Edward Carr
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
Visitin Scholar, Sustainability and Social Justice
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Edward R. Carr is a geographer and anthropologist whose career and research focus on exploring alternative ways of achieving meaningful and enduring improvements to human well-being. His work provides insights into the ways development and adaptation interventions impact human well-being, both positive and negative, how livelihoods work to order agrarian and other worlds, and how resilience presents both barriers to, and opportunities for, the transformative changes needed to manage our world. He also directs the Humanitarian Response and Development Lab (HURDL), which is based in the George Perkins Marsh Institute. HURDL’s wide-ranging work includes policy development, and project and program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, all undertaken with the goal of assisting individuals and communities to build foundations for innovative development. He is the author of more than 70 publications on issues of development, livelihoods, adaptation to climate change, and the evolving global environment. Carr’s research and practice has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, United States Agency for International Development, UK Department for International Development, World Resources Institute, World Bank, and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.
His research is intimately connected to efforts to produce policies and programs that improve the human condition. He is currently the Panel Member on Climate Change Adaptation on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility. Previously, Carr served as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the U.S. Agency for International Development. In this role, he was the first climate change coordinator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, and later served as an adviser on the Climate Change Team in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and the Environment. Carr has also served as the lead author of two global environmental assessments, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and The United Nations Environment Programme's Fourth Global Environment Outlook, and is a lead author for Working Group II of the current Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Geography, University of Kentucky, 2002
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, Syracuse University, 2001
- M.A. in Anthropology, Syracuse University, 1998
- B.A. in English/American Studies/Archaeology, University of Virginia, 1995
Affiliated Department(s)
- Sustainability and Social Justice
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Engendering Just Transitions: Dilemmas for India’s Climate Policy
Chapter: Transitions, policy, and implementation through a feminist lensPublished by Routledge
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2023
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Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Chapter: We are not doomed to climate chaosPublished by Haymarket Books
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2023
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Climate Services and Transformational Adaptation
Sustainability
January
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2023
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Adaptation rationales and benefits: A foundation for understanding adaptation impact
Climate Risk Management
January
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2023
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Gender Equity in Climate Action: the Landscape, the Impact, and the Path Forward
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World Resources Institute, Washington, DC
April
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2022
Sponsored by World Resources Institute
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Critical geographic perspectives on climate-resilient pathways 4 (Virtual Panel): Reflections on the IPCC report
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
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April
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2022
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Intersectional Emergency: Climate Action in New England
Historic New England Summit
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Worcester, MA
October
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2022
Sponsored by Historic New England
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Envisioning 2050
American Water Works Association Water 2050 Think Tank
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Las Vegas, NV
September
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2022
Sponsored by American Water Works Association
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Climate Adaptation: Building Community Resilience
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May
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2022
Sponsored by Zero Carbon Guilford
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Observations, Environments, Decisions, Actions
the Keck Institute Space Studies virtual mini symposium on Earth Observations in Support of Climate and Environmental Security
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Virtual
November
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2022
Sponsored by Keck Institute
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Awards & Grants
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Climate Adaptation Support Facility
US Agency for International Development (subcontract through TetraTech)
Oct. 3, 2022 - Jul. 31, 2027
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Migration, transformation, and sustainability
Belmont Forum/NSF
Mar. 1, 2019 - Dec. 15, 2021
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