The use and management of natural resources is at the heart of many of the world’s greatest sustainability challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, food security, and water pollution. Natural resources are also central to millions of rural livelihoods and therefore essential to global poverty alleviation.
As the Moran Chair of Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge Department of Geography and Conservation Research Institute and head of the Conservation and Development Lab my research addresses these challenges from many angles:
To accomplish this diverse research portfolio, I leverage my interdisciplinary training in environmental science, economics, geography, and policy analysis, development studies, and history. My approach combines multiple inter- and transdisciplinary methods. These different components work together to generate theory, integrate a range of data types, and test and refine theory with novel empirical analyses. This work is accomplished by a diverse, international team of doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers.
As the Moran Chair of Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge Department of Geography and Conservation Research Institute and head of the Conservation and Development Lab my research addresses these challenges from many angles:
- Identifying the causes and impacts of individual actors’ behaviors (applied economics);
- Understanding the opportunities and challenges to scaling up more sustainable practices (innovation systems, political ecology); and
- Assessing the effectiveness and equity of policies aimed at promoting conservation and sustainable development (policy analysis).
To accomplish this diverse research portfolio, I leverage my interdisciplinary training in environmental science, economics, geography, and policy analysis, development studies, and history. My approach combines multiple inter- and transdisciplinary methods. These different components work together to generate theory, integrate a range of data types, and test and refine theory with novel empirical analyses. This work is accomplished by a diverse, international team of doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers.
