2010 – 2012  Just Environmental Management

Funded by the NERC/ESRC/DFID  programme on Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation. Exploring socio-ecological trade-offs in ecosystem management, through an environmental justice perspective. Case studies in China, India and Albertine Rift. Led by Thomas Sikor.

2010-2014  Climate Change and Forests in the Congo Basin: Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation

Research project funded by African Development Bank.  Co-Investigator, working with CIFOR(lead) and Stockholm Environment Institute .  This is an action research project to promote, support and investigate projects to reconcile adaptation and mitigation in selected research landscapes in the Congo basin.

2010-2014  Combining REDD, PFM and FSC certification in South-Eastern Tanzania

UEA team working on the REDD project, led by the Mpingo Conservation and Development Initiative. UEA are supporting components on governance, social impact assessment and benefit sharing. Funded by NORAD.

2009-2012  Reconciling Conservation and Development through Direct Payments for Conservation in Rwanda (www.redirectrwanda.com)

Principal Investigator, funded by European Research Council . This is an experimental Payments for Ecosystem Services research project operating in a montane rainforest in southwest Rwanda. Key partners are the Rwanda Development Board, Wildlife Conservation Society Rwanda, and National University of Rwanda.

2008-2009  Lessons learnt in community based conservation and transboundary natural resource management in the greater Virunga landscape of the Albertine Rift

Consultancy projects in Rwanda, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo. Funded by International Gorilla Conservation Programme and Buffett Foundation.

2008-2009  Recognising and supporting Community Conserved Areas.

Small project in Rwanda, Principal Investigator, funded by IUCN/CENESTA.  This involved a survey of indigenous and community conservation areas in Rwanda, and development of a proposal for supporting BaTwa indigenous groups.

2005-2008  Conservation partnerships in Rwanda: building capacity for managing protected areas.

Principal Investigator, funded by MacArthur Foundation’s regional programme for the Albertine Rift.

Research Student Supervision

I welcome enquiries from those interested in research in environment and development, especially those interested in:

• ecosystem services approaches,
• environmental justice,
• payments for ecosystem services (incl. REDD)
• biodiversity conservation in developing countries
• environment and conflict

I am currently supervising the following research students:

• Barry H. Ferguson; ‘Co-evolution of Forest Management Systems’
• Lorena Ibarguen Tinley; ‘Networks of Medicinal Plant Producers: The Case of 'Las Hamelias' Micro-enterprise in Veracruz, Mexico’
• Ignacio Macedo Castillejos; 'Decentralising Rural Development: A case study of the implementation process of the Sustainable Rural Development Act in Mexico'
• Alma Soto: PES and indigenous people in Mexico
• Neil Dawson: Ecosystem Services and human wellbeing, Rwanda
• Lucy Garrett: PES 

Publications

Martin, A., McGuire, S. and Sullivan, S. (under review) Global environmental justice and biodiversity conservation, Submitted to Geographical Journal.

Martin, A., Gross-Camp, N., Kebede, B and McGuire, S. (under review) Global and local conceptions of justice, Submitted to Geoforum.

Martin, A. and Rutagarama, E. (2012) Just deliberation: Can communicative rationality support socially just environmental conservation in rural Africa? Journal of Rural Studies 28: 189-198

Gross-Camp, N., Martin, A., McGuire, S., Kebede, B., and Munyarukaza, J. (2012) PES in an African protected area: exploring issues of legitimacy, fairness, equity & effectiveness, Oryx, 46(1): 24-33.

Adrian Martin, Eugene Rutagarama, Ana Cascao, Maryke Gray and Vasudha Chhotray (2011) Understanding the co-existence of conflict and cooperation: transboundary ecosystem management in the Virunga Massif, Journal of Peace Research, 48(5): 621-635

Blowers, A., Boersema, J and Martin, A. (2012) Is sustainable development sustainable?, Journal of Integrative Environmental Research 9: 1-8.

Martin, A. and Boersema, J. (2011) Is there a role for environmental Justice in environmental politics? Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 8(3): 145-150

Martin, A., Rutagarama, E., Gray, M., Asuma, S., Bana, M., Basabose, A., Mwine, M. (2011) Community Conservation, in: Gray, M. and Rutagarama, E. (Eds.) 20 Years of IGCP: Lessons learned in mountain gorilla conservation, IGCP, pp. 1-32.

Martin, A., Rutagarama, E., Gray, M., Kayitare, A. and Chhotray, V. (2011) Transboundary Natural Resource Management, in: Gray, M. and Rutagarama, E. (Eds.) 20 Years of IGCP: Lessons learned in mountain gorilla conservation, IGCP, pp. 59-90.

