RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

• Access to Open Countryside

• Rights of Way

• Land Management Practices and Economics

• Rural Development and Environment Policy

• Woodland/Forestry

• Environmental Assessments

• Common Land and Town/Village Greens

• Expert Witness

• Project Management

Asken's CV: Rural Development and Environment Policy

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Ken has worked on a variety of policy studies for government departments and agencies.

Examples include five separate studies for the Land Use Policy/Rural Affairs Group - covering beef, sheep, dairy, forestry and LFA reform.

Ken has undertaken major research project for the Environment Agency, looking at possible alternative future developments within the dairy industry and the implications of each for the environment.

Evaluations of the impacts of policy instruments and incentive schemes have also been undertaken. Examples include economic evaluations of the Suckler Cow, the Beef Special, and the Farm Woodland Premium Schemes.

Ken has been active in using environmental economics to evaluate policy options (such as woodland and forestry design, flood warning and forecasting benefits, and sustainability). In the light of the 'crisis' in UK agriculture, Ken has worked on two projects that seek to characterise future changes in the industry's structure and what the effect will be on social trends and the environment (including nature conservation, cultural heritage and amenity).

On the rural development front, Ken is assisting the British Mountaineering Council to promote greater use of local services by visiting climbers and hill-walkers to North Wales. He has undertaken a visitor payback initiative in Langdale (financed by the Lake District National Park Authority and the BMC) to explore ways in which visitors can be involved more closely with local communities, to mutual benefit.

Contact us at:

k.taylor@asken.co.uk