Academic Publications

Monograph

2011 Carr, Edward R. Delivering Development: Globalization’s Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future. New York: Palgrave Macmillan     

Peer-reviewed publications

2023 Bustamante, Mercedes, Joyashree Roy, Daniel Ospina, Ploy Achakulwisut, Anubha Aggarwal, Ana Bastos, Wendy Broadgate, Josep G. Canadell, Edward R. Carr, Deliang Chen, Helen A. Cleugh, Kristie L. Ebi, Clea Edwards, Carol Farbotko, Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Thomas L. Frölicher, Sabine Fuss, Oliver Geden, Nicolas Gruber, Luke J. Harrington, Judith Hauck, Zeke Hausfather, Sophie Hebden, Aniek Hebinck, Saleemul Huq, Matthias Huss, M. Laurice P. Jamero, Sirkku Juhola, Nilushi Kumarasinghe, Shuaib Lwasa, Bishawjit Mallick, Maria Martin, Steven McGreevy, Paula Mirazo, Aditi Mukherji, Greg Muttitt, Gregory F. Nemet, David Obura, Chukwumerije Okereke, Tom Oliver, Ben Orlove, Nadia S. Ouedraogo, Prabir K. Patra, Mark Pelling, Laura M. Pereira, Åsa Persson, Julia Pongratz, Anjal Prakash, Anja Rammig, Colin Raymond, Aaron Redman, Cristobal Reveco, Johan Rockström, Regina Rodrigues, David R. Rounce, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Peter Schlosser, Odirilwe Selomane, Gregor Semieniuk, Yunne-Jai Shin, Tasneem A. Siddiqui, Vartika Singh, Giles B. Sioen, Youba Sokona, Detlef Stammer, Norman J. Steinert, Sunhee Suk, Rowan Sutton, Lisa Thalheimer, Vikki Thompson, Gregory Trencher, Kees van der Geest, Saskia E. Werners, Thea Wübbelmann, Nico Wunderling, Jiabo Yin, Kirsten Zickfeld, Jakob Zscheischler. “Ten new insights in climate science 2023/24.” Global Sustainability, 1-58. pdf

2023 Ali, Saleem H, Penda Diallo, Apoli Bertrand Kameni, Philippe Le Billon, Kopo Oromeng, Kyle Frankel Davis, and Edward R Carr. “In Africa, ‘Climate‐smart’ Conservation Must Be Coupled with Poverty Alleviation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120 (44) e2309279120. pdf

2023 Jolivet, Dominique, Sonja Fransen, William Neil Adger, Anita Fábos, Mumuni Abu, Charlotte Allen, Emily Boyd, Edward R. Carr, Samuel N.A. Codjoe, Maria Franco Gavonel, Francois Gemenne, Mahmudol H. Rocky, Jozefina Lantz, Domingos Maculule, Ricardo Safra De Campos, Tasneem Siddiqui, Caroline Zickgraf. “COVID-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration: Insights from diverse cities in four continents.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), 250.  pdf

2023 Carr, Edward R. and Johanna Nalau. “Adaptation Rationales and Benefits: A foundation for understanding adaptation impact.” Climate Risk Management 39: 100479 pdf

2023 Carr, Edward R. “Climate Services and Transformational Adaptation.” Sustainability 15 (1): 289 pdf

2022 Maria A. Martin, Emmanuel A. Boakye, Emily Boyd, Wendy Broadgate, Mercedes Bustamante, Josep G. Canadell, Edward R. Carr, Eric K. Chu, Helen Cleugh, Szilvia Csevar, Marwa Daoudy, Ariane de Bremond, Meghnath Dhimal, Kristie L. Ebi, Clea Edwards, Sabine Fuss, Martin P. Girardin, Bruce Glavovic, Sophie Hebden, Marina Hirota, Huang-Hsiung Hsu, Saleemul Huq, Karin Ingold, Ola M. Johannessen, Yasuko Kameyama, Nilushi Kumarasinghe, Gaby S. Langendijk, Tabea Katharina Lissner, Shuaib Lwasa, Catherine Machalaba, Aaron Maltais, Manu V. Mathai, Cheikh Mbow, Karen McNamara, Aditi Mukherji, Virginia Murray, Jaroslav Mysiak, Chukwumerije Okereke, Daniel Ospina, Friederike Otto, Anjal Prakash, Juan M. Pulhin, Emmanuel Raju, Aaron Redman, Kanta K. Rigaud, Johan Rockström, Joyashree Roy, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Peter Schlosser, Karsten A. Schulz, Kim Schumacher, Luana Schwarz, Murray Scown, Barbora Šedová, Tasneem A. Siddiqui, Chandni Singh, Giles B. Sioen, Detlef Stammer, Norman Julius Steinert, Sunhee Suk, Rowan Sutton, Lisa Thalheimer, Maarten van Aalst, Kees van der Geest, and Zhirong Jerry Zhao “Ten new insights in climate science 2022.” Global Sustainability 5, e20: 1-20.  pdf

