Scholarship and Biography
Charlie Chester teaching focuses on global environmental politics, transborder biodiversity conservation, and climate change diplomacy. He manages the website EarthWeb.info, and is a co-Principal Investigator of EMIGRA, an NSF-funded research group examining the role of migratory species in providing ecosystem services and equitable outcomes for people. He is Board Chair of Bat Conservation International and Chair of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Council, with previous service on the boards of Root Capital and the New England Society for Conservation Biology. He authored Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World (Island Press 2006) and was co-editor of Conservation & Climate Change: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning and Action (Island Press 2012). He is a faculty affiliate with the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy at Tufts's Fletcher School, and previously consulted for the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Henry P. Kendall Foundation. His long-term book project involves the interwoven histories of gorilla conservation, American taxidermy, European royalty, area-based conservation, settler colonialism, and climate change.