Petra Tschakert
Biography
Dr Petra Tschakert is an Associate Professor of Geography. She received her PhD. In Arid Lands Resource Sciences from the University of Arizona. Her research interests include Climate change adaptation, human dimensions of global change, adaptive capacity and anticipatory learning, rural livelihoods, livelihood resilience and transitions, social and environmental justice and health, marginalization, coupled social-ecological systems, political ecology, environmentally-induced migration, gold mining and West Africa.