Lairds, Land and Sustainability

Jayne Glass is a Researcher in the Natural Resource and Sustainable Development group of the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is also an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh and previously worked at Scotland's Rural College and the University of the Highlands and Islands. Jayne has published widely on topics related to Scotland's land and rural communities, including Lairds, Land and Sustainability (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), Land Reform: History, law and policy (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Rural Poverty Today: experiences of social exclusion in rural Britain (Policy Press, 2023) and Managing Scotland’s Environment (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Martin F. Price is Director of the Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, and holds the UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Mountain Development. He previously worked at the Universities of Oxford, Bern, and Colorado and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Books he has edited include Mountain Area Research and Management (Earthscan 2007); The Mountains of Northern Europe (The Stationery Office 2005); and Key Issues for Mountain Areas (United Nations University Press 2004). Charles Warren is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography & Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, and holds degrees in geography, glaciology and resource management from Oxford and Edinburgh universities. He has written widely on Scottish land use issues, including his book Managing Scotland's Environment (Edinburgh University Press 2009). He also co-edited Learning from Wind Power: Governance, Societal and Policy Perspectives on Sustainable Energy (Palgrave 2012). Alister Scott is Professor of Environment and Spatial Planning at Birmingham City University. He is a chartered planner with roots firmly in geography. His research and teaching is located within an interdisciplinary framework with a focus on complex and messy policy land use problems. He has become an expert at the interface of spatial planning and the ecosystem approach with projects exploring the rural urban fringe as part of the RELU programme (2009-2011) and the embedding of the ecosystem approach in tools for improved policy and decision making as part of the National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) Follow on project 2012-2014. He also sits on the NEA expert panel and is a communication adviser for the NERC BESS programme.

• PrefaceList of acronyms, List of tables, List of figure, List of boxesNotes on the contributorsPart One Sustainability in the uplandsChapter 1 Sustainability in the uplands: introducing key conceptsJayne Glass, Alister Scott, Martin F. Price and Charles WarrenChapter 2 Recognising Scotland’s upland ecosystem servicesJayne Glass, Martin F. Price, Alister Scott, Charles Warren and Robert Mc MorranPart Two Perspectives from private landownershipChapter 3 The Scottish private estateAnnie McKee, Charles Warren, Jayne Glass and Pippa WagstaffChapter 4 What motivates private landowners? Pippa WagstaffChapter 5 The laird and the community Annie McKeePart Three Perspectives from community and NGO landownershipChapter 6 Community landownership: rediscovering the road to sustainability Robert Mc Morran and Alister ScottChapter 7 Buying nature: a review of environmental NGO landownership Robert Mc Morran and Jayne GlassPart Four Aligning upland estate management with sustainabilityChapter 8 A sustainability tool for the owners and managers of upland estates Jayne GlassChapter 9 Lessons for sustainable upland management Jayne Glass, Martin F. Price, Alister Scott, Charles Warren, Robert Mc Morran, Annie McKee and Pippa WagstaffIndex