Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Space
The Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Space (CRESS) is a major research centre based at Cardiff University.
Research
We have a multi-disciplinary focus, with researchers drawn from human geography, planning, sociology and landscape ecology. Expertise is provided across a broad range of research themes, including:
- rural society and culture
- rural economy
- the sustainability of rural environments
- rural and environmental governance
- environmental justice and rural welfare
- rural housing and services
- agri-food systems
- ethical consumption
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Funded research programmes and projects to the value of £2.3 million have been directed by members of CRESS.
Projects include:
- Wales Rural Observatory (Welsh Assembly Government)
- Climate Change Consortium for Wales (Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, 2009-2014)
- Delivering renewable energy under devolution (Economic and Social Research Council, 2011-2012).
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- Bridgens, B. et al., 2019. Closing the loop on e-waste: a multidisciplinary perspective. Journal of Industrial Ecology 23 (1), pp.169-181. (10.1111/jiec.12645)
- Cowell, R. and Devine-Wright, P. 2018. A 'delivery-democracy dilemma'? Mapping and explaining policy change for public engagement with energy infrastructure. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 20 (4), pp.499-517. (10.1080/1523908X.2018.1443005)
- Ioris, R. and Ioris, A. 2018. Colombia's fractured history and continued challenges following the Havana Accord. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 13 , pp.79-83. (10.1080/15423166.2017.1401485)
- Enticott, G. 2018. International migration by rural professionals: professional subjectivity, disease ecology and veterinary migration from the United Kingdom to New Zealand. Journal of Rural Studies (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.02.006)
- Ioris, A. 2018. Seeding a narrow future and harvesting an exclusionary past: the contradictions and future scenarios of agro-neoliberalism in Brazil. Futures 95 , pp.76-85. (10.1016/j.futures.2017.10.003)
- Cowell, R. J. W. 2017. Decentralising energy governance? Wales, devolution and the politics of energy infrastructure decision-making. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 35 (7), pp.1242-1263. (10.1177/0263774X16629443)
- Smith, K. et al. 2017. “It’ll be our own little Wales out there”: re-situating Bardsey Island for post-devolution Wales in Fflur Dafydd’s Twenty Thousand Saints. Island Studies Journal 12 (2), pp.317-328. (10.24043/isj.35)
- Schulz, C. and Ioris, A. A. R. 2017. The paradox of water abundance in Mato Grosso, Brazil.. Sustainability 9 (10) 1796. (10.3390/su9101796)
- Miele, M. et al. 2017. Implementation of the European legislation to protect farm animals: a case-study on French inspections to find solutions to improve compliance. Animal Welfare Journal 26 (3), pp.311-321. (10.7120/09627286.26.3.311)
- Schulz, C. et al., 2017. Applying a ‘value landscapes approach’ to conflicts in water governance: the case of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway. Ecological Economics 138 , pp.47-55. (10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.03.033)
- Wonneck, L. and Hobson, K. 2017. Practice-based spill-over effects: evidence from Calgary’s municipal food and yard waste recycling pilot. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien 61 (3), pp.415-427. (10.1111/cag.12391)
- Maye, D. , Enticott, G. and Naylor, R. 2017. Using scenario-based influence mapping to examine farmers' biosecurity behaviour.. Land Use Policy 66 , pp.265-277. (10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.04.026)
- Ioris, A. 2017. Places of agribusiness: displacement, replacement, and misplacement in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Geographical Review 107 (3), pp.452-475. (10.1111/gere.12222)
- Hacking, N. and Flynn, A. 2017. Networks, power and knowledge in the planning system: a case study of energy from waste. Progress in Planning 113 , pp.1-37. (10.1016/j.progress.2015.12.001)
- Ioris, A. A. R. 2017. Encroachment and entrenchment of agro-neoliberalism in the Centre- West of Brazil. Journal of Rural Studies 51 , pp.15-27. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.01.011)
- Cowell, R. J. W. 2017. Policy and practice: the EU referendum, planning and the environment: where now for the UK?. Town Planning Review 88 (2), pp.153-171. (10.3828/tpr.2017.12)
- Doheny, S. and Milbourne, P. 2017. Community, rurality, and older people: critically comparing older people's experiences across different rural communities. Journal of Rural Studies 50 , pp.129-138. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.12.003)
- Sanderson Bellamy, A. and Ioris, A. A. R. 2017. Addressing the knowledge gaps in agroecology and identifying guiding principles for transforming conventional agri-food systems. Sustainability 9 (3) 330. (10.3390/su9030330)
- Milbourne, P. and Mason, K. 2017. Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: opencast coal mining, landscape and place. Environment and Planning A 49 (1), pp.29-46. (10.1177/0308518X16665843)
- Schulz, C. et al., 2017. The value base of water governance: a multi-disciplinary perspective. Ecological Economics 131 , pp.241-249. (10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.09.009)
- Anderson, J. 2017. Retreat or re-connect: how effective can ecosophical communities be in transforming the mainstream?. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography 99 (2), pp.192-206. (10.1080/04353684.2017.1324653)
- Marsden, T. 2016. Exploring the rural eco-economy: beyond neoliberalism. Sociologia Ruralis 56 (4), pp.597-615. (10.1111/soru.12139)