Professor Tavis Potts
Personal Chair, Dean for Environmental Sustainability
- About
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- Email Address
- tavis.potts@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273837
- Office Address
University of Aberdeen
Department of Geography and EnvironmentSt Marys Building
Elphinstone Road
Aberdeen AB24 3UF
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- School of Geosciences
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Biography
Professor Tavis Potts is a Personal Chair in Sustainable Development and Environmental Governance. Prof. Potts interests include understanding just transitions and the social dimensions of climate and energy; marine resource governance and planning; participatory and community-based approaches to managing natural capital; and the political economy of environmental policy and decision-making.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Dean for Environmental Sustainability
University Sustainability Committee
- External Memberships
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Aberdeen City Council Net Zero Delivery Unit
Aberdeenshire Council Climate Ready Aberdeenshire Board
- Research
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Research Overview
Professor Tavis Potts research includes:
- Understanding the relationships between people, place and planet.
- Understanding, evaluating and progressing social, environmental and energy justice.
- Critically evaluating 'Just Transitions' within Net Zero and deepening societal engagement around energy transition.
- Applying participatory approaches to natural capital and ecosystem services.
- Developing participatory and survey-based approaches to understanding social values on the environment;
- Critical perspectives on the emergence and effectiveness of the blue economy from international to local scales
Funding and Grants
Selected Grants
- Interreg EU. SEATRACES 2019-2021 (£250k).
- University of Aberdeen Impact Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation award (2017 10k)
- British Council Peru - Researcher Links Grants. Advancing Green Growth in Peru: A spotlight on tourism, transport and the blue economy (2016, £32k).
- Royal Geographic Society of Edinburgh and Natural Science Foundation of China. Mapping Coastal Ecosystem Services in Scotland and China. Scientific Exchange Network. (2015-17, £13k)
- NERC Knowledge Exchange: Cooperative Participatory Evaluation of Renewable Technologies on Ecosystem Services (CORPORATES) (2014-16, £110k – Co-Investigator.
- World Bank: Review of STAP Marie Litter Program (2014 , £1500)
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Implementing an ecosystem service approach in the UK (2013, £40k).
- EU FP7 IDREEM (Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture)(Co-Investigator & Work Package leader on Social and Policy Analysis (2012-2014; £200 000)
- EU LIFE+ Celtic Sea Partnership (Policy Network Analysis and community engagement) (2013, £110k).
- MSP-LED (Local Economic Development and Marine Planning) Centre of Expertise in Water (CREW) (2012-13, 50k)Centre of Expertise in Water (CREW) Coasts and Catchment Integration. £22 k
- ECOBAR: Environmental and Benthic Indicators for industrial development in the Barents Sea. Norwegian Funding Council. (WP Leader) £35k 2009-10
- Knowledge Based Development of Europe’s Seas (KNOWSEAS) EU FP7 2009-2013 Co-Investigator & Work Package leader (£150k) overall project €9 million).
- Publications
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Initial report to Just Transition Commission: Just transition activities, planning, and policy landscape in Aberdeen and the North East
Commissioned by Just Transition Commission. 18 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsClimate Assemblies and Deliberative Democracy: A Global Best Practice Review
Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen. 40 pagesBooks and Reports: Other ReportsMeasuring Just Transition: Indicators and scenarios for a Just Transition in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
University of Aberdeen. 104 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsJust Transition for Workers and Communities in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire: Rapid Evidence Review
University of Aberdeen. 57 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsCarbon Offsetting and Communities : Can Nature-Based Voluntary Carbon Offsetting Benefit Scottish Communities?
Glasgow (UK): University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 27 pagesBooks and Reports: Other ReportsLeading from the front? Increasing Community Participation in a Just Transition to Net Zero in the North-East of Scotland
Commissioned by Scottish University Insight Institute. Scottish Universities Insight Institute. 25 pagesBooks and Reports: Other ReportsClimate change: UK test for new oil and gas fields’ impact on emissions targets is not fit for purpose
Contributions to Specialist PublicationsLinking natural capital, benefits and beneficiaries: The role of participatory mapping and logic chains for community engagement.
Environmental Science & Policy, vol. 134, pp. 85-99Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.04.003
Social and Policy Aspects of Offshore Renewable Energy
Comprehensive Renewable Energy: (Second Edition). Letcher, T. M. (ed.). 2 edition. Elsevier, pp. 291-297, 7 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819727-1.00168-0
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Labels on seafood products in different European countries and their compliance to EU legislation
Marine Policy, vol. 134, 104810Contributions to Journals: Articles
