Sustainable Development

Research in this area is focused on the dynamics of population change, new migrations and mobilities, and health inequalities, especially in the UK but also in the rest of Europe and internationally. 

Research staff:

• Professor Allan Findlay: international migration; human mobility; population geography.
• Dr Nissa Finney: population; ethnicity and migration; methods in demography.
• Professor Elspeth Graham population; migration; health and well-being; mixed methods; South-East Asia.
• Dr David McCollum: migration; labour markets and welfare.

Key areas of interest in this research theme include:

• the functioning and policies of housing systems
• social housing and homelessness
• neighbourhood effects
• housing and sustainability
• cities.

Research staff:

• Dr Nissa Finney: population; ethnicity and migration; methods in demography.
• Dr Louise Reid: environmental behaviour; household energy consumption; subjective well-being; diary methodology.

This research area is informed by post-structuralist, post-colonial and feminist perspectives. Research explores geographies of difference across a range of spatial scales.

Research staff:

• Dr Dan Clayton: historical and cultural geography; colonialism and post-colonialism.
• Dr Mike Kesby: gender; AIDS and development in southern Africa.
• Professor Nina Laurie: gender and development; Latin America; social movements; Neoliberalism; international volunteering; community history.
• Dr Matthew Sothern: health; cultural and political geographies.
• Dr Rehema White: biodiversity conflicts; education for sustainability; craft and sustainability.

Research in environmental economics focuses on:

• environmental cost-benefit analysis and valuation
• economics of sustainable development
• design of payments for environmental services (PES) systems
• ecological-economic modelling
• coastal zones
• integration with economic and environmental history.

Research staff:

• Professor Nicholas Hanley: cost-benefit analysis; sustainable development; renewable energy; economics of nature conservation.
• Dr Eoin McLaughlin: economic development; land reform; sustainable development.
• Dr Darren McCauley: energy justice; social movements; comparative policy.
• Dr Tim Stojanovic: marine and coastal management; governance and sustainable development; environmental geography.
• Dr Charles Warren: environmental management; renewable energy.

Research in this area examines the mechanisms, rates and trajectories of past, present and future environmental change at regional to global scales, and the implications for the biosphere and society.

Research staff:

• Dr William Austin: palaeoceanography and climate change; quaternary environments; micropalaeontology.
• Professor Doug Benn: glaciology.
• Professor Keith Bennett: Holocene environmental change.
• Dr Althea Davies: long-term ecology; environmental archaeology; environmental management.
• Dr Urska Demsar: geovisual analytics and geovisualisation; spatial analysis; mathematical modelling.
• Dr Ian Lawson: quaternary history of ecosystems; human-vegetation interactions; tropical palaeoecology.
• Dr Jed Long: spatial statistics; GIS; spatial technologies.
• Dr Katherine Roucoux: palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology; tropical ecology; pollen analysis.
• Dr Richard Streeter: tephrochronology; soil erosion; long-term human environment interactions.