Postdoctoral Fellow

Climate Impacts Group

and Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability (UBC)

University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

Edward Miles

I study processes of change in linked social-ecological systems in the context of resource management decisions.

My earlier academic training is in plant ecology and below-ground biodiversity. Extending from this, my PhD training, and current work takes an interdisciplinary, historically-informed and policy oriented approach to understanding resource management decisions. As such I draw insights from across perspectives that include environmental history, ecological anthropology, non-equilibrium ecology, judgement and decision making under uncertainty and social theories of science and policy. I draw broadly from integrated assessment approaches to help identify and structure multiple dimensions of a given research problem.

I use both qualitative (event ethnography, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, archival analysis) and quantitative methods (closed-ended surveys, archival) in my research.

My current work focusses on the impacts of climate change on natural resources and implications for policy.

2004-2009 Doctoral Fellow Climate Decision Making Centre (University of British Columbia in association with Carnegie Mellon University)

2010 DISSCRS V Scholar