Telephone: +44 (0)1603 593126
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Email: a.lovett@uea.ac.uk
Web Page: http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/sci/env/people/facstaff/Dr%2BAndrew%2BLovett
Research Interests: Applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and statistical methods in the environmental sciences, particularly with respect to landscape planning and visualisation; the geography of health; environmental economics and waste management.
My academic background is in human geography. Since I moved to UEA in 1990, I have been involved in a range of projects concerned with applications of GIS and statistical techniques. In recent years this has included studies funded by the NHS (modelling accessibility to health services), the UK Environment Agency (verification of nitrate vulnerable zone definitions and the Water4all project, concerned with strategies for reducing diffuse agricultural pollution), the UK Food Standards Agency (PCB and dioxin contamination in the food chain), several local authorities in East Anglia (the impacts of new kerbside recycling schemes) and the EU Interreg IIIB programme (the AMEWAM project, regarding agricultural measures for reducing soil erosion and flooding risk). At present, I have a particular interest in issues of future rural land-use change, including involvement in two projects funded by the Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme, namely RELU-Biomass and ChREAM. These projects also make use of the specialist visualisation equipment in the SSEVREL facility within the School of Environmental Sciences.
I am currently a Steering Committee member of the GIS Research UK Conference Series (including convenor of the 2004 conference held at UEA), an Editorial Board member of the journals Computers, Environment & Urban Systems, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, and Health & Place. |  |
