Jim Falk: More recent and forthcoming publications, presentations etc.

Roles

  • Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Senior Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Emeritus Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia
  • Chair, International Advisory Committee, Regional Action on Climate Change (2000– ). https://www.stsforum.org/racc2021/iac
  • Chair, Regional Action on Climate Change Symposium, International Conference Center, Kyoto (2000– ).

Books

…earlier books include:

  • J. Camilleri and J. Falk, The End of Sovereignty?: The future shaping of world politics, Edward Elgar, London, 1992, 312 pp. (Translated into Chinese and published by Zhejiang People’s Publishing House, Beijing, China, 2001.)
  • J. Falk and A. Brownlow, The Greenhouse Challenge: What’s to be done?, Penguin, Melbourne, 1989, 340 pp.
  • J. Falk, Taking Australia Off the Map: Facing the Threat of Nuclear War, Published simultaneously by Penguin and Heinemann Publishers, Melbourne, 1983, 310 pp.
  • J. Falk (ed.), Preventing Nuclear War: Australia’s Role, edited proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of Wollongong on 10 September, 1982, Uniadvice, the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 1983, 80 pp.
  • J. Falk, Global Fission: The Battle Over Nuclear Power, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1982, 410 pp.
  • D. Hayes, J. Falk, and N. Barrett, Red Light for Yellow Cake: the case against uranium mining, FOE, Melbourne, 1976, 96 pp.

