Emily T. Yeh is a Professor of human geography at the University of Colorado Boulder.
For two decades, she has conducted research on development and nature-society relations in western China, including on vulnerability to climate change, the political ecology of rangeland management, the relationship between economics and culture in development, natural resource commodity chains, and environmental subjectivities. She is the author of Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell UP 2013), as well as co-editor of Mapping Shangri-La: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (U. Washington Press, 2014).
Lectures information
23rd April
9:00-10:15 am Vulnerability to and local knowledge of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau
10:15-10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30-11:45 am Tibetan environmentalism and Tibetan conceptualizations of nature
308, #12 Building, Shanghai Normal University
