Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
· Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the EnvironmentStanford University · Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Active 2005–2026
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About
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi is an Associate Professor of Earth System Science and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist, grounded in psychology and decision science, who seeks to understand how people make decisions to address the impacts of climate change and how effective interventions can empower them to make decisions that benefit their lives, communities, and society. Her work primarily focuses on frontline communities experiencing the 'first and worst' of climate change. Dr. Wong-Parodi employs multiple convergent methods, including interviews, surveys, experiments, longitudinal designs, ecological momentary assessments, and remote and personal sensing. She pursues a community-based approach in her research, emphasizing collaboration with communities. Her research topics encompass energy, adaptation, mitigation, emerging technologies, conservation, health, and sustainability across the U.S., China, and Costa Rica. She currently serves on several advisory boards, including the American Psychological Association's Climate Change Task Force, the National Academies advisory board to the U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program, and the NSF's Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Science Plan. Dr. Wong-Parodi holds a B.A. in Psychology from UC Berkeley, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley.
Selected publications
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
Nature Climate Change · 2021 · 602 citations
Journal of Environmental Psychology · 2021-11-19 · 98 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingPsychological and contextual determinants of clean energy technology adoption
Nature Reviews Clean Technology · 2025-06-06 · 17 citations
articleThe Lancet Planetary Health · 2024-06-01 · 14 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorBACKGROUND: Exposure to climate change-related threats (eg, hurricanes) has been associated with mental health symptoms, including post-traumatic stress symptoms. Yet it is unclear whether climate change anxiety, which is understudied in representative samples, is a specific mental health threat, action motivator, or both, particularly in populations exposed to climate-change related disasters. We sought to examine the associations between exposure to hurricanes, climate change anxiety, and clim…
Communications Earth & Environment · 2024-11-07 · 5 citations
articleOpen accessThe planned, permanent relocation of entire communities away from sea level rise (SLR) and coastal floods is an already occurring climate change adaptation strategy. Yet, planned relocations are fraught undertakings with multiple goals, and may or may not achieve their most basic objective: to reduce risk. Here we assess risk of future coastal flooding before and after moving, for three dates and three emissions scenarios, for 17 communities from a global dataset. Most communities achieved expos…
Awards & honors
- American Psychological Association's Climate Change Task For…
- National Academies advisory board to the U.S. Global Climate…
- National Science Foundation's Natural Hazards Engineering Re…
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