s Gau Island: a model for the Pacific?, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 8 (3), 375–398 (2016)
Remling, E. and Persson, Å., Who is adaptation for? Vulnerability and adaptation benefits in proposals approved by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund, Climate and Development, 7(1), pp. 16-34 (2015)
Persson, Å. and Remling, E., Equity and efficiency in adaptation finance: initial experiences of the Adaptation Fund, Climate Policy, 14(4), pp. 488-506 (2014)
Scheffran, J. and Remling, E., The social dimensions of human security under a changing climate In: Redclift, M. and Grasso, M. (eds.): Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 137-163 (2013)