Biography
Professor Kate Schreckenberg is a researcher on natural resource governance. Her main interests focus on community-based resource management and equity in the context of ecosystem services. She was appointed a Reader in Development Geography at King’s in 2017 and is now Professor in Environment and Development.
Following a BSc in Botany and MSc in Forestry (both from Oxford), Kate worked for the German Sahelian Programme in Burkina Faso, UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Programme and the World Forestry Institute in Hamburg.
After receiving her PhD in Geography from SOAS in 1996, she worked for the Overseas Development Institute and the University of Southampton. In 2017-18, she was Director of the UK’s £43m Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme, coordinating the synthesis of over 120 projects and ensuring an effective programme legacy.
Kate has 30 years’ experience of research and policy advice in the developing world, including fieldwork in Africa, Asia and Latin America, mostly on multi-disciplinary and multi-country collaborative research projects. She is an experienced project manager.
In the past 20 years, she has been involved as a principle investigator or co-investigator on research projects worth over £9 million, with funding from a range of UK and international sources. Kate serves as a trustee of the International Tree Foundation.
Research
- Forests and livelihoods, including collaborative forest management and commercialisation of non-timber forest products
- Agroforestry and domestication of indigenous fruit trees
- Conservation policy, with a focus on equity and justice
- Ecosystem services and human wellbeing
Kate is an interdisciplinary researcher with a special interest in natural resource governance and the institutional arrangements that deliver equitable and just development. The common thread linking her varied research portfolio is a focus on how nature contributes to human wellbeing.
She works predominantly with mixed methods, including participatory research techniques, value chain approaches, household surveys and natural resource inventories.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- 6SSG3083 Policy and Application of Geography Research
Postgraduate
- 7SSG5107 Environment, Livelihoods and Development in the South
- 7SSG5108 Tourism and Development
PhD supervision
Kate welcomes inquiries from candidates wishing to undertake research on natural resource governance. Topics of particular interest include:
- Ecosystem services – trade-offs and synergies
- Forests and livelihoods
- Community management of resources
- Conservation policy, with a focus on equity and justice
- Multi-level governance
Further details
See Kate's research profile
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Joshua, M., Tompkins, E., Schreckenberg, K., Ngongondo, C., Gondwe, E. & Chiotha, S., Oct 2022, In: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH PARTS A B C. 127, 103155. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2022.103155
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Kandel, M., Anghileri, D., Alare, R. S., Lovett, P., Agaba, G., Addoah, T. & Schreckenberg, K., 14 Jun 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: WORLD DEVELOPMENT. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Wood, E., Mgaya, M., Andrews, C., Schreckenberg, K., Fisher, J., Grundy, I. & Ryan, C., 17 Feb 2022, In: African Journal of Range and Forage Science. 39, 1, p. 124-135 12 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2021.2000026
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Dehmel, N., Franks, P., Schreckenberg, K., Beresford, A., Buchanan, G. & Dawson, T., 26 Jan 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Elias, M., Kandel, M., Mansourian, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Crossland, M., Joshi, D., Kariuki, J., Lee, L. C., McElwee, P., Sen, A., Sigman, E., Singh, R., Adamczyk, E. M., Addoah, T., Agaba, G., Alare, R. S., Anderson, W., Arulingam, I., Bellis, SG. Ḵ. V., Birner, R. & 27 others, De Silva, S., Dubois, M., Duraisami, M., Featherstone, M., Gallant, B., Hakhu, A., Irvine, R., Kiura, E., Magaju, C., McDougall, C., McNeill, G. D., Nagendra, H., Nghi, T. H., Okamoto, D. K., Paez Valencia, A. M., Pagella, T., Pontier, O., Post, M., Saunders, G. W., Schreckenberg, K., Shelar, K., Sinclair, F., Gautam, R. S., Spindel, N. B., Unnikrishnan, H., Wilson, G. T. A. G. N. A. N. & Winowiecki, L., 23 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: RESTORATION ECOLOGY. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13574
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Ford, A., Millington, J., Perkins, O., Schreckenberg, K. & Yadav, K., 28 Sep 2021, In: Frontiers in Environmental Science. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.649835
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Schaafsma, M., Eigenbrod, F., Gasparatos, A., Gross-Camp, N., Hutton, C., Nunan, F., Schreckenberg, K. & Turner, K., Sep 2021, In: ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS. 187, p. 107103 13 p., 107103. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107103
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Shackleton, C., Schreckenberg, K., Shackleton, S. & Luckert, M., 30 Jul 2021, The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems. Taylor and Francis Ltd, p. 440-450 11 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003021339-38
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Simmance, F. A., Simmance, A. B., Kolding, J., Schreckenberg, K., Tompkins, E., Poppy, G. & Nagoli, J., 25 Jun 2021, In: AMBIO. 51, 3, 16 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01583-1
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Whitfield, S., Apgar, M., Chabvuta, C., Challinor, A., Deering, K., Dougill, A., Gulzar, A., Kalaba, F., Lamanna, C., Manyonga, D., Naess, L. O., Quinn, C. H., Rosenstock, T., Sallu, S., Schreckenberg, K., Smith, H. E., Smith, R., Steward, P. & Vincent, K., Jun 2021, In: Nature Food. 2, 6, p. 383-385 3 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00304-x