Managing Scotland's Environment

Readers will find it an incredibly useful starting point for understanding the factors which have shaped the Scottish environment, as well as those issues which will continue to influence the world around them, now and in the future. – Jonathan Bell, Head of Land and Sea Policy, RSPBa must-read for anyone interested in the management of Scotland’s environment today. – Douglas MacMillan * Scottish Forestry *

Charles Warren is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography & Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, and holds degrees in geography, glaciology and resource management from Oxford and Edinburgh universities. He has written widely on Scottish land use issues, including his book Managing Scotland’s Environment (Edinburgh University Press 2009). He also co-edited Learning from Wind Power: Governance, Societal and Policy Perspectives on Sustainable Energy (Palgrave 2012).

Jayne Glass is a Researcher in the Natural Resource and Sustainable Development group of the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is also an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh and previously worked at Scotland’s Rural College and the University of the Highlands and Islands. Jayne has published widely on topics related to Scotland’s land and rural communities, including Lairds, Land and Sustainability (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), Land Reform: History, law and policy (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Rural Poverty Today: experiences of social exclusion in rural Britain (Policy Press, 2023) and Managing Scotland’s Environment (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).