31.01.2020
How can the tools of the Information Age be used to solve the challenges of the Anthropocene? I’ve recently started a new project on tech innovation and environmental governance, focusing on the evolution of conservation in response to environmental sensing and emerging technologies.
Check out our open source article: Bakker, K. and M. Ritts. 2018. Smart Earth: A meta-review and implications for environmental governance. Global Environmental Change. 52: 201 ? 211.
16.06.2022
Radcliffe Fellowship (2022)
(Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor) I’m thrilled to have been named a Fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies for the 2022/2023 academic year. During my fellowship, I will be writing a book which explores how the tools of the Digital Age could be mobilized to address some of the most pressing […]
07.04.2022
Guggenheim Fellowship (2022)
(John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow) I’m deeply honored to have been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2022. As the Foundation writes about my work: Karen Bakker is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, where she is an Associate of the Institute for Resources, Environment, and […]