Maria Nijnik
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
Scottish Crop Research Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Maria Nijnik is a natural resource, ecological and climate change economist and a social scientist who has worked at the Institute since 2002, after a period of postdoctoral research at the Free University, Amsterdam, and Wageningen University, in the Netherlands. She has a PhD in Social Sciences from Wageningen University in co-operation with the University of Victoria in Canada. Also, she has post-graduate qualifications from the Mansholt Institute and the Netherlands Network of General and Quantitative Economics (NAKE), a MSc in Environmental Policy and Management (EPCEM) from the Network of Dutch Universities, and a MSc/Dipl. Engineer’s degree with Distinction in forestry and wood-processing technology. She also has a PhD in Economics from Ukraine, and is Professor in Forest Policy and Economics.
Research Interest
Maria’s work centres on the socio-economic aspects of global changes, including climate change, and on land-use and landscape changes, with a particular focus on multifunctional and sustainable management and use of natural assets.
Publications
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Munoz-Rojas Morenes, J.; Nijnik, M.; Gonzalez-Puente, M.; Cortines-Garcia, F., (2015) Synergies and conflicts in the use of policy and planning instruments for implementing forest and woodland corridors and networks; a case study in NE Scotland., Forest Policy and Economics, 57, 47-64
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Sarkki S, Ficko A, Grunewald K, Kyriazopoulos A, Nijnik M, (2016) How pragmatism in environmental science and policy can undermine sustainability transformations: the case of marginalized mountain areas under climate and land use change, Sustainability Science,
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Nijnik, M.; Nijnik, A.; Brown, I., (2016) Exploring the linkages between multi-functional forestry goals and the legacy of spruce plantations in Scotland., Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 46: 1247–1254
