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Society Group Members

*Programme Leader: Mark Rounsevell*

Name; Institution Research Interests
Tom Ball; DundeeThe interface between social and legal systems and environmental hazards in the context of global change. Main foci are planning, environmental management, and flooding.
Paul Bennett; EdinburghThe regulation and insurance of risk; globalisation; competition on environmental and social regulation; co-operative economic institutions; social implications of private insurance markets
Emily Brady; EdinburghPhilosophy and Cultural Geography: Environmental Aesthetics and Environmental Ethics
John Briggs; GlasgowRelationship between the use and management of natural resources and sustainable rural development in low income countries
Andrew Cumbers; GlasgowUneven development in capitalist societies; Global economic and political integration
Terry Dawson; EdinburghComplex systems; Climate change impacts on human-environment interactions; anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity, natural resources and conservation management; remote sensing and environmental modelling.
Ruth Falconer; Abertay3D visualizaion and modelling of complex and self adaptive networks.
Allan Findlay; DundeeRisk reduction and coping strategies of societies affected by major environmental hazards
Robin Flowerdew; St AndrewsMigration and the geography of health; Analysis of geographical data, including technical issues such as the modifiable areal unit problem
Jim Hansom ; GlasgowGeomorphology; Coastal processes, forms and evolution; Polar environmental change and its management.
Donald Houston; DundeeSocial welfare in Britain; the role migration, commuting, housing and social policy in producing and reinforcing social disadvantage in different spatial contexts; Social impacts of policy-making.
Andrew Hursthouse; West of Scotland Environmental geochemistry; the impact of earth system science on human activities; chemical hazards and their mitigation; data quality & risk assessment; policy-making
Leah Gibbs; GlasgowResource and environmental geographies, especially water; Nature, knowledge and colonialism; Interdisciplinarity and praxis
Danny Mackinnon; Aberdeen Local and regional governance; Regional economic development; Employment and labour geography; Devolution and regionalism in the UK; Regulation theory and state restructuring
Andy McLeod; EdinburghGlobal environmental change; environmental sustainability; impacts on stratospheric ozone depletion and ultraviolet radiation on ecosystems; air pollution; climate change; environmental change and sustainability
Patrick Meir; EdinburghEcosystem science; carbon-water relationship of plants and ecosystems; terrestrial carbon cycle; tropical forests.
Andrea Nightingale; EdinburghNature-society interaction; ecological science; political economy; feminist theory; natural resource management; power, inequalities and governance
Hester Parr; DundeeThe geography of mental health; llinks between the environment, nature, work and recovery from mental health problems.
Chris Philo ; GlasgowCultural and rural geographies of mental ill-health
David Reay; EdinburghNitrous oxide emissions from agriculture; Methane oxidation in soils; Microbial ecology; Diffuse water pollution; Land use impacts on greenhouse gas fluxes; Carbon dioxide emission from soils and biomass; Global methane budgets; Science communication
Alison Reeves; DundeeWater quality: Sediment fingerprinting; Use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging to study oil binding in sediments; Changes to EU legislation regarding the aquatic environment; Water resource management and environmental impact assessment
Mark Rounsevell; EdinburghEnvironmental Change & Sustainability; Links with policy
Marian Scott; Glasgow Model uncertainty and sensitivity analysis; modelling the dispersal of pollutants in the environment; radiocarbon dating; assessment of animal welfare.
Jo Sharp; GlasgowFeminist, postcolonial, cultural and political geographies
Neil Stuart; EdinburghGeographical Information Science; hydrology. GIS supported methods to solve practical problems of land and water resource management. GIS applications for developing nations.
Peter Tucker; U of the West of Scotland Waste and pollution management and environmental decision support systems; Interdisciplinary research interests across the fields of practical science, psychology and simulation
Paul van Gardingen; EdinburghForest management; poverty reduction and development in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Charles Warren; St AndrewsDynamics & climatic sensitivity of lake-calving glaciers (Patagonia and Iceland); Aspects of Scottish environmental management, including the socio-economic implications of land use change, and environmental policy analysis.
Alexandre Gagnon; West of Scotland Vulnerability to climate change and assessment of adaptive capacity; Climate predictability at the seasonal to decadal time-scales; Climatic and environmental influences on health issues.