Darryn McEvoy 
 

Research Fellow

 

 

Darryn McEvoy is a qualified geographer, with an interest in interdisciplinary action research. Following a Masters degree in Environmental Pollution Control Management, he undertook his PhD, part time, analysing the Decarbonisation of City-regions (case study – Greater Manchester). As a result of this, and his role as a research associate at the Centre for Urban & Regional Ecology (CURE), University of Manchester, he has expert knowledge of industrial ecology principles and applying a systems perspective to urban sustainability, for example, the analysis of material flows. Darryn’s expertise also covers the climate change mitigation agenda (from energy demand management to alternative supply options), multi-scalar policy processes and issues of governance. As a result of his doctoral research experience, he then authenticated the first Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the North West region of England (2000) and was one of the lead authors for the report ‘Area-based Carbon Emissions Reduction’, commissioned by the UK Sustainable Development Commission in 2002.

Darryn’s current research activity focuses on climate change adaptation. At CURE, he was research manager for two national climate change adaptation projects. One was the EPSRC / UKCIP funded project Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in the Urban Environment (ASCCUE), which involved a consortium of four universities and a variety of academic disciplines. As well as developing and testing urban characterisation and climate risk assessment methodologies at the conurbation scale, the project also investigated three important exposure units at the neighbourhood level: integrity of the built environment, human comfort and urban greenspace. In addition to the managerial role, Darryn was lead researcher on the socio-economic component of the project with overall responsibility for strategy development and evaluation. He was also the coordinator of the wider ‘Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate’ programme on behalf of the UK Climate Impacts Programme and the EPSRC.

The other major adaptation project, which he also managed and provided research capacity on, was the Climate Change and the Visitor Economy (CCVE) study which focused on tourism and recreation in the NW region of England. The project set out to investigate the interaction between climate change, visitor behaviour and environmental capacity. Darryn’s research input included the integrated assessment of climate and socio-economic scenarios, case study analysis at the landscape scale (coastal, rural uplands, urban), investigation of capacity building in less vulnerable locations, interaction with other sectors (agriculture, health etc) and the implications for policy and practice. This study was funded by the government body Defra and administered by Sustainability North West.

Darryn is now a Research Fellow at ICIS working on the EU consortium project ADAM.

Events

• Presentation on Climate Change and Tourism for the European Commission at the ECCP II meeting on impacts and adaptation, April 2006.
• Was selected as a young scientist to attend, and present at, the first UK – CUBA workshop on Climate Change, Havana, November 2005.
• Plenary presentation on Climate Change and Tourism at the UK Climate Impacts Programme annual conference, Birmingham, UK, November 2005.

 

 

 

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