People - Dr Bob Smith

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Bob Smith is a UK-based conservation biologist who specialises in developing protected area networks and other conservation landscapes. He has run projects in the Maputaland centre of endemism in Southern Africa, the English Channel and Mozambique, and worked as a consultant on projects in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Carpathian Mountains and the UK. His work also includes research on the role of positive incentives in conservation, the impact of corruption on conservation success, human-wildlife conflict and predicting deforestation patterns.

He is currently based at the Durrell Institute of Conservation, but also works as an independent consultant and as an advisor on spatial priority setting to the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre:

Research Fellow, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology

Independent Consultant

Honorary Senior Fellow, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Selected publications (click here for full list)

Smith, RJ, Eastwood, PD, Ota, Y and Rogers, SI (2009). Developing best practice for using Marxan to locate Marine Protected Areas in European waters. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66, 188-194.

Smith, RJ, Verissimo, D, Leader-Williams, N, Cowling, RM, Knight, AT (2009). Let the locals lead. Nature, 462, 280-281.

Smith, RJ, Easton, J, Nhancale, BA, Armstrong, AJ, Culverwell, J, Dlamini, S, Goodman, PS, Loffler, L, Matthews, WS, Monadjem, A, Mulqueeny, CM, Ngwenya, P, Ntumi, CP, Soto, B and Leader-Williams, N (2008). Designing a transfrontier conservation landscape for the Maputaland centre of endemism using biodiversity, economic and threat data. Biological Conservation, 141, 2127-2138.

Smith, RJ, Muir, RDJ, Walpole, MJ, Balmford, A & Leader-Williams, N (2003). Governance and the loss of biodiversity. Nature, 426, 67-70.