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Vanesa Castán Broto, Ir, MSc
Research Engineer, Environmental and Human Sciences DivisionVanesa completed a Forestry Engineering degree at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain) and an MSc in Environmental Policy at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). Her previous experience included research into Environmental Policy in the European Union at the Institute of European Environmental Policy in London. She joined Forest Research in March 2005. Current roleResearch Engineer, Social and Economic Research Group, Environmental and Human Sciences Division, and EngD student at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, Surrey University. Current programmesRECOAL
Participating in the EC project RECOAL (INCO-WBC-1-509173) carrying out social research under the supervision of Claudia Carter to develop participatory solutions to coal ash disposal and pollution in the West Balkan area. Other affiliations- Member of the Forestry Engineers College (Colegio de Ingenieros de Montes) of Spain
- Member of the British Sociological Association, UK
Research areas- Participatory methods in science and decision-making
- Social construction of environmental problems
- Environmental knowledge and policy development
- Discourse Analysis
Main recent publicationsCastán Broto, V., Carter, C., and Elghali, L. (forthcoming). ‘Environmental Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post-socialism Development and Local Governance (A dramatised interpretation in one act)’. In: R. Hillerbrand and R. Karlsson [Title to be confirmed]. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. ISBN: 978-1-904710-50-9.
Castán Broto, V., Tabbush, P., Burningham, K., and Elghali, L. (2007). 'Coal Ash and Risk: Four Social Interpretations of a Pollution Landscape', Landscape Research Vol 32, Number 4, pp. 481-497.
Scolobig, A., Castán Broto, V., Zabala, A. (2007). 'Social Actors' Perspectives on Flood Mitigation in Malborghetto-Valbruna, Northern Italy'. Quaderno No 06-3. Istituto di Sociologia Internazionale di Gorizia, Gorizia, Italy. 20 pp. Castán Broto, V. (2006). Landscapes and Risk: The Case of Coal Ash Pollution in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Paper Presented at the Seminar "Landscapes and Liminology" in Kevo, Finland, 5th-9th January 2006 Contributions to Haigh, N. (2004). Manual of Environmental Policy: the EU and Britain. Release 25. Maney Publishing/IEEP. www.mep-online.com IEEP, GHK Consulting and Land Use Consultants. (2004). An Assessment of the Impacts of Hill Farming in England on the Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability of the Uplands and More Widely. A Report for Defra. statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/reports/hillfarming/volume1.pdf Castán, V. (2003). Sobrarbe and Aragón: Contested Water Policies in Spain. Environmental Policy Department Series. Nº 31. 150 pp. Wageningen University. The Netherlands.
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