Michael Winter. Portrait captured by James Ravilious in Exbourne, 1985. Documentary photograph for the Beaford Archive.
The Land Between the Moors
Essays in Culture, Environment and Agricultural Change
Edited by Michael Winter with Tim Wilkinson, Matt Lobley and Robert Fish
This book of essays focuses on how a particular rural landscape and its communities have evolved and changed, and the problems and prospects associated with managing the landscape sustainably.
It provides an important new exploration of the many roots of - and routes through - the 21st Century’s challenges to the Land Between The Moors of Dartmoor, Exmoor and Bodmin looking in detail at the area’s rich history, its farming, its nature and its people.
The publication is illustrated throughout with photographs from the Beaford Archive.
RRP £18.00
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March 2022: 234x156: 424pp 38 Beaford Archive images Pb: 978-1-3999-1033-0 | £18.00
About
Professor Michael Winter OBE
Michael is Professor of Land Economy & Society in the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter. He directed the Centre from 2002 until 2017 and continues to chair its management board. He has had a life-long interest in the land between the moors. In response to the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis he chaired the Hatherleigh Area project and Devon Rural Network. He was chair of the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere Partnership from 2012 to 2019. In January 2021 he became Chair of the Devon Local Nature Partnership. His research covers food, farming, land use, and the rural environment from a social and policy science perspective. He is also actively engaged in the policy world as a board member of Natural England and the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee and chairing one of Defra’s expert panels.
Dr Timothy Wilkinson
Dr Timothy Wilkinson is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Rural Policy Research. Since joining the Centre in 2015, he has worked on a portfolio of projects on sustainable tourism development, farmer engagement and food systems. Timothy leads research design on a cross-border Interreg Channel Region funded programme called BioCultural Heritage Tourism; a collaborative project involving four UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, including North Devon. He is also working on an Economic and Social Research Council funded project about the impacts of COVID on the food system in England. Timothy’s interests include the production of tourism experiences, tourism and food business adaptation and supply chain mapping.
Professor Matt Lobley
Matt is Professor of Rural Resource Management and is Co-Director of the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter. He has over 30 years’ experience of researching and writing about agriculture, farming families and the rural environment. Matt has previously worked at Seale-Hayne and Wye College. He is a lifetime member of Devon Wildlife Trust and was a board member from 2009–18. His research covers a range of food and farming issues with a particular emphasis on succession and retirement and the health and well-being of members of farming families.
Dr Robert Fish
Rob is a Reader in Human Ecology in the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent. He is a human geographer and social scientist by training with research interests in the social and cultural dimensions of environmental change and natural resource management. Before leaving for Kent in 2015, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter, conducting research projects on various aspects of sustainable land and water management on the land between the moors, an area for which he retains deep affection. During his time in Devon, he sat on the UNESCO Biosphere Partnership forum, the advisory group for the Northern Devon Nature Improvement Area and was a trustee for Beaford Arts.
