Qualifications
BSc(Hons)
MSc(Distinction), University of Durham
PhD University of Durham
MSc(Distinction), University of Durham
PhD University of Durham
Roles on external bodies
Contributor and external reviewer for
Guest Editor Land Special Issue:
Assistant Guest Editor
Vice Chair of South Devon AONB Partnership Committee
Member of Tamar Valley AONB Partnership Committee
Member of Blackdown Hills Natural Futures Steering Group
Member of the International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture Program Committee, Wuyishan City, China 18th - 20th August 2007.
Technical Program Committee Member of International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Pollution Technology（ICEEPT2015), Phuket Island, Thailand 01-03 October 2015.
Highlights
The ‘landscape’ of landscape monitoring
Evidence summary for policymakers
Teaching
Teaching interests
Taught Modules
ENV5208 Environmental Impact Assessment
ENV5209 Work Placement
SCI5301 Masters Research Project
Module leader for:
ENV 5111 Professional Practice for Environmental Consultants
ENV5208 Environmental Impact Assessment
ENV5209 Work Placement
SCI5301 Masters Research Project
Module leader for:
ENV 5111 Professional Practice for Environmental Consultants
Research
Research interests
Landscape Character Assessment.Use of ubiquitous technologies in landscape management, protection and planning.
Green Spaces in Urban Planning
Seascape Assessment
The application of Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) in Landscape Character Assessment.
Green Spaces in Urban Planning
Seascape Assessment
The application of Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) in Landscape Character Assessment.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Current PhD Student
2019 - 2022 Zhang, L., Roots and Flowers: Rural and Urban Integration for mutual prosperity. Case study from Rural Reconstruction Movement in ChinaÂ,
2016- 2019 Guy, A. "An investigation into the 'value' of waterways" Director of studies
Completed Students
2018 Ahmed Hamdullah Alboabidallah, A. "The use of remote sensing data to automate the design of land use (ground surface) and ecosystem services" Director of studies
2012 Davey, F. "A Critical Review of the Application of Geospatial Techniques to Landscape Character Assessment in the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty" HEIF 3 Studentship, Director of studies
2011 Bello-Dambatta, A. "Development of a Decision Support System for Sustainable Management of Contaminated Land" GWR Studentship, Second supervisor
2019 - 2022 Zhang, L., Roots and Flowers: Rural and Urban Integration for mutual prosperity. Case study from Rural Reconstruction Movement in ChinaÂ,
2016- 2019 Guy, A. "An investigation into the 'value' of waterways" Director of studies
Completed Students
2018 Ahmed Hamdullah Alboabidallah, A. "The use of remote sensing data to automate the design of land use (ground surface) and ecosystem services" Director of studies
2012 Davey, F. "A Critical Review of the Application of Geospatial Techniques to Landscape Character Assessment in the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty" HEIF 3 Studentship, Director of studies
2011 Bello-Dambatta, A. "Development of a Decision Support System for Sustainable Management of Contaminated Land" GWR Studentship, Second supervisor
Grants & contracts
2020 - 2021 - Cultural Ecosystem Services and Big Data analysis: How does this relate with urban planning?
2018-2022 EU H2020 RURITAGE – Rural regeneration through systemic heritage-led strategiesproject (total value ca. €10m) (Â鶹´«Ã½ work packages ca. £470k ), with Stewart, I., Rodwell,L., Pahl, S, led by the University of Bologna, Italy.
RURITAGE is a 4-year EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 programm​​e. Ruritage establishes a new heritage-led rural regeneration approach, transforming rural areas into laboratories for sustainable development, building on the enhancement of their unique Cultural and Natural Heritage potential.
2017 South Devon AONB, “WemburyCorridors & Connections Projectâ€. Award £5,000
2016 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, ‘Revealing,measuring, and communicating the ‘value’ of water quality to the viability ofagricultural landscapes and estuary seascapes of South Devon’, with Dr Katharine Willis. Award: £6,500
2016 HeritageLottery Fund (HLF), ' Blackdown Hills Natural Futures, (Development of GIStools)', led by Blackdown Hills AONB. Award: £85,000 (UOP £4,000)
2015 ESF CUC Funding, 'LandscapeConnections and Perceptions', with Fiona Fyfe
2015 Leverhulme - Artist in residence grant, 'Tagscape', Artist: Dominica Williamson
2015 Natural England, 'Development of an App for Cultural Ecosystem Services'.
2015 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), ' Blackdown Hills Natural Futures', led by Blackdown Hills AONB.
2014 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), '', led by The Sustainable Trust.
2014 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), , £93,700, led by Tamar Valley AONB.
2014 South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 'Â鶹´«Ã½ Urban Fringe (Wembury area) Habitat and Landscape Opportunity Mapping', with Dr F Davey.
