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Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993

Regional and Thematic Interests

Nature/society geography; political ecology; cultural politics; development; Tibet; China

Profile

My main research interests are on questions of power, political economy, and cultural politics in the nature-society relationship. Using primarily ethnographic methods, I have conducted research on natural resource conflicts, environmental history, development and landscape transformation, pastoralism, and emerging environmentalisms in Tibetan areas of China. In addition, I have also worked on several NSF-funded interdisciplinary, collaborative projects on putative causes of rangeland degradation and vulnerability to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. ÌýI am also engaged in research on weather modification in the context of anthropogenic global heating, as well as the politics of decarbonization in Indonesia.

Despite living in Colorado and doing research in Tibet, I love the ocean and try to scuba dive when I get the chance. Fortunately, I also enjoy cyclingÌýand camping. I am also a "professora" ofÌýcapoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, and mom of Osel and Seldron.Ìý

Selected Publications

2015. Liu, Jianqiang. Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi. Translated by Ian Rowen, Cyrus Hui and Emily T. Yeh. Lexington press.

2015. Diemberger, Hildegard, Astrid Hovden and Emily T. Yeh. "The honour of the snow-mountains is the snow: Tibetan livelihoods in a changing climate." in High-mountain Change and Risks. eds. C. Huggel, J.J. Clague, A. Kaab and M. Carey, Cambridge University Press, pp. 249-271.

2015. Yeh, Emily T. "How can experience of local residents be 'knowledge': Challenges in interdisciplinary climate research." Area. doi: 10.1111/area.12189

2015. Yeh, Emily T.Ìý"Political ecology in and of China." International Handbook of Political Ecology, ed. Raymond Bryant. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 619-632.

2015. Yeh, Emily T. and Joe Bryan.Ìý"Indigeneity." Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. eds. Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, James McCarthy. Routledge.

"Transnational environmentalism and entanglements of sovereignty: The tiger campaign across the Himalayas." Political Geography 31: 418-428. 2.

2013. Yeh, Emily T.Ìý"Blazing Pelts and burning passions: Nationalism, cultural politics and spectacular decommodification in Tibet." Journal of Asian Studies. 3.

2013. Yeh, Emily T. and Kunga T. Lama. "Following the caterpillar fungus: Nature, commodity chains and the place of Tibet in China's uneven geographies."

2013. Social & Cultural Geography 4. Territorializing Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Development. Cornell University Press.