DR STEVE CARVER
Email: s.j.carver@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0 in UK) 113 34 33318
Student hours:
9:30am - 4:30pm or please email
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Dr Carver is a Geographer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds. He has over 20 years experience in the field of GIS and multi-criteria evaluation with special interests in wild land, landscape evaluation and public participation. He has worked extensively on the development of wild land mapping and evaluation methodologies and has tested and applied these across a variety of locations and spatial scales including Scotland, England, Britain, Europe and the USA. He has also worked with a range of agencies on wild land topics including SNH, the Countryside Agency and the USDA Forest Service, and has published this work widely in over 60 papers, books, book chapters and conference proceedings. He is a member of the Wildland Network and sits on the advisory panel for the Wild Ennerdale project.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Interpolating environmental variables from Southeast Alaska Forest Inventory using Artificial Neural Networks and GeoStatistics
USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station and University of Leeds Joint Venture Agreement
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
- Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy
PUBLICATIONS
- Carver, S., Evans, A., Kingston, R. & Turton, I. (2001) 'Public participation, GIS and cyberdemocracy: evaluating on-line spatial decision support systems', Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 28(6), 907-921
- Carver, S., Evans, A., Kingston, R. & Turton, I. (2000) 'Accessing Geographical Information Systems over the World Wide Web: Improving public participation in environmental decision-making', Information, Infrastructure and Policy, 6, 157-170.
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