About
A planner by practice and a geographer by training, I have spent my career implementing climate policies for public agencies in the United States (U.S.).
I’ve developed climate adaptation plans for state and local agencies, advised on the environmental and community impacts of major infrastructure projects, and led federally funded research projects on equitable transportation and climate planning. Most recently I was part of a team implementing a clean energy manufacturing and industrial decarbonization tax credit at the U.S. Department of Energy where I focused on shaping the program to provide meaningful benefits to communities, particularly former coal communities.
My academic training in environmental policy (BA Environmental Studies, Brown University) and geography (MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance, University of Oxford) has taught me to think critically about and find connections between the work I have been doing in industry. Through my PhD, I am interested in interrogating both climate adaptation and mitigation projects to understand how climate policies predicated on abandonment of place and practices impact people's everyday lives. The goal of my research is to inform more equitable and just climate policy implementation.
Research interests
- Climate change adaptation
- Clean energy transition
- Abandonment
- Political ecology
Publications
Reilly, Allison. “Flood insurance maps and the US National Flood Insurance Program: A case for coproduction?” In Flood Risk Management: Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and Communities. Routledge, 2019. New York, NY.
Patel, Manisha, and Allie Reilly. “Cooperative Federalism: A Path to Proactive Managed Retreat.” Natural Resources & Environment 35, no. 3 (2021): 20–25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27010690.
Ajibade, Idowu, Meghan Sullivan, Chris Lower, Lizzie Yarina, and Allie Reilly. “Are Managed Retreat Programs Successful and Just? A Global Mapping of Success Typologies, Justice Dimensions, and Trade-Offs.” Global Environmental Change 76 (September 2022): 102576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102576.
Prizes/awards/scholarships/funding
LSE PhD Studentship (2025)W
SP USA Research & Innovation Fellow (2020)
Affiliations
Climigration Network
Supervisors
Dr Kasia Paprocki
Dr Rebecca Elliott
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