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Information About People
Dr Charles Warren
Position: Senior Lecturer
Tel: +44 01334 463693
Fax: +44 01334 463949
E-mail: crw2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research Expertise Profile
Publications
Biography
My academic career started with three degrees in quick succession - an MA in Geography at Oxford (1985), an MSc in Natural Resource Management at Edinburgh (1987) and then a NERC-funded PhD in Glaciology (1990), also at Edinburgh. Having worked in Greenland during my PhD, I then continued my research on the interaction between glaciers and climate change in Patagonia during a 3-year NERC Research Fellowship based in Edinburgh. In 1995 I moved to St Andrews as a Lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2003. In 2004 I was awarded the President's Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2006 I led the St Andrews bid which won the Times Higher Award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development'.
I have always had strong interests both in environmental management and in glaciology. For much of my career I have focused mainly on the latter, exploring the dynamics and climate sensitivity of calving glaciers in the arctic, in the southern hemisphere (Patagonia, New Zealand) and in Nepal. More recently my interests have moved more into environmental management and sustainable development, both in my research and my teaching. A second edition of my 2002 book Managing Scotland's Environment was published in 2009, and I am actively involved in researching the debates surrounding the development of renewable energy, especially the nature of public attitudes. Here in the university I teach not only on the Geography programme but have helped to launch the inter-disciplinary Sustainable Development degree. From 2004 to 2009 I served as a Senate Assessor on the University Court.
Profile
- 1982 - 1985: M.A. in Geography, University of Oxford
- 1986 - 1987: M.Sc. in Natural Resource Management, University of Edinburgh
- 1987 - 1990: Ph.D. in Glaciology, University of Edinburgh
- 1991 - 1994: NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
- 1995 - 2003: Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of St Andrews
- 2003 - present: Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of St Andrews
Responsibilities
- Geography Degree Programme Coordinator
Teaching Interests
- SD1002 - Sustainability: ensuring our common future
- GE3051 - Environmental Management in Scotland
- GG3056 - Glaciers & Glacial Processes I
- GG4057 - Glaciers & Glacial Processes II
- GE3002 - Field Class in Geography (Norway field trip)
- GE2012 - Processes, Perspectives & Ideas in Geography
Research Interests
Environmental management, land use policy and environmental policy analysis, with an emphasis on the Scottish context. Current research themes include: evaluating policies for tackling invasive alien species; the renewable energy transition; socio-economic implications of Scottish land reform; wild land and the 'rewilding' movement.
Postgraduate Students
Publications.
Warren CR and M McFadyen 2010. Does community ownership affect public attitudes to wind
energy? A case study from south-west Scotland. Land Use Policy 27(2): 204-213
Warren CR 2009. Managing Scotland's Environment. Second Edition, fully revised. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. 490 pp
Warren CR and RV Birnie 2009. Re-powering Scotland: windfarms and the 'energy or environment?' debate. Scottish Geographical Journal 125(2): 97-126.
Ellis G, Cowell RJ , Warren CR, Strachan PA and Szarka JP 2009. Expanding wind power:
a problem of planning or of perception? Journal of Planning Theory and Practice 10(4):
523-532.
Further Information
I am affiliated to the St Andrews Scottish Studies Network (SASSN) and the St Andrews Sustainability Institute (SASI).
I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts.