Eleanor Warren-Thomas

I am a conservation scientist, working across disciplines to understand the difficult trade-offs we negotiate in biodiversity and environmental conservation, with the aim of finding solutions that offer benefits for people, biodiversity and the wider environment. I am a Lecturer in Conservation and Forestry at Bangor University, while also working as a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis/Natural Environment Research Council.

I have led ecological field surveys to assess evidence trade-offs and win-wins for biodiversity, livelihoods and carbon in smallholder plantation landscapes in Southeast Asia, but also use a variety of economic and spatial modelling approaches to understand how land use change affects biodiversity, people and climate at larger scales.

I am based at Bangor University, but work closely with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, where I hold a joint fellowship position (https://iiasa.ac.at/staff/eleanor-warren-thomas).