Emily Yeh
Professor of Geography • 2024 Guggenheim Fellow • College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction • Nature/society geography; political ecology; cultural politics; development; Tibet; China • Faculty Affiliate: Center for Asian Studies, CNAIS, C3BC • Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2003 • Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Human Geography • Environment-Society
emily.yeh@colorado.edu
303-492-5438, GUGG 103A

Research Interests

My main research interests are on questions of power, political economy, and cultural politics in the nature-society relationship. Using primarily ethnographic methods, I have conducted research on property rights, natural resource conflicts, environmental history, development and landscape transformation, grassland management and environmental policies, and emerging environmentalisms in Tibetan areas of China. In addition, I have also worked on the politics of identity and race in the Tibetan diaspora, and on several NSF-funded interdisciplinary, collaborative projects on putative causes of rangeland degradation and vulnerability to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Broader research and teaching interests include transnational conservation, critical development studies, the relationship between nature, territory, and the nation, and environmental justice. My regional expertise is in China, Tibet, and the Himalayas.

More Info

Despite living in Colorado and doing research in Tibet, I love the ocean and try to scuba dive when I get the chance. Fortunately, I also enjoy cycling听and camping. I am also a "professora" of听capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, and mom of Osel and Seldron.听

Recent Courses Taught

  • Spring 2024听 GEOG 3022听 Climate Politics amd Policy
  • Spring 2024听 骋贰翱骋听5161听 Research Design in Human Geography
  • Fall 2023听 GEOG听5632听 Development Geography
  • Spring 2023听 GEOG 5161听 Research Design in Human Geography
  • Fall 2022 GEOG 6402听 Political Ecology
  • Spring 2022听 GEOG 5161听 Research Design in Human Geography
  • Fall 2021听骋贰翱骋听5652听 Introduction to Social Theory
  • Spring 2021听 GEOG 5161听 Research Design in Human Geography
  • Fall 2020听听骋贰翱骋听5632听 Development Geography
  • Spring 2020听听骋贰翱骋听5161听 Research Design in Human Geography
  • Spring 2019听听骋贰翱骋听3822听 Geography of China
  • Fall 2019听听骋贰翱骋听5632听 Development Geography

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Recent Publications

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET; Loizeaux ER
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Publication Date: 2024-05-08
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Nyima Y; Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2023-11-17
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ETT
Published in:
Publication Date: 2023-09-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Li F; Zhao W; Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2023-08-18
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Nyima Y; Yeh ETT
Published in:
Publication Date: 2023-03-03
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Turner MD; Davis DK; Yeh ET; Hiernaux P; Loizeaux ER; Fornof EM; Rice AM; Suiter AK
Published in:
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET; Li F
Published in:
Publication Date: 2022-09-02
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Rose-Redwood R; Sheppard E; Pratt G; Roberts SM; Read MR; Fuhriman C; Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2022-02-26
Type: Journal Article

"Sky River: Promethean Dreams of Optimising the Atmosphere"

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh E
Publication Date: 2022-01-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2022-01-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2021-11-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Zhang R; Yeh ET; Tan S
Published in:
Publication Date: 2021-08-26
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2021-07-19
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET; Gaerrang
Published in:
Publication Date: 2021-07-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2021-05-03
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2021-05-03
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Fayazi M; Yeh ET; Li F
Published in:
Publication Date: 2019-12-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors:
Klein JA; Tucker CM; Nolin AW; Hopping KA; Reid RS; Steger C; Gret-Regamey A; Lavorel S; Mueller B; Yeh ET...
  • Klein JA
  • Tucker CM
  • Nolin AW
  • Hopping KA
  • Reid RS
  • Steger C
  • Gret-Regamey A
  • Lavorel S
  • Mueller B
  • Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2019-05-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET; Makley C
Published in:
Publication Date: 2019-01-02
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Hopping KA; Yeh ET; Gaerrang; Harris RB
Published in:
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET
Published in:
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET
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Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Type: Journal Article

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Cao J; Gong Y; Yeh ET; Holden NM; Adamowski JF; Deo RC; Liu M; Zhou J; Zhang J; Zhang W
Published in:
Publication Date: 2017-12-01
Type: Journal Article

The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Chinese Development and Investment in Asia

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET
Publication Date: 2017-11-08
Type: Book

CU Boulder Authors:
All Authors: Yeh ET; Samberg LH; Gaerrang; Volkmar E; Harris RB
Published in:
Publication Date: 2017-06-01
Type: Journal Article