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

Roger's new book Scottish Natural Heritage: an insider’s view published - June 2026
More about the book

Donald Watson new book of biographic essays published by Whittles - Dec 2024

Donald Watson book contents

Launch of Lindsay Crofts’ book Hall windows - May 2023

Roger's Eulogy for Lindsay

Opinion on current issues

2026 RSE Election blogs - Food security, Making the environment relevant, Environmental perspectives

Musselburgh Flood Protection Scheme - Letter to Reporter - April 2026
From confrontation to mediated consensus - October 2025

Reflections on the Galloway National Park Proposals - Jan 2026

Recognise the Rights of Nature - Dec 2025

Ecological connectivity article - March 2025

IUCN The Meaning of Nature - Jan 2025

Is the Highland landscape natural or not? - Fenton book review - Aug 2024

Improving Scottish forestry is essential - CIEEM article - June 2024

Managing visitors' experience to Geoheritage - Some practical pointers for Site Managers - April 2024

Roger’s objections to the Musselburgh Flood Protection Scheme - 18 April 2024

Rethinking agriculture policy - Article on New Agricultural Futures - March 2024

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)

Nature’s future talk - 03 Nov 2023

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

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

Scottish Natural Heritage: An Insider's View
Watson Bird Book Flier

Geoconservation Futures Papers
Report on Geoconservation in Protected Areas

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