COP 26

John Morton

• Professor of Development Anthropology - Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

Research interests

• The impacts of climate change on the rural poor, their perceptions of climate change, their vulnerabilities, and their opportunities for adaptation.
• Impacts of climate change on pastoralism and other livestock-based livelihoods, with recognition of the complex arguments around livestock-related greenhouse gas emissions.
• Climate change in relation to sustainable development on drylands, including drought management.
• The use of indigenous knowledge in climate change research and climate adaptation
• The incorporation of climate change concerns into the policies and practices of agricultural research and extension services.
• Governance of adaptation, particularly in drylands.
• The interactions of climate change, land tenure and land policy.