Katrina Brown


Katrina Brown is a Professor of Social Sciences, at the University of Exeter. From 1991–2012, she was a Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Career

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 book Resilience, Development and Global Change that rethinks concepts for development studies and practice.
She was formerly an editor of the journal Global Environmental Change, a member of the Resilience Alliance on the Scientific Committee of the IHDP, and was the lead author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. She was also the Director of the Programme on Climate Change and International Development and Deputy Director for Social sciences at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.