March 2025
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Principal’s Research Award, Research Project with the Greatest Impact on Policy – FST, 2024 ‘Connecting Communities for Climate and Disaster Risk Preparedness (CCC-DRIP) Initiative - Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Dominica’
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Dr. Thera Edwards

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March 2025 Principal’s Research Award, Research Project with the Greatest Impact on Policy

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Dr. Thera Edwards is Lecturer and Map Curator in the Department of Geography and Geology. Her early training in botany and environmental sciences led to interdisciplinary research in landscape change and history, climate change responses and vegetation ecology. In the past 25 years, her research and projects have covered landscape change, environmental management, and sustainable development, with particular emphasis on agriculture, food systems, biodiversity, forestry and protected areas management. Since 2020 she has embarked on research investigating traditional food production systems; food culture; crop histories as well as diet, activity and health.
She has co-authored numerous academic articles and technical reports related to Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. In 2016, she co-edited the volume “Global Change and the Caribbean: Adaptation and Resilience” along with David Barker, Duncan McGregor, and Kevon Rhiney.

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Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)

Degrees:

2013
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Agriculture and Food Security Biodiversity & Environmental Conservation Climate Change
1999
Master
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Agriculture and Food Security Biodiversity & Environmental Conservation Sustainable Cities and Communities

Publications resulting from Research
Edwards, T., M. Wilson, N. Plummer, I. Yaneva-Toraman, C. McKenzie, K. Donovan, P. Northover, S. Mitchell and R. Burke (2026). Shaping Caribbean Social Sustainability through Memory: Connecting Youth, Food Heritage and Sustainable Futures through the Recipes for Resilience Project. Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies - Special Issue: The Social Sustainability of Food Systems: Addressing the Inequality-Unsustainability Nexus
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-025-00251-2
Robinson, E. and T. Edwards. ‘Invasion of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea by a Large Benthic Foraminifer the Little Ice Age’. Diversity – Marine Diversity. 17, no. 2(2025): 110 (17pp). Special Issue on Ecology and Paleoecology of Atlantic and Caribbean Coral Reefs.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17020110
Zhang, Y, P. West, L. Thakholi, K. Suryawanshi, M. Supuma, S. S. Sithole, R. Sharma, J. Schleicher, B. Ruli, D. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, M. Borg Rasmussen, V. C. Ramenzoni, S. Qin, D. Delgado Pugley, R. Palfrey, J. Oldekop, E. O. Nuesiri, V. Hai Thi Nguyen, N. Ndam, C. Mungai, S. Milne, M. Bukhi Mabele, H. Lucitante, S. Lucitante, J. Liljeblad, A. Kik, N. Jones, M. Johnson, C. Jarrett, R. Saprey James, G. Holmes, L. N. Gibson, A. Ghoddousi, M. Fernanda Gebara, T. Edwards, W. H. Dressler, L. R. Douglas, P. G. Dimitrakopoulos, V. Davidov, E. M. F. W. Compaoré-Sawadogo, Y. Ariadne Collins, M. Cepek, P. Berne Burow, D. Brockington, M. Philippe Bessike Balinga, B. J. Austin, R. Astuti, C. Ampumuza, F. Kwaku Agyei. ‘Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas’. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 48(2023): Page 559-588 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112321-081348
Amon, D., R. Rotjan, B. Kennedy, G. Alleng, R. Anta, E. Aram, T. Edwards, M. Creary-Ford, K. Gjerde, J. Gobin, L. Ashley Henderson, A. Hope, R. Khan Ali, S. Lanser, K. Lewis, H. Lochan, S. MacLean, N. Mwemwenikarawa, B. Phillips, Betarim Rimon, S-A. Sarjursingh, T. Teemari, A. Tekiau, A. Turchik, H. Vallès, K. Waysang and K. Bell. ‘My Deep Sea, My Backyard: A Pilot Study to Build Capacity for Global Deep-Ocean Exploration and Research’. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B. 377: 20210121 (2022).13p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0121
Edwards, T. and D. McGregor. ‘Applications of a Historical Collection of Aerial Photographs as a Teaching and Research Resource: Case Studies of Montserrat and Grand Cayman’. Caribbean Geography 24 (2019): 62-82.
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March 2025 Principal’s Research Award, Research Project with the Greatest Impact on Policy