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Lauren Coad is a James Martin Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, investigating the effectiveness of protected areas in reducing deforestation, and the governance and sustainability of bushmeat hunting in Central Africa.

She is also a research fellow at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) in Cambridge, and a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.

Before beginning at Oxford in April 2009, Lauren worked for 2 years at UNEP-WCMC in the protected areas programme. She gained her PhD in conservation biology from the University of Cambridge in 2007, and also holds a BSc(Hons) in environmental and marine biology from the University of St Andrews.

Lauren teaches protected area governance and introductory GIS for the MSc in Environmental Change and Management, and MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management courses. She is also a guest lecturer on MSc courses at Imperial College London and the University of Copenhagen.

Research Interests

• Measuring the effectiveness of different protected area management and governance systems in reducing deforestation
  In collaboration with the University of Copenhagen and the University of Queensland, this project will employ a number of global and national-scale datasets to measure protected area effectiveness, using a landscape modelling approach. As part of this project we are working to update and analyse the Protected Areas Management Effectiveness (PAME) database, which is linked to the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), and holds information on the management and governance of over 6000 protected areas worldwide. National case-studies will include Tanzania and Peru.
• Measuring the sustainability of bushmeat hunting in Central Africa
  Following on from my doctoral research, I am working alongside the Institut de Recherche en Écologie Tropicale (IRET) in Gabon, on a number of projects which aim to measure the current ecological, economic and social impacts of bushmeat hunting in Gabon and DRC, and design new tools for monitoring hunting sustainability.
• Valuing the cultural context of resource governance in CBNRM project planning and implementation
  Building on previous projects in collaboration with IIED, exploring the characteristics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management systems in West and Central Africa, I am currently working with partners at IRET to investigate the changing face of community governance systems in rural Gabon, and the impacts of these changes on CBNRM project planning, implementation and success.

Publications:

Articles:

• Henschel, P., Hunter, L., Coad, L., Abernethy, K. and Muhlenberg, M. (2011) Leopard prey choice in the Congo Basin rainforest reveals strong exploitative competition from human bushmeat hunters. Journal of Zoology Volume 285, Issue 1, pages 11–20, September 2011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00826.x
• Osti, M., Coad, L., Fisher, J., Bomhard, B., and Hutton J. (2011) Oil and gas development in the World Heritage and wider protected area network in sub-Saharan Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation Volume 20, Number 9, 1863-1877, DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0056-6
• Forrest, J.L., Bomhard, B., Budiman, A., Coad, L., Cox, N., Dinerstein, E., Hammer, D., Huang, C., Huy, K., Kraft, R., Lysenko, I. and Magrath, W. (2011) Single-species conservation in a multiple-use landscape: current protection of the tiger range. Animal Conservation.
• Leverington, F., Costa, K. L., Courrau, J., Pavese, H., Nolte, C., Marr, M., Coad, L., Burgess, N., Bomhard, B., and Hockings, M. (2010) Management effectiveness evaluation in protected areas – a global study. Second edition 2010. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• Coad, L., Tanga, J.-J., Maisels, F., Bout, N., Fay, M., Henschel, P., Lengletb, G., Mihindou, Y., Puit, M., Starkey, M., White, L., and Pauwels, O.S.G. (2010) New range limits of the Sun-tailed Monkey, Cercopithecus solatus, in central Gabon. Primate Conservation, 25.
• Coad, L., Abernethy, K., Balmford, A., Manica, A. and Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2010) Distribution and use of income from bushmeat in a rural village, central Gabon. Conservation Biology.
• Coad, L., Burgess, N., Loucks, C., Fish, L., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Duarte, L. and Besancon, C. (2010) Reply to Jenkins and Joppa - expansion of the global terrestrial protected area system. Biological Conservation, 143(1): 5-6.
• Schmitt, C.B., Burgess, N.D., Coad, L., Belokurov, A., Besancon, C., Boisrobert, L., Campbell, A., Fish, L., Gliddon, D., Humphries, K., Kapos, V., Loucks, C., Lysenko, I., Miles, L., Mills, C., Minnemeyer, S., Pistorius, T., Ravilious, C., Steininger, M. and Winkel, G. (2009) Global analysis of the protection status of the world's forests. Biological Conservation, 142(10): 2122-2130.
• Coad, L., Burgess, N., Fish, L., Ravillious, C., Corrigan, C., Pavese, H., Granziera, A. and Besancon, C. (2008) Progress towards the Convention on Biological Diversity terrestrial 2010 and marine 2012 targets for protected area coverage. PARKS, 17(2): 35-42.
• Campbell, A., Clark, S., Coad, L., Bolt, M. and Roe, D. (2008) Protecting the future: carbon, forests, protected areas and local livelihoods. Biodiversity, 9(3&4): 117-121.
• Papworth, S.K., Rist, J., Coad, L., and Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2008) Evidence for shifting baseline syndrome in conservation. Conservation Letters, 2(2): 93-100.

