{"id":1481,"name":"Emilie Parry","url":"","description":"Emilie Parry is climate change specialist for the State of Hawai\u2019i\u2019s Climate Change Mitigation Adaptation Commission \/ Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, founder of Rootbridge Ecosystems, and co-collaborator \/ researcher across emergent and convergent networks of local, endogenous and Indigenous Peoples engaged around the climate crisis and ecological regeneration. She has bridged praxis, policy and research in the fields of New and Transitioning Markets, \u2018Post-Growth\u2019 Economies, social change movements, peace\/conflict transformation and transitioning societies, humanitarian and complex emergencies, civilian\/child protection, deep ecology, and disaster risk management\u2013in Asia, the Americas, Africa, the UK and Eastern Europe.  Emilie recently completed a doctoral-level research degree at the University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, School of Geography & the Environment, seated within the Environmental Change Institute. Her Masters (MA) degree from Brandeis University\u2019s Heller School of Social Policy & Management emphasized sustainable development and conflict transformation, conducted jointly with Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School (international rights law, dispute negotiation); Bachelor\u2019s degree (BA) is a double major from the University of California at Berkeley in International Development Studies and English, with one year of study in the United Nations University\u2019s Masters program at University of Ghana Legon, in African Development Economics.\r\nEmilie has worked as a research fellow for Stockholm Environment Institute in the Climate Change Disasters & Humanitarian research cluster (Oxford and Asia offices, focused upon Indigenous populations at the nexus of climate change, ecology, economics and social cultural streams), as an Associate Fellow for Oxford Climate Policy, and as part of the Land & Conservation Management group in the Environmental Change Institute based at Oxford University\u2019s Centre for the Environment.\r\nParticular research interests include diverse ecocultures and how they may perceive and engage with major local and global stressors of the Anthropocene. This interest is driven, in part, in the seeking out of inspiration and lessons for what can be appropriate, effective, holistic and sustainable towards an \u2018Ecocenic epoch,\u2019 particularly for most vulnerable groups and species. In 2018 and 2019, Emilie was a Spiritual Ecology Fellow for St. Ethelburga\u2019s Centre for Peace & Reconciliation in London and is a member of the regeneration strategies platform Re\/Alliance. She is a Distinguished Fellow for the Schumacher Institute based in Bristol, UK.","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/author\/emilieparry\/","slug":"emilieparry","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-48x48.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-96x96.jpg"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":60780,"full":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic.jpg","blog_id":1,"192":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-192x192.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-96x96.jpg","64":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-64x64.jpg","32":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-32x32.jpg","250":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-250x250.jpg","125":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-125x125.jpg","24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/biopic-48x48.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}