Lindsay Stringer

Lindsay C. Stringer is a Professor in Environment and Development at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK.

Lindsay Stringer
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit, 2017
Women of Achievement, 2015
Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2013
Scientific career
FieldsEnvironment and Development
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds

Stringer's research is interdisciplinary and uses theories and methods from both the natural and social sciences to understand  human-environment relationships, feedbacks and trade-offs, examining the impacts for human wellbeing, equity and the environment

Education
  • PhD Geography, University of Sheffield, Department of Geography, 2005 [1]
  • MSc Environmental Monitoring and Assessment in Drylands, University of Sheffield Department of Geography, 2001
  • BSc Physical Geography, University of Sheffield Department of Geography, 2000

Career

Stringer has been involved in research on land, food, water, energy and climate change worth c.£42 million (total value) since 2005.

She chaired the Independent International Task Force for the Dryland Systems Programme of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) from 2014-2016.

She was an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lead author for the Special Report on Climate Change and Land Use.[2]

She is currently IPCC lead author for the 6th Assessment Report (AR6) as well as Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC AR6 cross-chapter paper on Deserts, Desertification and Semi-arid Areas.[3]

She was Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Africa Regional Assessment , and Lead Author for the IPBES Land Degradation and Restoration Assessment.[4]

Stringer is involved in the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative,[5] as well as being an Elected Steering Committee Member for DesertNet International.

She was competitively selected for the international Homeward Bound Project Expedition to Antarctica: a women in climate science leadership programme in 2016.[6]

She was Director of the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK from 2011-2014

Prizes
  • Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2017[7]
  • Women of Achievement Award, 2015[8]
  • Philip Leverhulme Prize for advancing sustainability in the world’s drylands, 2013[9]

References
  1. "Lindsay Stringer - Professor in Environment and Development, University of Leeds". Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  2. "IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land Use".
  3. "IPCC Sixth Assessment Report".
  4. "Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services".
  5. "Economics of Land Degradation".
  6. "Homeward Bound Project".
  7. "Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds".
  8. "Leeds University Women of Achievement".
  9. "The Leverhulme Trust".
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