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Emily Boyd

Emily Boyd

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
11309
World Ranking
4439
National Ranking
84

Overview

Emily Boyd is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and focuses their academic work on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of environmental science and social sciences. Their research integrates topics related to climate change, adaptation, governance, and social impacts.

Their recent publication record includes papers such as:

  • "Stop blaming the climate for disasters," 2022, published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy," 2020, published in Sustainability Science
  • "Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda," 2021, published in One Earth
  • "Towards a bridging concept for undesirable resilience in social-ecological systems," 2020, published in Global Sustainability
  • "Unearthing the myths of global sustainable forest governance," 2020, published in Global Sustainability

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Emily Boyd include:

  • Murray Scown
  • Emmanuel Raju
  • Brian C. Chaffin
  • W. Neil Adger
  • Anita Fábos

Their publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Global Sustainability
  • World Development
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Emily Boyd's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, their research subfields also encompass:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Economics and Econometrics

The primary topical focus areas of their work are:

  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Best Publications

  • Resilience and vulnerability: Complementary or conflicting concepts?

    Fiona Miller;Henny Osbahr;Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Frank Thomalla

  • Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

    Theodore G. Shepherd;Emily Boyd;Raphael A. Calel;Raphael A. Calel;Sandra C. Chapman;Sandra C. Chapman

  • Exploring social barriers to adaptation: Insights from Western Nepal

    Lindsey Jones;Emily Boyd

  • Observed adaptation to climate change: UK evidence of transition to a well-adapting society

    Emma L. Tompkins;Emma L. Tompkins;W. Neil Adger;Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Sophie Nicholson-Cole

  • Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement

    Andrea Joslyn Nightingale;Siri Eriksen;Marcus Taylor;Timothy Forsyth

  • Reforming the CDM for sustainable development: lessons learned and policy futures.

    Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Nate Hultman;J. Timmons Roberts;Esteve Corbera

  • Linking Futures across Scales: a Dialog on Multiscale Scenarios

    Reinette Biggs;Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne;Carol Atkinson-Palombo;Erin Bohensky

  • Using expert elicitation to define successful adaptation to climate change

    Miguel de França Doria;Emily Boyd;Emma L. Tompkins;W. Neil Adger

  • Building climate resilience: Lessons of early warning in Africa

    E. Boyd;E. Boyd;Rosalind J. Cornforth

  • Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience

    Emily Boyd;Björn Nykvist;Björn Nykvist;Sara Borgström;Izabela A. Stacewicz

  • Developing adaptation and adapting development

    Maria Carmen Lemos;Maria Carmen Lemos;Emily Boyd;Emma L. Tompkins;Henny Osbahr

  • Stop blaming the climate for disasters

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  • Small-scale forest carbon projects: Adapting CDM to low-income communities

    Emily Boyd;Maria Gutierrez;Manyu Chang

  • Adapting Institutions: Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience

    Emily Boyd;Carl Folke

  • Adaptive climate change governance for urban resilience

    Emily Boyd;Sirkku Juhola

  • Characterizing loss and damage from climate change

    Rachel James;Friedericke Otto;Hannah Parker;Emily Boyd

  • Governing the Clean Development Mechanism: Global Rhetoric versus Local Realities in Carbon Sequestration Projects

    Emily Boyd

  • Can REDD+ reconcile local priorities and needs with global mitigation benefits? Lessons from angai forest, Tanzania

    Irmeli Mustalahti;Anna Bolin;Emily Boyd;Jouni Paavola

  • A typology of loss and damage perspectives

    Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Rachel A. James;Rachel A. James;Richard G. Jones;Richard G. Jones;Hannah R. Young

  • Overcoming undesirable resilience in the global food system

    Tom H. Oliver;Emily Boyd;Kelvin Balcombe;Tim G. Benton

  • Surviving climate change in small islands. A guidebook

    Emma L. Tompkins;Sophie Nicholson-Cole;Lisa-Ann Hurlston;Emily Boyd

  • Resilience and 'Climatizing' Development: Examples and policy implications

    Emily Boyd;Henny Osbahr;Polly J Ericksen;Emma L Tompkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Emma L. Tompkins
Emma L. Tompkins University of Southampton
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Sirkku Juhola
Sirkku Juhola University of Helsinki
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Friederike E. L. Otto
Friederike E. L. Otto University of Oxford
Ken Norris
Ken Norris Zoological Society of London
Peter Newell
Peter Newell University of Sussex
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading

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