Dr Caroline Hattam

Dr Caroline Hattam is a Senior Scientist at PML. As an environmental economist, her main area of research is in the assessment and valuation of marine ecosystem services and its application to marine management. She uses mixed methods in her work including economic techniques, subjective well-being measures, qualitative assessments and deliberative methods and is beginning to expand into the use of visual methods. She is particularly interested in how these methods can be improved and used to complement each other. In addition, Caroline undertakes research exploring the social, economic and well-being impacts of changes in the marine environment (resulting from e.g. MPAs, offshore wind farms and ocean acidification) and what strategies can be employed to build resilience to change among coastal communities.

Caroline has played a lead role in many national projects (e.g. leading the socio-economics component of the UK Ocean Acidification Programme and understanding the well-being impacts of offshore wind farms for The Crown Estate) and international projects (e.g. EU FP7 Vectors, European Commission funded project on the economic benefits of MPAs, GCRF project on building resilience among coastal communities to declining coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean), managing academics and stakeholders from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. She has a PhD in Agricultural and Food Economics and before joining PML she has worked in the UK and overseas in different capacities (academic, NGO and UN agency). She regularly leads and participates in engagement activities with stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds (from subsistence farmers and fishermen to the public, students, academics, resource managers and policy makers).