Ariane de Bremond
Research Assistant Professor
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| Office: JGCRI |
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| Telephone: 301-405-2636 |
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| FAX: 301-314-6719 | |
| Email: adebrem@umd.edu |
Education
PhD University of California, Santa Cruz. Environmental Studies. 2006
BA University of Colorado, Boulder. Int’l Affairs/Latin American Studies, cum laude. 1992
Research Interests
de Bremond, A. and N. Engle (2011). MCA4climate: A practical framework for planning pro-development policies, Adaptation Theme Report: Terrestrial Ecosystem Resilience, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): 29.- http://www.mca4climate.info/report-and-guidance/Articlesthemes/adaptation/
- terrestrial-ecosystems/
de Bremond, A. (forthcoming 2012). Harvesting Peace from Landscapes of Conflict: Land, Livelihoods, and Nature in Post-War El Salvador. Ecologies of Hope:The Prospect of New Development Hybrids. S. R. Rajan and C. A. M. Duncan. Santa Fe, SAR Press.
de Bremond, A. (2007). "The Politics of Peace and Resettlement through El Salvador's Land Transfer Programme: caught between the state and the market " Third World Quarterly 28(8).
republished in: Borras, S. J., Cristobal Kay, et al., Eds. (2009). Market-Led Agrarian Reform: Critical Perspectives on Neoliberal Land Policies and the Rural Poor. London; New York, Routledge.
• Climate change and development issues (i.e. food security; access, control, and benefit from natural assets; positive strategies to address both climate change adaptation and mitigation)
• Environmental governance, land tenure/land-use, and resource rights (i.e., REDD and forest carbon initiatives)
• Adaptation and resilience of socio-ecological systems to non-linear threshold events/ecological tipping points
• Stakeholder processes and decision-support needs for climate change adaptation and mitigation
My research interests at the nexus of human-environment interactions have brought me to work in a wide range of development settings, having led post-conflict environmental governance and development projects for organizations of the United Nations, as a human rights observer and land specialist in politically-sensitive war-time rural settings, and later as an doctoral researcher employing diverse methodologies (ethnography, political ecology and agroecology) to understand critical land-use/governance issues in El Salvador and Guatemala. I aim to integrate understanding of environmental governance, land-use/tenure, and development issues with my more recent research interests in the human dimensions of global change.
My current position supports research at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a joint project of Pacific Northwest National Labs and the University of Maryland, related to the understanding of vulnerability and resilience to climate change and climate change adaptation approaches in the following areas: research on indicators of resilience and vulnerability and adaptation metrics and on the relationship between climate change and development goals, development of socio-economic narratives/scenarios in support of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability WGII report, and corresponding efforts related to the regional integrated assessment modeling initiative at JGCRI and the US National Assessment.