Introduction
Dr Walters Nsoh is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham, with expertise in land and natural resource law and policy. He has undertaken studies with forest stakeholders in Cameroon; developed standards on land rights, the environment and extractive industries across Africa; and contributed to drafting of a new legal framework for Ecuador on natural resources and food security, among others. His book The Privatisation of Biodiversity? - New Approaches to Conservation Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016) explores the use of innovative market-based approaches such as biodiversity offsetting, payment for ecosystem services and conservation covenants in nature conservation. He has published in leading peer-reviewed academic and practitioner sources and has provided written evidence to policy consultations. In 2018, he guest edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy on Competing Claims for Land, Food, Water and Agricultural Resources: Perspectives from the Global South. His work continues to evolve into new lines of enquiry and interdisciplinary collaborations and he has recently initiated research on the governance of water-energy-food nexus.
Expert
Dr Walters Nsoh is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham, with expertise in land and natural resource law and policy. He has undertaken studies with forest stakeholders in Cameroon; developed standards on land rights, the environment and extractive industries across Africa; and contributed to drafting of a new legal framework for Ecuador on natural resources and food security, among others. His book The Privatisation of Biodiversity? - New Approaches to Conservation Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016) explores the use of innovative market-based approaches such as biodiversity offsetting, payment for ecosystem services and conservation covenants in nature conservation. He has published in leading peer-reviewed academic and practitioner sources and has provided written evidence to policy consultations. In 2018, he guest edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy on Competing Claims for Land, Food, Water and Agricultural Resources: Perspectives from the Global South. His work continues to evolve into new lines of enquiry and interdisciplinary collaborations and he has recently initiated research on the governance of water-energy-food nexus. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Surrey, an LLM (Distinction) in Environmental Law & Policy from the University of Kent and a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science from the University of Buea, Cameroon, and is fluent in English, French and West African Pidgin.
Fields of expertise: Environmental policy / climate change, Evidence for policy / knowledge valorization, Sustainable Development Goals