- B422, Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
- carlotta.molfese@plymouth.ac.uk

Profiles
Carlotta Molfese
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Biography
Biography
PhD Student in Human Geography and scholar-activist.
Qualifications
PhD Candidate in Human Geography with 1+3 ESRC scholarship, Plymouth University 2017-2021
Research
Research
Research interests
Other research
Before embarking on my post-graduate journey in human geography, I specialised in human impacts on the marine environment with a particular interest in fisheries, aquaculture and marine ecosystems change over time.
Grants & contracts
Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 scholarship at Plymouth University
Publications
Publications
Molfese C, Beare D, Hall-Spencer JM (2014) Overfishing and the Replacement of Demersal Finfish by Shellfish: An Example from the English Channel. PLoS ONE 9(7): e101506. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101506
Skinner J, Bailly D, Le Coz M, Dodds W, Fletcher S, Glegg G, Glenn H, Herry L, Molfese C, Sewell J and McQuatters-Gollop A (2014). Pathways for effective governance of the English Channel. PEGASEAS, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth, UK, 50pp.
Written interview with South Devon Fish regarding sustainable fishing in the UK (August 2014). Available at http://southdevonfish.net/plymouth-university-marine-biology-dept/
Marine Biodiversity Indicators Project (MarBIP) blog for the Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT). Available at http://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/blog/category/marine-biodiversity-monitoring/
Molfese C and Hall-Spencer JM (13/03/2015) Overfishing and the replacement of demersal finfish by shellfish: an example from the English Channel. South West Marine Ecosystem conference (SWME15), Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK.
Molfese C (02/07/14) Overfishing and the replacement of demersal finfish by shellfish: an example from the English Channel. PEGASES conference, INTERREG IVa cross Channel project, University of Caen, Caen, France.
Molfese C, Palmer M, Marshall S. (20/03/14) Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Devon. COASTWISE North Devon Seminar Series, Barnstaple Public Library, Barnstaple, UK.
Personal
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
Molfese C (2019) The end of Nature and Politics in the Anthropocene: anarchist traces and possibilities. RGS-IBG 2019 Conference, session: Environmental and Ecological Justice: Anarchist Contributions and Perspectives, London, UK.
Molfese C and Hall-Spencer JM (13/03/2015) Overfishing and the replacement of demersal finfish by shellfish: an example from the English Channel. South West Marine Ecosystem conference (SWME15), Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK.
Molfese C (02/07/14) Overfishing and the replacement of demersal finfish by shellfish: an example from the English Channel. PEGASES conference, INTERREG IVa cross Channel project, University of Caen, Caen, France.
Additional information
While I conduct my PhD research, I also help co-manage a small-scale ecological restoration and farming project in the South of Italy with my partner. Our more-than-farming project "Niter" has been built on principles of agroecology/permaculture, energy and water self-sufficiency and what I call "ecological mutual aid". Hence, unlike the focus of organic farms and practices on 'bio' and non-human entities generally understood as "living", we extend our efforts to ecological relationships between bio and geo, including soils, energy and water.