SOCIAT Collaborators
SOCIAT has been co-developed in collaboration with researchers and practitioners interested in findings new ways of measuring social impacts of protected areas.
Practitioners
Several workshops have been organised (2020-2022), facilitated by EUROPARC Federation, aiming to gather feedback from park authorities and improve the tool. A list of park authorities who participated in our workshops are listed here.
| Snowdonia (Wales) | Pienyni (Slovakia) | Sierra Nevada (Spain) | Triglav (Slovenia) | Garajonay National Park (Spain) |
| Eifel (Germany) | Kullaberg (Sweden) | Port Cros (France) | Prealpi Giulie (Italy) | Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia (Spain) |
| Tatra (Poland) | Black Forest (Germany) | Delta Evros (Greece) | Matsalu (Estonia) | Triglav (Slovenia) |
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Söderåsens (Sweden) |
Peak District (England) |
SOCIAT Research collaborators
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Dr Nikoleta Jones, Principal InvestigatorAssociate Professor, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick nikoleta dot jones at warwick dot ac dot uk |
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Dr Jim McGinlayLink opens in a new windowSenior Research Fellow, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick jim dot mcginlay at warwick dot ac dot uk |
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Dr Valadis MalesiosResearch Fellow, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick chrysovalantis dot malesios at warwick dot ac dot uk |
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Vassilis GkoumasLink opens in a new windowDoctoral Candidate, Department of Land Economy and a Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge vg345 at cam dot ac dot uk |
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Stephanie WhiteheadLink opens in a new windowProgramme and Evaluation Manager, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick s dot whitehead at warwick dot ac dot uk |
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Professor Sebastian Villasante is based at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He is interested in understanding the social adaptation, transformations and vulnerabilities of marine social-ecological systems to global change, and examining trade-offs in managing and conserving living marine resources.
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Dr Juraj SvajdaDr Juraj Svajda is an assistant professor at Matej Bel University in Slovakia, where he specialises in teaching and research related to nature conservation and management of protected areas, including ecosystem services and human dimensions of natural resources management. |
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Prof Panayiotis G. DimitrakopoulosPanayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos is a Professor of Functional Ecology at the Department of Environment of the University of the Aegean, Greece. His research focuses on plant ecology, serpentine ecology, biodiversity conservation and planning, and conservation policy. |
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Dr Anne CadoretAnne Cadoret is a Senior Lecturer in Geography and Land-use Planning at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS TELEMMe. She works on processes of conflict within terrirories in the frame of social geography studies of the environment and more particularly on vulnerable areas such as coastal zones and seas. |
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