Dr Debashree De
Small Group Project 2027
Fire, Flock, and Commons: Amplifying Pastoral Community Voice in Co-Producing Nature-Based Solutions to Greece’s Wildfire Crisis
This project places pastoral community voice at its centre. Working with the Livestock Cooperative of Thracian Lambs—whose membership includes descendants of traditional transhumant pastoral communities—in the region devastated by the 2023 Evros fire, we co-produce with community members a ‘regenerative service supply chain’ framework: a governance model that formally integrates traditional pastoral knowledge with scientific evidence to reconnect grazing, commercial production, and wildfire resilience.
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Biography
Dr Debashree De is Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Queen's Business School, Queen's University Belfast. Her research addresses sustainable, resilient and circular supply chains, focusing on regenerative agriculture and food supply chains. She works with farming and pastoral communities in Togo, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Greece, examining how supply chains can strengthen livelihoods, reduce environmental impact and support collective governance of shared resources. Her wider interests include circular economy in SMEs, food waste and sustainable packaging. She collaborates with industry and policymakers and has advised the European Commission on the green and digital transition of SMEs.
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