Book Chapters:

• Campbell, A., Clark, S., Coad, L., Miles, B.and Roe, D. (2010) Protecting the future: carbon, forests, protected areas and local livelihoods. In, Roe, D. and Elliott, J. (eds.) The Earthscan Reader in Poverty and Biodiversity Conservation. Earthscan, London.
• Binot, A., Blomley, T., Coad, L., Nelson, F., Roe, D., and Sandbrook, C. (2009) Community involvement in natural resources management in Africa - regional overviews. In, Roe D., Nelson, F., and Sandbrook, C. (eds.) Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa: Impacts, experiences and future directions. Natural Resource Issues, 18, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK.
• Binot, A., Blomley, T., Coad, L., Nelson, F., Roe, D., and Sandbrook, C. (2009) What has CBNRM achieved in Africa? The '3Es' - empowerment, economics, environment. In, Roe D., Nelson, F. and Sandbrook, C. (eds.) Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa: Impacts, experiences and future directions. Natural Resource Issues, 18, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK.

Working papers and other publications:

• Abernethy, K., Coad, L., Ilambu, O., Makiloutila, F., Easton, J. and Akiak, J. (2010) Wildlife hunting, consumption and trade in the Oshwe sector of the Salonga-Lukenie-Sankuru Landscape, DRC. WWF International.
• Forrest, J.L., Bomhard, B., Budiman, A., Coad, L., Cox, N., Dinerstein, E., Huang, C., Huy, K., Lysenko, I., and Magrath, W. (2010) An Assessment of Management and Threats in Tiger Conservation Landscapes. Report to the World Bank.
• Campbell, A., Kapos, V., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Bubb, P., Chenery, A., Coad, L., Dickson, B., Doswald, N., Khan, M.S.I., Kershaw, F. and Rashid, M. (2009) Review of the Literature on the Links between Biodiversity and Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal. Technical Series No. 42, 124 pages.
• Coad, L., Burgess, N.D., Bomhard, B. and Besancon, C. (2009) Progress towards the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 and 2010 Targets for Protected Areas. A technical report for the IUCN international workshop "Looking to the Future of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas", Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 14-17 September 2009.
• Coad, L., Burgess, N.D., Loucks, C., Fish, L., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Duarte, L, and Besançon, B. (2009) The ecological representativeness of the global protected areas estate in 2009: progress towards the CBD 2010 target. UNEP-WCMC, WWF-US and ECI, University of Oxford.
• Schmitt, C.B., Belokurov, A., Besançon, C., Boisrobert, L., Burgess, N.D., Campbell, A., Coad, L., Fish, L., Gliddon, D., Humphries, K., Kapos, V., Loucks, C., Lysenko, I., Miles, L., Mills, C., Minnemeyer, S., Pistorius, T., Ravilious, C., Steininger, M. and Winkel, G. (2009) Analyses and recommendations in view of the 10% target for forest protection under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 2nd revised edition. Druckerei der Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
• UNEP-WCMC (2008) State of the World's Protected Areas 2007. An Annual Review of Global Conservation Progress. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge. (First author).
• Coad, L., Campbell, A., Miles, L. and Humphries, K. (2008) The costs and benefits of forest protected areas on local livelihoods: A review of the current literature. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK.
• Coad, L. (2007) Le commerce de la viande de brousse en Afrique Central. InfoTRAFFIC, 8: 3-4.