Emily Yeh

Emily T. Yeh is a professor of Geography and College Professor of Distinction at CU Boulder. She is currently writing about global geographies of weather modification in the context of climate change adaptation and growing conversations about geoengineering. Much of her past research has concerned development and nature-society relations in Tibetan parts of the PRC, including the political ecology of pastoralism, conflicts over natural resources, vulnerability to climate change, the politics of nature conservation, emergent environmentalisms, the cultural politics of entrepreneurship, and the infrastructuralization of nature. Her book Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development explored the intersection of the political economy and cultural politics of development as a project of state territorialization. She is also editor of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, Rural Politics in Contemporary China, and The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Chinese Development and Investment in Asia. She has served as President of the American Association of Geographers (2021-22) and was a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar in 2023-2024. She is an editor of Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, and teaches classes on political ecology, climate politics, contemporary China, geographies of development, and research design.