Managing Scotland's Environment

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).

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.

• List of figuresPreface to the first editionPreface to the second editionPreface to the third editionAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations and acronymsForeword to the third edition: Mike Robinson, Chief Executive, RSGSPART ONE THE NATURE AND CONTROL OF THE LANDChapter 1. Shaping Scotland’s EnvironmentChapter 2. The Political and Planning ContextPART TWO THE PIECES OF THE JIGSAWChapter 3. The Land: Who Should Own Scotland?Chapter 4. The Trees: Forest ManagementChapter 5. The Fields: Agriculture and CroftingChapter 6. The Waters: Freshwater Resource ManagementChapter 7. The Animals: Wildlife ManagementChapter 8. The ‘Natural’: Conservation ManagementPART THREE INTERACTIONS AND CONTROVERSIESChapter 9. Natives, Aliens and Reintroductions: what species where?Chapter 10. Integrating Forestry: deer in woodlands, and trees on farmsChapter 11. Powering Scotland: Energy and the EnvironmentPART FOUR THINKING AND DECIDING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTChapter 12. Environmental Ethics and Decision MakingPART FIVE CONCLUSIONChapter 13. Managing Scotland’s environment: taking stock and looking aheadReferencesIndex