Elaine Baker

Elaine Baker was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and attended MLC Hawthorn and Clyde Woodend.{{Cite web|title=Elaine Baker {{!}} GRID-Arendal|url=https://www.grida.no/staff/34|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.grida.no}}

She holds a BSc (Hons) ]{{Citation|author1=Baker|first=Elaine E.|title=The geology of part of the tertiary sequence of the Port Campbell embayment, Otway Basin, Victoria|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34295098|publication-date=1984|access-date=31 March 2021}} and a PhD from the University of Sydney,{{Citation|author1=Baker|first=Elaine K.|title=Sedimentology and the impact of mining in a tidally dominated delta : Fly River, Papua New Guinea|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/3895509|publication-date=1999|publisher=University of Sydney|access-date=31 March 2021}} where she has been employed for more than 30 years.

Elaine has worked at the University of Sydney since 1987. She has been involved in numerous high profile international projects including United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Continental Shelf Programme, (CSP) that resulted from United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The aim of the CSP is to assist developing countries and smaller island nations in securing their rights to extended territorial limits under the third UNCLOS convention. In order to claim extended continental shelf limits, states need to collect and provide extensive technical geographical data. Under the programme, GRID (Global Resource Information Database) centers provide technical and expert support to these states in collecting the geospatial, marine geophysical and geological data needed for submissions under UNCLOS. The GRID-Arendal center coordinates the CSP globally.{{Citation|last=GRID-Arendal|title=GRID-Arendal – A Centre Collaborating with UN Environment|date=2014-04-28|url=https://vimeo.com/93120367|access-date=2021-03-29}} Her work is widely recognised in Australasia and the Pacific Islands.{{Cite web|title=The Shelf Programme: A Decade of Successfully Helping to Secure the Maritime Rights of Developing Coastal States {{!}} GRID-Arendal|url=https://www.grida.no/publications/168|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.grida.no}}

She has developed research related to waste including a review of marine litter in the UN Global Environment's GEO6 report{{Cite journal|url=https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/27539|title=Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People|first=United Nations Environment|last=Programme|date=April 2, 2019|journal=UN Environment Document Repository}} and contributed to the Overall Guidance Document on the Environmentally Sound Management of Household Waste.{{Cite web|url=http://www.basel.int/Implementation/HouseholdWastePartnership/OverallGuidanceDocument/tabid/8227/Default.aspx|title=Overall Guidance Document|website=Basel.int|access-date=2 April 2021}} Baker has spoken out in relation to the need to create an independent international body to supervise the construction of dams in mines. She supports an independent body to monitor the benchmark, rather than the industry, as "there has been a history of catastrophic dam failures in countries where mine governance is quite good, including Australia".{{Cite web|date=2020-08-05|title=Experts call for independent body to oversee new standard to prevent dam collapses at mines|url=http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/06/experts-call-for-independent-body-to-oversee-new-standard-to-prevent-dam-collapses-at-mines|access-date=2021-03-29|website=the Guardian|language=en}}

• Mangalagiu, D., Baker, E., Fidelman, P., Gonçalves, L. R., Harris, P., Hollway, J., ... & Rice, J. (2019). Oceans and Coastal Policy-Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 14. Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6{{Cite journal|last=Programme|first=United Nations Environment|date=2019|title=Oceans and Coastal Policy – Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 14|url=https://stg-wedocs-new.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/27666|language=English|journal=UN Environment Document Repository}}): Healthy Planet, Healthy People.
• [https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/global-linkages-graphic-look-changing-arctic#:~:text=The%20new%20report%20%E2%80%9CGlobal%20Linkages,challenges%20with%20Arctic%20and%20global Global Linkages - A graphic look at the changing Arctic]
• Crump, J., Jacob, K., King, P., Mangalagiu, D., Abiodun, B. J., Armiento, G., ... & Wright, C. Y. (2019). [https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/391671 Systemic Policy Approaches for Cross-cutting Issues.]
• Gupta, J., Hurley, F., Grobicki, A., Keating, T., Stoett, P., Baker, E., ... & Ekins, P. (2019). [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(19)30040-3/fulltext Communicating the health of the planet and its links to human health]. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(5), e204-e206.
• Johansen, K. S., Alfthan, B., Baker, E., Hesping, M., Schoolmeester, T., & Verbist, K. (2019). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ipaHDwAAQBAJ&dq=Atlas+de+Glaciares+y+Aguas+Andinos&pg=PA7 El Atlas de Glaciares y Aguas Andinos: el impacto del retroceso de los glaciares sobre los recursos hídricos.] UNESCO Publishing.

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