Edward R Carr
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 128176 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Edward R Carr |
| PRENOMES | Edward R |
| SOBRENOME | Carr |
| ASSINATURA | CARR E R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7784-471X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 397 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Supporting researchers’ engagement in international science–policy bodies
Pathways for urgent action towards climate resilient development
Migrants as sustainability actors
Migrants are sustainability actors in their urban destinations. • Sustainability policy overlook the transformative role of migrants. • Technocratic and assimilationist notions dominate sustainability policy discourse. • Sustainability policy should embrace migration and plurality. Although it is widely recognized that migration is socially transformative, the potential contributions of migrants to transformations towards sustainability in their …
Covid-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration
Research on the impacts of COVID-19 on mobility has focused primarily on the increased health vulnerabilities of involuntary migrant and displaced populations. But virtually all migration flows have been truncated and altered because of reduced economic and mobility opportunities of migrants. Here we use a well-established framework of migration decision-making, whereby individual decisions combine the aspiration and ability to migrate, to explai…
What to Expect When You Don’t Know What You are Expecting
Complexity and uncertainty are long-standing challenges for global development projects. Coping with both requires flexibility and adaptation, the ability to identify unexpected circumstances, seize opportunities, and respond to threats. Vigilance is critical; it resides within the domains of monitoring, evaluation, and learning. In practice, maintaining vigilance is difficult, partly because effective vigilance has a dual nature. Normal, Type 1 …
The migration-sustainability paradox
Migration represents a major transformation of the lives of those involved and has been transformative of societies and economies globally. Yet models of sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate the movement of populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: migration plays a role as a driver of unsustainability as part of economic globalisation, yet simultaneously represents a transformative phenomenon an…
Property rights and wrongs
Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interac…
Resilient livelihoods in an era of global transformation
Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa
Weather and climate services (WCS) are expected to improve the capacity of Africa's agricultural sector to manage the risks of climate variability and change. Despite this, a lack of evidence prevents a realistic analysis of whether such services are delivering on their potential. This paper reviews 66 studies that have evaluated outcomes and/or impacts of agricultural WCS in Africa, highlighting areas that have received relatively more attention…
Properties and projects
Re-imagining environmental science and policy graduate education for the twenty-first century using an integrative frame
Do markets and trade help or hurt the global food system adapt to climate change
Understanding Women’s Needs for Weather and Climate Information in Agrarian Settings
While climate services have the potential to reduce precipitation- and temperature-related risks to agrarian livelihoods, such outcomes are possible only when they deliver information that is salient, legitimate, and credible to end users. This is particularly true of climate services intended to address the needs of women in agrarian contexts. The design of such gender-sensitive services is hampered by oversimplified framings of women as a group…
Moving beyond the monolith
Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings
Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of 'men' and 'women' as sole or principal divisions explaining the abilities of different people within a group to adapt to climate change, illustrates this …
The shifting epistemologies of vulnerability in climate services for development
The field of climate services for development ( CSD ) is growing rapidly, presented by donors and implementers as an opportunity to address the needs of the global poor, whether informing agricultural decisionmaking in rural communities, facilitating disaster preparedness or promoting public health. To realise this potential, however, CSD projects must understand the information needs of their intended users. This raises a critical epistemologica…
The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk
Introduction
At the 2011 Association of American Geographers’ (aag) Annual Meeting we convened a panel to explore and debate the role of academics in development implementation and policy. The enthusiasm for th
Conclusions – engaging critical perspectives in development policy and implementation
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings
The impacts of climate variability and change impinge upon different lives and livelihoods within agrarian populations in complex ways. While academic, donor, and implementer efforts to understand and act on this complexity have been profoundly influenced by gender analysis, most contemporary analyses are predicated on a construction of gender as binary (men versus women). This approach runs contrary to current understandings of gender and identi…
Broke but unbroken
Broke but unbroken: grassroots social movements and their radical solutions to poverty, by Augusta Dwyer, Halifax, Fernwood Publishing, 2011, 169 pp., $19.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781565494473 Written
Livelihoods as Intimate Government
Livelihoods approaches emerged from a broad range of efforts to understand how people live in particular places. They have since cohered into often instrumentally applied frameworks that rest on the broadly held assumption that livelihoods are principally about the management of one's material circumstances. This assumption limits the explanatory power of livelihoods approaches by shifting a range of motivations for livelihoods decisions outside …
