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Claire Quinn Dr Claire Quinn

Lecturer: Natural Resources Management and Programme Leader (BA Environmental Sustainability and BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management)

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 38700
Email address: c.h.quinn@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.105

Biography

I am an ecological social scientist with over 10 years of experience working on interdisciplinary projects in Africa and the UK. My research interests lie in the links between ecological and socio-economic processes in the management and conservation of natural resources. Specifically my research focuses on the distribution of property rights in multi-resource systems and the implications for management; and livelihood vulnerability and adaptation to environmental change in agricultural communities.

I am currently working with the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy to investigate linking top-down and bottom-up approaches in climate change adaptation research in sub-Saharan Africa. I also contribute to the Rural Economy and Land Use funded Sustainable Uplands project which seeks to combine knowledge from local stakeholders, policy-makers and social and natural scientists to anticipate, monitor and sustainably manage rural change in UK uplands.  I am also involved in the Yorkshire Dales Environment Network, funded by NERC.  The aim of the network is to improve communication and collaboration between partners with academic, environmental, social, recreational and commercial interests in the Yorkshire Dales. 

 

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences: Ecology specialism (Kings College, London)
  • MRes Ecology and Environmental Management (University of York)
  • PhD Social Policy and Environmental Management (University of York).

Memberships/Fellowships

I am a member of the International Association for the Study of the Commons 

Research Interests

  • Vulnerability, adaptation and decision-making in agricultural systems
  • Multi-resource systems/ecosystem services and property rights
  • Common Pool Resources, institutions and natural resource management.

 

Current research students

 Joanes Atela

Impacts of integrated management in Kakamega Forest, Kenya, for climate change adaptation

 

Rachel Berman

Transforming climate change coping capacity into adaptive capacity in Uganda

 

Felix Kalaba

Contribution of above ground forest ecosystem services to rural livelihoods and the potential of carbon-based payment for ecosystem services in Miombo woodlands, Zambia

 

Yingluk Kanchanaroek

Modelling for optimum landuse of main activities in Tonle Sap Wetland area, Cambodia

 

Steven Orchard

Adaptation and development: Pathways to a sustainable future

 

Chloe Sutcliffe

Cultivar adoption as a strategy for adapting to climate change: maize variety selection and cultivation amongst small-scale farmers in Malawi

 

 

Teaching Interests

Programme Leader

BA Environmental Sustainability (no longer available for new applicants)

BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management (new for entry in September 2012)

Module Leader

SOEE2401 People and Plants

SOEE3680 Socio-Economic Issues in Conservation and Management

I also give lectures and case-studies, and run fieldwork on SOEE1110, SOEE1180, SOEE2370, SOEE3170, SOEE3420, SOEE3690 and SOEE5221 and supervise UG and Masters dissertations.

Support duties

I am the biodiversity champion for campus, working with Estates to develop a University Biodiversity Action Plan, as well being a member of the School's Green Impact Team. 

Publications