Martin, A.,  E. Rutagarama, M. Gray, S. Asuma, M. Bana, A. Basabose and M. Mwine (2011) Linking development interventions to conservation: perspectives from partners in the International Gorilla Conservation Programme. Society and Natural Resources 24(6): 626-636

Martin, A., Blowers, A. and Boersema, J.  (2010) Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation: assessing the constraints and opportunities. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 7:2, pp. 99-104.

Boersema, J., Blowers, A.. and Martin, A.. (2009) Biodiversity loss, poverty and climate change: can one solution fit all? Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 6:3, 239-246
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Blowers, A., Boersema, J. and Martin, A.. (2009) Whatever happened to environmental politics? Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 6: 2, 97-102
Link to journal article          Link to document Martin, A., Blowers, A. and Boersema, J.  (2009) Do we want Green Growth or a Green Recession? Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 6:1, pp 1-6 
Link to journal article          Adrian Martin,  Eugene Rutagarama, Maryke Gray, Stephen Asuma, Mediatrice Bana, Augustin Basabose, Mark Mwine, Community Conservation: lessons learned, DEV/ODG Reports and Policy Paper 5, June 2008

Boersema, J., Blowers, A. and Martin, A.(2008) The Religion-Environment Connection Environmental Sciences 5:4, pp 217-221
Link to journal article          Link to document Blowers, A., Boersema, J. and Martin, A (2008) Why environmental policy making needs a local perspective, Environmental Sciences 5:3, pp 145-149
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Martin, A., Blowers, A. and Boersema, J.  (2008) Paying for environmental services: can we afford to lose a cultural basis for conservation? Environmental Sciences 5:1, pp 1-5
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Boyle, A., Maguire, S., Martin, A., Milsom, C., Nash, R., Rawlinson, S., Turner, A.,  Wuthermann, S. & Conchie, S., (2007) Fieldwork is good: the student perception and the affective domain, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 31 (2): 299-317.
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Boersema, J., Blowers, A. and Martin, A.. (2007) Biofuels and perverse subsidies: fuelling the wrong solutions? Environmental Sciences: journal of integrative environmental research, 4(4), 195-198.
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Blowers, A., Boersema, J. and Martin, A. (2007) Science and Politics: relating the ‘can’ and the ‘should’ of sustainable development, Environmental Sciences: journal of integrative environmental research, 4(1), 1-4. 
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Rutagarama, E. and A. Martin (2006) Partnerships for protected area conservation in Rwanda, Geographical Journal, 172 (4): 291-305.
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Martin, A., Blowers, A. and Boersema, J. (2006). ‘Combining clarity and uncertainty in science communication’, Environmental Sciences: journal of integrative environmental research, 3(4), 225-228 
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Boersema, J, Blowers, A. and Martin, A. (2006). ‘Do we need an international panel on biodiversity change?, Environmental Sciences: journal of integrative environmental research, 3(3), 157-162
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Blowers, A., Boersema, J. and Martin, A. (2006) Is it ever too late? Understanding the role of time in environmental management, Editorial, Environmental Sciences; journal of integrative environmental research, 3(2), 79-82. 
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Martin, A., J. Boersema and A. Blowers, (2006) 'Is environmental scarcity a cause of civil wars?' in Environmental Sciences: journal of integrative environmental research, 3(1), 1-4.
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Martin, A., (2005) Environmental conflict between refugee and host communities , Journal of Peace Research 42 (3): 329-346
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Boersema, J., A. Blowers and A. Martin, (2005) 'Nuclear or not? Diverging frames, diverging solutions', Environmental Sciences: journal of integrative environmental research, 2(4): 383-386
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Blowers, A., J. Boersema and A. Martin,  (2005) Experts, decision making and deliberative democracy, Environmental Sciences: journal of integrative environmental research 2(1): 1-3
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Blowers, A., J. Boersema and A. Martin, (2004) 'Editorial', Environmental Sciences: Journal of Integrative Environmental Research 1 (1): 1-3 
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Martin, A., (2003) On knowing what trees to plant: lay and expert perspectives in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, Geoforum 34 (1): 57-69
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Martin, A., and I. Scott, (2003) The Effectiveness of the UK Landfill Tax', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 46 (5): 673-689
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Huckle, John and A. Martin (2001) Environments in a Changing World, Harlow, Essex: Prentice Hall

Martin, A., and M. Lemon (2001) Challenges for participatory institutions, Society and Natural Resources 14 (7): 585-597

Martin, A., and M. Lemon (2001)  Gender and forestry: integrating local knowledge into environmental planning and management, International Journal of Sustainable Development 4 (3): 265-281
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Martin, A. (2000) 'Thinking about exposure: ethical issues arising from international field studies for undergraduate students', International Journal of Environmental Education and Information 19 (3): 193-204 

My teaching mainly focuses on environmental management, biodiversity conservation and rural development although I also do some teaching on the history of development.