Mariella Marzano, BA, MA, PhD

 

Project Leader, Environmental and Human Sciences Division

Email: mariella.marzano@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Tel: +44 (0)131 445 2176
Tel direct: +44 (0)131 445 6973
Fax: +44 (0)131 445 5124

Address:
Forest Research
Northern Research Station
Roslin
Midlothian EH25 9SY
UK

Mariella is currently working on EFORWOOD, a pan-European project investigating Sustainable Forest Management. She has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, which explored rural development and natural resource management issues in Sri Lanka.

Prior to joining Forest Research she carried out research into volunteer biodiversity monitoring networks and co-managed a pan-European COST Action – INTERCAFE - aimed at developing interdisciplinary networks for the management of human-wildlife (specifically cormorant-fisheries) conflicts.

She joined Forest Research in November 2007.

Current role

Project Leader, Social and Economic Research Group, Environmental and Human Sciences Division

Responsibilities include the design, execution and management of social research in support of sustainable land use in UK and Europe.

Current programmes

EFORWOOD – Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forest Wood Chain
Responsible for research carried out in WP2.3 ‘Social and Cultural Values’.

Research areas

• Sustainable forestry
• Recreational value of forests
• Science and society
• Development and social change
• Human-wildlife conflicts
• Environmental volunteering

Main recent publications

Marzano, M. and Carss, D. (In prep). Who framed the Great Cormorant? Re-framing perspectives to better understand a human wildlife conflict.

Carss, D. and Marzano, M. (In prep). Political, Feathered, and Environmental Cosmopolitans: actors and strategies of intervention – too many Cormorants across Europe?

Bell, S., Marzano, M, Cent, J., Kobierska, H., Podjed, D., Vandzinskaite, D., Reinert, H., Armaitiene, A., Grodzińska-Jurczak, M. and Muršič, R. (Forthcoming). “What Counts? Volunteers and their organisations in the recording and monitoring of biodiversity”. Biodiversity and Conservation.

Bell, S., Marzano, M. and Podjed, D. (Forthcoming). “Inside Monitoring: A Comparison of Bird Monitoring Groups in Slovenia and the United Kingdom”. In A. Lawrence (ed.) Taking Stock of Nature, Cambridge University Press.

Sillitoe, P. and Marzano, M. (Forthcoming (2008)). “The Future of Indigenous Knowledge Research in Development” Futures, 40(9).

Carss, D.N., Bell, S. and Marzano, M. (Forthcoming). “Competing and Coexisting with Cormorants:  Ambiguity and Change in European Wetlands”. In. S. Heckler (ed) Landscape, Process and Power: A New Environmental Knowledge Synthesis. Oxford, Berghan.

Marzano, M. (2007). “Changes in the Weather: A Sri Lanka Case Study” Anthropology in Action. 13(3):63-76.

Marzano, M. (2006). “Intercropping Science and Local Knowledge in Sri Lanka: Extension, Rubber and Farming”. In P. Sillitoe (ed.) Local Science Versus Global Science.Oxford,  Berghan. pp155-174.

Marzano, M., Carss, D.N. and Bell, S. (2006). “Working to Make Interdisciplinarity Work: Investing in Communication and Interpersonal Relationships”, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 57(2)185-198.

Marzano, M. (2002). “Rural Livelihoods in Sri Lanka: An Indication of Poverty?” Journal of International Development 14: 817-828.