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Dr Nenia Micha

Senior Research Fellow

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Nenia is an environmental economist focusing on the sustainable management of natural resources and the socio-economic development of the rural and marine environments.

Biography

Evgenia (Nenia) Micha joined CCRI in 2018. Previously, she worked for Teagasc, the Irish Agriculture and Food authority where she worked for the department of agricultural economics and the Agricultural Catchments Programme mainly investigating the connections between the sustainable intensification of agriculture and sustainable resource use. Prior to that she worked at the international University of Greece and as an independent consultant in various countries. She has a PhD socio-economic acceptance of European environmental policies from the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development of the University of Reading.

Nenia is an expert in data management, survey design, multivariate and statistical analysis, econometric techniques (including structural equation modelling) and quantitative participatory methods. She is highly skilled in using statistical packages, such as Stata and SPSS, as well as participatory modelling software and fuzzy logic analysis.

Teaching & Research

Research

Research interests

  • Sustainable intensification of food production
  • Socio-economic growth of fisheries
  • Co-management of natural resources
  • Producers’ attitudes, beliefs and behavioural changes
  • Policy design and impact
  • Water management and protection policies
  • Socio-economic development of rural areas
  • Social sustainability of marine space management

 

Research skills

  • Econometric empirical analysis
  • Structural equation modelling
  • Multivariate analysis
  • Cognitive mapping
  • Survey design
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • GIS, GEPHI, SPSS, STATA

Publications

More publications from Dr Nenia Micha can be found in the Research Repository.