Current Post: Professor

Room Number: ZICER 0.03

Telephone: 01603 593126 (+44 1603 593126)

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: a.lovett@uea.ac.uk

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Posts of Special Responsibility:

• Deputy Head of School and Director of Finance

Research Interests

Applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and statistical methods in the environmental sciences, particularly with respect to landscape planning and visualisation; catchment management, renewable energy and environmental economics.


Biography

My academic background is in human geography and since I moved to UEA in 1990 I have been involved in a range of projects concerned with applications of GIS and statistical techniques.

At present I have a particular interest in issues of future rural land-use change, including research on anaerobic digestion, bioenergy and ecosystem services funded by the UK Energy Research Centre (http://www.ukerc.ac.uk) and the Social, Economic and Environmental Research (SEER) project into Multi-Objective Land Use Decision Making funded by the ESRC (http://www.cserge.ac.uk/current-research-projects/seer). I am also co-leader of the Wensum Demonstration Test Catchment project (http://www.wensumalliance.org.uk) funded by Defra and the Environment Agency.

I am currently Deputy Head of the School of Environmental Sciences and teach on modules concerned with environmental research and field skills, GIS and catchment water resources. At present I am the main supervisor of seven PhD students and an Editorial Board member for the journal Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.

Recent Publications

• van Berkel, D., S. Carvalho Ribeiro, P. Verburg and A.A. Lovett (2011) Identifying assets and constraints for rural development with qualitative scenarios: A case study of Castro Laboreiro, Portugal, Landscape and Urban Planning, 102, 127-141.
• Bond, A.J., T. Dockerty, A.A. Lovett, A.B. Riche, A.J. Haughton, D.A. Bohan, R.B. Sage, I.F. Shield, J.W. Finch, M.M. Turner and A. Karp (2011) Learning how to deal with values, frames and governance in Sustainability Appraisal, Regional Studies, 45, 1157-1170.
• Southern, A., A.A. Lovett, T. O’Riordan and A.R. Watkinson (2011) Promoting sustainable landscape governance: lessons from a catchment based study in whole landscape design, Landscape and Urban Planning, 101, 179-189.
• Fernandes, A., C. Foxall, A.A. Lovett, M. Rose and A. Dowding (2011) The assimilation of dioxins and PCBs in conventionally reared farm animals: occurrence and biotransfer factors, Chemosphere, 83, 815-822.
• Posen, P.E., M. Hutchins, A.A. Lovett and H. Davies (2011) Identifying the catchment size at which robust estimations of agricultural land use can be made, and implications for diffuse pollution modeling, Applied Geography, 31, 919-929.
• Carvalho Ribeiro, S. and A.A. Lovett (2011) Is an attractive forest also considered well managed? Public preferences for forest cover and stand structure across a rural/urban gradient in northern Portugal, Forest Policy and Economics, 13, 46-54.
• Munday, P., A.P. Jones and A.A. Lovett (2010) Utilising scenarios to facilitate multi-objective land-use modelling for Broadland, UK, to 2100, Transactions in GIS, 14, 241-263.
• Darnell, A.R., A.A. Lovett, J. Barclay and R.A. Herd (2010) An application-driven approach to terrain model construction, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 24, 1171-91.
• Bearman, N. and A.A. Lovett (2010) Using sound to represent positional accuracy of address locations, The Cartographic Journal, 47, 308-314.
• S. Carvalho Ribeiro, A. Lovett and T. O’Riordan (2010) Multifunctional forest management in Northern Portugal: Moving from scenarios to governance for sustainable development, Land Use Policy, 27, 1111-1122.

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