Professor Susan Buckingham

Centre for Human Geography
Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, U.K.

E-mail:Susan.Buckingham@brunel.ac.uk
Telephone: (01895) 266090
Fax: (01895) 269736

BA (Portsmouth), MSc (London)

Professor and Director of Division of Social Work

Forthcoming events/Current news

Susan Buckingham in Pakistan In November 2008 Susan led training on integrating gender into environmental education for academics, students, NGOs and policy makers in Sindh Province Pakistan. This is part of an ongoing project to develop social and environmental sustainability in Pakistan, supported by the British Council. In 2009 Susan will be:

Presenting a paper on “Opportunities for mitigation: considering the gender gap” (with Jose Eli da Veiga, Economics, University of Sao Paolo) at The IARU International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, Copenhagen www.climatecongress.ku.dk
Convening a session on 'Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging' (with Monica Degen, Sociology) for the International Sociological Association Research Committee 21: Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, Sao Paolo, August 2009 http://www.centrodametropole.org.br/ISA2009/index.html
Keynote speaker: 1st International Conference on Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development for Growing Economies, Mehran University, Pakistan, April 2009

Research Interests

The methodological implications of using yoga as a research technique
Women's access to training
Gender and the Environment - particularly ways in which environmental decision-making is gendered.
Allotments and community gardens: researching the gendering of these spaces and also looking at ways in which community gardening can offer refugees opportunities to integrate into the local community. Participatory and engaged geographies (with students as well as with own research practice)

Current and recent research projects and grants

Work with Pakistani academics to develop research in women and environmental decision making in Pakistan (British Council, 2007-2010) with AJ Chaudhary (PI) and Mark Scrimshaw
Research scholarship to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts - working with Rob Krueger on creative cities and environmental sustainability (2005)
Women's progression through training (London West Learning and Skills Council, 2004/5)
Women in Europe for a Common Future - importance of women in environmental action (2004/5)
Identifying training needs for women with children under five (European Social Fund/ London West Learning and Skills Council, 2003/4)
Gender Impact of Municipal Waste Management in UK, Ireland and Portugal (European Commission, 2003)
Research into Student-Community Partnerships (HEFCE, 2000)
Review of Local Agenda 21 performance (IDEA 1998)
Local Agenda 21: Participation activities (Small Research Fund, Brunel University) - with Iris Turner, Kate Theobald, & Steve McAndrews from London Borough of Hounslow
Equal Opportunities in Postgraduate Study (Small Research Fund, Brunel University) - with Iris Turner and Fiona Smith

Other activities

Regular panellist on BBC Radio 4 Home Planet
Book reviews editor for Local Environment, an international refereed journal which focuses on local environmental and sustainability policy, politics and action.
Chair of Board of Women's Environmental Network
Expert judge for 2006 and 2007 Observer Ethical Awards

Publications Books

	2008 Understanding Environmental Issues (Sage) Edited with Mike Turner 2006 In the Hands of Women: paradigms of citizenship (Manchester University Press, Manchester) Edited with Geraldine Livesley 2003 Local Environmental Sustainability (Woodhead Press, Cambridge) Edited with Kate Theobald
2000 Gender and Environment (Routledge Press) ISBN 0-415-16820-1
	In recent years the relationship between gender and the environment has become more explicit and apparent. Women's work is often linked to the environment through subsistence agriculture, domestic chores and hired work such as sowing and weeding, and much of this work is made harder through environmental degradation. The relationship between gender and the environment is less obvious in the West where most people are more distant from the source of their food supply, the energy and the water they use. However, women's social and biological roles bring them closer to an awareness of a number of environmental hazards. Gender and Environment introduces all the key areas in gender-environment relations in a lively and accessible manner, using case studies from North and South and covering relationships at the family, community and international levels. It provides an analysis of how gender relations affect the natural environment and of how environmental issues have a differential impact on women and men.
1999 Constructing Local Environmental Agendas: People, Places and Participation (Routledge Press, 224 pages) Edited with Susan Percy Paperback: ISBN/ISSN: 0-415-20118-7, Price: US $29.99, UK £17.99. Hardback: ISBN/ISSN: 0-415-17063-X, Price: US $90.00, UK £55.00
	Local environments are becoming increasingly unsustainable - environmentally, socially and economically. Increasing wealth in the West creates more pollution, congestion and degradation of species and their habitats, often at the environmental and social expense of the South. The local element of Agenda 21, agreed by the nation states present at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, is the most ambitious international attempt to both address environmental problems at the local level and encourage full local democratic participation in local policy making. Constructing Local Environmental Agendas draws on original contributions from the UK, Europe, Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, to argue that there is scope for local areas to improve their environments, provided local people are involved. International case studies throughout the book demonstrate the importance of respect for indigenous knowledge, the need for all groups - especially those usually excluded through disadvantage - to be involved in the decision-making process, and the need to remove layers of bureaucracy from policy making. Constructing Local Environmental Agendas provides an invaluable insight into the experiences of the parallel projects across the world, particularly in the UK and rest of Europe, Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
1996 Environmental Planning and Sustainability (John Wiley, Chichester, 208pp). Edited with Bob Evans.