2022 Tatiana Gumucio, James Hansen, Edward R. Carr, Sophia Huyer, Brian Chiputwa, Elisabeth Simelton, Samuel Partey, and Saroja Schwager. “Enhancing climate services design and implementation through gender-responsive evaluation.” Frontiers in Climate, 4: 908602  pdf

2022 E. Lisa F. Schipper, Aromar Revi, Benjamin L. Preston, Edward. R. Carr, Siri H. Eriksen, Luis R. Fernández-Carril, Bruce Glavovic, Nathalie J.M. Hilmi, Debora Ley, Rupa Mukerji, M. Silvia Muylaert de Araujo, Rosa Perez, Steven K. Rose, Pramod K. Singh. Climate Resilient Development Pathways. In Pörtner, Hans-Otto, Debra Roberts, Andres Fischlin, Mark Howden, Carlos Méndez, Joy Jaqueline Pereira, Roberto A. Sánchez-Rodriguez, Sergey Semenov, Pius Yanda, and Taha M. Zatari, eds. Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. pdf

2022 Goble, Rob, Edward R. Carr, and Jon Anderson. “What to expect when you don’t know what you are expecting: Vigilance and the monitoring and evaluation of an uncertain world.” American Journal of Evaluation, https://doi.org/10.1177/10982140221079639. pdf

2022 Hansen, James, Geneva List, Shauna Downs, Edward R. Carr, Rahel Diro, Walter Baethgen, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Melody Braun, John Furlow, Kayla Walsh, and Nitlin Magima. “Impact Pathways from Climate Services to SDG2 (“Zero Hunger”): A Synthesis of Evidence” Accepted by Climate Risk Management, 35. pdf

2021 Totin, Edmund, Alcade C. Segnon; Mary Thompson-Hall; Carla Roncoli; Amadou Sidibe; Edward R. Carr . Property Rights and Wrongs: Land Reforms for Sustainable Food Production in Rural Mali. Land Use Policy 109, 105610. pdf

2021 Gavonel, Maria Franco, W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Emily Boyd, Edward R. Carr, Anita Fábos, Sonja Fransen, Dominique Jolivet, Caroline Zickgraf, Samuel N. A. Codjoe, Mumuni Abu, and Tasneem Siddiqui. “The migration-sustainability paradox: Transformations in mobile worlds.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49: 98-109. pdf

2020 Carr, Edward R. “Resilient Livelihoods in an Era of Global Transformation.” Global Environmental Change, 64. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102155 pdf

2020 Carr, Edward R. “Gender and Environmental Security.” in Gender and Security: Strategies for the 21st Century. Chantal De Jonge Oudraat and Michael Brown, eds. Routledge. pp. 155-175 

2020 Onzere, Sheila, Edward R. Carr, Natalie Elwell, Cynthia Caron, and Denise Humphries-Bebbington. “Who’s Governing Community Forests? Gendered Participation in Liberian Forest Management.” Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. pdf

2020 Carr, Edward R., Helen Rosko, Rob Goble, Catherine Vaughan, and James Hansen. “Identifying Climate Information Services Users and their Needs in sub-Saharan Africa: A Review and Learning Agenda.” Climate and Development 12(1): 23-41 pdf

2019 Vaughan, Catherine, James Hansen, Philippe Roudier, Paul Watkiss, and Edward R. Carr. “Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: Evidence, methods, and a ‘learning agenda” WIRES Climate Change 10(4). pdf

