Emily Boyd
Research Areas
Sustainability science, climate adaptation and resilience, development, governance.
Biography
Emily Boyd is Professor in sustainability studies and a leading social scientist with a specialist focus on environment and climate change. Her unique focus has been on the interdisciplinary nexus of poverty, livelihoods and resilience in relation to global environmental change, focusing on issues pertaining to cities, sustainable land use, water and deforestation in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia and Europe. Her work has been published across the social and sustainability sciences with notable publications on resilience, adaptation and the politics and practice of community participation in the new carbon economy.
Research
Emily Boyd's current research focus in on undesirable resilience, politics of loss and damage and intersectionality in societal transitions, including on transformations under climate change.
Research projects
FATHUM (Forecasts for Anticipatory HUManitarian action)
MISTY (Migration, Transformation and Sustainability (NORFACE Belmont Forum)
Past research and leadership
Emily Boyd was previously a professor in resilience geography (2013-2016) and a reader in environment and development (2011-2013) at University of Reading. She has previously had a number of leadership roles as research division lead for global development at University of Reading, including departmental impact lead and research director in the School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences (SAGES), Reading University.
Her past research includes fieldwork in Mozambique where she was co-lead on a UN award-winning research project with informal settlements in Maputo, and on resilience and food security among coffee and cocoa producers in Ethiopia and Ghana as part of an ESPA, NERC-ESRC-DFID funded consortium project.
Teaching
Since, 2000 Emily has taught and coordinated a number of sustainability and development related courses. Her teaching portfolio includes topics on sustainability, geographies of resilience, climate change and development, and research methods.
At LUCSUS, Emily Boyd runs the LUMES masters course Resilience and Sustainable Development (2018-).
She has been graduate supervisor to up to 40 PhD and Masters theses.
Publications
Retrieved from Lund University's publications database
Publications
- 2019
- "Vi klimatforskare stödjer Greta och skolungdomarna"
(2019) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper article - Deliberation for wildfire risk management : Addressing conflicting views in the Chiquitania, Bolivia
(2019) Geographical Journal
Journal article - Event Attribution science in adaptation decision-making : the context of extreme rainfall in urban Senegal
(2019) Climate and Development
Journal article
- "Vi klimatforskare stödjer Greta och skolungdomarna"
- 2018
- Attribution: How Is It Relevant for Loss and Damage Policy and Practice?
(2018)
Book chapter - Examining equity in Ghana's national REDD+ process
(2018) Forest Policy and Economics
Journal article - Illegality and inequity in Ghana's cocoa-forest landscape : How formalization can undermine farmers control and benefits from trees on their farms
(2018) Land Use Policy
Journal article - Overcoming undesirable resilience in the global food system
(2018) Global Sustainability
Journal article - Pursuing climate resilient coffee in Ethiopia – A critical review
(2018) Geoforum
Journal article - Science for loss and damage. Findings and propositions
(2018)
Book chapter - Storylines : an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change
(2018) Climatic Change
Journal article - Understanding Poverty in Cash-crop Agro-forestry Systems : Evidence from Ghana and Ethiopia
(2018) Ecological Economics
Journal article - Understanding climate resilience in Ghanaian cocoa communities – Advancing a biocultural perspective
(2018) Journal of Rural Studies
Journal article - Vulnerability of Ghanaian women cocoa farmers to climate change : a typology
(2018) Climate and Development
Journal article
- Attribution: How Is It Relevant for Loss and Damage Policy and Practice?
- 2017
- A typology of loss and damage perspectives
(2017) Nature Climate Change
Journal article review - Are REDD+ community forest projects following the principles for collective action, as proposed by Ostrom?
