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I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and research teams wishing to work with me in any of the following or cognate areas:

• Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in Latin America
• Globalisation and natural resource use and conservation in the Americas (especially forest resources and biofuels production)
• Ecotourism in the Americas
• Agroecology and food sovereignty in the Americas
• Environmental social movements and direct action environmentalism
• Political economy of natural resources / political ecologies of the Americas
• Agrarian reforms in Latin America

• Chacaracual Community Conservation Area, Margarita Island: integration of biodiversity conservation with community development video
  PDF of presentation
• Agriculture with a future: Cuba's agroecological alternative video
• Climate Change and Development in Latin America video (Part 1) (See also Part 2)
  PDFs of presentations below:
  • Climate Change and Latin America: an overview, Graham Woodgate, ISA
  • Climate Change and Development in the Brazilian Amazon: paying for ecosystem services, Anthony Hall, LSE
  • Living on the carbon margins: local governance and climate change in the Mexican Caribbean, Michael Redclift, King's College London
  • Event poster
  • Resource of interest in this area: Latin-American Forum on REDD
• Local Communities and Biodiversity Conservation in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve (link to video)
• Deforestation in the Paraguayan Chaco: an ecological disaster? (link to video)
• Local Communities and Biodiversity Conservation in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve (link to PowerPoint presentation)

• Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Globalisation and Latin American Development
• Development in Latin America
• Economic Policy and Social Development in Latin America

Edited Books

Redclift, Michael and Graham Woodgate (eds) (2010) The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology 2nd Edition. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.

Redclift, Michael and Graham Woodgate (eds) (2005) New Developments in Environmental Sociology  Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.

Redclift, Michael and Graham Woodgate (eds) (1997) The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology.  Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. Published as paperback in 2000 and re-printed, 2001

Redclift, Michael and Graham Woodgate (eds) (1995) The Sociology of the Environment: Volumes I, II and III.  Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.

Chapters in Books

Woodgate, Graham, Bianca Ambrose-Oji, Ramón Fernandez Durán, Gloria Guzmán and Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán (2005), ‘Alternative Food and Agriculture Networks: An Agroecological Perspective on Responses to Economic Globalisation and the “New” Agrarian Question’ in Redclift and Woodgate (2005) New Developments in Environmental Sociology.  Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp.586-612

Ambrose-Oji, B, T. Allmark, P. Buckley, B. Clements and G Woodgate (2002) “The Environmental State and the Forest; of Lookouts, Lumberjacks, Leopards, and Losers”. In A.P.J. Mol and F.H. Buttel (eds) (2002), The Environmental State Under Pressure, (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy Volume 10), pp.149-169. Oxford: Elsevier.

Forero, O. and G.R. Woodgate (2002) “The semantics of "Human Security" in Northwest Amazonia: From indigenous peoples' "Management of the World" to the USA State Security Policy for Latin America” in E. Page and M.R. Redclift (eds) (2002) Human Security and the Environment: International Comparisons pp.351-385. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Gauthier, R.C.T. and G.R. Woodgate (2001) “Coevolutionary agroecology: a policy-oriented analysis of socioenvironmental dynamics, with special reference to forest margins in North Lampung, Indonesia” in S.R. Gliessman (Ed) Agroecosystem Sustainability: Developing Practical Strategies. CRC Press: Boca Raton, pp. 155-176.

Refereed Papers

Mutabaruka, C, GR Woodgate and GP Buckley (2005) ‘External and internal growth parameters as potential indicators of shake in sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.)’. Forestry 78: 2, pp.175-186

Nazarov, N. Cook, H. and Woodgate, G., (2001) ‘Environmental Issues in the Post- Communist Ukraine’ Journal of Environmental Management  63, pp.71-86.

Nazarov, N. Cook, H. and Woodgate, G., (2000) ‘Water Pollution Control Issues in an Independent Ukraine’ Water and Environmental Management 14:2, pp.117-123.

Other Publications

Woodgate, Graham (2011) ‘Climate Change, Forests and Rural Development in Highland Mexico’, blog article for Intercambio Climático.

Woodgate, Graham with Bianca Ambrose-Oji, Peter Buckley, Jon Macartney and Rachel Godfrey Wood (2011) Sustainable forest Management. Multi-media MSC Distance Learning Module, London: Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, School of Oriental and African Studies 

Co-Director Sylvan Environmental Enterprises Ltd: http://www.sylvanenvironmental.com

Member of ‘Strategic Monitoring of South American Regional Transformations’ (SMART) Network

Member of International Professoriate, Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Programme, Mediterranean Institute of Agronomy, Bari, Italy

Member of International Professoriate Joint Agroecology Programme, Institute of Sociology and Peasant Studies, University of Cordoba, and International University of Andalucia

Soil Association ‘Woodmark’ Forest Stewardship Council Sustainable Forest Management Auditor

PhD Political Ecology, Wye College University of London, 1992

BSc (Hons) Wye College, University of London, 1987

OND Forestry, Cumbria College of Agriculture and Forestry, Newton Rigg, 1984