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Welcome to
Roger Crofts' web site. I hope that you will find the information
posted useful and the ideas stimulating in your work.
Most of the material is the section on Articles, Papers and Speeches. You will also find details of my past and current activity and web links to the organisations I am closely engaged with.
If you wish to contact me, go to the Contact section.
Good searching, Roger
Professor Roger Crofts CBE FRSE FRSGS FRGS FIEEM Hon DSc BA MLitt PGCE
Latest News
Roger Crofts wins Icelandic Soil Conservation Medal - For his new book Healing the Land - Nov 2011
Land Use Strategy for Scotland - Call for clarity on making it work in practice Nov 2011
Over 300 people attend Watson Bird Celebrations - 30 Sept to 2 Oct 2011
Red Kite Research Wins First Watson Raptor Science Prize - Press Release Sept 2011
Watson Birds Are Flying High in Dalry - Press Release Sept 2011
The Watson Bird Centre & Celebration Project - Leaflet
Healing the land - The story of land reclamation and soil conservation in Iceland - Order Form
IUCN WCPA - Proposed Task Group on Geodiversity and Protected Areas - March 2011
Oral Evidence to Rural Affairs and Environment Committee - Feb 2011
Dalry Bird Town - Spec for First Annual Bird Festival - March 2011
Oxford National Dictionary of Biography - Magnusson, Magnus (1929-2007)
Opinion on current issues
Scottish National Parks - Overstepping the mark? - The Geographer, Spring 2012
National Parks - Lessons from around the world - The Geographer, Spring 2012
Linking People and the Outdoors: An International Perspective - Text of speech to Danish Outdoor Council, Copenhagen Mar 2012
Scottish Woodland Expansion Advisory Group - Response Dec 2011
Sibthorp Trust post Cancun on Climate Change talks - Press Release Dec 2010
Sibthorp Trust calls for Commitments on Climate Change - Press Release Dec 2010
Sibthorp Climate Change Book - Climate Change Action After Copenhagen and Cancún: What Next?
Iceland's future environment - Argues the case for a new approach to Iceland's natural resources and sets out a vision and an 8 point plan of action
Current Titles
- Healing the Land: the story of land reclamation and soil conservation in Iceland. Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, Gunnarsholt, Iceland
- Co-Editor - Ecosystems and Health: A UK Perspective from The Sibthorp Trust. Distributed by NHBS
- Editor - Climate Change Action After Copenhagen and Cancún: What Next? Published by the Sibthorp Trust
- Co-author - Land of Mountain and Flood: the Geology of Scotland, published by Birlinn, April 2007, reprint due April 2009
- Co-Editor - Conserving nature: Scotland and the wider world™ essays to commemorate J Morton Boyd, published by John Donald, December 2005
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