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Dr Nigel Watson
Centre for Sustainable Water Management
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Dr Nigel Watson
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Dr Nigel Watson
Lecturer in Environmental Management
n.watson1@lancs.ac.uk
Tel. +44 (0)1524 593452
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Following a B.A. in Geography (1984-87), Nigel undertook an M.A. in Natural Resource Management (1988) and a Ph.D in Geography (1994) at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. From an initial general interest in the management of water resources, he focussed his postgraduate research on the issue of integrated river basin management and the development of institutional arrangements to link policies for land and water.
His Ph.D research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada and involved an assessment of institutional responses to nitrate pollution in surface and groundwater.
Having gained research and teaching experience in Canada, he returned to the UK in 1993 to take up an academic post the University of Brighton.
He transferred to the Department of Geography at Lancaster University in 1998 as a Lecturer in Environmental Management.
In recent years, Nigel has been involved in a variety of different research projects, ranging from investigations of the uptake by farmers of voluntary schemes designed to protect streams and rivers, the regeneration of navigation canals to underground gas storage.
However, his main research activity is in the area of integrated land and water management and, in 2004, he assisted the Environment Agency for England and Wales with an experimental planning process designed to implement the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD).
Nigel is a member of the Council of the Mersey Basin Campaign (MBC), and also a member of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA).
Current Research
Nigel is currently PI for a study involving researchers at Lancaster, Leeds and Aberystwyth who are examining conflict in the management of Canadian water resources.
The International Council for Canadian Studies and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Canada are jointly funding this research project.
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Nigel has also recently completed a historical review of water management in Britain, which will be published in 2005 (see below).
He has also co-edited (with Dan Shrubsole) a book on sustainable development, which has been written in honour of Professor Bruce Mitchell at the University of Waterloo in Canada and will be published in 2005.
Nigel is also developing new research projects with researchers from the Lancaster Environment Centre and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH).
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