Dr Claire Quinn

Centre member

Claire is a lecturer in Natural Resources Management at the School of Earth and Environment| at the University of Leeds.

Claire is currently working with CCCEP to investigate linking top-down and bottom-up approaches in climate change adaptation research in sub-Saharan Africa. She also contributes to the Rural Economy and Land Use funded Sustainable Uplands project, which seeks to combine knowledge from local stakeholders, policymakers and social and natural scientists to anticipate, monitor and sustainably manage rural change in UK uplands.

Background

Claire has a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences, ecology specialism from Kings College, London, as well as an MRes Ecology and Environmental Management and a PhD in Social Policy and Environmental Management from the University of York.

Claire is an ecological social scientist with over 10 years of experience working on interdisciplinary projects in Africa and the UK. Her research interests lie in the links between ecological and socio-economic processes in the management and conservation of natural resources. Specifically, her research focuses on the distribution of property rights in multi-resource systems and the implications for management, and livelihood vulnerability and adaptation to environmental change in agricultural communities. 

Research interests

• Vulnerability and adaptation in agricultural systems;

• Multi-resource systems/ecosystem services;

• Common Pool Resources, institutions and natural resource management.

Research articles

2011

Simelton, E., Quinn, C.H., Antwi-Agyei, P., Batisani, N., Dougill, A.J., Dyer, J., Fraser, E.D.G., Mkwambisi, D., Rosell, S., Sallu, S., and Stringer, L.C. African farmers' perceptions of erratic rainfall. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of article| (1.69MB)

Fraser, E., Dougill, A., Hubacek, K., Quinn, C., Sendzimir, J., and Termansen, M. 2011. Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions. Ecology and Society, v.16. External link to full article|

2010

Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Hubacek, K., Dougill, A.J., Sendzimir, J., and Quinn, C. Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of full article| (267KB)

Quinn, C.H., Fraser, E.D.G., Hubacek, K., and Reed, M.S. 2010. Property rights in UK uplands and the implications for policy and management. Ecological Economics, v.69, pp.1355-1363. External link to full article|

2009

Chapman, D.S., Termansen, M., Quinn, C.H., Jin, N., Bonn, A., Cornell, S.J., Fraser, E.D.G., Hubacek, K., Kunin, W.E., and Reed, M.S. April 2009. Modelling the coupled dynamics of moorland management and upland vegetation. Journal of Applied Ecology, v.46. External link to full article|

Reed, M.S., Graves, A., Dandy, N., Posthumus, H., Hubacek, K., Morris, J., Prell, C., Quinn, C.H., and Stringer, L.C. April 2009. Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management. Journal of Environmental Management, v.90, pp.1933-1949. External link to full article|

Suckall, N., Fraser, E.D.G, Cooper, T., and Quinn, C. February 2009. Visitor perceptions of rural landscapes: a case study in the Peak District National Park. Journal of Environmental Management, v.90. External link to full article| 

Reed, M.S., Bonn, A., Slee, W., Beharry-Borg, N., Birch, J., Brown, I., Burt, T.P., Chapman, D., Chapman, P.J., Clay, G.D., Cornell, S.J., Fraser, E.D.G., Glass, J.H., Holden, J., Hodgson, J.A; Hubacek, K., Irvine, B., Jin, N., Kirkby, M.J., Kunin, W.E., Moore, O., Moseley, D., Prell, C., Price, M.F., Quinn, C.H., Redpath, S., Reid, C., Stagl, S., Stringer, L.C., Termansen, M., Thorp, S., Towers, W., and Worrall, F. December 2009. The future of the uplands. Land Use Policy, v.26, pp.S204-S216. External link to full article|

Reed, M.S., Arblaster, K., Bullock, C., Burton, R.J.F., Davies, A.L., Holden, J., Hubacek, K., May, R., Mitchley, J., Morris, J., Nainggolan, D., Potter, C., Quinn, C.H., Swales, V., and Thorp, S. November 2009. Using scenarios to explore UK upland futures. Futures, v.41, pp.619-630. External link to full article|

2008

Prell, C., Hubacek, K., Quinn, C., and Reed, M. 2008. 'Who's in the network?' When stakeholders influence data analysis. Systemic Practice and Action Research, v.21, pp.443-458. External link to full article|