Professor of Social Policy, Anthony has carried out extensive research and consultancy in the Brazilian Amazon on issues of deforestation, sustainable development and emerging REDD+ activities, as well as on the impacts of conditional cash transfers. During 2003-05 he worked for the World Bank in Washington DC as Senior Social Development Specialist for Latin America.
His recent books are: Forests and Climate Change: The Social Dimensions of REDD in Latin America (Edward Elgar, 2012), Global Impact, Local Action: New Environmental Policy in Latin America (Institute of Latin American Studies, London, 2005), Social Policy for Development (Sage, 2004), Amazonia at the Crossroads: the Challenge of Sustainable Development (ILAS, 2000) and Sustaining Amazonia: grassroots action for productive conservation (CUP, 1997). Papers include: ‘Brazil’s Bolsa Familia: a Double-Edged Sword?’ Development and Change, 39(5), 2008; ‘Better RED than dead: Paying the people for environmental services in Amazonia’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363(1498), 2008, amongst others.