Angela Guerrero Gonzalez

Masters,  University of Queensland, March 2009 – November 2009

PhD Candidate

University of Queensland, January 2010 – current

Email: a.guerrero@uqconnect.edu.au
Phone: 0421414856

I am interested in the social and institutional factors that affect the success of investments in biodiversity conservation.

My PhD project aims to understand how key social and institutional factors define opportunities and constraints for conservation, so that they can be accounted for when planning and implementing conservation initiatives. The focus is on structural characteristics of social networks and how they affect conservation outcomes. I take an interdisciplinary approach, integrating and synthesising theories in the social, economic and natural sciences.

My case study areas include a biodiversity hotspot in the south west of Australia where a number of conservation organisations and community groups work to reconnect bushland across an area that stretches 1000 kms.

My PhD project is supervised by Dr Kerrie Wilson (School of Biological Sciences, UQ), Dr Ryan McAllister (CSIRO) and Dr Jonathan Corcoran (School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, UQ).

Publications:

Guerrero, A., Knight, A., Grantham, H., Cowling, R., & Wilson, K. (2010). Predicting willingness-to-sell and its utility for assessing conservation opportunity for expanding protected area networks Conservation Letters DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00116.x