Birmingham City University : Claudia Carter

• Lecturer in Environmental Management and Policy
• The Birmingham School of the Built Environment
• Faculty of Technology, Engineering & the Environment
• Email: claudia.carter@bcu.ac.uk
• Phone: 0121 331 5404

2011-present: Birmingham City University, Lecturer in Environmental Management and Policy

2006-2011: Forest Research, Band 4 Researcher in the Social and Economic Research Group.  Project Leader in Sustainable Forest Management; project design, management, communicating research findings internally and externally (journal articles, reports, research summaries, conference presentations, newsletter articles/updates, press releases). Lead/contributor in several national research / evaluation projects and an EU-funded research project.

2003-2006: Macaulay Institute, Band 6-PD Researcher in Socio-Economics and Environmental Management.  Coordinator (jointly with Wendy Kenyon) of project on ‘Participatory Approaches to Science and Technology’ (PATH) under the EC FPVI Science and Society programme, 2004-2006. Project manager of the scoping study ‘Achieving Sustainable Catchment Management: Developing integrated approaches and tools to inform future policies’, UK RELU programme, 2004-2005.

2002-2003: Macaulay Institute, Researcher. Project Manager for European thematic network ‘Consultative Institutions: Values and Information in a Changing Society’ (CIVICS). Chair of the Organising and Scientific Committees for international conference (ecological economics).

1998-2001: University of Cambridge, Research Associate. Project Manager for Cambridge Research for the Environment (CRE), Department of Land Economy. Management of three European projects: (i) Frontiers in Ecological Economics (FRONTIERS): two EC-supported high-level scientific conferences with 100-120 participants each; conference secretary and organiser for first conference; advisor for the second; (ii) EC Concerted Action on Environmental Valuation in Europe (EVE) which involved 15 partners from 8 European countries; and (iii) the European Science Foundation funded Social Psychology and Economics in Environmental Research (SPEER) which involved 9 partners from 5 European countries.

1996-1998: UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development (UK CEED), Research and Publications Officer, Editor of the UK CEED Bulletin. Research activities mainly focused on assessing the scientific validity and meaningfulness of environmental information presented in corporate environmental reports.

Environmental management and policy: especially policy and planning issues of the rural-urban fringe; trans-/interdisciplinary approaches to integrated environmental management; critical assessment of ecosystem functions and services approach; exploring the ecosystems approach to inform green infrastructure planning and landscape scale approach in spatial planning.
 
Evaluation: evaluation of range of projects, including landscape-scale project, participatory environmental engagement project using creative approaches; social science research and evaluation methods.
 
Cross-points of environmental and social policy: Role of working in nature to reduce reoffending (developing concept of desistance).

 
Recent/ongoing research projects:

• 2010 to 2012: RELU-funded research project on ‘Managing Environmental Change at the Rural-Urban Fringe’. Co-Investigator. £145,000.
  
  
• 2010: Evaluation study of the Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme funded by the Forestry Commission. Project leader. Ca. £25,000.
  
  
• 2009: Research project funded by the Forestry Commission England on the ‘Social use, value and expectations of England’s public forest estate’. Project manager and co-lead researcher with Anna Lawrence. £43,650 approved.
  
  
• 2007 to 2008: ESRC-funded project on ‘Engaging with Rivers in a Period of Uncertainty’ led by Sheffield University. Project partner (leading evaluation component). Award of £76,607 of which £21,477 allocated to Forest Research.
  
  
• 2007 to 2009: NERC-funded research project on Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System (QUEST), accompanied a Demonstrator Forestry Project for Climate Mitigation. Co-investigator. £349,804 requested.
  
  
• 2006 to 2009: Baseline assessment of existing Offenders and Nature Schemes run by the Forestry Commission. Funded by CFS and FC England. Project leader.

Castán Broto, V. and C. Carter (forthcoming) ‘Environmental justice within local discourses about coal ash pollution in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina’. In: D. Pavlich (Ed.) Managing Environmental Justice.

Morris, J., L. O’Brien, B. Ambrose-Oji, A. Lawrence, C. Carter and A. Peace (2011) ‘Access for all? Barriers to accessing woodlands and forests in Britain’, Local Environment 16(4): 375-396

Scott, A.J. and C. Carter (2011) ‘The rural-urban fringe - forgotten opportunity space?’, Town and Country Planning (May/June): 231-234.

Selman, P., C. Carter, C. Morgan and A. Lawrence (2011) ‘Raising catchment consciousness: how imaginative engagement can help sustainable use of rivers’. Chapter 7 in R. Rogerson, S. Sadler, A. Green and C. Wong (Eds) Sustainable Communities: Skills and learning for place-making. Hertford: Hertforshire University Press, pp. 109-120.

Carter, C., L. O’Brien and J. Morris (2011) Enabling Positive Change: Evaluation of the Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme. Farnham: Forest Research, 108pp.

Ambrose-Oji, B., P. Tabbush, C. Carter, B. Frost and K. Fielding (2011) Public Engagement in Forestry: A toolbox for public participation in forest and woodland planning. Edinburgh: Forestry Commission.

Selman, P., C. Carter, A. Lawrence and C. Morgan (2010) ‘Re-connecting with a recovering river through imaginative engagement’, Ecology and Society 15(3): 18

Castán Broto V., K. Burningham, C. Carter and L Elghali (2010) ‘Stigma and attachment: performance of identity in an environmentally degraded place’, Society and Natural Resources 23(10):952-968.

Carter, C. and A. Pycroft (2010) ‘Getting out: offenders in forestry and conservation work settings’. Chapter 11 in: J. Brayford, F. Cowe and J. Deering (Eds) What Else Works? Creative Work with offenders. Uffculme: Willan Publishing, pp. 211-235.

Lawrence, A. and C. Carter (2009) ‘Human behavioural and institutional change’. In: Read, D., P.H. Freer-Smith, J. Morison, N. Hanley, C. West, P. Snowdon and M. Broadmeadow (eds) Combating Climate Change - a role for UK forests. An assessment of the potential of the UK’s trees and woodlands to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Edinburgh: The Stationery Office. Chapter 13, pp. 209-214.

Scott, A., C. Carter, K. Brown and V. White (2009) ‘“Seeing is not everything”: exploring the landscape experiences of different publics’, Landscape Research, 34(4): 397-424.

Castán Broto, V., C. Carter and L. Elghali (2009) Research Note: 'The governance of coal ash pollution in post-socialist times: power and expectations'. Environmental Politics, 18(2): 279-286.

Carter, C., A. Lawrence, R. Lovell and L. O’Brien (2009) The Forestry Commission Public Forest Estate in England: Social use, value and expectations. Farnham: Forest Research, 88pp.

Lawrence, A. and C. Carter (2009) The Forestry Commission Public Forest Estate in England: Social use, value and expectations – Summary report. Farnham: Forest Research. 10pp.

Lawrence, A., C. Carter, L. O’Brien and R. Lovell (2009) Social benefits from the Forestry Commission Public Forest Estate in England: review of current evidence. Farnham: Forest Research. 50pp.

Castán Broto, V., C. Carter and L. Elghali (2008) ' Environmental Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post-socialism Development and Local Governance' (A dramatised interpretation in one act). In: R. Hillerbrand and R. Karlsson Beyond the Global Village: Environmental Challenges Inspiring Global Citizenship. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. Probing the Boundaries Series, Volume 51. Chapter 2, pp 26-34. ISBN: 978-1-904710-50-9.

Carter, C. and L. O’Brien (2008) ‘Identity-building in the woods: Re-connecting with nature for health and wellbeing’. Ecos, 29(2): 33-41.

Carter, C. and D. West (2008) Policy into Practice - Employment for ex-offenders: an innovative approach, Farnham: Forest Research, November 2008 (4pp).

Spash, C.L. and C. Carter (2008) ‘Environmental Valuation in Europe: Findings from the Concerted Action’ (2001).  In: J. Martinez-Alier and I. Røpke Recent Developments In Ecological Economics Volume 2. Chapter 9, pp. 125-140.

Dellantonio, A., W.J. Fitz, H. Custovic, F. Repmann, B.U. Schneider, H. Grünewald, V. Gruber, Z. Zgorelec, N. Zerem, C. Carter, M. Markovic, M. Puschenreiter, W.W. Wenzel (2008) ‘Environmental risks of farmed and barren alkaline coal ash landfills in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina’. Environmental Pollution, 153: 677-686.

O’Neill, J., C. Carter, K. Ekeli and W. Kenyon (2008) Representing Diversity in Participatory Approaches, PATH Policy Research Brief. Aberdeen, UK: Macaulay Institute.

Blackstock, K.L. and C.E. Carter (2007) ‘Operationalising sustainability science for a sustainability directive? Reflecting on three pilot projects’. The Geographical Journal, 173(4): 343-357.

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.

Spash, C.L. and C. Carter (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.

Spash, C.L. and C. Carter (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.

2007-2008 Member of the British Sociology Association
2005-2006: Member of the Society for Social Studies of Science
1998-2004: Member of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) and the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)
1999-2004: Secretary of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE)
2000-2003: Member of the Board of ESEE
1996-2001: Member of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine Public Relations Association (STEMPRA)