Paul Munday

UNITED KINGDOM
Newbury
RG14 6SZ
UK

Email: paul.munday12’at’gmail.com

Paul works as an Environmental Scientist at Atkins. He previously worked as a GIS Consultant at Land Use Consultants. Prior to this, Paul worked as a Research Associate at the University of East Anglia, as part of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment where he also completed his PhD.

PhD Title

Downscaling scenarios to local landscapes: a case study of the Norfolk Broads

Overview of Paul’s PhD

Paul completed his PhD in September 2010. He was supervised by Prof. Andy Jones, Prof. Andrew Lovett and Dr. Paul Dolman. His research was jointly funded by both NERC and the ESRC.

The research utilised a multi-disciplinary approach to downscale scenario datasets to local landscapes. As part of his studies he investigated the impacts of climatic and socio-economic change upon the Norfolk Broads.

Socio-economic and climate change scenarios were adopted as a tool to explore the types, and diversity, of changes that may occur to the year 2100. The study utilised a GIS-based methodology to investigate the likely reaction of this sensitive landscape to future drivers of change (e.g. agricultural policy and climate change).

The output of his research is a series of future land use maps describing the reaction of the area to these types of drivers of change. The maps have also been utilised to identify areas of future conservation opportunity for two breeding waders. These types of spatially detailed maps help to drive three-dimensional computer visualisations of future landscape which may provide input into future policy and decision-making.

The final stage of his research determined the manner by which the downscaling of such coarse-scale datasets can aid decision-making regarding landscape/land use management of environmentally sensitive areas.

Paul has a BSc in Geography and Physical Geography from Oxford Brookes University and an MSc in Climate Change from the University of East Anglia.

Paul’s CV and references are available upon request.

Research interests

-GIS and environmental decision-making
-Land use change and planning
-Climate change
-Conservation and landscape ecology
-Landscape visualisation and animation

Publications

First author:

Munday, P., Jones, A.P. and Lovett, A.A., 2010. Utilising scenarios to facilitate multi-objective land use modelling for Broadland, UK, to 2100. Transactions in GIS, 14 (3), 241–263.

Munday, P., Jones, A.P., Dolman, P.D. and Lovett, A.A. 2009. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 17th Annual Conference, 79–83.

Munday, P. and Jones, A.P. (Accepted). A framework for developing high-resolution scenarios at the landscape-scale: the Norfolk Broads. Environment and Urban Planning B: Planning and Design.

Munday, P., Jones, A.P. and Lovett, A.A. (In Review). Identifying conservation opportunities under future land use scenarios: a case study of redshank (Tringa tetanus) and bittern (Botaurus stellaris). Journal for Nature Conservation.

Contributing author:

Bateman, I. J., Abson, D., Andrews, B., Crowe, A., Darnell, A., Dugdale, S., Fezzi, C., Foden, J., Haines-Young, R., Hulme, M., Munday, P., Pascual, U., Patterson, J., Perino, G., Sen, A., Siriwardena, G., and Termansen, M. (in review) Valuing Changes in Ecosystem Services: Scenario Analyses. Report to the UK National Ecosystem Assessment.

Bateman, I. J., Abson, D., Beaumont, N., Darnell, A., Fezzi, C., Hanley, N., Kontolen, A., Maddison, D., Morling, J., Morris, J., Mourato, S., Pascual, U., Perino, G., Sen, A., Tinch, D., Valatin, G., et al. (in review), Economic Analysis for the National Ecosystem Assessment. Report to the UK National Ecosystem Assessment.

Fezzi, C., Askew, T., Munday, P., Bateman, P., Pascual, U., Sen, A. and Darnell, A. (2011) Evaluating provisioning ecosystem service values: a climate scenario analysis for the United Kingdom. EAERE Conference, University of Rome.

Sen, A., Darnell, A., Crowe, A., Bateman, I.J. and Munday, P. (2011) Economic Assessment of the Value of Open-Access Recreation in UK Ecosystems: A Scenario Analysis, Report to the Valuing Scenarios Team of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

Sen, A., Darnell, A., Munday, P., Crowe. A. and Bateman, I.J. (2010) Economic Assessment of the Recreational Value of UK Ecosystems, Report to the Economics Team of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.