Doctoral Student: Rebecca White
Position:
Completed Dphil Student - Completed February 2010Contact:
e: rebecca.white@ouce.ox.ac.uk
t: 01865 275892
Title:
Carbon governance in a consumer age: an investigation of the UK’s food system
The production and consumption of food is highly carbon intensive. If we are to achieve the UK’s target of a 60% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, the food system (from ‘plough to plate’) will have to contribute accordingly. Through my DPhil research I hope to contribute a deeper understanding of how this might be achieved, using particular food goods as case studies.
As well as determining carbon reduction options, I will critically analyse current approaches to carbon governance. I am interested in how factors such as power and the networked nature of food production and consumption affect the ability of players in the food system to reduce their carbon impact.
I am funded through a UK Energy Research Centre Studentship, and am supervised by Dr Brenda Boardman (ECI) and Dr Julian Park (Reading).
As an undergraduate I studied Ecology at Edinburgh before moving to Oxford to do an MSc in Environmental Change and Management at the Environmental Change Institute.