University of Kent

Dr Helen Newing   Lecturer in Conservation Social Science Convenor, MSc in Conservation and Tourism Senior Tutor (DICE)
Room: 66 E-mail: H.S.Newing Extension: 7289

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Research interests

Local community aspects of conservation and rural development, including:

• Community aspects of conservation and rural development
  
• Collaborative management, community conserved areas and
  protected areas governance
  
• Traditional knowledge in conservation and natural resource management
  
• Indigenous peoples, conservation and biocultural diversity
  
• Conservation and social change
  
• International forest policy
  
• NGOs and advocacy
  

Recent research projects:

Collaborative wildlife management and changing social contexts in Amazonian Peru

Implementation of International Commitments on Traditional Forest Related Knowledge

PhD students

Constanza Monterrubio: Community Conserved Areas vs. Private Protected Areas, differences in policy and practical implications for communities and biodiversity conservation.

Emily Caruso: Pluralistic approaches to co-management of protected areas: the case of the Ashaninka Communal Reserve, Peru (ESRC CASE studentship with Rainforest Foundation UK)

Olivia Swinscow-Hall: Indigenous representation in negotiations over natural resource use (ESRC CASE studentship with Forest Peoples Programme)

Erika Ikemoto: Agroforestry, innovation and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

Previous PhD students:

Laura Penn (completed 2005): An exploration of zoo theatre’s contribution to the directives of zoos: a case study from the Central Park Zoo in New York.

National / International activities

• Editorial Board: Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology (Berghahn)
  
  
• Editorial Board: African Journal of Ecology
  
  
• Steering group member: Initiative on Community Conserved Areas of the IUCN Commission on Economic, Environmental and Social Policy (CEESP)


• Trustee, Rainforest Foundation UK
  

Teaching

Masters level:
Convenor, MSc programme in Conservation and Rural Development

Convenor of the following modules:
DI876 Research Methods for Social Science
DI878 Social Science perspectives on Conservation
DI875 Principles and Practice of Ecotourism
DI880 Conservation and Community Development

BSc Level:
Convenor, BSc programmes in Wildlife Conservation and in Biodiversity Conservation and Management

Convenor of the following modules:
DI520 Conservation and communities
DI506 Tourism and conservation

Selected publications (click here for full list)

Newing, H. 2010.Bridging the gap: interdisciplinarity, biocultural diversity and conservation. Pp. 23 – 40 in: Pilgrim, S. and Pretty, J. Eds. Nature and culture: rebuilding lost connections. London: Earthscan.

Newing, H. 2009. Traditional knowledge in international forest policy: contested meanings and divergent discourses. Journal of Integrative Environmental Research. 6(3): 175 — 187.

Newing, H. 2009. “It’s not good to stay in one place”: mobility and conservation in the Peruvian Amazon. The case of Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Communal Reserve”.In Alexiades, M (Ed), Ethnobiology of mobility, displacement and migration in indigenous lowland South America.  Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Series, Berghahn. 

Newing. 2007. Social impacts of industrial logging concessions: effects on forest user rights. Pp. 58-64 in Counsell, S, C. Long and S. Wilson (Eds), Concessions to poverty: the environmental, social and economic impacts of industrial logging concessions in Africa’s rainforests. Rainforest Foundation UK / Forests Monitor.

Links

Dana Declaration on mobile peoples and conservation

Implementation of International Commitments on Traditional Forest Related Knowledge

Collaborative wildlife management and changing social contexts in Amazonian Peru