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Emily Boyd is Professor in Sustainability Science at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), where she previously served as Director for seven years. She currently holds multiple leadership roles including Director of the Sustainability Forum, co-Director of Lund University’s Nature-Based Future Solutions Profile Area, and Principal Investigator for BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate). She serves on prestigious scientific committees including the Volvo Environment Prize and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Her research spans climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, and loss and damage, with emphasis on climate justice and policy implications. As co-Director of Climes (Swedish Centre of Excellence on Climate Extremes), she investigates extreme event attribution and storylines. Her interdisciplinary work bridges natural sciences, social sciences, and arts, with strong focus on global networks across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Key research areas include climate governance, vulnerability frameworks, and intersectional approaches to sustainability.
Recent publications reveal consistent focus on climate justice dimensions across diverse contexts – from tropical fisheries to urban migration. Her work increasingly examines power dynamics in adaptation, legal pluralism in climate governance, and multi-dimensional poverty frameworks. The articles demonstrate methodological diversity spanning systematic reviews, case studies in Ghana, and theoretical advances in resilience theory.
- Editor-in-Chief of Global Sustainability journal
- Scientific committee member for Volvo Environment Prize
- Board member of Beijer Institute and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Earth System Governance Senior Fellow
- IPCC Working Group II author
Boyd has supervised approximately 40 PhD and Master’s theses since 2000, teaching courses on sustainability, climate change, and research methods including the LUMES master’s course Resilience and Sustainable Development. Her research is funded by major organizations including ESRC, NERC, VR, Formas, Belmont Forum, and EU programs. She leads multiple large-scale projects including ICARUS (Illuminating power dynamics in cross-scale adaptation) and ITHACA (ImmobiliTy in a cHAnging ClimAte).
Her leadership extends to directing the Urban Arena network and coordinating international research consortia. Current work focuses on operationalizing loss and damage frameworks through projects like Climes, with active engagement in COP processes and global policy dialogues on climate finance.