2019 Carr, Edward R. “Properties and Projects: Reframing Resilience for Adaptation and Development.” World Development 122: 70-84  pdf

2019 Hansen, James W., Catherine Vaughan, Desire M. Kagabo, Tufa Dinku, Edward R. Carr, Jana Körner, Robert Zougmoré. “Climate Services Can Support African Farmers’ Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale.” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 3: 1-16  pdf

2018 Carr, Edward R. and Sheila N. Onzere “Really Effective (for 15% of the men): Lessons in Understanding and Addressing User Needs in Climate Services from Mali.” Climate Risk Management, 22: 82-95  pdf

2017 Abrahams, Daniel and Edward R. Carr “Understanding the Connections Between Climate Change and Conflict: Contributions from Geography and Political Ecology.” Current Climate Change Reports 3(4): 233-242  pdf

2017 Downs, Timothy J., Edward R Carr and Rob Goble “Re-imagining Environmental Science and Policy Graduate Education for the 21st Century using an Integrative Frame” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 7(2): 177-188  pdf

2016 Thompson-Hall, Mary C., Edward R. Carr, and Unai Pascual. “Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings.” Ambio, 45 (Suppl. 3): S373–S382  pdf

2016 Carr, Edward R., Grant Fleming, and Tshibangu Kalala. “Understanding women's needs for weather and climate information in agrarian settings: The case of Ngetou Maleck, Senegal” Weather, Climate, and Society 8(3): 247-264  pdf

2016 Carr, Edward R. and Kwame N. Owusu-Daaku. “The shifting epistemologies of vulnerability in climate services for development: the case of Mali’s Agrometeorological Advisory Program” Area, 48 (1): 7-17 pdf

2015 Fisher, Monica and Edward R. Carr. “The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk: The case of drought-tolerant maize seed in eastern Uganda” Global Environmental Change. 35: 82-92 pdf

2015 Brown, M.E., J.M. Antle, P. Backlund, E.R. Carr, W.E. Easterling, M.K. Walsh, C. Ammann, W. Attavanich, C.B. Barrett, M.F. Bellemare, V. Dancheck, C. Funk, K. Grace, J.S.I. Ingram, H. Jiang, H. Maletta, T. Mata, A. Murray, M. Ngugi, D. Ojima, B. O’Neill, and C. Tebaldi. 2015. Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System. Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture. 146 pages  pdf

2015 Carr, Edward R., Daniel Abrahams, Arielle Tozier de la Poterie, Pablo Suarez, and Bettina Koelle. “Vulnerability Assessments, Identity, and Spatial Scale Challenges in Disaster Risk Reduction” Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies. 7 (1): 17 pages. pdf

2015 Jones, K., Schnurr, M., Carr, E.R., and Moseley, W. “Fieldwork as commitment to research for agricultural development that is ‘outward and downward’: A collaborative essay.” African Geographical Review 34(1): 55-68 pdf

2014 Carr, Edward R. “From Description to Explanation: Using the Livelihoods as Intimate Government (LIG) Approach.” Applied Geography 52: 110-122  pdf

2014 Carr, Edward R. and Mary C. Thompson “Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings: Current thinking, new directions, and research frontiers.” Geography Compass 8 (3): 182-197  pdf

2013 Carr, Edward R. “Livelihoods as Intimate Government: Rethinking the Logic of Livelihoods for Development” Third World Quarterly, 34 (1): 77-108  pdf

2012 Carr, Edward R. “Small Farmers, Big Impacts” in Frontiers in Development. Rajiv Shah and Steven Radelet, eds. Washington, DC: USAID. 92-97 pdf

2011 Thompson, Mary C., Manali Baruah and Edward R. Carr. “Seeing REDD+ as a Project of Environmental Governance" Environmental Science & Policy 14(2): 100-110  pdf

2011 Andrews, Gavin J., Robin A Kearns, Paul T. Kingsbury and Edward R. Carr. “Cool Aid? Health, wellbeing and place in the work of Bono and U2” Health and Place 17(1): 185-194  pdf

2010 Fisher, Monica, Jeff Reimer and Edward R. Carr. “Who Should Be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?” World Development 38 (7): 966-973  pdf

