Staff Profile:Dr Victoria Edwards

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Dr Victoria Edwards

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Senior Lecturer

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Qualifications:

BSc (Hons), University of Reading (Land Management)
MSc (Hons) Resource Management, Canterbury, New Zealand;
PhD, University of Reading
Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Fellow, Central Association of Agricultural Valuers
Chartered Environmentalist

Profile

Victoria Edwards is a rural chartered surveyor and valuer with research, consultancy and teaching experience in natural resource management. She has extensive experience of course development in the UK and overseas. Victoria has held positions on various committees of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has helped run training programmes for the examinations of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers. Her consultancy includes work on sustainable tourism and environmental assessment and communication.

Research Interests

Victoria's research interests are in common property resources, rural estate management and sustainability issues in corporate real estate. She is highly cited for her work on analytical frameworks for common property resources and is the author of Dealing in Diversity: America's Market for Nature Conservation (Cambridge University Press) and co-author of Corporate Property Management: aligning real estate with business strategy (Wiley). She has published widely in academic and practitioner journals.

External Work

Victoria has held a range of public appointments: she was a Forestry Commissioner (1999-2006) and Countryside Commissioner (1998-1999). She served as a non-executive director of Countryside Agency (1999-2004), where she was involved in the designation of the New Forest as a national park, and of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (2001-2005). In 2000, she was a member of the Burns Committee for the Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs. Victoria is currently a non-executive director of Forest Holidays LLP, Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of Forest Research, a Trustee of the Ernest Cook Trust, and a council member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Victoria was awarded an OBE for services to the environment in the Queen's Birthday Honours list 2004.

Selected Recent Publications

Edwards, V. M. (2011). Rights Evolution and Contemporary Forest Activism in the New Forest, England, In Forests and People: property, governance and human rights, edited by Thomas Sikor and Johannes Stahl, Earthscan, London, ch.9, pp: 137-150.

Edwards, V. M. & Smith S. (2011). Lessons from the application of decision-support tools in participatory management of the New Forest National Park, England. Special Issue on participatory modelling in natural resource governance: promises, pitfalls and improvement opportunities, Environmental Policy and Governance, 21(5):pp in print.

Mearns, K. & Edwards, V. M. (2009). The Social Sustainability of Community Based Ecotourism in Southern Africa, The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 6, pp.27-42.

Edwards, V. M. & Ellison, L. M. (2004). Corporate Property Management: aligning business with real estate strategy, Blackwell Science, Oxford