Welcome

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 FRCGS FCIEEM Hon DSc BA MLitt PGCE

News

RSGS signs a MoU with our Canadian sister body RCGS - Jan 2018

Roger becomes a Fellow of RCGS - November 2017

Opinion on current issues

1) Roger calls for meeting the challenges of the land:

Listen to Peter Wilson Prize Lecture 2018
Scotland's Land: Successes and Failures, Challenges and Solution - Lecture Notes
Scotland's Land: The Agenda for the Future - March 2018

2) Watch Roger's Lecture Looking After Scotland's Nature - Jan 2018

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3) Roger’s critique of the Galloway National Park proposals - Jan 2018

4) Roger’s advice for establishing the brilliant idea of the Heart of Iceland National Park

5) Roger criticises the outlandish ideas for an electricity cable from Iceland to Britain

6) Roger identifies the three key issues for sustainable development - Jan 2018

7) RSGS Chair’s annual report - March 2018

8) Watson Birds progress report 2016-17

9) Roger provides an environmental agenda for the Icelandic Government - Feb 2017

Current Titles

Fair Isles & Fine Sailing - Celebrating Sixty Years of Cruising - The National Trust for Scotland
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, reprinted in hardback 2017
Co-Editor - Conserving nature: Scotland and the wider world™ essays to commemorate J Morton Boyd, published by John Donald, December 2005