2010 Hurley, Patrick T. and Edward R. Carr. “Introduction: Why a political ecology of the US South?” The Southeastern Geographer 50(1): 99-109  pdf

2010 Carr, Edward R. “The Place of Stories in Development: Creating Spaces for Participation Through Narrative Analysis” Development in Practice 20(2): 219-226  pdf

2009 Carr, Edward R. and Brent McCusker. “The Co-Production of Land Use and Livelihoods Change: Implications for Development Interventions” Geoforum 40(4): 568-579  pdf

2009 Carr, Edward R. and Nathan P. Kettle. “Commentary: The Challenge of Quantifying Susceptibility to Drought-Related Crisis” Regional Environmental Change, 9(2): 131-136  pdf

2009 Carr, Edward R., Nathan P. Kettle, and Andrew Hoskins. “Evaluating Poverty-Environment Dynamics” International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 16(2): 87-93  pdf

2008 Carr, Edward R. "Between Structure and Agency: Livelihoods and Adaptation in Ghana's Central Region" Global Environmental Change 18(4): 689-699  pdf

2008 Carr, Edward R. “Rethinking poverty alleviation: a 'poverties' approach” Development in Practice 18(6): 726-734  pdf

2008 Carr, Edward R. “The Millennium Village Project and African Development: Problems and Potentials” Progress in Development Studies 8(4): 333-344  pdf

2008 Carr, Edward R. “Men’s Crops and Women’s Crops: The Importance of Gender to the Understanding of Agricultural and Development Outcomes in Ghana’s Central Region” World Development 36(5): 900-915  pdf 

2007 Carr, Edward R., Philip M. Wingard, Sara C. Yorty, Mary C. Thompson, Natalie K. Jensen, and Justin Roberson. “Applying DPSIR to Sustainable Development”. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14(6): 543-555  pdf

2007 Gitay, Habiba, Bradnee Chambers, Ivar Baste, Edward R. Carr, Claudia ten Have, Anna Stabrawa, Nalini Sharma, Munyaradzi Chenje, Thierry De Oliveira, Clarice Wilson “Chapter 8: Interlinkages: Governance for Sustainability” in Fourth Global Environment Outlook. United Nations Environment Programme: Valletta, Malta. 361-394  pdf

2006 McCusker, Brent and Edward R. Carr. “The co-Production of Livelihoods and Land Use Change: Case studies from South Africa and Ghana.” Geoforum 37(5): 790-804  pdf

2006 Carr, Edward R. “Postmodern Conceptualizations, Modernist Applications: Rethinking the Role of Society in Food Security.” Food Policy 31(1): 14-29  pdf

2006 Cork, Steven, Garry Peterson, Gerhard Petschel-Held, Joe Alcamo, Jacqueline Alder, Elena Bennett, Edward R. Carr, Danielle Deane, Gerald Nelson, Teresa Ribeiro “Chapter 8: Four Scenarios” in Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Scenarios, Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Island Press. (ISBN 1-55963-391-3). 223-294  pdf

2005 Carr, Edward R. “Development and the Household: Missing the Point?” Geojournal 62(1): 71-83  pdf

2005 Dow, Kirsten, Edward R. Carr, Annelieka Douma, Gouyi Han, and Karl Hallding. Linking Water Scarcity to Population Movements: From global models to local experiences. SEI Poverty and Vulnerability Programme Report, Stockholm, Sweden. (ISBN: 91 975237 9 8) pdf

2005 Carr, Edward R. “Placing the Environment in Migration: Environment, Economy and Power in Ghana’s Central Region.” Environment and Planning A 37(5): 925-946  pdf

2002 Carr, Edward R. “Managing Uncertainty: Environmental and Economic Security in Coastal Ghana, 1970-2000.” Regional Development Dialogue 34 (1): 20-36 

2000 Carr, Edward R. “Meaning (and) Materiality: Rethinking Contextual Analysis Through Cellar-set Houses.” Historical Archaeology 34(4): 32-45  pdf  

Editor-reviewed publications

2023 Carr, Edward R. “Transitions, policy, and implementation through a feminist lens.” Engendering Just Transitions: Dilemmas for India’s Climate Policy, Seema Arora-Jonsson, Kavya Michael, and Manish Kumar Shrivastava, eds. Routledge. pp. 163-168.

