Scott Bremer

Scott is a PhD student at NZCEE.  Scott’s study focuses on achieving ‘Integrated Coastal Zone Management’ in New Zealand through building capacity for participatory decision-making processes at the local government level.  To this end, his primary areas of interest include:

(a) the science-policy interface and ‘post-normal science’,
(b) stakeholder deliberation processes and tools, and
(c) Integrated Coastal Zone Management practice.

To explore global coastal management practice, Scott is spending 10 months (from September 2007) working on a Europe-wide coastal management project - ‘the SPICOSA project' - based at the Center for Economics and Ethics of the Environment and Development (C3ED) at the Universite de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines in France.  This work involves close interaction with a case study site at the Clyde Sea in Scotland.  Scott will also explore the coastal policy implications of climate change as an invitee of the ‘RETRO-ULICES Floating University’ which will combine one month of core-sampling in the Atlantic with research into the science-policy interface.

Scott is a planner by trade, and has more than three years experience in resource planning at the district and regional council level.  He holds a Bachelor of Resource and Environmental Planning (Hons.) and a Postgraduate Certificate of Public Policy.  Scott is the recipient of the Eiffel Doctoral Scholarship, and is a SYLFF Fellow. 

For more information on Scott's PhD research, go to: SPICOSA project.

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