- E-mail: bill.adams@geog.cam.ac.uk
- Personal website:
http://thinkinglikeahuman.wordpress.com - Tel: 01223 333363
- Fax: 01223 333392
- Address:
Department of Geography
University of Cambridge
Downing Place
Cambridge
CB2 3EN
Cluster membership: Prof Adams is co-convenor of the Society, Environment and Development research cluster.
Current and recent research projects:
- Building Capacity to Alleviate Human-Elephant Conflict in North Kenya
- The conservation and restoration of nature
- Conservation Values
- Gaming and Biodiversity Conservation
- Histories of environmental concern
- Institutions, natural resources and ecosystem services
- Land Use Change and African-Palaearctic Migrant Birds
- Large Scale Conservation in Britain
- Negotiating Tradeoffs: Making Informed Choices about Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation
- Policy and governance in natural resource management
- The political ecology of conservation
Graduate students supervised by Prof Adams currently are:
- Alexander Bird
- Salwa Elhalawani
- Lauren Evans
- Kathryn Humphries
- Thomas Pryke
- Jennifer Talbot
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Bill Adams MA MSc PhD
Moran Professor of Conservation and Development and Fellow of Downing College
Bill Adams works on the social drivers of the loss and protection of nature.
Biography
Career:
- 1984-present: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
Qualifications
- B.A. in Geography
- M.Sc in Conservation, University of London
- PhD Geography, University of Cambridge.
Research
Bill Adams is a member of the Political Ecology group, on whose website details of research projects are available.
I am interested in the evolution of ideas in conservation and resource development, and what happens when they are applied. I am currently particularly interested in:
- the conservation of nature in landscapes extensively transformed by human action;
- the political ecology of landscape-scale conservation and ecological restoration
- ecosystems services and the conservation imagination
- Sustainability in theory and practice
Publications
Books
- Leader-Williams, N, Adams, WM and Smith, RJ (Eds) (2010) Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwells, in press. ISBN 978-1405193832 [flyer]
- Hutton J., Dickson, B. and Adams W.M. (2009) (eds) Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Rural Livelihoods, Blackwells, Oxford.
- Adams, W.M. (2008) Green Development: environment and sustainability in a developing world, Routledge, London (third edition)
- Adams, W.M. (2008) Conservation, Routledge Major Work (4 Vols), Routledge, London
- Adams, W.M. and Jeanrenaud, S.J. (2004) Transition to Sustainability: towards a humane and diverse world, IUCN, Gland
- Adams, W.M. (2004) Against Extinction: the story of conservation, Earthscan, London
- Adams, W.M. (2003) Future Nature: a vision for conservation, Earthscan, London (second edition)
- Adams, W.M. and Mulligan, M. (2003) (eds.) Decolonising Nature: strategies for conservation in a postcolonial era, Earthscan, London
- Mortimore. M. and Adams, W.M. (1999) Working the Sahel: environment and society in northern Nigeria, Routledge, London.
- Adams, W.M., Goudie, A.S. and Orme, A.R. (eds.) (1996) The Physical Geography of Africa, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Adams, W.M. (1992) Wasting the Rain: rivers, people and planning Africa, Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis and Earthscan, London.
- Adams, W.M. (1986) Nature's Place: conservation sites and countryside change, Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead.
Recent papers
- Hodge, , I.D. and Adams, W.M. (2012) 'Neoliberalization, rural land trusts and institutional blending', Geoforum DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.11.007
- Hirsch, P.D., Adams, W.M., Brosius, J.P., Zia, A.M., Bariola,N., Dammert, J.L. (2011). 'Acknowledging conservation trade-offs and embracing complexity', Conservation Biology. 25(2): 259-264
- Adams, W.M. (2010) 'Conservation plc.', Oryx 44(4): 482-4 doi:10.1017/S0030605310001213
- Adams. W.M. (2008) 'Conservation, carbon and transition to sustainability', Oryx 42: 469-470
- Adams. W.M. (2008) Thinking like a Human: social science and the two cultures problem, Oryx 41: 275-276
- Upton, C., Ladle, R., Hulme, D., Jiang, T., Brockington, D. and Adams, W.M. (2008) 'Are poverty and protected area establishment linked at a national scale?' Oryx 42(1): 19-25.
- Carter, E., Adams, W.M. and Hutton, J. (2008) 'Private Protected Areas: Management regimes, tenure arrangements and protected area categorization in East Africa', Oryx 42: 177-186
- Adams, W.M. and Jon Hutton, J. (2007) 'People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation', Conservation and Society 5: 147-183
- Hutton, J. Adams, W.M. and Murombedzi, J.C. (2005) 'Back to the barriers?: Changing narratives in biodiversity conservation', Forum for Development Studies 32, 2: 341-370
- Redford, K.G., Robinson, J.A., Adams, W.M. (2006) 'Parks as shibboleths', Conservation Biology 20(1): 1-2
- Adams, W.M., Perrow, M.R. and Carpenter, A. (2004) 'Conservatives and Champions: River Managers and the River Restoration Discourse in the UK', Environment and Planning A 36: 1929-1942.
- Adams, W.M. Brockington, D., Dyson, J. and Vira, B. (2003) 'Managing Tragedies: Understanding Conflict over Common Pool Resources', Science 302: 1915-1916
- Adams, W.M. Aveling, R., Brockington, D., Dickson, B., Elliott, J., Hutton, J., Roe, D., Vira, B., Wolmer, W. (2004) 'Biodiversity Conservation and the Eradication of Poverty', Science 306: 1146-1149
- Adams, W.M. and Infield, M. (2003) 'Who is on the gorilla's payroll? Claims on tourist revenue from a Ugandan National Park', World Development 31(1): 177-190.