Prof Alister Scott

Professor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

Alister -Scott ,-Northumbria -University -web- 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 Rural Economy and Land Use 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 just concluded looking at developing a game board resource kit to improve the way public engagement can take place.

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 as a pilot as part of the Urban Living programme.

His teaching covers a wide range of governance subjects straddling urban and rural domains and is based on real life projects working in partnership with community groups and professional bodies. He was awarded the first ever university of Wales award in 2002 for excellence in teaching and he is passionate about the need for teaching excellence that both challenges and motivates.

Alisters research leadership skills have been recognised with the RTPI award for planning excellence in 2012 and his teaching, research and industry engagement skills with the award as BCU staff member of the year in 2013.

In moving to Northumbria, Alister is keen to build his research and teaching at the interface of the built and natural environment and help to embed the value of nature more effectively into policy and decision making.

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Campus Address

B305
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City Campus

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Key Publications

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Beyond growth management: A review of the wider functions and effects of urban growth management policies, Kirby, M., Scott, A., Luger, J., Walsh, C. 1 Feb 2023, In: Landscape and Urban Planning
Case studies of blue-green infrastructure in spatial planning, Scott, A., Dempsey , N., Bader, E., Washbourne, C., Wansbury, C. 14 Feb 2023, ICE Manual of Blue-Green Infrastructure, London , ICE
Definitions and context of blue-green infrastructure, Mell, I., Scott, A. 14 Feb 2023, ICE Manual of Blue-Green Infrastructure, London , ICE
Mainstreaming the Environment: Exploring pathways and narratives to improve policy and decision‐making, Scott, A., Holtby, R., East, H., Lannin, A. 1 Feb 2022, In: People and Nature
Exploring the smart-natural city interface; re-imagining and re-integrating urban planning and governance, Grace, M., Scott, A., Sadler, J., Proverbs, D., Grayson, N. 5 Mar 2021, In: Emerald Open Research
A Planning Policy Assessment Method for Aotearoa/New Zealand Based on Ecosystem Services, Ransom, M., Scott, A. Dec 2020, In: Planning Quarterly
What does good green infrastructure policy look like?: developing a policy assessment tool to assess plans, policies and programmes, Scott, A., Hislop, M. 22 Jun 2020
Demystifying academics to enhance university-business collaborations in environmental science, Hillier , J., Saville , G., Smith , M., Scott, A., Raven , E., Gascoigne, J., Slater, L., Quin, N., Tsanakas, A., Souch , C., Leckebusch, G., Macdonald, N., Loxton , J., Wilebore, R., Collins, A., MacKechnie, C., Tweddle, J., Milner, A., Moller , S., Dove , M., Langford , H., Craig, J. 15 Jan 2019, In: Geoscience Communication
Mainstreaming Green Infrastructure in the Planning System, Scott, A. May 2019, In: Town and Country Planning
Mainstreaming the environment in planning policy and decision making, Scott, A. 19 Aug 2019, The Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning, London, Taylor & Francis

Professional Activity

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Other: Executive Member of the North East Nature Partnership 2016

PGR Supervision

Rachel Holtby Deliberating the potential of ecosystem science to improve mainstreaming of environmental priorities across marine and coastal policy and decision-making Start Date: 01/10/2017 End Date: 28/04/2023
Matthew Kirby Multifunctional green belts - mainstreaming nature in a contentious policy space Start Date: 01/10/2020

Qualifications

PhD December 17 1987
Member Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) 2016

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