Agnese has been researching people’s relations with carnivores for the past 10 years, initially working in conservation projects on wolves and wolf-dog hybrids in central Italy and then moving on to research coexistence with wolves and bears in the north-west of Spain, following environmental anthropology and political ecology approaches. She has a background in Human Geography, Conservation Science and Anthropology. After completing her PhD in the Anthropology Department at University College London, she did a post-doc at the Institute of Zoology in London, and continues to work as a social science consultant in various carnivore conservation projects. Her work so far has researched participatory approaches to carnivore management, and has applied ‘environmentality’ theories to understand coexistence with carnivores, looking at how carnivore conservation policies, land tenure arrangements and the Common Agricultural Policy have shaped hunters’ and farmers’ relations with carnivores and the local landscape.
RCC Research Project: Abandoned taskscapes: shifting labor and tenure relations in southern Europe's uplands
Selected Publications:
- with T. Fry and Nijahawan, S. "'Killing with care': Locating ethical congruence in multispecies political ecology." ACME Journal of Critical Geography, under revision.
- "Broadening the toolset for stakeholder engagement: A participatory Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to explore consensus over wolf management." Journal of Environmental Management, under revision.
- with J.C. Blanco, J.A. Cortes-Vasquez, J.V. Lopez-Bao, S. Durant. "Environmentalities of coexistence with wolves in the north west of Spain." (to be submitted to Conservation and Society in Jan 2021
- with T. Fry. "Agrarian change and the production of human-carnivore conflict in European uplands." (to be submitted to Geoforum in Feb 2021)
- with S. Brittain et al. "Ethical considerations when conservation research involves people." Conservation Biology (2019). DOI 10.1111/cobi.13464
- with C Braschi, S. Ricci, V Salvatori, P. Ciucci. "Uncertainty over damage compensation fails to address wolf-related conflicts in a semi-agricultural landscape in central Italy." European Journal of Wildlife Management (2015). DOI 10.1007/s10344-016-1001-5