Jennifer Burney

Jennifer Burney is a professor in global environmental policy and earth system science in the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University, and member of IGCC’s working group on climate and security. Her research focuses on the coupled relationships between climate and food security – measuring air pollutant emissions and concentrations, quantifying the effects of climate and air pollution on land use, food systems, and human health. Her work seeks to understand how food production and consumption contribute to climate change, and it designs and evaluates technologies as well as strategies for adaptation and mitigation among the world’s farmers.

Much of her current research focuses on the developing world, and she is particularly interested in the science, technology and policy of short-lived climate pollutants, or SLCPs, and the role that mitigation of these compounds can play in meeting both climate and food security objectives.