Profile

Emily Boyd is a social scientist with a background in Development, complemented with a degree in forestry and land use change, and a PhD in climate change and development from the University of East Anglia Norwich. Emily is currently a James Martin/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and a member of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Emily specialises in the human-environment interface, focusing on governance and politics of natural resource management in the context of global environmental change. She is one of the first researchers to empirically examine the sustainable development impacts of carbon offset and CDM projects across scales of governance and has been a research associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, examining successful adaptation to climate change. She has three research areas of particular interest: theorising the carbon economy and carbon markets for development, whereby she is investigating ways in which new environmental governance structures and processes, i.e. voluntary or regulated, influence, help or hinder local institutions. She is particularly concerned with questions of property rights, accountability and power dynamics between different agents, structure and how these interplay with ecological systems. She is interested in issues of complexity and feedbacks, and in particular how agency and power relate to concepts of resilience, and development.

She also works for the Stockholm Resilience Centre, where she is co-leading the theme on adaptive governance in landscapes and seascapes. She is heading a team on multi-level governance in social-ecological systems looking at a cross-scale study of Unesco Man and Biosphere Reserves. The study looks at the governance of Reserves across different institutional scales drawing on mixed research methods, including conceptual mapping and network analysis.

Recent Publications

Emily's recent publications can be seen on her research project pages:

• Theorising the Carbon Economy: Carbon Markets for Development
• Transforming Governance and Adaptation to Sustainable Futures