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Dr Isabel Cotton

Isabel

Post Doctoral Research Associate in Communities and Environmental Change

Email: i.cotton@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Isabel is an environmental social scientist, with a particular research focus on coastal and marine issues, and public perceptions of these. She is currently researching community and stakeholder perceptions and experiences of coastal change as part of the 3-year RACC programme (Resilience of Anthropocene Coasts and Communities) (for UKRI and Defra). RACC will work with communities and policymakers to co-develop policy options for coastal areas that have a history of legacy waste, alongside a risk of erosion or flooding.

Prior to joining Queen Mary, Isabel was a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow exploring current progress and challenges to coastal adaptation planning by local authorities in Scotland (for ClimateXChange). She completed her PhD at the University of East Anglia, which examined public and policymaker perceptions of managing coastal change and the Bacton-Walcott sandscaping scheme on the North Norfolk coast.

Research

Research Interests:

  • Impacts of climate change
  • Social dimensions of climate adaptation
  • Environmental justice
  • Interdisciplinary research

Publications

Cotton, I., Forster, J., Lorenzoni, I. and Tolhurst, T.J. 2024. Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions. Journal of Global Environmental Change, 88, September 2024, Article 102893. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102893

 

Cotton, I., McWherter, B., Tenbrink, T. and Sherren, K. 2024. Comparing thematic and search term-based coding in understanding sense of place in survey research. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 96(June 2024), Article 102339. doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102339

 

Cotton, I., Forster, J., Lorenzoni, I. and Tolhurst, T.J. 2022. Understanding perceived effectiveness of a novel coastal management project: The case of the Bacton-Walcott sandscaping scheme, UK. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1028819

 

Cotton, I. 2020. Book Review: Environmental justice: key issues edited by Brendan Coolsaet, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, ix + 341 pp., In: Environmental Politics, doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1865876

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