(2017) International Journal of the Commons
Journal article - Assessing the adaptive capacity of multi-level water governance : ecosystem services under climate change in Mälardalen region, Sweden
(2017) Regional Environmental Change
Journal article - Climate adaptation : Holistic thinking beyond technology
(2017) Nature Climate Change
Journal article - Stakeholder perceptions of event attribution in the loss and damage debate
(2017) Climate Policy
Journal article
- A typology of loss and damage perspectives
- 2016
- Anticipating future risk in social-ecological systems using fuzzy cognitive mapping : The case of wildfire in the Chiquitania, Bolivia
(2016) Ecology and Society
Journal article - Loss and damage livelihood resilience : 5 key insights from the Resilience Academy and 5 recommendations for the 5-year work plan on Loss and Damage
(2016) POLICY Briefs
Report - Partnerships for climate change in Maputo, Mozambique
(2016)
Book chapter - Using a Game to Engage Stakeholders in Extreme Event Attribution Science
(2016) International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Journal article
- Anticipating future risk in social-ecological systems using fuzzy cognitive mapping : The case of wildfire in the Chiquitania, Bolivia
- 2015
- Adaptive climate change governance for urban resilience
(2015) Urban Studies
Journal article - Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience
(2015) Ambio
Journal article - Attribution of extreme weather events in Africa: a preliminary exploration of the science and policy implications
(2015) Climatic Change
Journal article - Building collaborative partnerships for climate change action in Maputo, Mozambique
(2015) Environment and Planning A
Journal article - Climate change adaptation in Mumbai, India
(2015)
Book chapter - Implications of event attribution for loss and damage policy
(2015) Weather
Journal article - Interacting effects of change in climate, human population, land use, and water use on biodiversity and ecosystem services
(2015) Ecology and Society
Journal article - Linking classroom learning and research to advance ideas about social-ecological resilience
(2015) Ecology and Society
Journal article - Literature Review on Energy Access and Adaptation to Climate Change
(2015)
Report - Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique/Planeamento participativo para o desenvolvimento compativel com o clima em Maputo, Moçambique : Planeamento participativo para o desenvolvimento compativel com o clima em Maputo, Moçambique
(2015)
Book - Participatory urban planning for climate change adaptation in coastal cities: Lessons from a pilot experience in Maputo, Mozambique
(2015) Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Journal article
- Adaptive climate change governance for urban resilience
- 2014
- Building adaptive capacity in the informal settlements of Maputo
(2014)
Book chapter - Characterizing loss and damage from climate change
(2014) Nature Climate Change
Journal article - Climate change and development
(2014)
Book chapter - Environmentalities of urban climate governance in Maputo, Mozambique
(2014) Global Environmental Change
Journal article - Exploring Adaptive Governance for Managing Tipping Points
(2014) British Academy original paperbacks
Book chapter - Inside story: a local vision of climate adaptation
(2014)
Report - Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) scoping study: Annex 3-Early warning system and risk assessment case studies
(2014)
Report
- Building adaptive capacity in the informal settlements of Maputo
- 2013
- Building climate resilience: Lessons of early warning in Africa
(2013)
Book chapter - Building resilience to face recurring environmental crisis in African Sahel
(2013) Nature Climate Change
Journal article - Case Study 5: Watching the rains to build resilience in the African Sahel
(2013)
Report chapter - Incorporando o desenvolvimento sustentável aos projetos de carbono florestal no Brasil e na Bolivia
(2013) Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura
Journal article - Innovations for enabling urban climate governance: Evidence from Mumbai
(2013) Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
Journal article
- Building climate resilience: Lessons of early warning in Africa
- 2012
- Can REDD+ reconcile local priorities and needs with global mitigation benefits? Lessons from angai forest, Tanzania
(2012) Ecology and Society
Journal article - Climate Change: A Beginner's Guide
(2012)
Book - Earth system science and society: on the anthroposphere
(2012)
Book chapter - The New Carbon Economy: Constitution, Governance and Contestation
(2012) The New Carbon Economy
Book
- Can REDD+ reconcile local priorities and needs with global mitigation benefits? Lessons from angai forest, Tanzania
- 2011
- A social life for carbon? Commodification, markets and care
(2011) Geographical Journal
Journal article - Adapting institutions, adaptive governance and complexity : An introduction
(2011)
Book chapter - Adapting to global climate change : Evaluating resilience in two networked public institutions
(2011)
Book chapter - Conclusions : Adapting institutions and resilience
(2011)
Book chapter - Exploring social barriers to adaptation: Insights from Western Nepal
(2011) Global Environmental Change
Journal article - Leading the UK adaptation agenda: a landscape of stakeholders and networked organizations for adaptation to climate change
(2011)
Book chapter - The Clean Development Mechanism as ethical development?: Reconciling emissions trading and local development
(2011) Journal of International Development
Journal article - The “New” Carbon Economy: What's New?
(2011) Antipode
Journal article - Tripping the Carbon Fantastic: The Clean Development Mechanism as Ethical Development?
(2011)
Working paper - Using learning networks to understand complex systems: a case study of biological, geophysical and social research in the Amazon
(2011) Biological Reviews
Journal article
- A social life for carbon? Commodification, markets and care
- 2010
- Observed adaptation to climate change: UK evidence of transition to a well-adapting society
(2010) Global Environmental Change
Journal article - Protecting degraded rainforests: Enhancement of forest carbon stocks under REDD+
(2010) Conservation Letters
Journal article - Resilience and vulnerability: Complementary or conflicting concepts?
(2010) Ecology and Society
Journal article - Responses to climate change: Exploring organisational learning across internationally networked organisations for development
(2010) Environmental Education Research
Journal article - Societal choice for climate change futures: Trees, biotechnology, and clean development
(2010) BioScience
Journal article
- Observed adaptation to climate change: UK evidence of transition to a well-adapting society
- 2009
- An Inventory of Adaptation to climate change in the UK: challenges and findings
(2009)
Working paper - Billions at stake in climate finance: four key lessons
(2009) IIED Briefing Papers
Report - Earth system science and society
(2009)
Book chapter - Exploring development futures in a changing climate: frontiers for development policy and practice
(2009) Development Policy Review
Journal article - Governing the Clean Development Mechanism: Global rhetoric versus local realities in carbon sequestration projects
(2009) Environment and Planning A
Journal article - How can the clean development mechanism better contribute to sustainable development?
