Francesca Mancini
Italy
E-mail: r03fm14@abdn.ac.uk
Phone: 01224 274106
Mailing address: Room 418, Zoology Building, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UK
PhD title: Managing the wildlife tourism commons
Supervisors: David Lusseau (https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sustainable-international-development/people/d.lusseau/), George M. Coghill (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/g.coghill/), Fiona Manson, Ben Leyshon
Keywords: Socio-ecological systems, sustainability, wildlife watching, predictive conservation, modelling, social media mining.
Start and end date of the PhD: 15/11/2014 – 01-04-2018
Research:
My research aims at providing regulators with advice on how to sustainably manage wildlife tourism. I am adopting an integrated approach in order to find management solutions that allow the industry to stay profitable without overexploiting the wildlife it targets. I use unconventional data sources and mathematical and statistical models make predictions on which regulatory strategies are the most likely to be sustainable at different spatial scales.
Teaching:
Introduction to R,
- Experimental design and data analysis
- Introduction to Bayesian inference
- Population Ecology
- Introduction to ArcGIS
Links:
Twitter: @Frances_Mancini
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesca_Mancini11
GitHub: https://github.com/FrancescaMancini
University profile: http://pure.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/persons/francesca-mancini(10db03c5-a457-47fe-8f6c-4c77b9834007).html