Harriet Bulkeley

Harriet Bulkeley is a Reader at the Department of Geography, Durham University, where she is also a member of the Centre for the Study of Cities and Regions and the Institute for Hazard and Risk Research. Harriet is an editor of Environment and Planning C and executive editor for Policy and Governance for Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change.
Before joining Durham in 2003, Harriet was a Research Fellow and Director of Studies in Geography at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge. She holds a BA (First Class) from the University of Cambridge, where she also completed her doctoral studies on the political and social response to climate change in Australia (1995 – 1998).

Harriet’s research interests are three-fold: the processes and practices of environmental governance; the political geographies of environmental governance; and the urban politics of climate change and sustainability. She has published widely on these themes in journals including Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning C, Political Geography, Environmental Politics, International Studies Quarterly and Global Environmental Politics. With Michele Betsill, she is co-author of Cities and Climate Change: urban sustainability and global environmental change (Routledge, 2003). Harriet has recently been working with the Tyndall Centre on the theme of climate governance beyond the state, with a focus on the response of global cities. She is currently embarking on three new projects. The first seeks to examine the political geographies of a ‘new’ climate politics emerging beyond the state and is funded by the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. The second is a Leverhulme Trust international network on transnational climate governance. The third project, sponsored by an ESRC Climate Change Fellowship is entitled Urban Transitions: climate change, global cities and the transformation of socio-technical systems.