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Category Archives: Lake District Project
Questionnaire – amazing response and closing date
Just a quick post to say a huge thanks for the brilliant response I have had to the questionnaire. I am pleased to say that the current questionnaire count stands at an amazing 815, which is absolutely great, and has already exceeded … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, Environment, Lake District
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An important word, for the humble peat bog
An important word, for the humble peat bog… http://ow.ly/yS1PU
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Tagged climate change, Environment, peat
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After Take That and Before George Monbiot… I’ve made it!
This morning I was lucky enough to be on BBC Radio Cumbria talking about my Lake District Project. I was fence sitting like a good ‘un, trying to maintain the academic rigour but also because I genuinely feel there are … Continue reading
Early results
It’s very exciting to see the questionnaires coming back in, up to nearly 350 responses so far which really is an amazing start. Thanks so much to those who have filled it in and stopped to chat on my travels around … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, dissertation, ecosystem services, Environment, hill farming, Lake District, rewilding
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Questionnaires up and running
First day in the new office, and it has to be said that it beats the dingy basement computer room where I have spent most of the last two weeks. First day as well out in the Lakes handing out … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, Environment, environmental policy, hill farming, Lake District, Monbiot, rewilding, wildlife
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Have your say on the future of the Lake District National Park
I am very excited today to be launching a survey which will form a crucial part of my research project at Imperial College. You can take the survey here now! There are a huge range of issues already beginning to … Continue reading
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Tagged Blencathra, cultural landscape, Lake District, land use, national parks, rewilding
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Lake District Project
I am currently working on a project at Imperial College looking at perceptions of possible land use change in the Lake District National Park. I am looking at opinions on what the Lake District National Park should be all about. … Continue reading
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Should water drive the Lakes
A really interesting interview at United Utilities as part of my dissertation really got me thinking about the practical effects that a disconnection from nature can have in environmental policy. Having good quality, clean, drinking water running at will from … Continue reading
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Tagged dissertation, Environment, Lake District, landscape, policy, water, water framework directive
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Being academic, and then getting better
Three days into my dissertation interviews and I was starting to feel like a proper academic. It wasn’t the interviews themselves, or spending hours writing them up. It wasn’t continually telling people that I was one, explaining my project and … Continue reading
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