Current Post: Senior Research Associate
Room Number: ZICER Floor 0
Telephone: 01603 591046 (+44 1603 591046)
Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)
Email: t.dockerty@uea.ac.uk
Research Interests
Human impact on the natural environment generally, with a particular interest in climate change impacts on nature reserves/biodiversity/agricultural/rural land use. The development and use of 'scenarios' to illustrate potential climatic and policy influences on areas (recent work has focused on biomass crops, rural landscapes, and nitrates in groundwater); stakeholder engagement in policy development; communication of climate change and other land use change impacts through photographic & computer generated 3D (GIS-based) visualisations.
Biography
My PhD, completed in 1998, was a GIS based study which modelled relationships between plant distributions and climate to examine the potential impact of climate change on the plant assembleges of nature reserves in Great Britain. Since then I have worked with my colleagues in the Landscape Visualisation & GIS Research Group on a number of projects funded by UK government or EU agencies looking at a variety of issues concerning potential 'landscape futures'.
Significant Publications
Lovett, A, Dockerty, T, Sunnenberg, G; Appleton, K (2010) RUFUS: Future Rural Networks: The Use of landscape visualisations in the RUFUS case studies. Deliverable D4.3. EU 7th Framework Programme. Grant Agreement no. SSH7-CT-2008-217381. Contract No. 217381 Theme 8: Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities 02/2008—1/2011. Nov 2010.
Bond, A, T Dockerty, 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 (2010), "Learning how to deal with values, frames and governance in Sustainability Appraisal", Regional Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2010.485181.
Dockerty, T; Lovett, A; Appleton K & Sünnenerg, G (2009) Public attitudes to biomass energy crops and their visual impacts. Final Sub-Project Report (W.6.2.2) for the RELU-BIOMASS Project, part of the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme. University of East Anglia, November 2009.
Haughton, A J; Bond, A J; Lovett, A A; Dockerty, T L; Sünnenberg, G; Clark, S J; Bohan, D A; Sage, R B; Mallott, M D; Mallott, V E; Cunningham, M D; Riche, A B; Shield, I F; Finch, J W; Turner, M M and Karp, A. (2009) A novel, integrated approach to assessing social, economic and environmental implications of changing rural land-use: a case study of perennial biomass crops. Special Issue: Journal of Applied Ecology Vol 46, Issue 2, p315-322. Published Online: 3 Mar 2009. DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01623.x.
Hiscock, K; Lovett, A; Saich, A; Dockerty, T; Johnson, P; Sandhu, C; Sunnenberg, G; Appletons K; Harris, B & Greaves, J (2007) Modelling land-use scenarios to reduce groundwater nitrate pollution: the European Water4all project. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrology, 40 p 417-434.
Dockerty, T; Lovett, A; Appleton, K; Bone, A & Sunnenberg, G (2006) ‘Developing scenarios and visualisations to illustrate potential policy and climatic influences on future agricultural landscapes’. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment Vol. 114, Issue 1, Scenario-Based Studies of Future Land Use in Europe. Edited by Peter H. Verburg, Mark D.A. Rounsevell and A. Veldkamp. p 103 – 120.
Dockerty, T; Lovett, A; Sunnenberg, G; Appleton K; Parry M (2005) ‘Visualising the potential impacts of climate change on rural landscapes’. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems Vol. 29. p297-320.
Dockerty, T, Lovett, A & Watkinson, A (2003) ‘Climate change and nature reserves: examining the potential impacts, with examples from Great Britain’. Global Environmental Change Vol. 13, pp 125-135.
Dockerty, T & Lovett, A (2003) ‘A location-centred, GIS-based methodology for estimating the potential impacts of climate change on nature reserves’. Transactions in GIS Volume 7, No. 3. (June 2003) pp 345-370.