Delivering Development
Calls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy. Compels the reader t
A Day at the Beach
Dominase sits on the eastern edge of roughly 11 acres of flat land surrounded by hills to the east, south, and northwest. It is comprised of a tight cluster of a half-dozen earth-walled structures with tin roofs and a single open well with a concrete shaft. The ground around and between these structures is packed earth. There is no vegetation at all within the boundaries of the village. Though it is only three miles from the highway and the high-…
The Tide Goes Out
We have clear evidence from the 1940s on that the residents of Dominase and Ponkrum had some understanding of the larger networks in which they were caught up, and they understood how to manipulate those in charge of those networks to get things they wanted. Farmers in these villages were growing cocoa and oil palm as well as various food crops. They buttressed their agricultural incomes with wage and commercial activities facilitated by the road…
Men’s Crops and Women’s Crops
Seeing Redd+ as a project of environmental governance
Properties and projects
Livelihoods as Intimate Government
Livelihoods approaches emerged from a broad range of efforts to understand how people live in particular places. They have since cohered into often instrumentally applied frameworks that rest on the broadly held assumption that livelihoods are principally about the management of one's material circumstances. This assumption limits the explanatory power of livelihoods approaches by shifting a range of motivations for livelihoods decisions outside …
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings
The impacts of climate variability and change impinge upon different lives and livelihoods within agrarian populations in complex ways. While academic, donor, and implementer efforts to understand and act on this complexity have been profoundly influenced by gender analysis, most contemporary analyses are predicated on a construction of gender as binary (men versus women). This approach runs contrary to current understandings of gender and identi…
Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income
Between structure and agency
The co-production of livelihoods and land use change
The co-production of land use and livelihoods change
The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk
Placing the Environment in Migration
This paper examines the role of environmental change as a driver of migration, a central concern of areas of inquiry ranging from the Human Dimensions of Global Change research to population geography and development studies. Although much of the literature on the role of the environment in migration reflects a general awareness that environmental factors are but one of a suite of influences shaping migration decisionmaking, a framework within wh…
Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings
Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of 'men' and 'women' as sole or principal divisions explaining the abilities of different people within a group to adapt to climate change, illustrates this …
Do markets and trade help or hurt the global food system adapt to climate change
Development and the Household
Postmodern conceptualizations, modernist applications
The millennium village project and African development
The Millennium Village Project (MVP) has come to embody hope for a new development path that might succeed where previous efforts have failed. A closer consideration of this project, however, suggests that this hope might be misplaced. Because of a general dearth of critical thought in key areas of project conceptualization, the MVP risks reproducing the problems of previous top-down, expert-driven development efforts. This article examines the c…
The migration-sustainability paradox
Migration represents a major transformation of the lives of those involved and has been transformative of societies and economies globally. Yet models of sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate the movement of populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: migration plays a role as a driver of unsustainability as part of economic globalisation, yet simultaneously represents a transformative phenomenon an…
Property rights and wrongs
Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interac…
Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa
Weather and climate services (WCS) are expected to improve the capacity of Africa's agricultural sector to manage the risks of climate variability and change. Despite this, a lack of evidence prevents a realistic analysis of whether such services are delivering on their potential. This paper reviews 66 studies that have evaluated outcomes and/or impacts of agricultural WCS in Africa, highlighting areas that have received relatively more attention…
The shifting epistemologies of vulnerability in climate services for development
The field of climate services for development ( CSD ) is growing rapidly, presented by donors and implementers as an opportunity to address the needs of the global poor, whether informing agricultural decisionmaking in rural communities, facilitating disaster preparedness or promoting public health. To realise this potential, however, CSD projects must understand the information needs of their intended users. This raises a critical epistemologica…
Cool aid? Health, wellbeing and place in the work of Bono and U2
Migrants as sustainability actors
Migrants are sustainability actors in their urban destinations. • Sustainability policy overlook the transformative role of migrants. • Technocratic and assimilationist notions dominate sustainability policy discourse. • Sustainability policy should embrace migration and plurality. Although it is widely recognized that migration is socially transformative, the potential contributions of migrants to transformations towards sustainability in their …
Resilient livelihoods in an era of global transformation
Rethinking poverty alleviation
This article argues that the practice of poverty alleviation is greatly limited by a vision of poverty that fails to capture the locally specific causes of and solutions to the challenges that threaten human well-being. This problematic vision of poverty takes real-world form in such initiatives as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. It is a key reason why this and other contemporary poverty-alleviation efforts do not show greatly improved results…
