Phoebe Barnard

Background

About Phoebe Barnard

I'm a global change and climate scientist, systems and policy analyst, conservation biologist, environmental and societal futurist, sustainability risk and resilience strategist, climate bioadaptation science-policy analyst, writer, editor, mentor, professor and film co-producer - interested in finding collaborative spatial planning and human behavior solutions to potentially high-conflict wicked problems. I'm an inveterate team-builder to accelerate and deepen science-policy impact. Currently developing the Stable Planet Alliance, a coalition of like-minded scientific, technical, health, education, women's empowerment and grassroots organizations collaborating to bend the needle on population and consumption, and thereby, climate change, biodiversity loss and human wellbeing. Thirty-four years of deep experience, founding and leading climate change and biodiversity programs, teaching and founding and leading organizations across southern and eastern Africa and North America. In 2017 I returned to the USA to work on early warning systems, green economic recovery, climate migration and displacement, managed coastal retreat planning, and triple-whammy episodic events. Am also Affiliate Full Professor at the University of Washington (Center for Environmental Politics and School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences), and Research Associate at the University of Cape Town (African Climate and Development Initiative and the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology). Contact me at phoebe.barnard@stableplanetalliance.org. When not working, I climb mountains and volcanoes, run in the forests, develop a community victory garden, and go adventuring with my groovy husband, filmmaker John Bowey, our puppies and family when they are visiting.