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

Proceedings of the Vilm Workshop "Global Geoheritage - International Significance and Biodiversity Values" are now online and can be downloaded here

Linking geodiversity and biodiversity - An agenda for developing more integrated nature conservation and protected area management

A tribute to Simon Pepper

International tribute to Andres Arnalds

Watson Birds Update - December 2018

Royal Society of Edinburgh calls for post Brexit environment improvements:

Press release - 29 Nov 2018
Advice Paper - Nov 2018

Opinion on current issues

1) Proposed Galloway National Park: Response to November 2018 Update - January 2019

2) Roger calls for better protection of Scotland's scenery and landscapes - Paper - Nov 2018

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

Some suggestions - August 2018

4) Biodiversity In Scotland: 2018 and Beyond - April 2018

5) Arctic Issue of the Geographer: A Geographer's Perspective and Draft Editorial

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

Food comes from the soil after all! - Paper
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

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

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

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

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

11) Roger provides an environmental agenda for the Icelandic Government - Dec 2017

12) Putting Geoheritage Conservation on All Agendas - Article - July 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