Petra Tschakert conducts research at the intersection of political ecology, climate change adaptation, social-ecological resilience, environmental justice, livelihood security, and participatory action research and learning within a development context. Her work explores structural drivers of vulnerability and marginalization, anticipatory learning and flexible planning under climate change, and processes of subject making in resource extraction, mainly in West Africa. She was Coordinating Lead Author on Chapter 13, Livelihoods and Poverty, of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II on Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation, and core writing team member for the Summary for Policy Makers, WGII, and the Synthesis Report (2014).