Richard Kotter

Assistant Professor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

EE Richardkotter Staffprofile 255 I am an Anglo-German economic and political geographer. I am interested in regional economic development in border regions, ecological modernization and environmental transformations, and urban futures.

I am also interested in rights-based approaches to disaster-risk reduction and empowerment of marginalised communities. I have a sustained level of activity in Holocaust and Genocide Education within and outside of the university, both field-based (Poland, Germany) and city-based (Newcastle HMD working group). I have a strong activist and organisational background in this field through Amnesty International as a national volunteer country co-ordinator for European issues, trainer for AIUK, and past Chair of Steering Committee of Country Co-ordinators. I am current member of Case Management Group of AIUK. I am developing research in this area examining capability building in human rights campaigning and evaluation of impact contribution and attribution, which has led to contributions to the TransEuropa festival and currently the York City of Human Rights project.

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Key Publications

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A Simulation Environment of Solar-Wind Powered Electric Vehicle Car Park for Reinforcement Learning and Optimization, Li, H., Dai, D., Kotter, R., Aslam, N., Cao, Y. 10 Mar 2023, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on New Energy and Electrical Technology, Singapore, Springer
Challenges and Opportunities for UK Seaports Toward Future Sustainability: The UK’s North East Smart Ports Testbed Case Study, Conti, M., Zilvetti, M., Kotter, R. 30 Mar 2023, Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Embedding an EV car club into targeted neighbourhoods: Newcastle City Council’s Net Zero Team and Strategic Transport Team collaborated with Northumbria University and CoWheels, to determine whether it was feasible to deploy an EV car club vehicle into a targeted neighbourhood in the Elswick Ward of Newcastle upon Tyne., Kotter, R., Dai, D., McLoughlin, A. 7 Jun 2023
New developments and environmental applications of drones: proceedings of FinDrones 2020, edited by Tarmo Lipping, Petri Linna and Nathaniel Narra, Cham, Springer International, 2022, vii+195 pp., £129.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-030-77859-0, Kotter, R. 22 Feb 2023, In: International Journal of Environmental Studies
Understanding Rare Earth Elements as Critical Raw Materials, Leal Filho, W., Kotter, R., Özuyar, P., Abubakar, I., Pires Eustachio, J., Matandirotya, N. 19 Jan 2023, In: Sustainability (Switzerland)
Modelling and Uncertainty Analysis of On-site Renewable Sources for Optimal EV Charging, Li, H., Dai, X., Kotter, R., Aslam, N., McLoughlin, A., Yu, J. 10 Jun 2022, International conference on CApacity building in the Renewable Energy Sector [I-CARES 2022]
Smoking environments in China: Challenges for tobacco control edited by Ross Barnett, Tingzhong Yang, Xiaozhao Y. Yang, Global Perspectives on Health Geography Series, Cham, Springer International, 2021, vii+353 pp., £109.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-3-030-76142-4, Kotter, R. 18 Oct 2022, In: International Journal of Environmental Studies
Sustainable freight transport: Theory, models, and case studies edited by Vasileios Zeimpekis, Emel Aktas, Michael Bourlakis, Ioannis Minis. Operations Research/Computer Science Interface Series, Vol. 63, Cham, Springer International, 2018, v+178 pp., £99.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-3-319-62916-2, Kotter, R. 17 Oct 2022, In: International Journal of Environmental Studies
E-poster: Thinking Service Design for Improvements in Emergency Preparedness and Response: Cases from Pakistan, Kotter, R. 1 Sep 2021, 5th Global Summit of GADRI
Framing electric mobility for urban sustainability in a circular economy context: An overview of the literature, Leal Filho, W., Abubakar, I., Kotter, R., Grindsted, T., Balogun, A., Salvia, A., Aina, Y., Wolf, F. 12 Jul 2021, In: Sustainability

Professional Activity

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Invited talk: "Tyneside / The Great Northern Coalfield, Cabon Capitalism and Green Futures" 2023
Other: invited External Academic Panel Member for London Met Uni: NEXT Campus (Colombo, Sri Lanka) / NXT Management Training (Dubai) - Partner Review 2023
Oral presentation: Multi-Disciplinary Innovation Design and Advanced Practice Real-World Student-Centric Strategies in UK Higher Education Towards Sustainable Futures: A Northumbria University Reflective Case Study 2022
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: IDRiM2021 Virtual Conference (global) 2021
Oral presentation: North East of England Smart Ports Testbed - Challenges and Opportunities 2021
Invited talk: From Operational Pilot insights to SUMEPs – why and how do we need more integration of Mobility, Energy and Grid Planning? 2020
Invited talk: Furthering intelligent mobility through the adoption of AI in autonomous vehicles 2020
Visiting an external academic institution: University of Engineering and Technology Lahore 2020
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: International Working Delegation Visit to the Punjab Emergency Services & their Emergency Services Academy in Lahore by the International Emergency Team UK (IETUK, a UK charity) [by invitation as expert, and as IETUK Trustee] 2020
Visiting an external academic institution: KU Leuven 2018

Qualifications

Research Methods PGDip September 01 1994
Geography MA (Hons) September 01 1994
Geography BSc (Hons) September 01 1993
Fellow Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBS) 2003

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