eBooks

Journal articles

  • Koundouri, P., Akinsete, E., Capon, T., Colwell, R. R., El-Beltagy, A. S., Elouafi, I., Falk, J., Garabato, A. N., Kennel, C. F., Landis, C., Leinen, M., Mashayek, A., Murray, C. A., Serageldin, I., Takeuchi, K., Taniguchi, M., and Toli, E., “Systemic approaches for the protection of our oceans and marine environments”, NPJ Climate Action, 5(1), 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-026-00341-x
  • Falk, J., Asari, M., Bahar, F., Behera, S., von Braun, J., Caquet, T., Colwell, R., Damania, R., Ebi, K., El-Beltagy, A., Elouafi, I., Honma, M., Iskander, L., Köhler, M., Koundouri, P., Lal, R., Leinen, M., Mulligan, C., Nishikawa, H., Zhang, Q., “Food security in a time of climate–food–water–energy convergence”, Sustainability Science, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-026-01798-9
  • Jim Falk, “Between Order and Chaos – A Critical Challenge”, PIMA Bulletin, 2025. https://www.pimanetwork.com/climate-justice-education and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ic5pYPIwwJYUb_zEVnw1zHMGlPngrh1j/view
  • Jim Falk, Swadhin Behera, Nancy Bermas, Tony Capon, Joachim von Braun, Rita R. Colwell, Adel S. El-Beltagy, Richard Damania, Charles F. Kennel, Margaret Leinen, Phoebe Koundouri, Cherry A. Murray, Ismail Serageldin, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Chiho Watanabe, Ismahane Elouafi, Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb, Stacy Jupiter, Satoshi Iizuka, Miko Maekawa, Yutaka Michida, Ali Mashayek, Aditi Mukherji, Katherine Richardson, Ronald Rooparine, Toshio Suga, Gunter Sutiyono, Makoto Taniguchi, Michelle Tigchelaar, Junko Toyoshima, and Yoshihide Wada, “Emerging threats from climate change on our oceans demand proactive action”, Sustainability Science, 2024. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-024-01605-3 Reprinted as: Jim Falk et al., “Emerging threats from climate change on our oceans demand proactive action”, Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 157, part 2, 2024, pp. 125–132. ISSN 0035–9173/24/020125–19. https://www.royalsoc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/157-2-09Falk.pdf
  • Charles Kennel, Jim Falk, and David Victor, “Wilson’s Bottleneck”, Sustainability Science, 2024. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-024-01577-4
  • Jim Falk, Peter H. Gleick, Shinichiro Asayama, Faten Attig-Bahar, Swadhin Behera, Joachim von Braun, Rita R. Colwell, Ashok K. Chapagain, Adel S. El-Beltagy, Charles F. Kennel, Masahide Kimoto, Toshio Koike, Agnes Asiimwe Konde, Phoebe Koundouri, Sameh Kotb Mohamed Abd-Elmabod, Rattan Lal, Yuan Tseh Lee, Cherry A. Murray, Vina Nangia, Amy Sapkota, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Ismail Serageldin, Jean-François Soussana, Kaoru Takara, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Thong Tran, David Victor, Chiho Watanabe, Kevin Wheeler, and Tetsuzo Yasunari, “Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change: addressing an urgent global need”, Sustainability Science, 19, 241–244 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01428-8
  • Jim Falk, Rita R. Colwell, Swadhin K. Behera, Adel S. El-Beltagy, Peter H. Gleick, Charles F. Kennel, Yuan Tseh Lee, Cherry A. Murray, Ismail Serageldin, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Tetsuzo Yasunari, Chiho Watanabe, Joanne Kauffman, Kurt Soderland, Ismahane Elouafi, Raj Paroda, Ashok K. Chapagain, John Rundle, Naota Hanasaki, Haruo Hayashi, Ebun Akinsete, and Sachiko Hayashida, “An urgent need for COP27: confronting converging crises”, Sustainability Science, Dec. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01253-5
  • J. Falk, R.R. Colwell, C.F. Kennel, C.A. Murray, “Link knowledge and action to tackle disasters”, Nature, vol 599, 18 Nov 2021, p. 372. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03419-0
  • Falk, J., Attig-Bagar, F., Colwell, R., Behera, S., El-Beltagy, A., von Braun, J., Dasgupta, P., Gleich, P., Kaneko, R., Kennel, C., Koundouri, P., Tseh Lee, Y., Luers, A., Murray, C., Lal, C., Serageldin, I., Sokona, Y., Takeuchi, K., Taniguchi, M., Watanabe, Yasunari, T. (2021). “Addressing Our Planetary Crisis”, Sustainability Science, 1 November 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01059-x See also https://www.stsforum.org/racc2021/pdf/statement.pdf
  • J. Falk, “Greenpeace turns 50: any lessons for the rest of us?”, PIMA Bulletin, 38, Sep 2021, pp. 32–4. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lyOPevILZY7Wj5nIrIcR0Q5BjOKrmpeS/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs
  • Jim Falk, Rita Colwell, Adel El-Beltagy, Peter Gleick, Charles Kennel, Yuan T. Lee, Amy Luers, Cherry Murray, Ismail Serageldin, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Chiho Watanabe, and Tetsuzo Yasunari, “Beyond 2020: converging crises demand integrated responses”, Sustainability Science, 29 October 2020, ISSN: 1862–4057. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00876-w
  • J. Falk, “Timely challenges: Messages from the Australian Bushfires and the Corona Pandemic”, PIMA Bulletin, March 2020. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XG0sh5hshkRBaQMBlSuj9JhkdTgFynfe/edit
  • J. Falk, “Climate Action and the Knowledge Action Agenda”, PIMA Bulletin, 39, Nov 2021. https://pimamembers.wixsite.com/network/post/pima-bulletin-no-39-nov-2021
  • J. Falk and D. Settle, “Australia: Approaching an energy crossroads”, Energy Policy, Volume 39, Issue 11, November 2011, 6804–6813.
  • J. Falk, “Fukushima Fall-out”, Arena Magazine, No. 112, July 2011, pp. 18–23, reprinted as Arena Features, “Nuclear Power after Fukushima: The Japan crisis has raised the stakes for global nuclear policy”, http://www.arena.org.au/2011/11/nuclear-power-after-fukushima/, Nov 2011.
  • J. Falk, “Some recent reflections on worlds in transition”, Global Change, Peace and Security, vol 24, no 1, Feb 2012, pp. 9–16.
  • J. Falk, “A brief afterthought”, Global Change, Peace and Security, vol 24, no 1, Feb 2012, pp. 45–8.

