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

Launch of Lindsay Crofts’ book Hall windows - May 2023

Proposals for an Esk Forum - April 2023

Outcome of workshop on imagining our future forests - March 2023

The late Her Majesty The Queen: An amazing life - Sept 2022

Interview for Royal Scottish Geographical Society - Oct 2021

Roger's Eulogy for Lindsay

Opinion on current issues

Protecting Scotland's Marine Areas - The Times - 25 Jan 2024

Whither Nature? Roger discusses the issues and what needs to be done to make progress - Jan 2024 (Password - RRCC1616)

Old Ways Must Change to Stop Flooding - The Times - 11 Dec 2023

RSE Agriculture and Rural Communities Bill commentary - Nov 2023

Scottish Biodiversity Strategy and Agriculture Bill commentary- Nov 2023

RSE Scotland and Europe Environment Debate commentary - 23 Nov 2023

Nature’s future talk - 03 Nov 2023

What’s wrong with the Musselburgh Active Town plans - Nov 2023

Musselburgh Flood Protection Scheme challenged. See articles in Musselburgh Courier - 09 Dec 2021, 17 Feb 2022 and 23 Mar 2023 and Letter to Councillors Oct 2023

Getting the geoconservation message over - Poster - Oct 2023

RSGS The Power of Trees - Geographer Magazine - Winter 2023

Challenge to Scottish Government approach to flood protection schemes
The Times Flood Article and Roger's Article - 20 March 2023

Climate change and geoconservation paper - Nov 2022

Listen to talk on More trees indeed but where and how? - Oct 2022

Stop the swings of the pendulum to help the environment - Sept 2022

Glen Affric landscape better protection needed - July 2022

Glenkens Land Use the community should lead - May 2022

The challenges after FCCC COP26 - Jan 2022

Musselburgh Flood Scheme Paper - Nov 2021

Esk Valley Action Plan Paper - Nov 2021

Talks on offer:

Nature’s future
Whither nature
Conflict on the coast
The World’s Special Natural places
Scotland’s land: successes and failures, challenges and solutions
Esk Valley: working with nature for a better future
Do you know Scotland’s Earth History?
A field working civil servant
Forging Iceland’s future

Current Titles

Geoconservation Futures Papers
Watson Bird Centre Walk and Art Trail

Report on Geoconservation in Protected Areas
Duddingston: its story in 50 objects

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