Kates, R.W. with National Academies, 2010. Committee on America’s Climate Choices, Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change, Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change, Washington: National Academies Press.
Kates, R.W. with National Academies Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, 2005. Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, National Academy Press.
CHAPTER 1 - A Vision of Interdisciplinary Research
CHAPTER 2 -
The Drivers of Interdisciplinary Research
CHAPTER 3 -
Interdisciplinarity in Industrial and National Laboratories
CHAPTER 4 - The Academic Researcher and Interdisciplinary Research
CHAPTER 5 - How Academic Institutions Can Facilitate Interdisciplinary Research
CHAPTER 6 - How Funding Organizations Can Facilitate Interdisciplinary Research
CHAPTER 7 - The Role of Professional Societies
CHAPTER 8 - Evaluating Outcomes of Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching
CHAPTER 9 - Toward New Interdisciplinary Structures
CHAPTER 10 - Findings and Recommendations
Raskin, P., T. Banuri, G. Gallopin, P. Gutman, A. Hammond, R. W. Kates, and R. Swart, 2002. Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead. Stockholm Environment Institute.
CHAPTER 1 - Where are we?
CHAPTER 2 - Where are we headed?
CHAPTER 3 - Where do we want to go?
CHAPTER 4 - How do we get there?
CHAPTER 5 - History of the future
CHAPTER 6 - The shape of transition
Kates, R. W., with National Research Council, Board on Sustainable Development, 1999. Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability, National Academy Press.
CHAPTER 1 - Our commen journey
CHAPTER 2 - Trends and transitions
CHAPTER 3 - Exploring the future
CHAPTER 4 - Environmental threats and opportunities
CHAPTER 5 - Reporting on the transition
CHAPTER 6 - Integrating knowledge and action
J. X. Kasperson and R. W. Kates, (eds.), 1990. Overcoming Hunger in the 1990s, a special issue of Food Policy, Vol.15, No. 4, pp.273-368.
INTRODUCTION - Halving Hunger
CHAPTER 1 - Hunger in the 1980s
CHAPTER 2 - Overcoming hunger
CHAPTER 3 - Responses from below
CHAPTER 4 - Mobilizing Nigeria's grassroots for increased food production
CHAPTER 5 - Mobilizing opinion
CHAPTER 6 - Increasing food aid
CHAPTER 7 - Disarming debt
CHAPTER 8 - Trying technology
CHAPTER 9 - Good intentions
Kates, R. W., J. H. Ausubel, and M. Berberian (eds.), 1985. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society, ICSU/SCOPE Report No. 27, John Wiley.
FRONT MATTER & PART I Overviews
CHAPTER 1 - The Interaction of Climate and Society
CHAPTER 2 - Climatic Variability and Change
CHAPTER 3 - Research in Climate Society Interaction
CHAPTER 4 - Identifying Climate Sensitivity
PART II - Biophysical Impacts
CHAPTER 5 - Agriculture
CHAPTER 6 - Fisheries
CHAPTER 7 - Pastoralism
CHAPTER 8 - Water Resources
CHAPTER 9 - Energy Resources
PART III - Part III Social and Economic Impacts and Adjustment
CHAPTER 10 - Health, Nutrition, and Human Development
CHAPTER 11 - Analysis of Historical Climate Society Interaction
CHAPTER 12 - Microeconomic Analysis
CHAPTER 13 - Social Analysis
CHAPTER 14 - The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agricultural Margins
CHAPTER 15 - Extreme Event Analysis
CHAPTER 16 - Perception
CHAPTER 17 - Adjustment in Self-provisioning Societies
PART IV - Part IV Integrated Assessment
CHAPTER 18- Global Modeling and Simulations
CHAPTER 19 - Biosphere Models
CHAPTER 20 - Scenario Analysis
CHAPTER 21 - Historical Climate Impact Assessments
CHAPTER 22 - Recent Assessments
Kates, R. W., 1978. Risk Assessment of Environmental Hazard, ICSU/SCOPE Report No. 8, Wiley International.
CHAPTER 1 - Coping with Environmental Hazard
CHAPTER 2 - Risk Assessment Methodology
CHAPTER 3 - Organized Modes of Assessment
CHAPTER 4 - Trends and Attitudes in Assessing Environmental Threat
Haas, J. E., R. W. Kates, and M. J. Bowden (eds.), 1977. Reconstruction Following Disaster. The MIT Press.
CHAPTER 1 - Reconstruction following disaster
CHAPTER 2 - Reconstruction issues in perspective
CHAPTER 3 - Reestablishing homes and jobs: Cities
CHAPTER 4 - Reestablishing homes and jobs: Families
CHAPTER 5 - Alternative pasts and futures
CHAPTER 6 - Major insights: A summary and recommendations
Russell, C. S., D. G. Arey, and R. W. Kates, 1970. Drought and Water Supply: Implications of the Massachusetts Experience for Municipal Planning. The Johns Hopkins Press.
CHAPTER 1 - Research as an aid to water supply planning
CHAPTER 2 - Part I, Water supply and demand: The level of system inadequacy
CHAPTER 3 - Water supply systems and the level of supply
CHAPTER 4 - Measurement of the demand for water
CHAPTER 5 - Part II, Climatic variation, the level of shortage, and the nature of short-run adjustments
CHAPTER 6 - Climatic variation: Measurement and perception
CHAPTER 7 - Shortage in relation to system inadequacy: An a priori model and the empirical results
CHAPTER 8 - Drought adjustment: The response to shortage
CHAPTER 9 - Part III, The economic impact of water shortage
CHAPTER 10 - The cost of the drought: Correction of initial estimates for various economic considerations
CHAPTER 11 - Per capita losses and their relation to shortage
CHAPTER 12 - Part IV, A planning model for municipal water supply systems
CHAPTER 13 - The cost of additions to safe yield
CHAPTER 14 - A capacity expansion planning model for municipal water supply systems
CHAPTER 15 - Part V, Practical system planning
CHAPTER 16 - The framework for water supply decisions
CHAPTER 17 - Historical profiles of five Massachusetts water supply systems: Comparison of actual and attainable results
CHAPTER 18 - Drought and water supply: Concluding comments
APPENDIX A - A preliminary test of the demand projections
Kates, R. W., 1962, Hazard and Choice Perception in Flood Plain Management, University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research, Paper No. 78.
CHAPTER 1 - Geographic research and flood damage reduction
CHAPTER 2 - Decision-making and resources management
CHAPTER 3 - The study: Strategy, sites, and methods
CHAPTER 4 - Probability and hazards evaluation
CHAPTER 5 - The perception and adoption of alternative flood damage reduction measures
CHAPTER 6 - Information and decision-making in flood damage reduction