2013 Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 'Cornwall AONB Landscape Monitoring Phase 2', with Land Use Consultants and Dr F Davey.
2013 Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 'Wadebridge Biofuel Survey', with Silvanus Trust.
2013 Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ' Landscape Monitoring', with Dr F Davey.
2012 South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 'Creation of an App to capture landscape views perception' .
2012 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, 'Ecosystem services in protected landscapes ', £4,527, with Mr William Dommett.
2011 Cornwall Council, 'Creation of a Toolkit to assess Seascape Character and Sensitivity to Offshore Developments', with Miss E Bowes.
2011 Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ' State of the AONB Atlas', with Mrs F Davey.
2011 Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ' Establishing good practice guidelines for the use of GIS in AONB management', with Mrs F Davey.
2011 South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ‘Digital Atlases for Devon's Outstanding Landscapes', with Mrs F Davey.
2010 RDA/ERDF Proof of Concept Fund, – “ Application of Geospatial Techniques to Landscape Character Assessment†, £12,100, with Mrs F Davey.
2010 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, ' Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) through contemporary moving image practice', £4,300. PI: Heidi Morstang
2008 Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ‘ Landscape Change in the Cornwall AONB ’, with Mrs F Davey.
2008 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, ‘Monitoring Landscape Change in the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’, £4,950, with Mrs F Davey and Dr S Lavender.
2008 Vice-Chancellor's Community Research Award, ' Geo-environmental Assessment of Brentor Commons', £6,700, with Dr M Donkin.
2005 Tamar Valley AONB Service, 'Development of a Tamar Valley GIS', with Dr S Lavender.
2018-2022 EU H2020 RURITAGE – Rural regeneration through systemic heritage-led strategiesproject (total value ca. €10m) (Â鶹´«Ã½ work packages ca. £470k ), with Stewart, I., Rodwell,L., Pahl, S, led by the University of Bologna, Italy.
RURITAGE is a 4-year EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 programm​​e. Ruritage establishes a new heritage-led rural regeneration approach, transforming rural areas into laboratories for sustainable development, building on the enhancement of their unique Cultural and Natural Heritage potential.
2017 South Devon AONB, “WemburyCorridors & Connections Projectâ€. Award £5,000
2016 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, ‘Revealing,measuring, and communicating the ‘value’ of water quality to the viability ofagricultural landscapes and estuary seascapes of South Devon’, with Dr Katharine Willis. Award: £6,500
2016 HeritageLottery Fund (HLF), ' Blackdown Hills Natural Futures, (Development of GIStools)', led by Blackdown Hills AONB. Award: £85,000 (UOP £4,000)
2015 ESF CUC Funding, 'LandscapeConnections and Perceptions', with Fiona Fyfe
2015 Leverhulme - Artist in residence grant, 'Tagscape', Artist: Dominica Williamson
2015 Natural England, 'Development of an App for Cultural Ecosystem Services'.
2015 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), ' Blackdown Hills Natural Futures', led by Blackdown Hills AONB.
2014 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), '', led by The Sustainable Trust.
2014 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), , £93,700, led by Tamar Valley AONB.
2014 South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 'Â鶹´«Ã½ Urban Fringe (Wembury area) Habitat and Landscape Opportunity Mapping', with Dr F Davey.
2013 Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 'Cornwall AONB Landscape Monitoring Phase 2', with Land Use Consultants and Dr F Davey.
2013 Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 'Wadebridge Biofuel Survey', with Silvanus Trust.
2013 Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ' Landscape Monitoring', with Dr F Davey.
2012 South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 'Creation of an App to capture landscape views perception' .
2012 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, 'Ecosystem services in protected landscapes ', £4,527, with Mr William Dommett.
2011 Cornwall Council, 'Creation of a Toolkit to assess Seascape Character and Sensitivity to Offshore Developments', with Miss E Bowes.
2011 Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ' State of the AONB Atlas', with Mrs F Davey.
2011 Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ' Establishing good practice guidelines for the use of GIS in AONB management', with Mrs F Davey.
2011 South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ‘Digital Atlases for Devon's Outstanding Landscapes', with Mrs F Davey.
2010 RDA/ERDF Proof of Concept Fund, – “ Application of Geospatial Techniques to Landscape Character Assessment†, £12,100, with Mrs F Davey.
2010 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, ' Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) through contemporary moving image practice', £4,300. PI: Heidi Morstang
2008 Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ‘ Landscape Change in the Cornwall AONB ’, with Mrs F Davey.
2008 Seale-Hayne Educational Trust, ‘Monitoring Landscape Change in the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’, £4,950, with Mrs F Davey and Dr S Lavender.
2008 Vice-Chancellor's Community Research Award, ' Geo-environmental Assessment of Brentor Commons', £6,700, with Dr M Donkin.
