After completing an Honours Degree in Field Biology and Habitat Management, he was employed as a Nature Conservation Advisor covering the county of Shropshire. He then completed a Ph D thesis through The Open University, studying natural woodland development across a series of woodland reserves, from the New Forest to the Scottish Highlands.
Post-doctoral research followed via two EU-funded projects, which included a four-year period focusing on the management of beech forests at a European-level. Topics addressed in detail included natural regeneration, natural stand development, dead wood, and woodland management and history.
Later he was employed as a UK-level Advisor by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, providing detailed advice to Government on habitat assessment, classification and designation, as well as other areas from the impact of air pollution to green infrastructure.
He now works independently, based in Lancashire, and retains his general interest in the history and conservation of the countryside at large.
8 Ebooks tarafından George Peterken
George Peterken & Edward Mountford: Woodland Development
In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops na …
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€52.99
Keith Kirby & Charles Watkins: Europe’s Changing Woods and Forests
Our understanding of the historical ecology of European forests has been transformed in the last twenty years. Bringing together key findings from across the continent, Europe’s Changing Woods and Fo …
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€72.99
George Peterken: Wye Valley
A definitive natural history of the Wye Valley covering the geology, geomorphology, conservation and ecological history of this diverse area of outstanding natural beauty.The spectacular landscape of …
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€17.49
George Peterken: Woodland Conservation and Management
Professor John Harper, in his recent Population Biology of Plants (1977), made a comment and asked a question which effectively states the theme of this book. Noting that ‘one of the consequences of …
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€92.27
George Peterken: Meadows
The second volume of a major new series of books on British natural history.Meadows provide one of the most wide-ranging and eloquent treatments of this most quintessential British habitat. Yet the f …
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€46.08
Keith (Oxford University, UK) Kirby & Keith (Oxford University, UK) Kirby: Europe’s Changing Woods and Forests : From Wildwood to Managed Landscapes
Our understanding of the historical ecology of European forests has been transformed in the last twenty years. Bringing together key findings from across the continent, Europe’s Changing Woods and Fo …
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€62.79
Edward (Independent Advisor, UK) Mountford & George (Independent Researcher, UK) Peterken: Woodland Development : A Long-term Study of Lady Park Wood
In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops na …
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€47.71
George Peterken: Meadows
The second volume of a major new series of books on British natural history.Meadows provide one of the most wide-ranging and eloquent treatments of this most quintessential British habitat. Yet the f …
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€46.28