Claudia Carter, MA (Hons), MSc

 

Project Leader, Environmental and Human Sciences Division

Email: claudia.carter@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1420 22255
Tel direct: +44 (0)1420 526191
Fax: +44 (0)1420 23563

Address:
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey GU10 4LH
UK

Claudia completed a Geography degree at Aberdeen University, followed by a MSc degree in Environmental Management at Stirling University. She carried out research at the Geography Department at Cambridge University, and a few months later joined the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development (UK CEED) as Research and Publications Officer (1996-1998).

Claudia then became Research Associate and Project Manager at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge (1998-2001) and Researcher in the Socio-Economic Research Programme at the Macaulay Institute (2002-2006), working on several national and international interdisciplinary projects on environmental values, environmental governance, public involvement in environmental decision-making, landscape perception and values, and Science & Society issues.

Claudia joined Forest Research in July 2006.

Current role

Project Leader, Social and Economic Research Group, Environmental and Human Sciences Division

Contributing to the social research programmes, Claudia currently leads the social science research on the EC project RECOAL (INCO-WBC-1-509173) addressing coal ash disposal and pollution in the West Balkan area and is carrying out research exploring ways and benefits of offenders and those on probation becoming active in nature conservation and forestry work.

Current programmes

RECOAL
Project leader 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.

Affiliations and achievements

• Board Member of the European Society for Ecological Economic (ESEE), 2000-2004
• Member of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 2005-2006

Research areas

• Environmental governance
• Public involvement in environmental decision-making
• Inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches to environmental research
• Institutional perspectives of environmental problems/conflicts
• Using nature in rehabilitation
• Participatory evaluation.

Main recent publications

O’Neill, J., Carter, C., Ekeli, K., and Kenyon, W. (forthcoming, 2007). Representing Diversity in Participatory Approaches, PATH Policy Research Brief 1. Aberdeen, UK: Macaulay Institute.

Dellantonio, A., Fitz, W.J., Custovic, H., Repmann, F., Schneider, B.U., Grünewald, H., Gruber, V., Zgorelec, Z., Zerem, N., Carter, C., Markovic, M., Puschenreiter, M., and Wenzel,  W.W. (2007). ‘Environmental risks of farmed and barren alkaline coal ash landfills in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina’. Accepted for publication by Environmental Pollution.

Castán Broto, V., Carter, C., and Elghali, L. (forthcoming) ‘Environmental Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post-socialism Development and Local Governance (A dramatised interpretation in one act)’. In: R. Hillerbrand and R. Karlsson [Title to be confirmed]. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. ISBN: 978-1-904710-50-9.

Carter, C. (2007). Offenders and Nature: Helping People - Helping Nature. Farnham: Forest Research (12pp).

Carter, C. (series editor) (2007). The Urban-Rural Divide: Myth or Reality?, SERP Policy Brief No. 2 by A.J. Scott, A. Gilbert and A. Gelan, Aberdeen: The Macaulay Institute.

Carter, C. (2006). ‘Environmental Governance: The Power and Pitfalls of Participatory Processes’, Aberdeen Discussion Paper Series: People, Environment, Development. Aberdeen: The Macaulay Institute and University of Aberdeen. ISSN 1743-9965.

Carter, C. (2005). ‘The Role of Participatory Processes in Environmental Governance: The example of agricultural GMOs’. In: P.H. Feindt and J. Newig (eds) Partizipation, Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung, Nachhaltigkeit: Perspektiven der politischen Ökonomie. Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag, pp. 181-207.

Richards, C., Sherlock, K., and Carter, C. (2004). ‘Practical Approaches to Participation’, SERP Policy Brief No. 1. Aberdeen: The Macaulay Institute.

Carter, C. (ed.) (2003). Institutional Analysis of Agricultural GMOs in Europe. CIVICS Thematic Network Report. Aberdeen: SERP, The Macaulay Institute, 108pp.

Spash, C.L. and Carter, C. (2002). ‘The valuation problem and non-market valuation theories’. In: Jon D. Erickson (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences Economic Interactions with Other Disciplines: Natural Resource Economics. Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK.  www.eolss.net.

Spash, C.L. and Carter, C. (2002). ‘Environmental valuation methods in rural resource management’.  In F. Brouwer and J. van der Straaten (eds) Nature and Agriculture in the European Union: New Perspectives on Policies that Shape the European Countryside, Current Issues in Ecological Economics Series. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 88-114.

Spash, C.L. and Carter, C. (2001). ‘Environmental Valuation in Europe: Findings from the Concerted Action’, EVE Policy Research Brief No. 11, Cambridge: Cambridge Research for the Environment, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge