Capability – Land-use Geographies, Economics and Finance
Summary
Our capabilities in land-use geographies are being applied to understand the uneven and socially contested discourses and practices of land use and fire management. We bring established excellence in case-based political ecology into critical conversation, with spatial-analytic approaches of land-use/land-cover change science. We have experts and projects in area studies, Indigenous knowledges, agent-based modelling, risk, and health to inform wider public deliberation about human-environment-fire relations.
In economics, we work on the valuation of wildfire impacts, and assess the human, economic, and institutional drivers of wildfire of wildfire occurrence. Our capability in finance spans the analytics of wildfire risk impact on different asset classes, as well as its evolution along different climate pathways. We also study wildfire risk at the intersection between climate finance and climate mitigation/ adaptation, including the structuring and pricing of carbon based assets such as forestry-linked securities
Who to Contact
If you have general queries about our capabilities and research in land-use geographies, economics or finance, please get in touch with our key contact points below.
Dr Cathy Smith (Land-use geographies) (RHUL) Email: C.Smith@rhul.ac.uk
Dr Yiannis Kountouris (Economics) (CEP, ICL) Email: i.kountouris@imperial.ac.uk
Dr Enrico Biffis (Finance) (Imperial Business School): Email:e.biffis@imperial.ac.uk
People working in this area
Land-use geographies
Prof. Jay Mistry (RHUL) – Professor in Geography – read more
Prof. David Demeritt (KCL) – Professor of Geography – read more.
Prof. Kate Schreckenberg (KCL) – Professor in Environment and Development – read more
Dr Cathy Smith (RHUL) – PDRA – Global analysis of local sociological case studies of fire practices within smallholder and subsistence-oriented livelihoods – read more
Dr Max Stiefel (KCL) – PDRA
Dr Alex Arnell (Reading) – Associate Professor – read more
Dr Morena Mills (ICL)- Reader in Environmental Policy and Practice – read more
Dr Emma Tebbs (KCL) – Lecturer in Physical Geography and Earth Observation – read more
Dr Jem Wood (ICL) – Reader in Sustainable Development – read more
Dr Varyl Thorndycraft (RHUL) – Senior Lecturer, Centre for Quaternary Research – read more
Abi Croker (ICL)- PhD student – Community-based Fire Management: A colonial narrative?
Daniel Gallaghar (RHUL)- PhD student – Long-term interactions between vegetation, fire and human impact in Guyana
Sophie de Pauw (Reading) – PhD student – Farmers burning practices and conservation in Mozambique
Angel Goldsmith (KCL) – PhD student – integrated wildfire risk-based mitigation model in South Africa
Rahinatu Sidiki Alare (KCL) – PhD student – Understanding the trade-offs between traditional and government approaches to fire management in the savannah woodlands of northern Ghana
Michel Valette (ICL) – PhD student – Assessing social and ecological drivers of fire regimes in the Brazilian Amazon in the context of changing forest governance
Kapil Yadav (KCL) – PhD student – Contested fire management in India’s forests
Amos Chege Muthiuru (KCL)- PhD student – Spatial and temporal patterns of wildfires in protected areas and their impacts on human-wildlife interactions
Agent-based modelling:
Dr James Millington (KCL) – Reader in Landscape Ecology – read more
Dr Ol Perkins (KCL) – PDRA – Agent-Based methods for representing anthropogenic fire in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)
Viera Ukropcova (KCL) – PhD student – Corporate and financial actors’ impacts on deforestation and forest fires in the tropics
Health:
Prof. Majid Ezzati (ICL) – Chair in Global Environmental Health – read more
Dr Sean Beavers (ICL)- Reader in Atmospheric Modelling – read more
Economics and finance:
Dr Yiannis Kountouris (ICL) – Senior Lecturer in Economics and the Environment – read more
Dr Enrico Biffis (ICL) – Associate Professor of Actuarial Finance – read more
Dr Giuseppe Brandi (Finance) (ICL) – PDRA – incorporating wildfires data and modelling into financial analytics
Dr Kaveh Salehzadeh Nobari (Finance) (ICL) – PDRA- the viability of forestry assets as means of constructing optimal portfolios
Haleema Misal (Economics) (ICL)- PhD student –Quantifying and monetizing the wildfire impact on human welfare
Erika Piroli (Economics/politics) (ICL) – PhD student- Policy and Fires – do politicians’ incentives and priorities affect wildfires occurrence?
Past researchers:
Kayla de Freitas (RHUL) – PhD student – Indigenous fire management and protected areas in Guyana
Vissia Didin Ardiyani (Public Health) (KCL) – PhD student – alteration of pregnancy related birth weight in pregnant women exposed by toxic air during Indonesia peat fires
Yanan Liu (Environmental Health) (KCL) – PhD student – potential impacts of smoke from landscape fires on migratory insects
Li Wang (KCL) – PDRA – local diversities and effectiveness of agricultural burning regulation in China
