I'm an ecological economist broadly focused on the themes of infrastructure sustainability, biodiversity compensation, and biodiversity finance. My academic work analyses the ecological impacts of the global infrastructure boom, and explores solutions for mitigating these impacts, including Biodiversity Net Gain in England, biodiversity offsetting, and policies addressing the root causes of infrastructure expansion such as demand reduction and monetary policy reform. I have published academic articles spanning postgrowth economics, the political economy of infrastructure and housing, rewilding, ecosystem services, environmental economics, operationalising environmental science in practice for businesses and governments, and the environmental impacts of the global demand for construction minerals. I am based at the University of Oxford.
Experience
–present
PhD student, University of Kent
2018–2018
Postgraduate researcher, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
2014–2018
Research Assistant, The Nature Conservancy
2016–2016
Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services Consultant, AECOM
Education
2017
University of Edinburgh, Ecological Economics
2015
Judge Business School, Management
2014
University of Cambridge, Zoology
Publications
2018
Ecosystem service responses to rewilding: first-order estimates from 27 years of rewilding in the Scottish Highlands, International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management
2018
Measuring rewilding progress, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2017
Is variety the spice of life? An experimental investigation into the effects of species richness on self-reported mental well-being, PloS one