Edward Carr
Professor, IDCE
Department Chair, IDCE
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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)
- IDCE
- Geography, Marsh Institute
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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
Published in Sustainability
January
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2023
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Adaptation rationales and benefits: A foundation for understanding adaptation impact
Published in 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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Transformational Adaptation as an Applied STS Problem
Harvard University Science and Technology Studies Roundtable
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Cambridge, MA
September
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2022
Sponsored by Harvard University
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Systemic Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
2022
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2022
Working Paper: Tetra Tech under the USAID BIFAD Support Contract.
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10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022
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2022
Future Earth, The Earth League, World Climate Research Program
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Stockholm
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Final Evaluation Report: Adapting Agriculture to Climate Today, for Tomorrow (ACToday)
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2022
Columbia World Projects
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New York, NY
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A decision tree for adaptation rationale. A STAP Advisory Document
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2022
Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel to the Global Environment Facility
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Ten new insights in climate science 2022
Published in Global Sustainability
2022
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2022
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Vol. 5
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Issue #e20
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Chapter: Climate Resilient Development PathwaysPublished by Cambridge University Press
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2022
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Impact pathways from climate services to SDG2 (“zero hunger”): A synthesis of evidence
Published in Climate Risk Management
January
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2022
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Vol. 35
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Experiential dimensions of sustainable cities: migrants’ perceptions of sustainability
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
May
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2022
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Enhancing climate services design and implementation through gender-responsive evaluation
Published in Frontiers in Climate
September
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2022
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What to expect when you don’t know what you are expecting: Vigilance and the monitoring and evaluation of an uncertain world
Published in American Journal of Evaluation
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2022
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Property rights and wrongs: Land reforms for sustainable food production in rural Mali
2021
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2021
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Vol. 109
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Changing Climate and Transportation Network–The need for increased attention to Social Equality and Justice
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Online
July
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2021
Sponsored by Millennium Challenge Corporation
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A Climate Resilient Future is an Equitable, Just Future
Innovation for a Sustainable, Equitable Transportation System
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Online
June
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2021
Sponsored by US Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center Thought Leadership Speaker Series
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Chasing Integrative Power: Why it matters, what it involves, what promotes/inhibits it? 20 years of the International Development, Community & Environment (IDCE) Department at Clark University
Published in J. Higher Education
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2021
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An Integrative Collaborative Project Approach to Climate-Change Resilience and Urban/Regional Sustainability for the Mexico City Region
Published in J. Sustainable Development
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2021
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Identifying and Fostering Foundations for Locally-Led Adaptation
Gobeshona Conference 2020
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Virtual/Global
January
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2021
Sponsored by Gobeshona Network
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The migration-sustainability paradox: transformations in mobile worlds
Published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
April
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2021
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Vol. 49
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More than (Wo)men: Why Intersectionality is Critical for Effective and Just Adaptation
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Feminist Pathways to Just and Sustainable Futures
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UMASS-Boston (virtual)
October
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2020
Sponsored by Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights
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Property Rights and Wrongs: Land Reforms for Sustainable Food Production in Rural Mali
Published in Land Use Policy
December
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2020
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Why behavior change matters to the GEF and what to do about it.
December
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2020
Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility
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Who's Governing Community Forests? Gendered Participation in Liberian Forest Management
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2020
World Resources Institute
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Washington, DC
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Gender and Security: Strategies for the 21st Century
Chapter: Gender and Environmental SecurityPublished by Routledge
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2020
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Resilient Livelihoods in an Era of Global Transformation
Published in Global Environmental Change
September
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2020
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Vol. 64
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Identifying climate information services users and their needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review and learning agenda
Published in Climate and Development
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2020
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Vol. 12
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Issue #1
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In Defense of Ugly Maps
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
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Washington, DC
April
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2019
Sponsored by American Association of Geographers
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Properties and Projects: Reframing Socio-ecological Resilience for Adaptation and Development
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
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Washington, DC
April
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2019
Sponsored by American Association of Geographers
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Livelihoods, Socio-ecological Resilience, and Smallholder Transformations
McGrann Conference
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Rutgers University, New Jersey
October
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2019
Sponsored by Rutgers University
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Properties and projects: Reconciling resilience and transformation for adaptation and development
Published in World Development
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2019
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Vol. 122
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Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
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2019
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Vol. 3
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Issue #April
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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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