Claudia J Carr

Associate Professor
Ph.D.  
  

137 Giannini Hall
Berkeley, California 94720
cjcarr@nature.berkeley.edu
office: 510-643-3964   lab: 510-643-3964   fax:  510-643-5098

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I am primarily involved in research concerning alternative types of rural development policies in terrestrial (especially drylands and river basin environments) and coastal and offshore resources in the ‘Third World.’ My approach to development problems, for a number of years in Africa but also in parts of Latin America and Asia, entails identifying the global, national and local processes involved in development (and conservation), including the constraints they present for state and locally based policy and practice. The international aid process provides a major focus of this work, largely because of its pervasive influence on development policy and practice in developing countries. Beyond the consideration of international and national level political and economic influences in local development policies, my work focuses on internal ethnic and socioeconomic conditions and the changing nature of the natural resource base itself as factors of recent historical change and future resource management options. Much of my research has involved ‘indigenous’ populations and their resources, from African agropastoral to coastal agro-fishing economic contexts, including in western Latin America and the southern Pacific region.

In these research projects, I am investigating the problems of international aid and investment in both river basin and marine fisheries/coastal related development. This research involves institutional analysis of a variety of multilateral development bank, bilateral and other international aid agencies, their prevalent relations with private capital, states and communities, and the contrasting resource management policies they pursue (for example, in defining and implementing ‘sustainability’ oriented policies). Along with identifying these patterns in the aid process, this study entails regional and country case studies, including in Africa and the southern Pacific region. My research concerning fisheries related development (extending to port and harbor development, coastal based aquaculture, etc.) is designed to help elucidate the striking differences in development and conservation policies and to consider alternatives in instances where fundamental management problems are identified.

The relationship between management systems of these resources and those in contiguous river basin and interior regions is a strong component of my current interests. An ‘extended coastal zone system’ of management and resource analysis is formulated and detailed through country studies.

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Carr, C.J. 2006. "River Basin Development and Pastoralist Vulnerability: The Oromos of Eastern Ethiopia. Occasional Papers, Public Policy Research Institute, University of Montana. (in press).

Carr, C.J. 1998. "Patterns of Vegetation along the Omo River in Southwest Ethiopia". Plant Ecology. Vol. 135, no. 2. (April): 135-163.

Carr, C.J. 1995. Comments on the National Environmental Management Plan for Eritrea. Eritrean Agency for the Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Eritrea. 36 pp.

Carr, C.J. 1993. The legacy and challenge of international aid in marine resource development. Freedom for the Seas in the 21st Century: Ocean Governance and Environmental Harmony. J.M. Van Dyke, D. Zaelke, and G. Hewison, Eds. Washington D.C.: Island Press.