Download or read book Environment Scotland written by Eleanor McDowell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999, this volume provides the first thorough analysis of the elements of sustainable public policy in a devolved Scotland. Following the vote for a Scottish Parliament in the 1997 referendum, it explores the immediate and longer-term challenges likely to confront Scotland. The book brings together policy-thinkers and practitioners from academia, business, the voluntary sector and politics to ask: What are the key opportunities and constraints around sustainability? What practical difference will devolution make? What changes within and beyond government will be required to strengthen the roots of sustainable development? It includes the findings from a specially-commissioned opinion poll published in this volume for the first time. Offering a far-sighted analysis, the book poses a series of timely questions and offers policy recommendations for the next decade.
Download or read book Conserving Nature written by Ian Boyd and published by John Donald Short Run Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book commemorates the late John Morton Boyd (1925-1998), one of the most influential figures in nature conservation of Scotland. He was the Nature Conservancy Council's Director for Scotland, Honorary Adviser to the Forestry Commission and the National Trust for Scotland.
Download or read book Managing Scotland s Environment written by Charles Warren and published by EUP. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Scotland's EnvironmentThird Edition Completely revised and updated to reflect the current debates in Scotland's natural environmentScotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset but also the subject of vociferous debates. Written in the light of international thinking on environment management, this third edition tackles the hottest debates of recent years - deer management, the post-Brexit future of farming, land reform, rewilding versus repeopling, windfarms and conflicts between game sport and conservation. Underlying all the practical and policy choices are intriguing ethical and philosophical considerations which the book addresses head on, including debates about the goals of conservation in a pervasively humanised world. This is an ideal text for those studying Scotland's environment at an undergraduate and graduate level, as well as for those already involved in - or interested in - managing land and nature in Scotland. Throughout, it is well illustrated with photographs and specially prepared maps and diagrams.The book addresses such questions as:? Why have Scotland's landscapes and wildlife been the focus of such persistent disagreement?? Why is it so difficult to reconcile the competing demands of society and nature?? Is it possible to meet our needs for food and energy while also satisfying our desire to protect and enhance the natural heritage?? To what extent can the management of the various land uses be effectively integrated?? Does the imperative of tackling climate change require a radically different approach to environmental management?Charles Warren is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews.Jayne Glass is a Researcher in the Natural Resource and Sustainable Development group of the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Download or read book Managing Scotland s Environment written by Charles R. Warren and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is designed for those studying Scotland's environment at undergraduate and graduate level and for those engaged in farming, forestry, conservation, game sports and employment. This edition also includes a chapter on energy and the environment.
Download or read book The State of Scotland s Environment and Natural Heritage written by Scottish Natural Heritage (Agency : Great Britain) and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2002 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the eleventh in 'The Natural Heritage of Scotland' series and presents an account of a joint conference held in September 2001 by Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. It examines the current state, trends and future prospects for the environment, and explores the scope for sustainable solutions to environmental problems. The book contains reviews of Scotland's land, air, fresh water and sea resources from environmental and natural heritage perspectives; as well as more detailed discussions of specific concerns such as climate change, biodiversity or pollution.
Download or read book Native Woodlands of Scotland written by Scott Wilson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents up-to-date information about Scotland's native woodlands. It draws upon professional experience of scientific research, survey and management, where the author has studied many important native woodlands in Scotland and beyond.
Download or read book The Conservation of Nature in Scotland written by Scotland. Wild Life Conservation Committee and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature Contested written by Smout T. C. Smout and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how we have treated nature in some of the most valued landscapes in Europe. Combining social and cultural history with ecology and geography, T.C. Smout has written an environmental history that is both profound and accessible.The Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, the Lake District and the northern moors and plains of England form a natural region. The crags, moorland, woods and wetlands have been both treasured for their beauty and biodiversity and reviled as unproductive deserts to be improved and reclaimed. The fields have been made more fertile for production and the waters tapped for industrial use, but at a certain cost. The contest between two views of nature - conservation versus development; use versus delight - is at the centre of the book. The author begins by taking a hard look at our encounters with the natural world. He shows how the Scots and the northern English never shared the southerner's view of their environment as intimidating, and describes how conflict between using and enjoying the land gradually arose and gave birth to modern conservation ideas. He reveals how the history of the woods - especially the 'Great Wood of Caledon' - is quite different from popular myth, and examines the history and fate of the soil and the fields; of the rivers, lakes and lochs; of the hills and mountains; and of the modern quarrel over the countryside.'By the end,' the author writes, 'I hope to have presented on my theatre a dramatic tale that tells us a fair amount not only of northern Britain, but something about the globe and the European west as a whole over the last four hundred years.'
Download or read book Native Woodlands of Scotland written by Scott Wilson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents up-to-date information about Scotland's native woodlands. It draws upon professional experience of scientific research, survey and management, where the author has studied many important native woodlands in Scotland and beyond.
Download or read book Nature Conservation Law written by Colin T. Reid and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated text takes account of all legislative changes since 1993 and brings together the various parts of the law in Scotland governing nature conservation to guide all who share a professional interest in the subject.
Download or read book Natural Resources in Scotland written by Scottish Council (Development and Industry). Committee on Natural Resources in Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Organic Resources of Scotland written by Joy Tivy and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lairds Land and Sustainability written by Jayne Glass and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland is at the heart of modern sustainable upland management. This collection of cutting edge studies is a first-to-press synthesis of studies carried out by the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College, which will be both enlightening and relevan
Download or read book Scotland Since Prehistory written by T. Christopher Smout and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farming and Nature Conservation in Scotland written by Nature Conservancy Council (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conquering the Highlands written by Jan Oosthoek and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deforestation of Scotland began millennia ago and by the early 20th century woodland cover was down to about 6 per cent of the total land area. A century later woodland cover had tripled. Most of the newly established forestry plantations were created on elevated land with wet peaty soils and high wind exposure, not exactly the condition in which forests naturally thrive. Jan Oosthoek tells in this book the story of how 20th century foresters devised ways to successfully reforest the poor Scottish uplands, land that was regarded as unplantable, to fulfil the mandate they had received from the Government and wider society to create a timber reserve. He raises the question whether the adopted forestry practice was the only viable means to create forests in the Scottish Highlands by examining debates within the forestry community about the appearance of the forests and their longterm ecological prospects. Finally, the book argues that the long held ecological convictions among foresters and pressure from environmentalists came together in the late 20th century to create more environmentally sensitive forestry.
Download or read book Films about Landscape and Wildlife Conservation in Scotland s Countryside and Some Other Places written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
