Susan Elizabeth Owens OBE FBA

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(born 24 January 1954) is Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy,

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. She is Fellow Emerita of Newnham College. Owens was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution that produced the ‘Turning the Tide’ report which addressed the impact of fisheries on the marine environment. She is a member of the DEFRA advisory panel on Highly Protected Marine Areas. She was educated at the

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where she graduated with a BSc and a PhD entitled ''"The energy implications of alternative rural development patterns"'' in 1981.‘OWENS, Prof. Susan Elizabeth’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014 She joined the

as an academic in 1981. She was a recipient of the

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's Back Award in 2000. She was made an OBE in 1998, and a Fellow of the

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in 2011.

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1954 births Living people Alumni of the University of East Anglia Academics of the University of Cambridge Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge Officers of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Environmental social scientists British geographers Women geographers British women geographers {{Geographer-stub