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Dr Colm Bowe

School of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Faculty of Science

Email: C.Bowe@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 2133

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Colm is a Reader in Engagement for Environment and Sustainability. He is the (founding) lead of the LJMU Natural Capital Hub and is Development Manager at Nature North (through secondment).

Colm’s research largely focuses on embedding the natural capital approach in decision making and planning. Much of his research looks to engage with key stakeholders outside academia such as business, policy makers and conservation practitioners.

Through a secondment as Development Manager he currently leads Nature North (see www.naturenoth.org.uk). This is an innovative pan regional and cross sector collaboration looking to drive green economic growth and climate resilience through nature recovery in the North of England.

At LJMU he leads the Natural Capital Hub, a centre for research and knowledge exchange working on various aspects of natural capital, including mapping, natural capital finance and embeddings it use in decision making and policy. This work has led to the development of the mapping approach EcoservR (https://ecoservr.github.io/EcoservR/). Through the Hub he works with a number of partners to apply the approach including LEPs and Combined Authorities, Conservation NGO's, Community Forests and Government Departments and Agencies across England and Scotland. This includes the evaluation of major national level programmes such as Nature for Climate. The hub is seeking to improve natural capital literacy, skills and understanding across all stages of the green-skills pipeline from school children, university students and graduates to those already in work across various sectors. Colm has also worked with business to quantify natural capital externalities within supply chains and understand the role of the private sector and natural capital in post Brexit agricultural policy.

He is a member of many environmental committees within the LCR. He chairs the Liverpool City Region Natural Capital Working Group a subgroup of the Local Nature Partnership Nature Connected.

Earlier research focused on sustainable agriculture through the domestication and commercialisation of underutilised tree species in the tropics and elsewhere. This work included carrying out spatial analysis to identify the effects climate change on the distribution of such species.

Colm joined the School of Biological and Environmental Science at LJMU in 2010 as a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science. He has held a number of teaching leadership roles in the School such as Programme Leader in BSc Wildlife Conservation (2014 - 2020) and Link Tutor for LJMU accredited degree courses at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales (2017 - 2020).

Degrees

2007, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, PhD
2001, Durham University, United Kingdom, BSc Environmental Management

Academic appointments

Reader in Engagement for Environment and Sustainability, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
Programme Manager BSc Wildlife Conservation, Natural Science and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014 - 2020
Senior Lecturer, Natural Science and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, 2010 - 2022
Research Fellow, Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, 2006 - 2010

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