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Charis Enns

Charis Enns

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6796-7465

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Charis Enns is a Presidential Fellow in Socio-Environmental Systems at the Global Development Institute. Her work focuses on how processes of change – such as environmental change, land use change and livelihood change – alter human-animal interactions. Her current funded research projects focus on:

  • Pathways to inclusive biodiversity conservation, working alongside pastoralist organisations and communities in Kenya to evidence and promote community stewardship over biodiversity (2023-2027);
  • The potential of developing high-integrity, community-led and -owned biodiversity credit and carbon credit markets (2025-2028);
  • Citizen science and community-engaged research on One Health, emphasing the interconnectedness of the health of people, animals, plants, and their shared environment (2023-2026);
  • Community land rights, rights of nature and historical land injustices (ongoing).

Her active research projects are global in scope, but Charis' currently works primarily in Eastern and Southern Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.

 

Charis' research sits at the intersection of critical development studies, human, environmental and animal geographies, and political ecology. Her approach to research is politically engaged and influenced by the scholar-activism tradition, placing emphasis on collaborative and collective learning, reflection and action.

 

Charis recently published Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya (University of Toronto Press, 2024). The book is available open access, and can be downloaded here (as of April 2024).

 

Charis is the lead for Inclusive and Propsperous Futures for Sustainable Futures at the University of Manchester. Charis also co-convenes the Human-Animal Research Network at the University of Manchester.

 

Charis is eager to work with PhD students and Post-Doctoral Researchers interested in how human-animal relations are changing in areas undergoing rapid change, as a result of environmental change, land use change, urbanisaiton or related trends.

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Global Development Institute
  • Sustainable Futures
  • Healthier Futures

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    SDG 2 Zero Hunger
  3. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  4. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  5. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  6. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  7. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  8. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  9. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  10. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  11. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  12. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  13. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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