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Katrina Brown

b. 1901

British social scientist

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About Katrina Brown

Born 1901. Katrina Brown was a British social scientist.

Katrina Brown is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Exeter in the UK, retiring in 2020. From 1991–2012, she was an academic and then Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Education Brown has a BSc from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, an MSc from the University of Reading, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham (1990, Women's farming groups in a semi-arid region of Kenya). Following her Ph.D, she was at the University of East Anglia until 2012 at which point she moved to the University of Exeter.

Contributions 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 resilience 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.

Awards and honors

AXA Outlook Award (2013) Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Wageningen, Netherlands (2013) Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences (2018)

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Important facts

Born
1901
Birth century
Occupation
Nationality
Education
University of Nottingham, University of Exeter
Employers
University of Exeter
Awards
Honorary doctorate

Frequently asked questions

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British social scientist

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Katrina Brown was a social scientist.

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Sources & further reading

Β· Wikipedia: Katrina Brown

Β· Wikidata: Q16200920

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