Professor Susan Owens FBA
Environmental governance: relations between land use planning, environment & sustainability; policy processes in modern democracies, especially the role of knowledge, ideas & advice in policy formation & change.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2011
- Subjects
- Geography
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy, University of Cambridge; Fellow Emerita, Newnham College, Cambridge
Past appointments
Department of Geography, Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy, University of Cambridge; Fellow Emerita, Newnham College, Cambridge
2017 -
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Jonathan D Rigg FBA
Agrarian transitions in Asia with a focus on livelihoods and living; migration, mobility and rural-urban relations; resilience and adaptation to natural hazards and environmental change; Southeast Asia area studies
Professor Sherry Beth Ortner FBA
Social and cultural theory; historical anthropology; gender and feminist theory; anthropology of late capitalism/neoliberalism; film, media, and the culture industries; political activism. Sherpas of Nepal and anthropology of the Himalayas
Professor Ruth S. DeFries FBA
Sustainable land use; climate resilience; biodiversity and conservation; landscape connectivity; livelihoods; food systems; remote sensing; science-policy interface; central India
