Susan Owens (academic)

Susan Elizabeth Owens OBE FBA FAcSS (born 24 January 1954) is Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy, University of Cambridge.[1] She is Fellow Emerita of Newnham College.[2]

For other people with the same name, see Susan Owens (disambiguation).

Owens was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution that produced the ‘Turning the Tide’ report which addressed the impact of fisheries on the marine environment.[3]

She is a member of the DEFRA advisory panel on Highly Protected Marine Areas. [4]

She was educated at the University of East Anglia where she graduated with a BSc and a PhD entitled "The energy implications of alternative rural development patterns" in 1981.[5] She joined the University of Cambridge as an academic in 1981.

She was a recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award in 2000. She was made an OBE in 1998, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011.

References
  1. "Professor Susan E Owens OBE, AcSS, FBA". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  2. "Professor Susan Owens – Newnham College".
  3. "Highly Protected Marine Areas review panel confirmed".
  4. "Highly Protected Marine Areas review panel confirmed".
  5. ‘OWENS, Prof. Susan Elizabeth’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014


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