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Emily Polack
Emily Polack has a background in community-based natural resource management, indigenous rights and transboundary water conflicts. She holds a Masters of Law in International Development Law and Human Rights specialising in legal plurality and transnational advocacy networks. She is now applying this experience to better understanding the concept of climate justice and rights to adaptation.Selected Projects and Recent Work
Thematic Expertise
Children and Youth; Climate Change.
Selected Publications »»
- Emily Polack (2010) 'Child Rights and Climate Change Adaptation: Voices from Kenya and Cambodia '
- Tanner, T., Mitchell, T., Polack, E. and Guenther, B. (2009) 'Urban Governance for Adaptation: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Ten Asian Cities', IDS Working Paper 315, Brighton: IDS
- Tanner, T., Mitchell, T., Polack, E. and Guenther, B. (2009) 'Urban Governance for Adaptation: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Ten Asian Cities', IDS Research Summary 315, Brighton: IDS
- Polack, E. (2009) 'Mainstreaming Child Rights in National Climate Adaptation Policy Spaces', IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 13.5, Brighton: IDS
- Polack, E and Collender, G (2007) 'Climate Change Adaptation', IDS In Focus Issue 2, Brighton: IDS
- Polack, E. and Choi, E. (2007) 'Building Climate Change Resilient Cities', IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 2.6, Brighton: IDS