Professor Neil Ravenscroft
Professor Neil Ravenscroft is Professor of Land Economy in the School of Environment and Technology. He has over 20 years’ research on natural resources, communities and environment, including work funded by the European Union (Framework Programme 5), ESRC, AHRC, United Nations-Environment Programme, Countryside Agency, Environment Agency, Defra, Forest Research and Sport England. He has made numerous contributions to policy development in the areas of strategic planning of water resources, community engagement in agriculture, the management of public parks and gardens, recreational access to private land, and the management of public rights of way. He has been an advisor to the Environment Agency in England and Wales, on inland water recreation policy, the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization, on land tenure in developing countries, the European Commission, on urban open space and people’s quality of life, and the Countryside Agency, on planning for social and cultural diversity in the countryside. Neil is a Director of Tablehurst Community Farm and a Governor of Plumpton College. He is currently working with Forum Synergies to inform the European Commission on the 2013 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and with the Soil Association to support the development of community supported agriculture in England.
His research interests include:
- Land and environmental economics
- The politics of cultural policy
- Society and natural resources
- Community engagement in agriculture
