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Dr Pete Howson

Assistant Professor

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

My research looks at how space technologies, token economies and markets for environmental services are changing human relationships with the non-human world. I also consider how these same technologies are deployed to enable more equitable post-capitalist futures.

I lead the MSc in Disaster Managent and Sustainable Development. Before joining Northumbria, I led the International Development programme at Nottingham Trent University. In 2016 I was a Post-doc Researcher at Colorado State University, looking at Palau’s National Marine Sanctuary. Before that, I was based at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand. My PhD research explored the political ecology of climate finance in Indonesia.

A full list of my articles, news interviews and podcasts, are available via .

Pete Howson

Campus Address

Room B.310, Ellison Building



  • Daniel Walsh From the Geo to the Astro: Examining the Spaceflight Production Process from the Gulf of Mexico to Beyond Earth Start Date: 01/10/2024
  • Daniel Walsh From the Geo to the Astro: Examining the Spaceflight Production Process from the Gulf of Mexico to Beyond Earth Start Date: 01/10/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025

  • Geography PhD April 18 2016
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2018


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