2005 Tamar Valley AONB Service, 'Development of a Tamar Valley GIS', with Dr S Lavender.
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
JournalsLiang, X.; Lu, Y.; Martin, J. C. (2021) A review of the role of social media for the cultural heritage sustainability. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1055. DOI: 10.3390/su13031055
Horswill E., MartinJ.C, Guy J. A, Establishing a functional framework for monitoring protected landscapes; with a case study of English Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Ecological Indicators 119 , DOI:
Martin J.C.,Williamson D. and Putt R. (under review), Thinking Outside the Box: A Visual and Sensory Landscape Journey to Capture Perceptual Values, Landscape and Urban Planning
Shaw B, Draux H., Garcia M., Martin J.C.and Bieling C.,(2017), Contributions of Citizen Science to Landscape Democracy, Landscape Research. Vol. 42, Iss.8, pp. 831-844. DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2017.1385750.
Martin J.C., Waterworth M., English R.& Weise L.(2016), Development of ubiquitous technology tools to support awareness of protected landscapes, Proceedings of Landscape Characterisation: Methods & Applications in Landscape Ecology. IALE UK Conference, University of Reading, 7- 9 September 2016.
Alboabidallah A., Martin J.C., Lavender S. and Abbott V. (2017), Terrestrial laser scanning for biomass assessment and tree reconstruction: improved processing efficiency, Proceedings Volume 10444, Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017), Paphos, Cyprus, September 2017. DOI: 10.1117/122279130.
Alboabidallah A., Martin J.C., Lavender S. and Abbott V. (2017), Using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-1 data for Above Ground Biomass assessment in the Tamar valley and Dartmoor,Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images (MultiTemp), Brugge, Belgium, 27 – 29 June 2017.
Martin J.C., Waterworth M., English R. & Weise L.(2016), Development of ubiquitous technology tools to support awareness of protected landscapes, Proceedings of Landscape Characterisation: Methods & Applications in Landscape Ecology. IALE UK Conference, University of Reading, 7- 9 September 2016.
Fowler B.A., MartinJ.C. & English R. (2015), A toolkit to promote landscape scale spatial planning in relation to landscape capacity and sensitivity to onshore renewable energy installations,Proceedings of the Energy Landscapes:Perception, Planning, Participation, Power Conference, Dresden, Germany, 16 -18 September 2015.
Williamson D. & MartinJ.C. (2015), Landscape stories:collecting, visualising and communicating geo-located perceptual and natural data, Proceedings of the Energy Landscapes:Perception,
Horswill E., MartinJ.C, Guy J. A, Establishing a functional framework for monitoring protected landscapes; with a case study of English Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Ecological Indicators 119 , DOI:
Martin J.C.,Williamson D. and Putt R. (under review), Thinking Outside the Box: A Visual and Sensory Landscape Journey to Capture Perceptual Values, Landscape and Urban Planning
Shaw B, Draux H., Garcia M., Martin J.C.and Bieling C.,(2017), Contributions of Citizen Science to Landscape Democracy, Landscape Research. Vol. 42, Iss.8, pp. 831-844. DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2017.1385750.
Martin J.C., Waterworth M., English R.& Weise L.(2016), Development of ubiquitous technology tools to support awareness of protected landscapes, Proceedings of Landscape Characterisation: Methods & Applications in Landscape Ecology. IALE UK Conference, University of Reading, 7- 9 September 2016.
Alboabidallah A., Martin J.C., Lavender S. and Abbott V. (2017), Terrestrial laser scanning for biomass assessment and tree reconstruction: improved processing efficiency, Proceedings Volume 10444, Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017), Paphos, Cyprus, September 2017. DOI: 10.1117/122279130.
Alboabidallah A., Martin J.C., Lavender S. and Abbott V. (2017), Using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-1 data for Above Ground Biomass assessment in the Tamar valley and Dartmoor,Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images (MultiTemp), Brugge, Belgium, 27 – 29 June 2017.
Martin J.C., Waterworth M., English R. & Weise L.(2016), Development of ubiquitous technology tools to support awareness of protected landscapes, Proceedings of Landscape Characterisation: Methods & Applications in Landscape Ecology. IALE UK Conference, University of Reading, 7- 9 September 2016.
Fowler B.A., MartinJ.C. & English R. (2015), A toolkit to promote landscape scale spatial planning in relation to landscape capacity and sensitivity to onshore renewable energy installations,Proceedings of the Energy Landscapes:Perception, Planning, Participation, Power Conference, Dresden, Germany, 16 -18 September 2015.
Williamson D. & MartinJ.C. (2015), Landscape stories:collecting, visualising and communicating geo-located perceptual and natural data, Proceedings of the Energy Landscapes:Perception,