Pamela Kaval

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Pamela Kaval is an accomplished screenwriter, author, producer and actor. She especially enjoys crafting compelling children's stories, comedies, dramas, thrillers and documentaries. Her multi-award winning short film, Mothering Sunday, is proof of her exceptional skills.

Pamela is currently fully focused on writing novels and producing series and feature films, while still providing her 15 years of editing expertise to writers. Nature is a common theme in her work; this is influenced by her previous academic career in sustainability and biodiversity.

Genre:

  • Academic
  • Children's Fiction
  • Children's Non-Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Film Scripts
  • Horror
  • Non-Fiction
  • Scriptwriter
  • Thriller
  • Young Adult

Skills:

  • Academic Writing
  • Editing
  • Novelist
  • Public Speaking
  • Readings
  • Screenwriting
  • Workshops (children/schools)

Branch:

Hamilton

Location:

Publications:

Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday is a horror, dark comedy short film where terrifying revelations are made during a Mother-Daughter argument. (See https://filmfreeway.com/MotheringSunday for the trailer and more details)

Integrated catchment management and ecosystem services: A twenty-five year overview

The ecosystem services of rivers and watersheds (also called catchments) should be considered in pursuit of integrated catchment planning, decision-making, and management to sustain and/or enhance this important natural capital. To determine if and how river and watershed studies have been accounting for ecosystem services, 25 years of ecosystem service-related river and watershed studies were reviewed. The most commonly studied ecosystem services for rivers and watersheds were recreation (41% of studies), food (29%) and climate regulation (26%). Many of the studies also focused on three ecosystem service themes: modelling (91%), mapping (80%), and economic valuation (72%); 58% of the studies investigated all three of these themes. It is important to note that the majority of the ecosystem service related studies only focused their investigation on a handful of ecosystem services; hence, the potential externalities for the non-focal ecosystem services may have been overlooked.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100912

Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands: Annual Report: 2016-2017

This annual report gives an overview of all the projects carried out
by the Charles Darwin Foundation in 2016 and offers a preview of our
activities in 2017. Furthermore, it highlights some of the latest scientific
updates so that our friends and followers can be inspired by the work
we do in Galapagos. Over the years, we have overcome many challenges
and have continued our groundbreaking scientific investigations for the
long-term conservation and management of the archipelago.

Valuation of forest ecosystem services. A practical guide

In this set of guidelines, we present good practice techniques for Stated Preference (SP) studies to
estimate the monetary value of forest externalities. In a SP study, the researcher wishes to determine
the value a respondent places on a hypothetical good or hypothetical situation. This hypothetical good
or hypothetical situation, such as harvesting trees in an area of a forest or establishing a walking trail
through a forest, may or may not actually take place. There are several SP techniques available to
determine the values for a hypothetical situation including the Contingent Valuation (CV) and Choice
Modelling (CM) methods; these techniques will be discussed in more detail later in these guidelines.
The CM label refers here to the family of attribute based stated preference methods.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327939594_Valuation_of_forest_ecosystem_services_A_practical_guide_Edited_by_Pere_RIERA_Giovanni_SIGNORELLO

Perceived and Actual Wildfire Danger: An Economic and Spatial Analysis Study in Colorado (USA).

Over the last 20 years, costs for wildfire initial attack in the U.S. have increased significantly. The increased cost relates to wildfire suppression practices, as well as the growing number of homes in the wildland urban interface. Requiring wildland urban interface residents to pay an annual tax for their wildfire risk could lower costs to the general taxpayer. Willingness-to-pay for wildfire prevention, in relation to both perceived and actual wildfire danger, was the focus of this study. Surveyed Colorado wildland urban interface residents were found to have a high awareness of wildfire risk and were willing-to-pay over $400 annually to reduce this risk. Respondents' beliefs about wildfire frequency were comparable to the wildfire regimes of their areas' pre-European settlement.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.12.009