Staff Profile

Emeritus Professor, Director of Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation

Ian Spellerberg

MSc(Cant) PhD(LaTrobe), FEIANZ, FLS, CEnvP

Ian Spellerberg

Contact Details

Faculty of Environment, Society and Design

Location NRE155
Phone 64 3 423 0441
Extension
Email Ian.Spellerberg@lincoln.ac.nz
 

Currently Teaching

  • ERST 631 Environmental Sciences in Environmental Policy
  • ERST 636 Perspectives of Sustainability
 

Academic and Professional Background

Receipent of the 2008 Science Communicator Award for the New Zealand Association of Scientists 

Certified Environmental Practitioner

Member of:

  • New Zealand Plant Conservation Network

Fellow of:

  • Linnean Society
  • WWF (UK)
  • Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand

Holds a personal chair in nature conservation

Co-ordinator for two international programmes in environmental management between Lincoln and European Universities. See the NARME and MINC programmes.

Former Director of the Centre for Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK.

Awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship to study at the Max Planck Institute near Munich.

Director Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation.

Chair of the Departmental Committeefor Environmental Sustainability

 

Current Research and Publications / Selected Publications

  • Education for sustainable development
  • New Zealand native plant conservation 
  • The greenway concept of conservation
  • Ecological monitoring
  • Biological diversity and conservation biology
  • Ecological effects of roads and traffic
  • State of the environment reporting in the media
  • Environmental sustainability
  • The environment profession and certification


    • Spellerberg, I.F.; Slowik, J. and Muhlenbert, H. (2010) Biological Diversity and Nature Conservation:Theory and Practice for Teaching.  Russia Academy of Sciences

    Spellerberg, I.F. and Given, D.R. (2008) Trees in urban and city environments.  Landscape Review 12: 19-31

    Spellerberg, I.F.; Frey, M. (2008) Living with natives:  New Zealanders talk about their love of native plants. Canterbury University Press.

    Buchan, G., Spellerberg, I.F., Blum, W.E.H. (2007).  Education for sustainability:  developing a postgraduate-level subject with an international perspective.  International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: 8:4-15.  (Won the 2007 Award for excellence from the Literati Club.)

    Spellerberg, I.F. (2005). Monitoring Ecological Change. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.

    Spellerberg, I.F.; Buchan, G.D.; Engelfield, R. (2004). Need a University adopt a formal environmental management system? International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 5:125-132. (Won the 2005 award for excellence from the Literati Club.)

    Spellerberg, I F (2002). Ecological effects of roads. Science Publisher, Inc. USA.

     

    Supervision

    Ian is currently supervising the following postgrad students:

    • Behrens, F. (PhD) Selecting frees for urban environments: the role of ecological and biogeographical criteria.
    • Jackson, W. (PhD) The CITES review of significant trade process: what is the conservation benefit, or is it environmentally effective?
    • Mutonhori, S. (PhD) Adequacy of the ecological component on the New Zealand Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE) reports.

    The complete list of supervisions for Faculty of Environment, Society and Design.

     

    Page last updated on: 06/03/2012