ProfessorRobert Fish

A social scientist and human geographer by training, my research interests are in the social and cultural dimensions of natural resource management with a particular specialism in rural and agricultural environments. My work is distinguished by its participatory and collaborative nature, as well as by direct intervention in the policy process. In recent years, I have played a prominent role in the elaboration of interdisciplinary approaches to the valuation of nature within environmental policy and decision-making, co-leading the UKRI’s Valuing Nature programme. My recent graphic textbook on this topic, Valuing Nature: The Roots of Transformation, won the Taylor & Francis Outstanding STEM Book of 2021. I am the founding lead editor of the BES journal People and Nature.