Meaning (and) materiality
Meaning (and) materiality
Development and the Household
Postmodern conceptualizations, modernist applications
The co-production of livelihoods and land use change
Placing the Environment in Migration
This paper examines the role of environmental change as a driver of migration, a central concern of areas of inquiry ranging from the Human Dimensions of Global Change research to population geography and development studies. Although much of the literature on the role of the environment in migration reflects a general awareness that environmental factors are but one of a suite of influences shaping migration decisionmaking, a framework within wh…
Applying DPSIR to sustainable development
The DPSIR framework was devised in the late 1990s as a tool for the reporting and analysis of environmental problems, ranging in scale from global systems to localized watersheds. Since then, international organizations have begun to apply this framework to the evaluation of sustainable development initiatives, to better understand and overcome barriers to sustainability. While this may seem a logical application for an integrated environmental a…
The millennium village project and African development
The Millennium Village Project (MVP) has come to embody hope for a new development path that might succeed where previous efforts have failed. A closer consideration of this project, however, suggests that this hope might be misplaced. Because of a general dearth of critical thought in key areas of project conceptualization, the MVP risks reproducing the problems of previous top-down, expert-driven development efforts. This article examines the c…
Between structure and agency
Men’s Crops and Women’s Crops
Rethinking poverty alleviation
This article argues that the practice of poverty alleviation is greatly limited by a vision of poverty that fails to capture the locally specific causes of and solutions to the challenges that threaten human well-being. This problematic vision of poverty takes real-world form in such initiatives as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. It is a key reason why this and other contemporary poverty-alleviation efforts do not show greatly improved results…
Evaluating poverty–environment dynamics
Developing indicators to more effectively evaluate poverty-environment dynamics and inform policy is an urgent research priority. It is critical that these indicators are used in ways that accurately represent the relationship they are meant to inform. This article evaluates the theory and use of poverty-environment indicators, a relatively new tool developed to aid in the design and evaluation of poverty reduction strategies in the context of en…
Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income
The co-production of land use and livelihoods change
Cool aid? Health, wellbeing and place in the work of Bono and U2
The place of stories in development
The stories that we hear as we conduct development research or implement development projects are often relegated to the margins of development studies. This article argues that these stories require our attention, for they are windows on to indigenous narratives of development and our placement in those narratives. Examining these stories as efforts to emplot experiences of development and encounters with development professionals within particu…
Delivering Development
Calls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy. Compels the reader t
A Day at the Beach
Dominase sits on the eastern edge of roughly 11 acres of flat land surrounded by hills to the east, south, and northwest. It is comprised of a tight cluster of a half-dozen earth-walled structures with tin roofs and a single open well with a concrete shaft. The ground around and between these structures is packed earth. There is no vegetation at all within the boundaries of the village. Though it is only three miles from the highway and the high-…
The Tide Goes Out
We have clear evidence from the 1940s on that the residents of Dominase and Ponkrum had some understanding of the larger networks in which they were caught up, and they understood how to manipulate those in charge of those networks to get things they wanted. Farmers in these villages were growing cocoa and oil palm as well as various food crops. They buttressed their agricultural incomes with wage and commercial activities facilitated by the road…
Seeing Redd+ as a project of environmental governance
Broke but unbroken
Broke but unbroken: grassroots social movements and their radical solutions to poverty, by Augusta Dwyer, Halifax, Fernwood Publishing, 2011, 169 pp., $19.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781565494473 Written
Livelihoods as Intimate Government
Livelihoods approaches emerged from a broad range of efforts to understand how people live in particular places. They have since cohered into often instrumentally applied frameworks that rest on the broadly held assumption that livelihoods are principally about the management of one's material circumstances. This assumption limits the explanatory power of livelihoods approaches by shifting a range of motivations for livelihoods decisions outside …
Introduction
At the 2011 Association of American Geographers’ (aag) Annual Meeting we convened a panel to explore and debate the role of academics in development implementation and policy. The enthusiasm for th
Conclusions – engaging critical perspectives in development policy and implementation
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings
The impacts of climate variability and change impinge upon different lives and livelihoods within agrarian populations in complex ways. While academic, donor, and implementer efforts to understand and act on this complexity have been profoundly influenced by gender analysis, most contemporary analyses are predicated on a construction of gender as binary (men versus women). This approach runs contrary to current understandings of gender and identi…
The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk
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