Book Chapters

  • Adel El-Beltagy, Charles Kennel, and Jim Falk, “Navigation through Uncertainties: Regional Action on Climate Change”, in Adel S. El-Beltagy, Rattan Lal, and Kauser Malik (eds.), Climate Change and Sustainable Agro-ecology in Global Drylands, CABI, Oxford, UK, 2024, pp. 20–26. ISBN 9781800624856. https://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9781800624856/
  • J. Falk, “The Movement Against Uranium Mining”, in Susan Blackburn, Breaking Out: Memories of Melbourne in the 1970s, Hale & Iremonger, 2015, pp. 91–102.
  • J. Falk, “The Search for Energy Security After Fukushima Daiichi”, in Richard Hindmarsh, Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political and Environmental Issues, Routledge, UK, 15 March 2013. http://www.psypress.com/books/details/9780415527835/
  • J. Falk, “Scientific Freedom in an Evolving World”, in Simona Giordano, John Coggon and Marco Cappato, Anthology on Freedom of Scientific Research, Bloomsbury, September 2012. http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/Scientific-Freedom/book-ba-9781849669009.xml
  • J. Falk, “Rethinking Energy Security in a Time of Transition”, in Luca Anceschi and Jonathon Symons, Energy Security in the era of Climate Change - The Asia Pacific Experience, Palgrave MacMillan, UK, 2012, pp. 240–254.

Reports

  • Darrin Durant, Jim Falk, and Jim Green, “Nuclear Power’s Global Stagnation and Decline”, Energy Science Coalition Briefing Paper No. 1, 27 February 2025. http://energyscience.org.au/BP2025-1-NUCLEAR%20POWER-FormattedN2.pdf
  • D.S. Woodruff and J. Falk, International Workshop on Coastal Cities, Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. Report to the APRU Presidents. The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), Sustainability and Climate Change Program. University of California San Diego, September 5–7, 2012 [available at http://escholarship.org/]
  • N. Adly, E. Bonsdorff, C. Carraro, G. Cecconi, M. Depledge, M. Dettinger, J. Falk, C. Kennel, P. Linden, K. McIntyre, C. Nasci, E. Ramieri, D. Woodruff, and G. Zanetto, The Venice Conference, Improving the capacity to assess and to adapt to climate change in urban coastal regions, Venice, Sept 8–11, 2011. Report available through the Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego.

Conference Proceedings

  • J. Falk, “Confronting Climate Change in the Pacific: Knowledge-Action Approaches and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Sustainability and Climate Change Research Program”, Pacific Economic Council for Cooperation (PECC), 2013, pp. 28–37.

Other Conference Presentations

Print media

Electronic media

Authored software

Other Presentations and Contributions

  • J. Falk, invited presentation to “Dialogue” and “Conversation with Jim Falk”, Two Fires Festival, Braidwood, April 2011. http://www.twofiresfestival.com.au/html/programme.html and http://www.kavisha.com/shows/details/86-two-fires-festival-braidwood-nsw.html?pop=1&tmpl=component
  • APRU World Institute Workshop
  • J. Falk, invited presentation, “Fukushima – its implications for Japan and the Nuclear Industry”, Rescue Japan Symposium, Tokyo, (by video link), 15 April 2011.
  • J. Falk, session Chair, “Regional and global problems in air pollution”, in Public Policy Workshop, Pacific Rim Universities and Global Health: Finding and Communicating Solutions, APRU World Initiative, Public Health Research Program, Jakarta, 15 June 2011.
  • J. Falk, invited presentation at MAPW panel on Fukushima and global health, 6 July 2011, Nossal Institute, University of Melbourne. http://www.mapw.org.au/events/fukushima-and-global-health
  • J. Falk, invited presentation “Knowledge-action initiatives with water communities”, to Workshop on Asian Climate Change and Variability: Trends and Policy, Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 21 July 2011.
  • J. Falk, “Knowledge action initiatives with water communities”, invited paper, The Venice Conference, 12–15 September 2011, Venice, Italy.
  • J. Falk, invited paper “Knowledge Action initiatives in the Asia-Pacific”, prepared for the Regional Climate Change Workshop (RCC3), Adjunct session to the STS Forum, Kyoto, Japan, 1 October 2011.
  • J. Falk, “Confronting climate change in the Pacific - knowledge-action approaches and the APRU World Institute CMAS Program.”, keynote paper, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) International Project for 2011–2012: Sustainable Management of Marine Resources, Seminar 1 Oceans at Risk: Protection from ocean to coast, sharing marine resources, Nouméa, New Caledonia, November 22–24, 2011

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