AR Siders

Biden School of Public Policy and Administration & Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences

University of Delaware

Siders is an Assistant Professor in the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Geography at the University of Delaware. She is the Director of the Climate Change Science and Policy Hub and a core faculty member of the Disaster Research Center. Siders is a member of Climigration Network, Ocean Visions, and the Global Center for Climate Resilience, and has worked both internationally and in the US on the national security implications of climate change. Siders' interdisciplinary background includes holding a JD from Harvard and a PhD from the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Natural Resources at Stanford University.

Siders’ research focuses on climate change adaptation governance, decision-making, and evaluation. Her recent projects have focused on managed retreat as an adaptation strategy and the social justice implications of coastal adaptation. She has led several reviews of managed retreat practices in the United States, including quantitative spatial analyses of buyouts in response to hazards, policy evaluations of the equity and social justice implications for managed retreat, and case studies of buyout practices and policy designs.