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Rachel Carmenta
Rachel Carmenta

Rachel Carmenta is the Frank Jackson Research Fellow, Conservation Research Institute (Department of Geography), University of Cambridge. Rachel is a social environmental scientist specialising in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of environment and development, environmental risk, governance, and the relationship between place and well-being. She engages multiple methods, scales of analysis and a range of analytical lenses to inform just, equitable and sustainable futures in dynamic landscapes of the global south.

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