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Dr Courtney Hughes

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Courtney is the Senior Land and Biodiversity Specialist with Alberta Environment and Parks, in northwestern Canada. In addition to working on various projects related to landscape planning, policy development, and applied biological and social science research, Courtney has extensive experience in community-based and collaborative conservation efforts, working locally and internationally with not-for-profit organizations, community groups, governments, industry, and Indigenous Peoples on projects ranging from human-wildlife conflict and coexistence, to recreational development, citizen science and environmental education. 

In addition to being a visiting tutor for the Recanati-Kaplan Centre’s postgraduate diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice since 2011, Courtney has also worked as a Science Teacher, Director of a children’s science program, Natural Resource Policy Analyst, and Instructor at the University of Alberta. 

Courtney holds a PhD from the University of Alberta, having studied the social context of grizzly bear recovery in Alberta, Canada, and enjoys collaboration with Panthers, WildCRU colleagues, other scholars, and conservation practitioners in various projects around the world.

Selected Publications

Hughes, C.; Tremblett, K.; Kummer, J.; Lee, T.S.; Duke, D. (2022) How Can We Do Citizen Science Better? A Case Study Evaluating Grizzly Bear Citizen Science Using Principles of Good Practice in Alberta, Canada. Animals, 12: 1068. doi: 10.3390/ani12091068.

Hughes, C., Steenweg, R.J., Vander Vennen, L.M., Melnycky, N.A., Fullerton, L., Witiw, J.T., and Morehouse, A. (2021) Working together for grizzly bears: a collaborative approach to estimate population abundance in Northwest ALberta, CAnada. Front. Conserv. Sci. 2: 719044. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2021.719044.

Morehouse AT, Hughes C, Manners N, Bectell J and Tigner J (2021) Dealing With Deadstock: A Case Study of Carnivore Conflict Mitigation From Southwestern Alberta. Front. Conserv. Sci. 2: 786013. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2021.786013.

Rust, N.A., Rehackova, L., Naab, F., Abrams, A., Hughes, C., Merkle, B.G., Clark, B., Tindale, S. (2021). What does the UK public want farmland to look like? Land Use Policy, Volume 106, doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105445.

  1. Sibanda, L., van der Meer, E., Johnson, P.J., Hughes, C., Dlodlo, B., Parry, R.H., Mathe, L.J., Hunt, J.E., Macdonald, D.W., and Loveridge, A.J. (2021). Evaluating the effects of a conservation intervention on rural farmers’ attitudes toward lions, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 26:5, 445-460, DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2020.185093.

Hughes, C., Yarmey, N., Morehouse, A., and Nielsen, S. (2020). Problem perspectives and grizzly bears: a case study of Alberta’s Grizzly Bear Recovery Policy. Front. Ecol. Evol. 8: 38. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00038.

Lovemore, S., Van der Meer, E., Hughes, C., Macdonald, E.A., Hunt, J.E., Parry, R.H., Dlodlo, B., Macdonald, D.W., Loveridge, A.J. (2020). Exploring perceptions of subsistence farmers in northwestern Zimbabwe towards the African lion (Panthera leo) in the context of local conservation actions. African Journal of Wildlife Research, 50(1). Available: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-1d2369ed1c.

Morehouse, A., Hughes, C., Manners, N., Bectell, J., and Bruder, T. (2020). Carnivores and communities: a case study of human-carnivore conflict mitigation in Southwestern Alberta. Front. Ecol. Evol. 8:2. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00002.

Hughes, C., and Nielsen, S.E. (2019). ‘Bear are only the Lightning Rod’: Ongoing Acrimony in Alberta’s Grizzly Bear Recovery, Society & Natural Resources, 32:1, 34-52. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1502853.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=awSI3hkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

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