(2009) Ambio
Journal article - Reforming the CDM for sustainable development: lessons learned and policy futures
(2009) Environmental Science and Policy
Journal article - Stepping up to the climate change: Opportunities in re-conceptualising development futures
(2009) Journal of International Development
Journal article - The politics of adaptation across scales: the implications of additionality to policy choice and development
(2009) Politics of series
Book chapter - Using expert elicitation to define successful adaptation to climate change
(2009) Environmental Science and Policy
Journal article
- An Inventory of Adaptation to climate change in the UK: challenges and findings
- 2008
- A less disastrous disaster: Managing response to climate-driven hazards in the Cayman Islands and NE Brazil
(2008) Global Environmental Change
Journal article - Navigating Amazonia under uncertainty: Past, present and future environmental governance
(2008) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Journal article - Prosperous negligence: Governing the clean development mechanism for markets and development
(2008) Environmental International
Journal article - Resilience and 'Climatizing' development: Examples and policy implications
(2008) Development
Journal article - The CDM, ethics and development
(2008)
Book chapter - UNFCCC negotiations (pre-Kyoto to COP-9): What the process says about the politics of CDM-sinks
(2008) International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Journal article
- A less disastrous disaster: Managing response to climate-driven hazards in the Cayman Islands and NE Brazil
- 2007
- Developing adaptation and adapting development
(2007) Ecology and Society
Journal article - Exploring socioeconomic impacts of forest based mitigation projects: Lessons from Brazil and Bolivia
(2007) Environmental Science and Policy
Journal article - Linking Futures across Scales: a Dialog on Multiscale Scenarios
(2007) Ecology and Society
Journal article - Small-scale forest carbon projects: Adapting CDM to low-income communities
(2007) Global Environmental Change
Journal article - The Clean Development Mechanism : An assessment of current practice and future approaches for policy
(2007) Tyndall Working Paper
Working paper
- Developing adaptation and adapting development
- 2006
- Scales of governance in carbon sinks global priorities and local realities
(2006)
Book chapter - UNFCCC COP 11 and COP/MOP 1: At last, some hope?
(2006) Journal of Environment and Development
Journal article
- Scales of governance in carbon sinks global priorities and local realities
- 2005
- Adapting small-scale CDM sinks projects to lowincome communities
(2005)
Working paper - Incorporating sustainable development into carbon forest projects in Brazil and Bolivia
(2005) Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura
Journal article - Linking adaptation research and practice : A report submitted to Defra as part of the Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Cross-Regional Research Programme
(2005)
Report - Surviving climate change in small islands. A guidebook
(2005)
Book
- Adapting small-scale CDM sinks projects to lowincome communities
- 2004
- How do CDM projects contribute to sustainable development?
(2004) Tyndall Centre Technical Report
Report - Local sustainable development effects of forest carbon projects in Brazil and Bolivia: a view from the field
(2004)
Report - The politics of afforestation and reforestation activities at COP-9 and SB-20
(2004) Tyndall Briefing Paper
Journal article
- How do CDM projects contribute to sustainable development?
- 2003
- Forests post Kyoto: Global priorities and local realities
(2003)
Dissertation
- Forests post Kyoto: Global priorities and local realities
- 2002
- The Noel Kempff project in Bolivia: Gender, power, and decision-making in climate mitigation
(2002) Gender and Development
Journal article - The marrakech accord- at the crossroad to ratification: Seventh conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(2002) Journal of Environment and Development
Journal article - The paradox of the CDM and sustainable development
(2002) International Forestry Review
Journal article - Working Forests in the Tropics: Conservation through Sustainable Management. Conference report
(2002) The Forestry Chronicle
Journal article (comment)
- The Noel Kempff project in Bolivia: Gender, power, and decision-making in climate mitigation
- 2001
- Review: Land use, land use change, and forestry: special report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change
(2001) International Forestry Review
Review
- Review: Land use, land use change, and forestry: special report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change
- 2000
- An interdisciplinary framework for research on global environmental issues
(2000) GEC Working Paper
Working paper
- An interdisciplinary framework for research on global environmental issues
Professor
LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Wrangel, 114
Wrangel, Biskopsgatan 5, Lund
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Short Biography
Emily Boyd is Director of Lund University Centre for Sustainaibility Studies and Professor in Sustainability Science. She is a leading social scientist with a background in international development, environment and climate change, with focus on the interdisciplinary nexus of poverty, livelihoods and resilience in relation to global environmental change. Emily Boyd is currently leading work on undesirable resilience, politics of loss and damage and intersectionality in societal transitions, including on transformations under climate change.
Emily Boyd is an author for the IPCC, IPBES, and UKCCRA and a Earth System Governance Senior Fellow.
