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Professor Douglas MacMillan

 

Head of the School of Anthropology and Conservation


Professor of Conservation and Applied Resource Economics
   

Room: 14a
E-mail: D.C.MacMillanblank
Extension: 4902

  

 

CV

2009 - Professor in Conservation and Applied Resource Economics
2008 - Head of School of Anthropology and Conservation
2006 - Reader in Conservation and Applied Resource Economics, DICE.
2005 - 06 Reader, Aberdeen University
1997 - 05 Senior Lecturer, Aberdeen University
1993 - 97 Senior Economist, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen
1991 - 96 Ph.D. Economics, University of Stirling (part-time)
1987 - 93 Economist, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen
1986 - 87 Forest Manager, Tilhill Economic Forestry Ltd, Stirling
1984 - 86 Research Assistant, School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State University
1984 - 86 MSc Forest Resources and Operations Research, Pennsylvania State University
1980 - 84 BSc (Hons) Forestry, University of Aberdeen

 

Research interests

  • Economics and wildlife conservation - market failure and governance
  • Environmental valuation: use and limitations of stated preference methods
  • Environmental modelling: soft and hard knowledge systems and interactions with indigenous knowledge
  • Economics of collaboration in land and wildlife management
  • Forest Resource Economics

 

Research Group (click here for list of grants and projects)

Arturo Balderas, Darwin Initiative project, Mexico

Bernard Morizet, Balanced Seas

Hannah Thomas, Balanced Seas

Greg Vaughan, Balanced Seas 

 

Current research students

Arturo Balelderas (2010-2013)

Dan Challender (2010 - 2013) The trade and conservation of pangolins in Asia (ESRC/NERC Studentship)

Enrico Di Minin (2008-2011) A spatially explicit assessment of megafaunal re-introductions in Maputaland

Charlie Gardner (2008-2011) Investigating economic valuation to protected area management and financing in southern Madagascar

Abishek Harihar (2010-2013) Assessing Viability of Tiger Population in the Western Terai Arc Landscape, India

Brett Lewis (2008-2011) Ecological and Economic cost-effectiveness of mitigation actions for protected species on sites scheduled for development (NERC/ESRC Studentship)

Camilla Priede (2004-2008) Understanding knowledge and perceptions of Highland landscapes (ESKC Case Studentship)

Rajeev Raghavan (2009-2012) Fisheries, livelihoods and conservation in the forest streams of Western Ghats Hotspot, India

Rehema Shoo (2010 - 2013) Economic Benefits of Ecotourism in Lake Natron, Tanzania (Commonwealth Scholarships)

Chloe Tully (2008-2011) Evaluationg and mitigating the ecological and economic impacts of large felids on local communities in West Sumatra. (NERC/ESRC Studentship)

Diogo Veríssimo (2009-2012) Maximizing awareness and fundraising for conservation through the flagship concept

Emma Wombwell (2009-2012) The implications of an emerging infectious disease on the global trade and conservation of amphibians.

 

Collaborators:

Nick Hanley, University of Stirling

Justin Irvine, Macaulay Institute

Marc Foggin, Plateau Perspectives, Qinghai, Western China

Dr Martin Nicoll, WWF, Madagascar

Professor Rob Slotow, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

 

DICE Teaching:

DI 304 Environmental and Economic Systems

DI878 Social Science Approaches to Conservation

 

National/International activities

  • Board Member - Balanced Seas Project 2009-2011
  • ESRC Awards Reviewer
  • AHRB Awards Reviewer
  • RELU Awards Reviewer
  • Conference Committee Agricultural Economics Society 2002-2005
  • Land Reform Consultative Panel, Scottish Office, 1999-2001
  • Economic Advisor to Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Forestry Trust, and Community Woodlands Association
  • Member of Land Use Commission 1995-1997
  • Economic advisor to the FAO, National Water Supply and Drainage Board, Sri Lanka
  • Climate change policy advisor, Scottish Government

 

Recent press coverage

Scotland on Sunday article on September 27, 2009

BBC Radio Scotland interview (item begins 1:22 mins into the programme)

Call for a national wildlife policy

 

Recent publications (click here for full list)

MacMillan, DC and Phillip, S (2010). The role of economic incentives in resolving conservation conflicts: the case of wild deer management and habitat conservation. Human Ecology 38, 485-493.

MacMillan, DC, Leitch, K, Wightman, A and Higgins, P (2010). The management and role of Highland sporting estates in the early 21st Century: the owner’s view of a unique but contested form of land use. Scottish Geographical Journal  126, 24-40.

Verrissimo, D, Fraser, I, Groombridge, J and MacMillan, D.C. (2009) Birds as a tourism flagship – a case study of tropical islands. Animal Conservation 12, 549-558.

Phillip, S, Dandy, N, Gill, R and MacMillan, DC (2009). Is legislation a barrier to the sustainable management of game species?  A case study of wild deer in Britain. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 52, 993-1012.