Dr Maria Teresa Gomez Osorio is a Senior Research Associate at the School of Global Development working on the project NAVIGATE (Understanding Nature’s Multiple Values for Integration Into Decisions) where she is identifying barriers and opportunities to embed multiple values of biodiversity in UK forestry policy.
Before joining the School of Global Development, she was a postdoctoral research assistant in the project RESPiRES (Resilient People, Resilient Ecosystems in Smart Cities) at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico, where she looked at the place-based values and perceptions of urban blue-spaces held by local communities.
Background:
After completing her PhD at University of East Anglia in environmental sciences she became a governmental officer in Mexico. She worked in the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources in the remediation of contaminated sites where she experienced the challenges and needs that decision makers have when implementing environmental policy.
Current projects:
NAVIGATE (Understanding NAture’s multiple Values for InteGrATion into dEcisions), funded by NERC, The Navigate project is one of seven new interdisciplinary studies which will improve our understanding the multiple plural values of nature and how they can be better integrated in to economic decision making and policy.
