University of South Carolina

Faculty Member, Geography

Associate professor

About

Ed Carr is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. He is also a AAAS fellow serving as a climate change science adviser on the Climate Change Team at the United States Agency for International Development.  For more than 13 years he has worked in rural sub-Saharan Africa on issues of globalization, development and environmental change, living among and working with the poorest of the poor.  He is the author of more than 30 publications on issues of development, adaptation to climate change, and the changing global environment.  Ed has served as a lead author of two global environmental assessments (the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and UNEP’s Fourth Global Environment Outlook).  In June 2010 he was named to Working Group II of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, where he now serves as the review editor for a chapter on rural areas.


Ed has been awarded a Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.  His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, The University of South Carolina, The University of Kentucky, and Syracuse University.

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