FACULTY RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Environmental Policy and Social Sciences
Associate Dean for Environmental Projects & Associate Professor Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Environmental Projects for Ras Al Khaimah Campus
PhD University of California Berkeley, Environmental Planning
Research Focus: Environmental Planning
Office/Building: Research Building 1 (RB1) room 245Phone: 703-993-8778
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Dr. Ingram is an environmental planner and landscape ecologist focused on sustainability and the conservation of biological diversity in particular. His research extends to decision-making frameworks for land use, related stakeholder analysis, and better acknowledgement of the perspectives of marginalized social groups especially tribal and traditional communities. He has been involved in the planning, design and restoration of networks of protected areas for over 25 years with much of his work focused on innovative uses of GIS and other geomatics tools for protection of latter successional phases of forest and woodland in coastal areas and on islands.
As part of this work, he has also been engaged in ecological and ethnobotanical surveys and in situ conservation of the gene pools of wild relatives of crops. And as a proponent of urban sustainability, some of this work has extended to urban open space, urban ecological restoration, and food production.
Since the late 1970s, he has been conducting field research on an internationally recognized mosaic of woodland, old-growth forest and shoreline on Mount Maxwell, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. His field research has extended to islands, coastal areas and remaining old-growth forest in the Pacific Rim particularly in California, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and China. He also has extensive field experience with drier forests, woodland and mangrove in the Sahel of West Africa with more recent work in South Asia in Pakistan and Bangladesh and in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Dr. Ingram's policy analysis focuses on international instruments such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Heritage Convention and cross-border agreements. His current research and teaching in environmental planning extends to exploring ways to make urban and suburban ecosystems more sustainable, evaluating approaches in regionally oriented ecosystem recovery strategies, protection of heritage landscapes and neighborhoods under globalization, and understanding the ecological and social implications of the tremendous expansion of Third World cities.