Hallie Eakin

About

Hallie Eakin is a professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University and an affiliated professor in the School of Urban Planning and Geographical Sciences. Her research interests include governance and social equity in socio-ecological systems, household vulnerability and sustainability of adaptations to global change, globalization and the institutional context of vulnerability and adaptation, rural development, sustainable food systems, agricultural change, food sovereignty, and social-ecological resilience. She focuses on the integration of risk into urban and rural development planning and has contributed to understanding the institutional and social factors influencing vulnerability and adaptation in various contexts. Eakin joined ASU in 2008 from the University of California-Santa Barbara. She completed her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Arizona with a minor in Anthropology, and her dissertation examined rural households’ vulnerability and adaptation to climatic variability and institutional change in Central Mexico. Her academic background also includes a Master's degree in Geography from the University of Arizona and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Brown University. Her work has involved postdoctoral fellowships at the U.S.-Mexican Studies Center at UC San Diego and the Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, emphasizing her focus on climate variability, rural livelihoods, and institutional…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Business
• Sociology
• Ecology
• Computer Science
• Economics
• Geography
• Environmental resource management
• Computer Security
• Economic system

Selected publications

• Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches

  Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · 2020 · 651 citations

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• IPCC's current conceptualization of ‘vulnerability’ needs more clarification for climate change vulnerability assessments

  Journal of Environmental Management · 2021 · 73 citations

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• What are the ingredients for food systems change towards sustainability?—Insights from the literature

  Environmental Research Letters · 2020 · 73 citations

  Many detrimental effects on the environment, economy, and society are associated with the structure and practices of food systems around the world. While there is increasing agreement on the need for substantive change in food systems towards sustainability, divergent perspectives exist on what the appropriate points of intervention and strategies to achieve such change are. Change in diets and nutrition, the importance of social food movements, and sustainable farming practices are all disparat…

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• Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: opportunities to advance climate action

  npj Urban Sustainability · 2023-06-10 · 59 citations

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  There is a growing recognition that responding to climate change necessitates urban adaptation. We sketch a transdisciplinary research effort, arguing that actionable research on urban adaptation needs to recognize the nature of cities as social networks embedded in physical space. Given the pace, scale and socioeconomic outcomes of urbanization in the Global South, the specificities and history of its cities must be central to the study of how well-known agglomeration effects can facilitate ada…

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• Critical minerals for electric vehicles: a telecoupling review

  Environmental Research Letters · 2021-12-31 · 57 citations

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  Abstract The rapid growth of electric vehicles adoption, which plays a crucial role to reduce transportation carbon emissions, is leading to a surge in demand for critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel, lithium, and rare earths. Efforts to systematically address the emerging sustainability issues associated with critical minerals have been challenged by complex mineral supply chains, and the distal and geographically dispersed nature of social-ecological impacts from mineral extraction and pro…

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Recent grants

• CNH: The Dynamics of Multi-Scalar Adaptation in Megacities

  NSF · $1.5M · 2014–2020

Frequent coauthors

• Luís Tapia

  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  35 shared

• Lakshmi Charli-Joseph

  Instituto de Ecología

  23 shared

• Maria Carmen Lemos

  18 shared

• Amy M. Lerner

  University of California, San Diego

  15 shared

• Bertha Hernández Aguilar

  15 shared

• J. Mario Siqueiros-García

  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  14 shared

• David Manuel‐Navarrete

  Arizona State University

  13 shared

• Rebecca Shelton

  11 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Geography

  University of Arizona

  2002

• M.A., Geography

  University of Arizona

  1998

• B.A., Environmental Studies

  Brown University

  1993

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