RELU : Rural Economy and Land Use
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| Name Website |
Specialism offered | Specialism sought | Areas of interest |
| Andrew Bloodworth Economic Minerals Programme, British Geological Survey, Nottingham |
land-use policy related to minerals extraction, spatial and
statistical information on minerals extraction, GIS development |
economics, human geography, transport analysis areas of interest:
social/ economic/ environmental impact of urban demand for aggregate minerals
on rural areas; impact of policy changes on mineral site restoration; role
of mineral extraction SMEs in rural economies |
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| Mark Causon Genista Foundation www.genistafoundation. org.mt |
organic farming, research, pest control, plant disease, experimental in plant disease/organic farming new methods | ||
| Graziano Ceddia Final year PhD student in environmental economics and management, University of York www.york.ac.uk/ depts/eeem/resource/ ceddia/ceddia.htm |
ecological economic modelling | invasive species/ diseases; changes in land uses and environmental impacts | |
| Angela
Flowers Public Rights of Way Improvement Plan Officer Countryside Services Environment Directorate North Yorkshire County Council |
Collaboration on mismatch between rights of way which developed for farm transport in the past and those for recreational landscapes that are increasingly being found. | Forecasting demand for local rights of way in the context of agricultural change, global climate change, local recreational landscape development, changes in how people view recreation and agriculture. | |
| Gerard McElwee Lincoln Business School auth.lincoln.ac.uk/dcs/ staff/523.asp |
farm entrepreneur-ship | ||
| Dr Lois Mansfield Dept of Environmental Management, UClan, Penrith |
upland agriculture - economic, environmental, ecological and social aspects from geography discipline | Third call interests: area 2 and any relevant area 3 projects | |
| Dr Matt Reed Centre for Rural Research, University of Exeter |
The sociology of organic agriculture, social consequences of animal diseases and control measures, farm family change, farm business and food processing business behaviour, rural stress and suicide and political protest in rural areas. | Animal disease, in particular the impacts on communities and families, as well as how farm businesses adapt in response to them, interactions of farms and food businesses with the rest of the economy | |
| Janet Riley Biomathematics and Bioinformatics Division, Rothamsted Research www.iacr.bbsrc.ac.uk/ aen/interest/index.htm |
Interactions between the following components: society, technology
and environment |
scaling up to higher levels, trade-offs and weaknesses | |
| Professor
Guy M Robinson School of Earth Sciences & Geography, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames |
Broad range of aspects on the economic and social factors
under-pinning agricultural change (from the perspective of human geography) |
Any project needing input from a human geographer with an interest in the socio- economic dimensions of rural change | Farm diversification in the UK and France; factors influencing
farmers in southern England to quit organic farming; agri-environmental
schemes in UK and Canada; farm based tourism in New South Wales |
| Dr David Sear University of Southampton |
Modelling fine sediment infiltration into salmonid spawning gravels Modelling/ visualising river landcsape/ morphology change over short - long timescales River Restoration - impacts on channel habitats | Modelling landuse change in rural areas Modelling social response to changing landscapes |
Effective methods for communicating landscape change (rivers)
to stakeholders engaged in river restoration projects using visualisation. Understanding commuity response to river landscape change in different rural environments |
| Dr Olivier
Sparagano School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, University of Newcastle upon Tyne www.ncl.ac.uk/afrd/ staff/profile/olivier. sparagano |
Detection of food-borne pathogens, genetics, molecular screening, biotechnology | social scientists related to food, biostatistician, food
and disease policy expert |
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| Gareth
Withers Strategic Projects Development & Environment North Somerset Council www.n-somerset.gov.uk |
Local Authority with large rural area willing to act as lead Authority to other authorities in Regional/Sub Regional Area | HE establishment | Science Objective |