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Austin Lord

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of the Environment

Dr. Austin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, School of the Environment. He is an environmental anthropologist who studies issues related to disaster recovery and disaster risk management, water and energy, infrastructure development, climate change adaptation and climate science, and the politics of environmental data and knowledge production. His work focuses on the Himalayan bioregion, and primarily in Nepal. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University, an M.S. from the Yale School of the Environment, and a B.A. from Dartmouth.

Research Interests

Disaster recovery, climate change adaptation, environmental data politics