2023 Carr, Edward R. “We are not doomed to climate chaos.” In Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, eds. Haymarket Books. pp. 28-31 (reprint of Boston Globe op ed)

2017 Downs, Timothy J., Edward R. Carr, Robert Goble. “Addressing Risk Conundrums in Sustainable Development.” Kasperson, R. ed. Risk Conundrums. Earthscan. 207-223.  pdf

2016 Jones, K., Schnurr, M., Carr, E.R., and Moseley, W. “Should I stay or should I go? Incorporating a commitment to fieldwork throughout an academic career.” In Moseley, W. G, Matthew A. Schnurr, Rachel Bezner-Kerr, eds Africa’s Green Revolution: Critical Perspectives on New Agricultural Technologies and Systems. Routledge. (reprint of Jones, K., Schnurr, M., Carr, E.R., and Moseley, W. 2015 “Fieldwork as commitment to research for agricultural development that is ‘outward and downward’: A collaborative essay”).

2016 Carr, Edward R. and Michael H. Finewood. “Sustainable Development” in Tobias Lanz, ed. Global Environmental Problems: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Solutions. Cognella Press. 215

2015 Carr, Edward R. “Political Ecology and Livelihoods” in Handbook of Political Ecology, Perreault, T., Bridge, G., and McCarthy, J., eds. Routledge. 332-342  pdf

2014 Hall, Bruce S., Ami V. Shah, and Edward R. Carr. “Bono, Band-Aid, and Before: Celebrity Humanitarianism, Music and the Objects of its Action” in in Andrews G J, Kingsbury, P and Kearns R A. Soundscapes of wellbeing in popular music. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 269-288

2014 Carr, Edward R. “The Future is Already Being Fed” in The Donors’ Dilemma: Emergence, Convergence and the Future of Foreign Aid, Andy Sumner and Tom Kirk, eds. West Sussex, UK: Global Policy Journal.

2008 Carr, Edward R. “Sustainable Development” For the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Vol 2, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, eds. Macmillan Reference USA. 295-298.

Commentary and Other Scholarly Contributions

2022 Carr, Edward R. Can Conflict-Sensitive Gender Analysis Close the Door on Backdraft? Article for New Security Beat, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. link 

2017 Brown, Molly E., Edward R. Carr, Kathryn L. Grace, Keith Wiebe, Christopher C. Funk, Witsanu Attavanich, Peter Backlund, and Lawrence Buja. “Do Markets and Trade Help or Hurt the Global Food System Adapt to Climate Change?” Food Policy 68: 154-159.  pdf

2016 Carr, Edward R. “Moving Beyond the Monolith.” Dialogues in Human Geography 6: 90-93.

2014 Simon, David and Edward R. Carr. “Introduction – Engaging critically from theory to policy and implementation” Third World Quarterly, 35(3): 505-506  pdf

2014 Carr, Edward R. and David Simon. “Conclusions – Engaging Critical Perspectives in Development Policy and Implementation” Third World Quarterly, 35(3): 524-527  pdf

2012 “Archaeology Challenges the History of Development and Poverty in Africa” Excerpt from Delivering Development: Globalization’s Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future (New York: Palgrave Macmillan). Scientific American, June 29, 2012.  link

2011 “Engaging the Other at Home.” Column for “Views on Policy,” Anthropology News. 

2011 “If you are uncomfortable, you are probably doing it right.” Contribution to the symposium Geographers and/in Development, David Simon, ed. Environment and Planning A 43(12): 2797-2800.  pdf

2007 Carr, Edward R. “Migration” In the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Paul Robbins, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1143-1145.

2007 Carr, Edward R. “Sustainable Development” In the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Paul Robbins, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1686-1689

2005 Carr, Edward R. “Commentary: Riddim Me This, Riddim Me That” Southeastern Geographer 45 (2) 120-123. (Invited commentary on Kingsbury and Klak’s “Riddims of the Street, Beach and Bureaucracy: Situating Geographical Research in Jamaica”)  pdf

2005 Carr, Edward R. “Environmental Security.” In the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Development, Tim Forsyth, ed. London: Routledge. 213-214.

2005 Carr, Edward R. “Security.” In the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Development, Tim Forsyth, ed. London: Routledge. 620-621.