Katrina Brown | |
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| Born | 1960[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
| Partner | Neil Adger |
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| Institutions | University of ExeterUniversity of East Anglia |
| Thesis | Women's farming groups in a semi-arid region of Kenya: a case study of Tharaka division, Meru district (1990) |
Katrina Brown is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at theUniversity of Exeter in the UK, retiring in 2020. From 1991–2012, she was an academic and then Professor of Development Studies at theUniversity of East Anglia.
Brown has a BSc fromUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne, an MSc from theUniversity of Reading, and a Ph.D. from theUniversity of Nottingham (1990,Women's farming groups in a semi-arid region of Kenya). Following her Ph.D, she was at theUniversity of East Anglia until 2012 at which point she moved to theUniversity of Exeter.[2]
Her areas of expertise include examinations of women's collective action and coping strategies in semi-arid Kenya, and environmental change, biodiversity and conservation. In 2016, she published the bookResilience, Development and Global Change that rethinksresilience concepts fordevelopment studies and practice.[citation needed]
She was formerly an editor of the journalGlobal Environmental Change,[3] a member of the Resilience Alliance on the Scientific Committee of theIHDP,[4] and was the lead author of theMillennium Ecosystem Assessment. She was also the Director of the Programme on Climate Change and International Development and Deputy Director for Social sciences at theTyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.[5][6]
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