Sustainable Futures/Climate Change Sustainability and Society

Following my Masters in Research Methods, I will be researching whether non-protected areas have more scope than official protected sites to provide protection for biodiversity in the face of climate change. My research will include: identifying opportunities and constraints for non-protected areas within the current regulatory framework, for comparison with protected sites; quantitative and qualitative surveys and interviews with land managers about biodiversity and climate change adaptation on their land; and a landscape-level predictive analysis to understand the potential of non-protected areas in protecting biodiversity.

My research aims to break barriers in sustainable food practices within marginalised communities in the south-west of the UK, with a focus on improving representation in community engagement with sustainable food choices. I would like to understand the barriers faced by financially weaker individuals, within Bournemouth, Cardiff and Bristol, and the influence of our food system. Through community led actions, the aim is to empower and engage these communities, ensuring that all strategies are fair, just, and accessible to all. These strategies can be used to shape policy, to encourage larger scale changes to occur within the UK food sector.

Publications

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13412-021-00686-1

Publications

Fry, C., Boyd, E., Connaughton, M., Adger, W. N., Gavonel, M. F., Zickgraf, C., Fransen, S., Jolivet, D., Fábos, A. H., & Carr, E. (2024). Migrants as sustainability actors: Contrasting nation, city and migrant discourses and actions. Global Environmental Change, 87, 102860. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102860

Gini G, Piggott-McKellar A, Wiegel H, Neu F, Link AC, Fry C, Tabe T, Adegun O, Wade C, Bower ER, Koeltzow S, Harrington-Abrams R, Jacobs C, van der Geest K, Zivdar N, Alaniz R, Cherop C, Durand-Delacre D, Pill M, Shekhar H, Yates O, Khan MAA, Nansam-Aggrey FK, Grant L, Nizar DA, Owusu-Daaku KN, Praeto A, Stefancu O, Yee M. Navigating tensions in climate change-related planned relocation. Ambio. 2024 Jun 7. doi: 10.1007/s13280-024-02035-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38847970.

Kalubowila, Palindi, Buri, Sinja, Lietaert, Ine, Cissé, Jennifer D., Backhouse, Judy, Janz, Teresa, Orendain, Dan Jezreel A., Oakes, Robert, Consentino de la Vega, Rafael, Fry, Claudia, Dietrich, Stephan and Okunola, Olasunkanmi H. (2024). How Can Urban Governance Better Respond to Climate Risks in the Global South? A Multi-Disciplinary Review. United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies.

Zickgraf, C., Jolivet, D., Fry, C., Boyd, E., & Fábos, A. (2024). Bridging and breaking silos: Transformational governance of the migration-sustainability nexus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(3). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206184120

Durande-Delacre D, et al. (2023) Integrating Planned Relocation in National Climate Action Five key insights for consideration by governments and policymakers. UNU-EHS Policy Brief. Bonn.

Olsson, L, Jerneck A, Fry C, Habib A.B. 2023. Civil Society and Social Integration of Asylum Seekers: The ‘Strength of Weak Ties’ and the Dynamics of ‘Strategic Action Fields’.Social Sciences 12: 403

Fry C and Islar M (2021) Horizontal Local Governance and Social Inclusion: The Case of Municipality-Civil Society Engagement During Refugee Reception in Malmö, Sweden. Front. Polit. Sci. 3:643134

Publications:
Toy, S., Whitmarsh, L., Mitev, K., Gan, Y.S., Player, L., McGuicken, T., Thorman, D., Wilson, M., Graham, K., Hayden, N. (2023). Motivating a low-carbon workforce – Insights from Cornwall Council. CAST Briefing Paper 18. https://cast.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the-centre-for-climate-change-and-social-transformations-CAST-briefing-18-motivating-low-carbon-behaviours-in-the-workplace-insights-from-cornwall-council-3.pdf.pdf

Using creative methodologies, such as photo elicitation, this project will allow me to combine my interests in climate change, agriculture and photography to co-produce imaginaries of the UK’s future food system, from production to consumption.