Journal articles

Guest Journal Editorship

2009 Sustainability and the Creative City The Geographical Review 99:1 (with Krueger R and Buckingham, S)

Journal

2009 ‘Creative City Scripts, Economic Development and Sustainability’ Geographical Review 99:1 (with Krueger R and Buckingham S )
2006 The liminality of training spaces: places of private/public transitions Geoforum forthcoming (with E Marandet, F Smith, E Wainwright, M Diosi)
2005 Wasting women: the environmental justice of including women in municipal waste management Local Environment 10, 4 (with D Reeves, A Batchelor)
2005 Women (re)construct the plot: the regen(d)eration of urban food growing Area 37,3
2004 Ecofeminism in the 21st century in The Geographical Journal 170, 2
2002 Gender Equality: a pre-requisite for sustainable development Geography 87, 3
2002 From UNCED to WSSD: reasons to be cheerful? Local Environment 7, 3 (with Gordon Walker)
1999 Gendering Agenda 21: Women's involvement in setting the environmental agenda. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 1, 121-132.
1997 Changing Lives - Changing Spaces: Environmental Education and Citizenship. Arkitekturforskning (Nordic Journal of Architectural Research) 10, 1
1995 Student-Community Partnerships: advocating community enterprise projects in Geography Journal of Geography in Higher Education 19,2 pp143-150
1994 Addressing environmental issues in the 1990s: a gendered perspective West London Papers in Environmental Studies 2:27-34
1994 Gendering 21 Town and Country Planning 63, 7/8
1990 Learning the hard way Area 22,4

Book chapters and other publications

2007 ‘Micro-ruptures and micro-geographies: the importance of gender in theorising sustainability’In Gibbs D and Krueger RThe Sustainable Development Paradox (Guilford)
2003 Allotments and community gardens: a DIY approach to environmental sustainability. In Buckingham S and Theobald K Local Environmental Sustainability Woodhead Press, Cambridge
2001 Sustainable Community Development in Devuyst D, Hens L, Impens R Neighbourhoods in Crisis and Sustainable Urban Development Brussels: VUB Press
2000 Student Community Partnerships in Higher Education London: CSV Education
1998 Public Participation in Local Agenda 21: the usual suspects. In Kivell P, Roberts P & Walker G (eds) Environment, Planning and Land Use Avebury: Aldershot.
1996 Achieving Sustainability Through Environmental Planning (with B. Evans). In Environmental Planning and Sustainability (John Wiley, Chichester) edited with Bob Evans
1996 Postscript: Sustainability, Planning and the Future (with B. Evans). In Environmental Planning and Sustainability (John Wiley, Chichester) edited with Bob Evans
1996 Community Enterprise in Higher Education: a focus for off campus learning Proceedings, Work-based Learning Conference (Middlesex University)
1994 Popular concerns and the environmental agenda: on involving women in formulating environmental responses to Agenda 21. In Fodor I and Walker G (eds) Environmental Policy and Practice in Eastern and Western Europe (Centre for Regional Studies, Pecs, Hungary) pages 245-254
1994 Addressing environmental issues in the 1990s: a gendered perspective Matthews J and Clark M eds Urban Policies and Environmental Issues in an Age of Economic Restructuring (University of Plymouth Press)
1993 Community Enterprise in Higher Education: a learning partnership for the 1990s (CSV, London)
1992 Student-community partnerships: creative learning through the curriculum Saunders D and Race P (eds) Developing and Measuring Competance (Kogan Page, London)
1991 The role of Community Groups in Government Investment in Pittsburgh's North Side in Keith M and Rogers A (eds) Hollow Promises: rhetoric and reality in the inner city (Mansell, London) pp61 - 83
1989 Higher Education Meeting Community Needs (CSV, London)

Conferences convened

Bread and Roses: the challenges and contradictions of sustainable consumption (RGS-IBG conference session 2007, with Prof Gordon Walker)
Women, Work-Life Balance and Quality of Life (RGS-IBG conference session 2007, with Elodie Marandet, Fiona Smith, Emma Wainwright)
Agenda 21: Retrospect & Prospect. (RGS-IBG Conference, Belfast Jan 2002, with Gordon Walker)
The Economic, Social and Planning Reconstructon of Declining and Destroyed Areas in Europe. (9th PERG International Conference, Thessaloniki, 3rd-6th September 2001)
Local Sustainabilities (AAG Conference, New York, 2001, with Bob Evans)
The Public and the Environment: Citizens, Sustainability and Science. RGS/IBG, 14th April 1999.
Local Economic Restructuring - Social and Environmental Impacts' Brunel University, June 1999 (with Alan Patterson)
The Politics of Environmental Action - RGS/IBG Research and Higher Education Division annual conference, University of Surrey January 1998 (with Alan Patterson)