Professor Andrew Lovett
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
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.
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. In recent years this has included studies funded by the NHS (modelling accessibility to health services), the UK Environment Agency (the WaterCost (http://www.watercost.org/) project concerned with strategies for reducing diffuse agricultural pollution), and the UK Food Standards Agency (PCB and dioxin contamination in the food chain). 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 (http://www.relu-biomass.org.uk/) and ChREAM (http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/research/relu/index) and an EU FP7 project RUFUS (http://www.rufus-eu.de/) concerned with rural development futures in nine countries. These projects also make use of the specialist visualisation equipment in the SSEVREL facility (http://www.uea.ac.uk/zicer/ssevrel/) 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.
Significant Publications
Appleton, K.J. and A.A. Lovett (2009) “Visualizing rural landscapes from GIS databases in real-time: A comparison of software and some future prospects”, pp.815-835 in M. Madden (ed.) Manual of Geographic Information Systems, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Brainard, J.S., I.J. Bateman and A.A. Lovett (2009) “The social value of carbon sequestered in Great Britain’s woodlands”, Ecological Economics, Vol.68, pp.1257-1267.
Carvalho Ribeiro, S. and AA. Lovett (2009) “Associations between forest characteristics and socio-economic development: A case study from Portugal”, Journal of Environmental Management, Vol.90, pp.2873-2881.
Haughton, A.J., A.J. Bond, A.A. Lovett, T. Dockerty, G. Sünnenberg, S.J. Clark, D.A. Bohan, R.B. Sage, M.D. Mallot, V.E. Mallott, M.D. Cunningham, A.B. Riche, I.F. Shield, J.W. Finch, M.M. Turner and A. Karp (2009) “A novel, integrated approach to assessing social, economic and environmental implications of changing rural land-use: a case study of perennial biomass crops”, Journal of Applied Ecology. Vol. 46, pp.315-322.
Lovett, A.A., K.J. Appleton and A.P. Jones (2009) “GIS-based landscape visualization: The state of the art”, pp. 287-309 in N.J. Mount, G.L. Harvey, P. Aplin and G. Priestnall, (eds.) Representing, Modeling and Visualizing the Natural Environment: Innovations in GIS 13, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida
Lovett, A.A., K.J. Appleton, P. Paar and L. Ross (2009) “Evaluating real-time landscape visualization techniques for public communication of energy crop planting scenarios”, pp.103-116 in H.Lin and M.Batty (eds.) Virtual Geographic Environments, Science Press, Beijing.
Lovett, A.A., G.M. Sünnenberg, G.M. Richter, A.G. Dailey, A.B. Riche and A. Karp (2009) “Land use implications of increased biomass production identified by GIS-based suitability and yield mapping for Miscanthus in England”, BioEnergy Research, Vol. 2, pp.17-28.
Strassburg, B.S., R.K. Turner, B. Fisher, R. Schaeffer and A.A. Lovett (2009) “Reducing emissions from deforestation – The ‘combined incentives’ mechanism and empirical simulation”, Global Environmental Change, Vol. 19, pp.265-278.
Lovett, A.A. and K.J. Appleton (eds.) (2008) GIS for Environmental Decision-Making, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 259.
