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Susan Baker

Professor Susan Baker

Emerita Professor, Co-director Sustainable Places Research Institute

School of Social Sciences

Overview

Languages

  • English: mother tongue;
  • Irish: second language;
  • Dutch: advanced working knowledge;
  • French: good working knowledge;
  • Italian: working knowledge.

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Supervision

I am interested in supervising research on sustainable development, including the role of governance processes and institutions.

Work addressing governance in the context of global environmental change (climate change and biodiversity loss) is particularly welcome. This can include both a European Union focus as well as the wider global context.

The study of sustainable development as it relates to understanding the interrelationship between ecological systems and social processes is of direct interest, including the study of the value attributed to nature in environmental management through restoration policy and initiatives.

Publication

2023

2022

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2008

2005

  • Baker, S. C. 2005. Sustainable development. Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts. London: Routledge.

2004

2003

2001

2000

Articles

Book sections

Books

Conferences

Monographs

Research

1. Environmental governance in the European Union, including

  • The promotion of sustainable development;
  • Environmental governance and eastern enlargement, including in Bulgaria;
  • Governance and democratic participation.

2. Eco feminism, gender and the environment.

Current research

  • Environmental governance and participatory democracy in the European Union;
  • Environmental management in Bulgaria;
  • Eastern enlargement of the EU and its impact on environmental governance.

Teaching

  • The European Union and its Public Policy Significance;
  • European Union Environmental and Social Policy;
  • Social and Environmental Change in Eastern Europe;
  • Feminist Perspectives and Social Policy;
  • Any of the above are areas of interest for PhD supervision.