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Erin Carey
Erin Carey studies in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and will graduate with a M.S. degree in 2009. Her master’s research focuses on the impacts of climate change on subsistence livelihoods in rural Alaska. She works in Native Alaskan villages along the Yukon River to document traditional ecological knowledge, study how historical coping mechanisms are embedded in contemporary Athabascan society, and explore how resource management agencies can learn from this knowledge to create more space for adaptation to future environmental change. Erin became interested in climate and rural livelihoods while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa where she worked with farmers to cope with drought and desertification through agro-forestry and economic development. Erin hopes to return to Mali on a Fulbright scholarship in 2009 to research climate change and agriculture. She plans to establish a baseline of local knowledge of agrobiodiversity and study how farming communities have adapted to environmental variability through innovations in food production and other social mechanisms to buffer hardship. In the future, Erin plans to continue to work at the nexus of subsistence and climate change, incorporating local knowledge into policy responses that enhance food security and strengthen participatory decision-making processes. |
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