Steve CINDERBY
Steve is a Senior Researcher at the SEI centre in the University of York specialising in community resilience, wellbeing and participatory research methods.
He has specialised in the development of communication approaches for improved environmental decision-making outcomes. These have been aimed at increasing knowledge sharing, improving the capacity for pro-environmental behavioural change, and boosting local community resilience and wellbeing. He has developed the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial modelling within focussed on using maps as communication tools at different governance scales through the development of methods and applications of participatory GIS (PGIS). Steve’s PGIS approaches have been used to development and planning activities in developing countries assessing issues around natural resource management such as agriculture water management and the in the UK investigating a range of environmental concerns including air quality, rural inequalities and urban redevelopment.