Professor Tavis Potts is a Personal Chair in Sustainable Development and Environmental Governance. His interests include understanding just transitions and the social dimensions of climate and energy; marine resource governance and planning; participatory and community-based approaches to managing natural capital and the political economy of environmental policy and decision-making.
Experience
2014–present
Senior lecturer in Human Geography, University of Aberdeen
2021–present
Chair Professor, University of Aberdeen
2022–present
Dean, University of Aberdeen
2006–2014
Senior lecturer, Scottish Association for Marine Scinece
Education
2004
University of Tasmania , PhD in Marine Policy
1995
University of Newcastle (AU) , Bachelor of Environmental Management
Publications
2013
Marine litter: Progress in developing an integrated policy approach in Scotland.(Hastings & Potts) , Marine Policy
2012
Oceans of Opportunity or Rough Seas? What does the future hold for developments in European marine policy? (Potts, O'Higgins, Hastings), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
2012
Rapid Policy Network Mapping: A New Method for Understanding Governance Structures for Implementation of Marine Environmental Policy. (Bainbridge, Potts, O'Higgins), PlosOne
2010
The Natural Advantage of Regions: Linking Sustainability, Innovation, and Regional Development in Australia., Journal of Cleaner Production
2010
Across the top of the World? Emerging Arctic Navigational Opportunities and Arctic Governance. (Potts & Schofield) , Carbon and Climate Law Review