Alister Scott

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About Alister Scott

Alister uses both linked in and twitter.@bcualisterscottAlister is a geographer who works at edges and boundaries in dealing with interdisciplinary problems. His career has encompassed both policy (Dartmoor National Park and Scottish Natural Heritage) and academic positions (Welsh Agricultural College, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Aberdeen University, Waikato University and Birmingham City University). He left Birmingham City University as Professor of Environment and Spatial Planning and joined Northumbria University as Professor of Environmental Geography on November 1st 2016. Alister is also a chartered planner (MRTPI). Alister's research addresses messy problems concerning policy and decision making across built and natural environments. He has published over 40 peer review papers and secured grants in excess of £2 million. Crucially he has developed a research model that is policy-led and involves policy and practice communities embedded as members of research teams he has led. Recent projects include the RELU Programme Managing environmental change at the rural urban fringe and the UK National Ecosystem Assessment follow on programme looking at new tools to improve policy and decision making. An ESRC project has concluded looking at developing a gameboard format to improve the way public engagement takes place. These research projects have publicly accessible and novel outputs including a rural urban fringe game (Rufopoly); a NEAT tree resource for embedding the value of nature into decision making in a range of tools and instruments and Participology a web based resource for designing exciting participative exercises. His current work includes a NERC grant on green infrastructure working with various planning authorities on a natural capital planning tool that values ecosystem services in a range of development scenarios and a Research Council UK grant working with a large interdisciplinary team on Birmingham in the Urban living programme