Duncan Weaver – författare

This pilgrimage walk runs for 56 miles (91 km) from the Firth of Forth via Dunfermline Abbey to the famous pilgrim destination of St Andrews. It is rich in industrial heritage, passing through mining communities, along disused railways and passing castles.  Above all, it celebrates Fife’s pilgrim kingdom and history through many churches and religious sites.Start from either the historic village of Culross or the pilgrim landing at North Queensferry, and make your way across the heartlands of Fife.  The route has fine scenery and passes through country parks, native woodlands and river valleys rich in wildlife.  Most walkers will need 5-6 days to complete the journey.Cyclists with mountain or gravel bikes can enjoy most of the route in most conditions, but in some circumstances – where the ground is very wet or the path too narrow – they may need to dismount.  Most cyclists will want 2-3 days to complete the route.The guidebook features step-by-step directions with detailed mapping, and illustrated sections on history, heritage and wildlife.  It directs readers to side-trips, refreshments and accommodation along the way.  Lavishly illustrated, the book features custom mapping at 1:40,000 on 16 of its pages and has 108 colour photos.

The Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters has been celebrated as a pioneering international environmental agreement. Given that a quarter-century has passed since Aarhus was opened for signature, now is an opportune moment to revisit it from a fresh perspective. Marking this anniversary, this book explores Aarhus from the vista of the English School of International Relations, an ethically-minded perspective used to gauge the prevalence of state-oriented and human-oriented progress from the Convention's rationales and realities. It firstly considers Aarhus' propagation, investigating the legal, diplomatic and geopolitical contexts enabling its emergence. It secondly investigates Aarhus' germination, with reference to its trinity of procedural rights. Thirdly, the book examines the Convention's growth, in terms of the development of its organisational infrastructure. The chief finding is that Aarhus demonstrates, in environmental contexts, the feasibility and benefit of fostering 'humankind' solidarist progress, rooted in moral cosmopolitanism, within the existing power arrangements of a sovereignty-based pluralism. Pluralist concerns for diversity and international order are found to be a precondition for more ethically ambitious solidarist endeavours. These observations reinforce the logic of solidarisation, an English School innovation that presents sovereignty as (a) being ethically matured by solidarism whilst (b) delimiting solidarism within the threshold of states' tolerance.