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The Environment and Geography
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Professor Rob Ackrill
Nottingham Business School
Subject(s): Agriculture/Horticulture, Europe, Science, The Environment and Geography
Area(s) of expertise: Agricultural policies; European Union; Biofuels
Professor Tim Cooper
School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Subject(s): Consumerism, Design, Fashion and Textiles, The Environment and Geography, Sustainability
Area(s) of expertise: Consumer behaviour; Sustainable consumption; Sustainable design; Environmental policy (product policy; waste reduction); Product lifetimes; Environmental ethics (eco-theology)
Dr Marcello Di Bonito
School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
Subject(s): The Environment and Geography, Sustainability, Agriculture/Horticulture
Area(s) of expertise: Soils; Natural resources; Waste; Pollution; Water
Professor Tom Fisher
School of Art and Design
Subject(s): History, Design, Fashion and Textiles, The Environment and Geography, Sustainability
Area(s) of expertise: Crafts; Packaging; Design (sustainable design); Clothing (sustainable clothing); Care and maintenance (history of); Plastics (in everyday life); Waste; Pollution
Dr Steven Godby
School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
Subject(s): The Environment and Geography, Technology
Area(s) of expertise: Impacts of drought, dust storms, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, landslides, storms, tropical cyclones, tsunamis and volcanoes; Natural hazards; Sand dunes; Cartography; Deserts; Disasters; Disaster assessment; Disaster management; Drylands; Geography; Geomorphology; Geographical information systems; GPS; Satellite navigation; Maps; Aeolian processes
Dr Jillian Labadz
School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
Subject(s): The Environment and Geography
Area(s) of expertise: Reservoir sedimentation, surface water quality, hydrology of peat areas, fluvial geomorphology and moorland erosion, restoration and management of peatlands, physical geography, rivers, water resources
Dr Roy Smith
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Business, International Relations, The Environment and Geography
Area(s) of expertise: Multinational corporations; Energy security; Environmental and economic vulnerability in the Pacific region; Small island developing states
Dr Amanda Smith
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Agriculture/Horticulture, Public Sector, Sustainability, The Environment and Geography
Area(s) of expertise: Urban food growing; Resilience (reducing the risk of emergencies); Sustainability; Transition Towns; Climate change policy; Urban energy security
Dr Carl Thompson
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): History, Literature, The Environment and Geography
Area(s) of expertise: Shipwrecks; Byron; Romantic literature; Romantic poetry; Travel writing; Women’s travellers and women’s travel writing; Wordsworth; Exploration
Dr Zhongmin Wu
Nottingham Business School
Subject(s): Business, The Environment and Geography
Area(s) of expertise: Employment and entrepreneurship, both in the UK and in China; Unemployment; Migration
Dr Richard Yarnell
School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
Subject(s): Animals, The Environment and Geography
Area(s) of expertise: Conservation; Wildlife; Hedgehogs; Hyaena
