Julian Yates
Research interests: Livelihoods and adaptation, institutions, scalar politics, neoliberalisation 
Biography: Having graduated in 2004 from the University of Manchester (UK) with a geography degree (BA Hons), Julian worked in the international development sector for the UK-based international NGOs of Practical Action and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. He followed this by completing an MA in geography at the University of Victoria, and working as a research assistant for the Participatory Sustainable Waste Management project. Most recently, Julian carried out research for Practical Action in relation to livelihood adaptation to climate change in rural Nepal. At UBC, Julian will be working with Dr Karen Bakker on issues of resource governance in Latin America, paying particular attention to the ways in which indigenous rural communities in the Andes are adapting their livelihoods and resource-management regimes in response to changing governance contexts.
Publications:
Yates, J. S. (2011). Community-based watershed management for successful adaptation to climate change in rural Nepal. Waterlines, 30(2), 106 – 121.
Yates, J. S. and Gutberlet, J. (2011). Enhancing livelihoods and the urban environment: The local political framework for integrated organic waste management in Diadema, Brazil. Journal of Development Studies, 47(4), 639 – 656.
Yates, J. S. and Gutberlet, J. (forthcoming, 2011). Re-claiming and re-circulating urban natures: Integrated organic waste management in Diadema, Brazil. Environment and Planning A. In press.
Yates, J. S. (under review). Institutional complexity and uneven interventions: the scalar politics of governing livelihood adaptation rural in Nepal. Global Environmental Change.
