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David Edwards, BSc, MSc, PhD
Project Leader, Environmental and Human Sciences DivisionDavid Edwards studied for a Biology degree at Durham University followed by a Masters in Forestry at the Oxford Forestry Institute. He then worked for the Overseas Development Administration on forest conservation and research projects in West Africa and South Asia. In 1997 he re-trained as a social scientist at Edinburgh University and completed a PhD thesis, and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, on environmental and social change in southern Tanzania. David joined Forest Research in August 2004. Current roleProject Leader, Social and Economic Research Group, Environmental and Human Sciences Division Responsibilities include the design, execution and management of social research in support of sustainable land use in UK and Europe. Current programmesApplication of the Forestry Commission’s Race Equality Scheme in relation to woodland
Case study research into the attitudes, perceptions and preferences of members of black and minority ethnic groups towards the use of woodlands in UK. The primary aim is to provide guidelines for FC managers on how to respond to the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, and how to implement its Race Equality Scheme. A valuation of the economic and social contribution of Forestry for People in Scotland
Study aiming to capture evidence of all the benefits that communities are getting from activity in Scotland's forests and woodlands. RECOAL
Team Member on EU research project: “Reintegration of Coal Ash Disposal Sites and Mitigation of Pollution in the West Balkan Area.” Responsible for participatory research on public acceptance, stakeholder support, public health and success of remediation measures. SENSOR
Responsible for delivering research on stakeholder participation and institutional analysis as part of a major EU funded Integrated Project: “Sustainability Impact Assessment: Tools for Environmental Social and Economic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in European Region.” Affiliations and achievements- Overseas assignments in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Nepal, India and Tanzania
- Fellow of Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers
- Member of Royal African Society and African Studies Association-UK
Research areas- Participatory approaches to environmental valuation and decision-making
- Sustainability Impact Assessment
- Institutional analysis
- Socio-economic aspects of multifunctional land use
- Social dimensions of the remediation of post-industrial regions
- Ethnicity and countryside access
- Cultural politics of rural development in Africa and Asia
Main recent publicationsEdwards, D.M. (in prep.). The Cultural Politics of Agricultural Development: Smallholder Tobacco Production and Ethnic Identity Formation in Southern Tanzania. Occasional Paper, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. Edwards, D.M. (2003). Settlement, Livelihoods and Identity in Southern Tanzania: A Comparative History of the Ngoni and Ndendeuli. PhD Thesis, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. Edwards, D.M. (2000). Mwalimu Nyerere, African Socialism and the Revival of the Ruvuma Development Association, pp 101-117 in: Molony, T. and King, K. (eds). Nyerere: Student, Teacher, Humanist, Statesman. Occasional Paper No 84, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. 146 pp. Edwards, D.M. (1998). Matetereka: Tanzania’s Last Ujamaa Village. Occasional Paper No. 77, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. 55 pp. Edwards, D.M. (1996). Non-Timber Forest Products from Nepal: Aspects of the Trade in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. FORESC Monograph 1/96, Overseas Development Administration and Forest Research and Survey Centre, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal. 134 pp. Edwards, D.M. (1996). The Trade in Non-Timber Forest Products from Nepal. Mountain Research and Development, 16(4): 383-394.
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