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        Amy Molotoks

        Research Associate

      • Expertise: Conservation biology, biodiversity indicators and monitoring, environmental modelling, geospatial analysis, food systems,
      • amy.molotoks@york.ac.uk
      • @Amy_Molotoks
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      Amy Molotoks is a Research Associate at SEI York and is part of the Sustainable Consumption and Production team. She works on the GCRF Trade Hub project which involves examining the impact of agricultural commodity trade on biodiversity.

      She holds a BSc in Environmental Science from the University of Southampton and an MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation from the University of Exeter. Amy also completed a PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen as part of the Environmental Modelling group. Her research focused on spatially mapping the global impacts of future cropland expansion on various biodiversity metrics, carbon storage and food security in order to examine trade-off hotspots. This involved using a range of model projections and future socio-economic scenarios, modelling the subsequent effects of land use change by incorporating FAO statistics and exploiting high resolution spatially resolved datasets. She also conducted a local case study in rural Madagascar examining local perspectives of conflict between biodiversity conservation, food security and environmental beliefs.

      During the PhD, she had the opportunity to participate in a three month professional internship which was completed with the Scottish Schools Education Research Centre (SSERC) to develop new materials for teaching Environmental Science.

      Prior to her PhD, Amy participated in a three month science communication and public engagement internship with the Eden Project. She then completed a nine month ERASMUS placement with a research station in Portugal working as an ecological research assistant.

      Publications by Amy Molotoks

      • A tool in the toolkit: can true cost accounting remove siloed thinking about food loss and waste?
      • Technical documentation for an experimental statistic estimating the global environmental impacts of UK consumption
      • Which forest-risk commodities imported to the UK have the highest overseas impacts? A rapid evidence synthesis
      • The global impact of food production and consumption on climate, air pollution, malnutrition and obesity
      • Integrated assessment of global climate, air pollution, and dietary, malnutrition and obesity health impacts of food production and consumption between 2014 and 2018
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      Featured stories with Amy Molotoks

      • Q&A: Introducing the Commodity Footprints dashboard
      • Our guide to COP26

      Projects and tools with Amy Molotoks

      • Commodity Footprints
      • GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment (TRADE) Hub
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